Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Feel free to post comments complaining about the fact that I don't update my blog enough! ;)
ごめんな、しばらくなにも書いてなくて。文句あればコメント書いてください！；）
Anyway, the latest in my life:
とにかく、最近の出来事：
- I got my contract at ATR extended! After all the back-and-forth and negotiations, things are finally settled. I'm going to be here until the end of March 2007! Seems like a long way away, but "time flies like an arrow", as they are so fond of saying here.
仕事の契約をのばした！2007年の三月末まで日本に住む事になった。再来年何って遠く感じるけど「光陰矢の如し」やろう？（あっている？時間が飛ぶって事。）
- Three more of my friends moved away. Luv, Dyah, and Benazeer have left ATR, causing another series of sad goodbyes and crazy sayonara parties. In fact, most of my weekend was consumed by Benazeer's goodbye party and the subsequent hauling of suitcases and boxes, sweeping, scrubbing, and emptying of rooms, and separating and dumping of garbage. We moved most of her stuff to Linda's room - i.e. down four flights of stairs, up the hill, and back up four flights of stairs - and a lot of the rest went overland to my place, atop the far hill beyond the station. I got a futon and some tequila out of the deal, so it wasn't bad.
後、先週また友達が三人（ラブとディアとベナジア）帰国しちゃった。また悲しくて、また激しくパーティーして、またバタバタ引越し準備助けていた。実は週末ほとんどそれで過ごした、荷物運んだり、ごみを捨てたり、部屋の大掃除したりして。でも布団もテキーラもそれでもらったから文句言えない。：）
Poetic moment of the weekend:
Saturday morning - I stagger out of Benazeer's place, still drunk, exhausted, incoherent, craving sleep. I look up. The eastern edges of all the fluffy clouds scattered across the lightening sky are lit up with the pastel hues of sunrise, playful pinks, greens, and oranges slowly being washed away by the golden warmth of the sunlight. I stop to drink in this impressionist vista until the beeping of the UPS in the back of my brain warns me again that I need to shut down my system cleanly in a futon before my backup power runs out.
Saturday evening - System rebooted and fed, I head back down to help with the moving preparations. Looking up again, I am greeted with the same fluffy clouds, but this time the colorful light paints their western edges, as the red sun with its spectacular following of gold and yellow clouds majestically bows out for the evening and retreats below the buildings along the horizon, brush stroke by brush stroke taking its colorful light show with it, giving the first evening stars their cue to step boldly out into the breeze of the cool autumn evening.
No time to translate this into Japanese at the moment... I'll get to that later.
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