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Hooky
Some of my colleagues are on a company ski trip to Hokkaido. I guess it’s an allowed day off on this fine Monday, because they keep bombarding my keitai with…
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Updating my resume…
…in preparation for the big move to Thailand in October. Haven’t done this for five years – just forgot how it felt, ya know? Honestly describe your professional history in…
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Role Reversal
I’ve been walking home from work again lately. I started this eco-transportation pattern last October where I’d ride the bus to work and walk home. My coworkers thought I was…
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New Workday Schedule
– Wake up at 6:20 – Shit, shower, shave – Breakfast – Catch 7:28 bus for work – Arrive 7:45 – Morning exercises/brainwashing ceremony at 8:00 – Work – Walk…
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Shucho Hell
The past few days have been spent in business meetings and on buses. I’ve spent like ten hours on buses in the last three days. Buses beget buses. Go figure.…
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Japanese Office Trivia of the Day: FedEx
Did you know that FedEx actually has FOUR official FedEx Box sizes? Small, Medium, Large, and unmarked. The unmarked size is larger than all the others… and the very existence…
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Dream Job
When I quit working in Osaka five years ago, this would have been my dream job: ////// As the worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo…
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Uniform Update
I received the jacket part of my company’s uniform this week. Oh my. Photos are of course forthcoming, possibly tonight. It depends on if Hello Kitty is in the mood…
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Going with the flow.
There’s this special needs/mentally challenged/invertedly endowed/lugubriously entertaining/whatever the fuck the PC demigods are calling it this month (I’ll just use “retarded”) guy working in my building who worships me because…
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PETA, Rejoice!
… for I will never eat sharkfin soup again. Yesterday I was in Himeji on a business trip. After our meetings, we went to the top of Himeji castle in…
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cannot applove
Today I wasn’t allowed to correct the phrase, “for you apploval,” on an official letter because it was “written by someone on the board of directors.” The guy who told…
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Remote Damage Report
Because today did not start off so well (I almost got in TWO accidents on the way to work, where I was promptly chastised for not buttoning down the button-down…
