November 5, 2012
I spent this past weekend at the barn
for a show and caught a horrible cold! But then I got second in 90 cm
so that was nice. I kind of don't really remember riding though
because of my fever ha~.
I also officially located that temple I
had been trying to find! I'm going to stop out there soon. Also a new
roadside station opened up this week, so I'm looking forward to
checking that out as well.
Today we have our block meeting during
work so that's...exciting. I'm still slightly sick and its pouring
outside so even though I slept 12 hours last night I kind of just
want to crawl back in bed. Anyway I'm also working on the Minamiboso
Wikipedia page. Before it really only had the history and population
written down, so I'm working to make a more complete version. Once
that's completed, I'll probably fix the Facebook page too. Right now
it's pretty sad and boring looking. I'm also working on an event
project for the end of November here (Just waiting on approval. Cross
your fingers), and then Friday I'm going to do another interpretation
for the Knife Ceremony at Takabe Shrine. I guess France Media is
coming to watch or film(?) so that will be pretty cool. (edit: here's
the article! http://www.mboso-etoko.jp/top/goodlife/disp_A.asp?id=12710&group=1)
I just got exciting news that the
slides I translated for that museum that was destroyed in Tohoku have
officially opened in a gallery in Yokohama as of November 3rd!
It's about 1 hour and 45 minutes away though, so I don't know if I'll
have a chance to go see it. http://tsunami-311.org/?p=1181
November 13, 2012
So work this week is insane. I have the
newsletter and column both due tomorrow, and on top of it the
Thanksgiving event is coming up on the 28th, which I
officially only have this week to really prepare for because the CIR
mid year conference is next week! The event isn't exactly going
smoothly either. I was originally told that the venue would hold
forty people, only to go to a second meeting with the owner and be
told that we probably couldn't fit more than fifteen! (what!?) As of
right now, however, I have convinced him that we can fit at least
thirty. But this is getting in to some sketchy territory... we can't
just change things a week before the event, so hopefully nothing else
goes awry. Anyway, this week I'm pretty grateful for the box of
chocolate that hangs out in my desk drawer, but really I just want to
escape to the barn. I wish it wasn't so far away! Back at home I
could totally just go there and chill out for an entire evening, but
now I can only go on the weekend :(
Anyway I'm getting super excited for
mid-year conference so I can be in Chiba all week. Not only are most
of the lectures going to be about translation and interpretation
(=actually of interest), but it will be a nice break from the stress
of event planning, and I'll probably pick up some new project ideas
from fellow CIRs across the country (across the island?).
November 15, 2012
So the event planning is all settled
now, my article is written, the newsletter has been uploaded and I'm
pretty much set to go to the conference next week (other than some
cost-co shopping on Saturday for event food). But I'm officially
exhausted. Yesterday my alarm never went off and I didn't wake up
until 7:55! Then today I had to pretty much drag myself out of bed.
Granted I love being busy at work, so I'm going to stop complaining
now. Still really wanting to go to the barn though. I wish they had
little apartments in their facility. I would totally happily live
there and commute to work every day. Oh man, it's barely getting cold
out and I'm already getting the winter depression that sets in every
year. Well not depression so much as I just really don't want to
leave my apartment when I could be warm and watching dramas on my
lumpy couch. I really should buy a new couch. Maybe that will by my
Christmas present to myself.
I've been trying out this new (to me)
facial toner that a friend recommended to me, by Albion. So far I
love it a lot! I had a crazy breakout the week before I bought it,
and it seems like it just draws the impurities right out of my skin!
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