Writing introductions is a bit tedious so....just take a look at my first post if you want to know more....

....and if you get curious about the name of this World or my posts, check out the second one.

Goodbye, Halcyon Days

Winter vacation's over. And that means back to teaching jr. high kids for me.

The school I got actually isn't that bad, but.....still not like elementary. I was telling a friend of mine tonight that I thought the kids there were all pretty nice, & he said, "Then that's all you need." And I thought, um...no, it's not. The kids are never really a problem. Sure there were a few that I really didn't like at 2 of the 4 schools I was stuck at, but for the most part, even the ones I wasn't fond of I didn't mind. I like kids. Obviously, I wouldn't have been working with them this long if I didn't. It's the adults that make me crazy. It always has been. No matter where I was living. I've never had patience for adults. They always over complicate things with their confusion. I don't mind the ones at this school so much for some reason though. Possibly because of my "New Year's Resolution", or possibly b/c I remembered something about myself over break. Although, one of those was really caused by the other anyway...

Winter vacation was pretty awesome now that I think about it. Besides "Mitchiko E Hatchin" I watched a ton of Naruto, read all of Kuroshitsuji, started reading Tegami Bachi, & got caught up on all the stuff I normally read & watch that had fallen behind since the last few weeks before break were too stressful for me to think about them. It reminded me of the spring and winter vacations of the few years before I came to Japan. Nobody to take care of. Nothing to worry about. Nowhere I was needed. Watching Naruto made me want to watch it all from the beginning again. For like, the 8th time. It made me even more connected to my "Kakashi-side" again too. Not to say that my "Hayato-side" is lessening or anything, but he is a bit of a kid after all.

I'm still finding strange gaps in my language patterns. It's possible that they were always there & it's not even related to the English/Japanese thing. In fact, it's quite likely that's the case. While I'm good at spinning words around, I'm absolutely terrible at actually saying anything. And probably it's always been that way.

...and you're walking away, and I will drown in the fear...

The Suppression of Darkness

I might be the biggest retard ever. Remember how I was complaining that Wiki got lazy & was only showing half the chapters in each volume of Bleach? Well....apparently there's these things called columns......and now there are two for each volume, takes up less vertical space and all...

I need a vacation.

6 schools, 2 private lessons, and 1 meeting left & I seriously might not make it.

On 2 of the past 3 days I've almost lost my temper at someone I was teaching. The third day, I wasn't teaching anyone, so it almost doesn't count. I like teaching. Mostly. But sometimes......well, Iruka-sensei has the same problem.....

I'm not overly patriotic, but it seems I have less and less patience for people who stereotype all Americans as conceited idiots who think they have to police the world. I'm well aware that some people who think that actually exist. However, I'm getting pretty sick of defending myself as not being one of them simply because I happened to be born in the same general vicinity. And even more tired of having to explain that where I'm from everyone's different from everyone else (and that's not just in the US, I'm pretty damn sure...) and that, no, I don't know what "all Americans" think b/c I can't read minds. If we all thought the same thing we wouldn't be American, we'd be Borg. As we are not, I cannot tell you what "we" think.

I'm also not particularly concerned with whether every single kid in every single class I teach is hanging on my every word, that would be unrealistic, but......I have hardly any patience left for entire classes of 6th graders who talk over me. The entire 45 minutes I'm with them. And even less for their teachers who do nothing about it. Ignoring a disruptive kid to get him to stop is one thing, standing in the middle of a circus and pretending you believe it's a classroom is just stupid. Righteous Iruka-style anger is one thing, Kakashi really isn't something you people want to see me turn back into.....let's try to get our shit together, shall we?

Hell is other people...