Entries this day: Bush Carla Finances Sallllyyyyeee Work

Bush

11:15am JST Tuesday 25 May 2004

What an incredible solution: spend money to tear down the prison where the prisoners were fucked with. That will solve the problem of prison abuse! The prison; the prison did it!

Carla

11:52am JST Tuesday 25 May 2004

As part of my plan to *not* worry about messing with my site's navigation to accomodate new material, I'm just adding a directory for Carla's World Tour.

Carla was my favorite teacher in Kawasaki; the genkiest person I've ever met. She's in India now, volunteering at a something something place.

Finances

11:01am JST Tuesday 25 May 2004

This morning I woke up and tried to get up to date on my finances. Called Vodafone (cellphone company) about changing my billing information so they will take funds from a different (Gaba) bank account.

God bless this woman for speaking English. But there was still a disconnect of sorts. The funniest parts of the conversation, paraphrased:

me: "I have a new bank, so I need to change my bank information."

she: "May I have your new account information?"

me: new account information, etc

she: "Okay, it takes 1 or 2 months to make the change" (thanks to Japanese love of processing things meticulously)

me: "Okay."

she: "so until the change, we will still take money out of your old account."

me: "there is no money in my old account."

she: "in that case, I will send you a bill with payment coupon so you can pay it in a convenience store or Vodafone shop."

me: "excellent."

she: "can I help with anything else?"

me: "yes; what is the current balance on my account?"

she: "let's see... it looks like we couldn't confirm payment for your account in April."

me: "Yes; there is no money in that bank account."

she: "and the next bill will be drawn on June 3rd."

me: "there is no money in that bank account."

she: "is there anything else I can help you with?"

me: "no; that's okay." aka Yes, what is my current balance??

Sallllyyyyeee

11:11am JST Tuesday 25 May 2004

Sally sent me an email today, asking for info about teaching ESL in Japan!!!

OH MY GOD!

I have to watch my internals carefully; I want her here right now! It's challenging for me to speak from a higher place, "yes; do the research; check your options; do what's best for you" especially if it involves coming to Tokyo right now!!

Work

11:21pm JST Tuesday 25 May 2004

Fuckin students

Okay, so I didn't see the not in the Every Lesson window "ATTN 101562, arrange to swap" sorry. Build into the system a way to block instructors. I fuckin pour my heart into these lessons. "Client felt there were unneccessary pauses in lesson. Instructor said 'good' but didn't explain the mistake. Please correct all mistakes."

Maybe, just maybe, if I said "good," there was no mistake.

I've added a note in my student tracker that I will definitely see and definitely not teach the student again. Even though I remember being impressed by her. If she doesn't like me, then fine. fuck off.

Second student, who is studying and doing his homework well, blew away the lesson he was supposed to do next, so I merged the target language of the scheduled lesson "he is Lukas" with the target language of the next lesson "he has brown hair," and we covered two lessons in one period. Got 4 of 5 stars. Fine, waste your money and we'll do just one lesson at a time. Okay, maybe by giving me 4 of 5 he meant he liked the lesson. But 4 is not perfect.