almost my birthday

hey! so i've successfully ignored this for two months, so i guess i should write something. recently work's been pretty good (also exhausting) but the teachers i work with are getting easier to coordinate with and the kids are unreasonably excited to see me, so that's nice. i'm also still playing in the band with the old guys and playing taiko and drawing a hell of a lot and now i am also starting a new, non-old-dude band with my friend tomoyo.
hurray!
i like being busy, but some days i kinda over-do it and then when i finally sit down, i DROP. today i taught at two schools, went straight from the second one to teach a conversation lesson with a private student, and straight from that to practice. now i'm just waiting for my brain to cool down a little so i can let my body sleep.

next week is my birthday, for which i am doing not much verging on nothing, and then some friends of mine are coming to watch me play taiko and listen to some bands. i promised to cook for them, so apparently they're very excited. once i realized they were excited, i started getting nervous. i can definitely cook, so it shouldn't be a problem, but it probably won't be what they're expecting. the idea of american food is 1) hamburgers 2) the size of your head 3) covered in cheese and sauce. this will be none of that.
i'm also totally making apple crumble.

in unrelated news, the temperature dropped 10 degrees C in less than a week. thanks for that, seasonal weather changes. i really appreciated the warning. at least i like fall- i've got some friends who are suffering from summer-withdrawal already. personally, i'm counting down the days to when i can go snowboarding again. snowboarding is the only sport i have ever voluntarily sought out. probably because it's not so much as sport as it is an excuse to fly down mountains and play in the snow while doing quite perilous things. all of which i appreciate. best sport ever.

next month, for about 5 days, some of my drawings are going to be in the foreign artists' exhibition in nagoya. i'm pretty excited- i have no idea which pieces i'm going to send though. i've got a few i really like... but nothing spectacular just yet. i'll work on some new stuff since i have a little time left.
arright, i'm gonna vanish into obscurity for a little longer. bye!