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2 hour lesson at hn

15:25 Monday 13 July 2015 JST

Taught for two hours at HN today; the students were a bit(!) more talkative today on day 3 of 5. Even Takeo said something without being directly prompted!

Rin showed me that he had done some research on 9/11, and came up with the summary, 怖い　（こわい）. I was like "yep"

But I gave him the name Zeitgeist to balance out Loose Change, which I wrote after Operation Northwoods and Gulf of Tonkin.

bare feet

15:29 Monday 13 July 2015 JST

Amazingly, someone spoke to me about my bare feet. It was great to be addressed in Japanese, and to basically be able to handle the conversation. Just a couple words I didn't know (maybe かど or something with こ) which she explained meant something like people talking (to me, like she, about my being barefoot).

grrrr ac

23:10 Monday 13 July 2015 JST

RANT

I fucking hate when people won't do things logically. Feel hot after taking a shower? Maybe it's because the water is hot. You think you're going to get sick because you use cool water during the shower? Oh you think hot water makes you cleaner? Why turn on scalding water and then turn on freezing AC to offset the heat when cool water is an option and we have a fucking typhoon sending plenty of breezes which would come in if you'd fucking open the curtains and put my fucking quilt outside if you're afraid the three people across the balcony are going to be peering inside our house while they're inside huddled around their own AC.

Out of stupid spite I put the fucking AC on 17 degrees cause that's as low as it goes. I put the fan on high cause that's as high as it goes. I didn't use the goddamm AC once when I lived in fucking Houston which is hotter than fucking Tokyo and more humid thank you very much and I didn't die, and I saved a shitton of money as well.

I have heard that when things trigger anger response, it's pointing to some unresolved issue inside me. This must be a pretty deep issue cause I can't see any connection.

Why do motherfuckers turn on the AC in summer to make the room colder than they can stand in winter before turning on the HEAT to make the room warmer than they can stand in the summer? Am I the idiot here? I mean fuck me cause I noticed when I was 7 that the oil crisis was a global issue and we might want to get off fossil fuels though I didn't know the words at that time. 1970s I knew fossil fuels were on their way out, and if I knew, sure as hell adults knew it and here I am an alleged adult, still not doing anything but bitch about polar bears drowning without ice on which they can stand to stand a chance of living another day.

We're in the middle of the Sixth Extinction Event, and people still driving their suburbans to get a plastic cup full of sugar water and throw the cup away along with burger wrappers after eating a cow which ate N times more grain than it would take to feed the people in the first place.

I see myself as helpless (almost wrote helpful there, hmm) with Ye Olde Man controlling everything with money and laws supporting the moneyholders and nothing left for the proverbial peasants who live with less happiness than ever and more glazed over eyeballs so that we're putting ourselves in the matrix, driving the machine that controls us.

日本語を勉強しました

05:18 Monday 13 July 2015 JST

There are probably errors in the Japanese notes below!

1. 緩い　ゆるい　loose
2. 満足　まんぞく　satisfactory
3. safety, security 安全　あんぜん　
4. safe, peace ぶじ
5. important, serious 大事　だいじ
6. 頑固 がんこ　stubborn
7. accidental 偶然　ぐうぜん
8. showy　　派手　はで