Still Alive

I haven’t blogged in a while, but I’m still alive.  It’s been just over a month since I’ve been back but it feels like a lot longer.  Things have been the same: wake up, go to school, teach (maybe), sit around, leave work, watch illegally download TV programs, cook, eat dinner, watch more illegally downloaded TV programs, shower, sleep, repeat.  I try to make it down to the dojo once a week and I’ve only missed one week since I’ve been back. 

I’ll be traveling back home again in March to write the Pharmacy entrance test.  Initially I was trying to write it here in Japan but it would have cost at least $300 for them to mail part of the test over and if my test + marks were competitive overall, I would have to fly back anyway sometime between May and August to write the multiple choice part.  So I decided to do the whole thing in one shot. 

This sort of messes up my plans to travel around because I’m using 7 days of holidays which leaves me with 5 for the rest of the year.  I’ll have to see where I can do weekend trips. 

I started watching One Tree Hill.  It’s a very dramatic and unrealistic show but really entertaining.  I’m about 2/3 of the way through season 4 and thought I’d save season 5 for the plane ride home in March, if I can resist.  I know I won’t be able to resist.

I haven’t been taking pictures of my meals lately.  They’re much different from those I was making in the beginning.  I cook fish about once a week and have leftovers for another meal.  Yesterday I tried pan-frying hamburgers and had the leftovers tonight.  They don’t have hamburger buns, which doesn’t surprise me, but I used a “French” baguette instead.  It was actually really good.  The good vegetables aren’t in season, so I’m missing eggplant and spinach, and broccoli is still in stock but it’s expensive so I rarely buy it any more.

Time for bed.