Thursday, May 20, 2004



I am complaining today.

Complaining about the fact that I rushed to work for 8:30 so that I could get all my morning work done and be ready for my 9:00 class and he didn't show up. I hate that! I could have slept in!! UGH!

Complaining about the weather. It is typhoon season. Last night the first one hit. It didn't pass directly over us as the weather man first predicted but it rained pretty darn hard last night. Now it is clear and muggy and my clothes are sticky. Tomorrow is going to be worse.

Complaining about my apartment. I really want a new apartment but can not afford to get one on my own without my works help. My apartment is so old and the walls are all bloody concrete. It is cold in the winter and wet all typhoon season. You could draw your name in the condensation on some of the walls. It makes the closets smell. You have to leave the doors open so that they get some air but Tintin goes in there and shreds them because the stupid doors are made of paper. Who in their right mind makes a door of paper. A door is supposed to be a door. A door stops thing and holds things at bay. These ones do absolutely shit and you move around them like you are on glass as the damn things scratch and break so easily. I dropped a book and shredded one of them. There is tape holding the damn thing together. And then you have to spend a ton of money on these water collecting things that you stuff in all the last remaining holes of your tiny closet to collect the humidity inside. If you don`t do this things turn all moldy.

Complaining about Li who stays up too late at night watching movies or playing on the computer.
Actually I should not complain about him. He had a job hit yesterday. He has an interview on Monday afternoon. A factory of some kind. It is in Yaizu, which is only two short stops away by train but might be bikeable. He doesn't know yet. The positive sign is that they know he is Chinese and they are still going to pick him up from the station for his interview. Very positive.

I guess I should turn a tad more positive.
Someone stopped by the apartment yesterday with personal insurance information. Well on there is different life insurance stuff and medical stuff. Li has a very basic medical plan and I would like it to be expanded a bit. He has been hearing my thoughts on medical and insurance so he kept the paper and even brought it up when I came home from work last night. He is going to phone them today to get some more complete info. I like the fact that they were willing to talk to Li and leave him info even though he was a foreigner. Around here that is a sign of future service. Something I think is very important as I am sure most of you do. I want death type or injury insurance as well. It makes bloody sense but Li always cringes when I say this and says that it is bad luck to think that way. I of course tell him that it would be ten times more bad luck if he left me with two kids to feed because he died being hit by a bloody car!! His face does these contortions but he is thinking about it.
He is also going to talk to the Internet people about upgrading the speed of our ADSL. Just a little bit faster would be just a little bit more fun. Hehehe.

Half of my section is on business trips of some kind today. And there are two more guys in suits that have not left yet. The boss is leaving soon as well. Going to be a very quiet day around here.

Li has been reading his Chinese cookbooks religiously these days. He has been studying and high-lighting them. The best part is that he has been trying different recipes and asking which ones I think are the best. He did three different mushroom dishes with three different types of mushroom last night. All in small size of course. He has also been playing with the rice. I find plain white rice very boring so he has been trying to find ways to spice it up. He has been having fun and I have been eating just a little too well.

Complaining again about my job. Because of the Golden Week holiday everyone is pressed for time and my attendance has not been wonderful. This means I get bored and I hate being bored!! I am too organized for being very busy so when I am bored I could twiddle my thumbs till they break! Or I could write an extremely long blog with no real content.
I am going to read the news.

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