the weather got cold all of a sudden and my mood took a similar plunge around the same time. but i’m glad that the last two times i found myself breaking out in gigantic blobs of tears, he was there to hold me.
so i got my lazy ass out of the house and met up with my friends in aizu, and i also chatted with a few of my dear old friends online. i drew, cooked, lazed around, and thought about getting an imac, a printer, and going wireless.
other than having dutifully caught the cold i’m bound to catch with each change of weather and thus coughing my guts out every morning, i’m feeling so much better.
it was pouring buckets the whole of yesterday because of the typhoon and my socks got all squishy. but today is bright and sunny and all is good. i’m happy and so is my new heart cactus. i hope my hammies feel warmer today and come out and play. i need to wash their cages before they start to smell. somehow the grass bedding my hammies use smells like rain in autumn, which is nice. i just hope it’s not because something’s rotting.
and i also told my vice-principal i’d stay on for the 4th year. wow.
if our souls lived outside of our bodies, mine had better not be a spider. i could definitely try to see the beauty of a spider-at least from a distance-but it would literally make it quite difficult to live with myself.
i just finished Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. i love The Golden Compass, the first volume of the series, but the other two didn’t quite do it for me.
in the world of The Golden Compass, the soul lives outside the body in the shape of an animal or a bird or an insect, you know, spiders, flies, bees, spiders… and they are called daemons. of course, there are many different worlds, and in a boring world like ours, we are still unable to see the animal, or insect, in us. well, at least that makes for better classroom management. i wouldn’t want to deal with 40 students and a zoo.
anyway, The Golden Compass has been made into a movie and the site is really pretty. there is a section where you can go find yourself a daemon. i can’t embed the flash file on this site so the picture should do.
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1. i’ve developed a liking for colourful vegetables swimming in my soup.
2. i went to the “river mouth” high school up on a hill yesterday.
3. there was a disproportionately large number of nice people in that very small school.
4. i still find it difficult to grade things. or people.
5. i think i’m better at “i like” and “i no like”.
5. i’m coming to accept that some “judo players” “play judo”.
6. but “play aikido” just sounds terribly terribly wrong.
7. i miss vivian and lynn very much 
8. autumn day is the next best thing to spring.
9. i’m still wearing my sandals everywhere.
10. i want to make cabbage rolls.
i made them in school today. the school nurse showed me her collection and asked me if i wanted to try making one. this was at one of my vist schools and i went to school not knowing that it was sports day today. since i had no classes, i was in the counselling room pinching and pressing little birds out of clay while chatting with the nurse all morning. mind you, they are not just ordinary clay birds. when they are done, i shall reveal their secret function found where some people say the sun doesn’t shine.
