| Current mood: |  cheerful |
| Current music: | Shimatani Hitomi - thinking of you |
Marty McFly and the Truck of Manure
Man. Back to the Future is sheer gold. I watched the first two yesterday, and woke up to complete the trilogy this morning. I'm halfway finished (Mag Dog Tannen has just challenged Clint Eastwood to a duel), and I'm really enjoying it. I never noticed that the girlfriend, Jennifer, changed from the first to second movie. I thought that they had Lea Thompson playing both mother and girlfriend to the 1985 Marty. But it was just some other chick named Elisabeth Shue. I don't think she's the same as the first girl, though. Not as cute. Or if she is the same, she sure aged in the four-year gap between Part I and Part II.
Mmm...yes! I just finished talking with Alicia!! She's back in Murray and doing good. Going for a M.S. degree in Mass Communications. I have no idea what that is. Her boyfriend Masimba is still working in Reno (that's where they were this summer while Alicia figured out what to do with her schooling). I think the hotel (??) is paying for Alicia to go back to school. Either that, or Murray awarded her a scholarship. Regardless, she has a seemingly financially worry-free school life ahead of her for a while. Yatta!!!
It might not work out that we'll get to see each other this winter. She'll be going back home to Trinidad and Tobago to renew her visa around the 15th of December or so. That'll probably be about the time that I'm landing in Memphis (after a whopping twenty hours of travel, surely). So, I guess I'll just make sure I ring her while I'm in Memphis. I should really send pictures of myself or something to put a face to the pen, if you will. Just lazy, everybody! I'm a bit overheated and stuff thanks to the summer heat, but I'm really all right. I promise.
Quick and Easy Music Rant:
Man, I really like Japanese pop music, but I can't respect Bad English. So even if it's a song that I want to sing at karaoke, I'll either have to think of better English lyrics during those parts, or just not sing the song at all. Shimatani Hitomi screws up English a bit. BoA does, too, but she's gotten much better. And I hate it when people talk in the middle of songs. I don't know what that's called. It's not ad libbing because that's more like the thing adult Simba did at the end of "Hakuna Matata." Can you hear the tune in your head? I can.
Anyway, I've decided to call it blathering. It really takes me out of the song, and lowers my respect for that artist. If you're going to talk, make it an "interlude" and leave the actual song out of it. That way, I can delete that track without remorse. As far as I know, Hikki has never talked through the intro, middle, or ending bars of a song, and recorded it on the CD, incorporating it as part of the lyrics. I don't think Angela Aki has, either. And I really appreciate that. AI (a new favorite of mine, as of last November), has interludes, and I happily de-select those from my playlist. Hmph. I guess it's just a pet peeve of mine.
End Quick and Easy Music Rant
Yoshi, okay. I think I had something to say...Shoot, I lost it. Oh! Got it. I was going to mention that school officially starts back on Monday, September 3. I'm not looking forward to going back to the daily grind. I'm a bit apprehensive about working with this new four-school schedule (I've got Vanessa's schools as well as my own two), but I'll make it, I'm sure. Just take a couple of weeks to adjust. I've got to figure out what kind of introduction I'll do for Toyohama JHS and Toyoshima Elementary. Soooo lazy! I've done nothing. Just read ridiculously short, trashy novels, one-shot manga, and watched episodes of Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. Well, I've been watching Naruto: Shippuden, too. Can't forget that. But it's not been anything like preparing for class, that's for sure. Next Friday, there's an induction ceremony for the new JET contract year at the BOE in Kure. I think I have to be there early, but the damn trip takes quite a long time to complete. For meetings, I usually get there at 9:15, and they start at 9:30. I think this meeting starts at 9:00am this time. I might have to go in overnight and stay with someone in Kure. Or I'll have to get up ridiculously early for a seemingly meaningless mission. I'd better check the schedule. Later, later.
Going to some kind of ¥2,000 jazz concert on a nearby island this evening. I hope it's worth it. Haven't heard much jazz, but I'll see how I feel when the evening's over.
Anyway, my phone convo with Alicia is over, and now it's time to get back into what's happening with Marty and Doc. Farewell!
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