Man, 5 to 6-year-olds really suck a ton of energy outta you. Especially during their [extremely long] playtime. Running around and taking them to drink water or go to the bathroom every two minutes while getting yanked around left and right is really something. It’s hard to find the right balance between exerting my authority and meeting their wants. Strangely enough, today wasn’t as tiring as yesterday.

Too bad there’s little chance I’ll meet someone I like at CPC. It seems the people there are either not interested, currently datingsomeone else, or jailbait. Even the guy with the lipring who reminds me of Miyavi. Well, back to Baruch I go. But maybe the reason why I hear about so many people hooking up in that elementary school is because the good sides of people really come out when they’re taking care of kids and you can’t help but find it cute.

Erm, anyway, I have a small update! (I know I said I wouldn’t have enough time for this, and actually I don’t, but…)

• Tutorials - I added 2 tutorials: one on creating an icon texture and one on a light “effect.”

I was watching Tokyo Friend Park today with Ikuta Toma and Ohno Satoshi. They won like 4 TVs. The part where the broke the ball in the Wipe Out game was funny. I thought Toma would’ve done better in the “Wall Crash,” but Satoshi outshined him…kind of. I might watch Maou (it’s coming out tomorrow), but It seems like a dark drama and I want some comedy.

Title: 絶対彼氏 // Zettai Kareshi // Absolute Boyfriend
Episodes: 11
Release Date: April 15, 2008 - June 24, 2008

Cast:

• Hayami Mokomichi as Tenjo Night
• Mizushima Hiro as Asamoto Soshi
• Aibu Saki as Izawa Riiko
• Sasai Eisuke as Shirasagi Yuki
• Ueno Natsuhi as Ito Mika
• Satoi Kenta as Hirata Hajime
• Nekoze Tsubaki as Adachi Kyoko
• Komoto Maki as Sato Nozomi
• Kaji Masaki as Tanaka Yoichiro
• Yamada Meikyou as Asamoto Shiro
• Minemura Rie (峯村リエ) as Yoshioka Tetsuko
• Erena as Ono Chiho
• Sakuragi Ryosuke (桜木涼介) as Morikawa Yasushi
• Watanuki Shoichi (綿貫正市) as Dei Takeru
• Irie Jingi as Hayashi Kota
• Yamamoto Kei as Asamoto Kazushi
• Nakamura Shunsuke as Asamoto Masashi
• Sasaki Kuranosuke as Namikiri Gaku
• Maya Miki as Wakabayashi Fujiko

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Episode 11: Miracle

Night’s reformatting fails just as Riiko runs in to the Kronos Heaven lab. She makes a run for it with Night and Namikiri. Namikiri says he’ll fend off the bodyguards, but he gets knocked down to the ground. Night surprises the chief by going to help Namikiri instead of running away. Still, the chief tells Riiko that Night is a defective product and since he’s dangerous, he must be destroyed. But Riiko protests that Night is not dangerous; he was always there for her and he has a pure heart. She says she’ll never give him up and Namikiri begs the chief to change his mind. The chief finally tells Namikiri he’ll leave it to his judgment and Namikiri takes the bracelet off Night.

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So this morning I arrived very early for CPC and helped Ms. Sanders, the language director. I also became aquainted with Tina, who apparently knows Vincent and is the same age as me and goes to NYU Stern. Smart girl. Lois seems like a very nice person, too. Thank goodness today was a lot more interesting than yesterday’s orientation. The kids are very…rambunctious. But even though they get annoying sometimes and I really have to be patient when teaching them, they’re also quite adorable. Except so far they haven’t learned how to pronounce my name yet and instead of calling me Ms. Margaret, they say a bunch of weird words instead. Some of them can’t speak English very well, so luckily I know some Mandarin. Kindergarteners are quite violent these days, I’ve learned. It also seems like a lot of them have a degree of ADD, or maybe that’s just because I’ve always been a rather timid student (except when beating up boys during recess). Oh well. 7 hours didn’t really feel like 7 hours.

Thanks Ernest for the Hana Yori Dango photobook. I don’t think I’ll be scanning it since I love it too bend to bend it to death. If you want to see the pictures, I’m sure someone from livejournal has the full book scanned. =) Sorry!

Well, I’m off to watch the final episode of Zettai Kareshi now. Be back later with a summary and review!

So today was the 7-hour long, super boring job orientation. My butt was aching from sitting there trying to listen to the people talk through the broken mic system (eventually they gave up on it and let us out “early”). I can’t believe we’re going to have to go through this again several times more within the next 7 weeks. At least we get paid for it. Unfortunately, most of the stuff they went over were already pretty obvious, such as the time management workshop (I must have heard a million lectures about that since the beginning of college; re: freshman seminar). The credit history workshop might’ve actually been quite useful if I hadn’t already heard it all from my classmate’s speech on it for COM1010 last semester. The phone etiquette one was kind of useful until they started showing the spoofs that no one really laughed at. They could’ve prepared us better and told us beforehand about going out for lunch. They kind of just told us to disperse, wander around, look for food, and come back within 45 minutes. If I hadn’t been to Chinatown a bajillion times already, I would’ve been lost and pissed. I feel bad for the girl who got kicked out because she had her cellphone out (she was only cleaning it; the guy next to me was playing on his sidekick all this time and no one said a thing). I feel even more sorry for the guy who had a seizure. Unfortunately, I can say I’ve been there before…sort of.

Well, it’s time to sleep early now. 7-hour workdays, 4 days per week. It’s really not bad, but commuting is such a hassle. I have to transfer 209137091 times just to get home. If only the school was on Main Street, access to food would be so much easier…

All right, enough ranting.