Masters of the Obvious

Ok... so currently I am sitting at my desk in the teachers room. It's hotter than the devil's left nut, I'm sticky, but amazingly enough I'm not as bitter or bitchy as usual -- yay for me! Not sure why, but I'm not really complaining. (Trust me, despite the content of this blog, I'm not angry.... just confused.)

However, I must point out something that has slightly baffled me and is now just plain annoying. Japanese are the absolute Masters of the Obvious! Especially when it comes to the weather. Every friggin 5 minutes (no joke!) SOMEBODY will mumble or sigh "atsui, atsui neeee" ("it's hot, it's hot isn't it?"). In fact, I've heard it twice now since I've started writing. The lady sitting 2 chairs down from me, "atsui desu yo neeee, honma ni!" ("god its sooo hot in here, really!"). Well no fuckin shit. Sorry for the language but give me a friggin break here. I KNOW IT'S HOT! EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S HOT! GET THE FUCK OVER IT! Or, here's a bright idea. TURN ON THE AC!

Sorry this seems to be such a reoccurring topic but it just really astounds me that they have the nerve to whine every 5 seconds but dont do ANYTHING about it!

And today there seem to be an abundance of very large wasps that keep flying into the office since all the windows are open. Now, these aren't your ordinary honey bees. These are really JURASSIC sized wasps that could probably kill a baby if stung. They measure about an inch and a half to 2 inches long... that's a big friggin bee! Anyway, I dont really care if they fly in, since they just bump around and eventually make their way back out again. I'm not bugging them so they leave me alone. However, all the teachers in here are freaking out and trying to kill them with this spray stuff, pissing them off in the meantime and making them dangerous. I think the spray clogs their little bee lungs and suffocates them or something nasty and cruel like that. Well since the windows are right by my desk, I've been shooed away from my desk about 3 times so far so they could kill a bee. I'm not such a fan of killing things, like I've said before, even though they could be dangerous. (People can be dangerous too you know, but we don't go around killing just anybody when they get in our way... unless of course they restrict our oil, then by all means, it's justified, right?) Anyway, the thing that bothered me the most was the fact that the bees were dying a very slow and painful death by the looks of it. So what did the teachers do? Did they put it out of its misery and quickly squash them? No. They didn't. They thought it would be a much better idea to TAPE THEM TO THE DESK WHERE THEY FELL. Ummmm... wha? Tape them to the desk? Why in the world would you do that? Why not just scoop them up and put them outside, OR end their misery by smacking them with a shoe or something... Hello!! So I politely shooed one of the teachers aside, took off my shoe, smacked the 2 of them, and then put them outside. They all seemed very shocked that I (especially as a female) would do such a thing. All the women teachers were trying to get me away from them and saying "kowai, kowai!" (scary, scary!). Ugh.........get some balls people, you've been living with them all your life. Jeeeez.

Now, here's the kicker. How could this WHOLE situation have been avoided??? That's right, by SHUTTING THE WINDOWS AND TURNING ON THE AC!!!!!!

Anyway, they all did the same thing in the winter only it was slightly more baffling. They whined about it being cold of course every 5 seconds like they do now, but instead of doing what is reasonable, like shutting the windows and trying to keep the school as warm as possible, I walk into school and ALL THE WINDOWS ARE OPEN! What, I ask, is the purpose of that? To irritate the foreigner? Sure seems like it. I've actually gone by and shut all the windows in the hallway when no one was looking, only to go back a half hour later and see them all open again! IT WAS SNOWING OUTSIDE! Is keeping the windows shut too much to ask? They do have heaters in the teachers room and the classrooms (not the hallways where the windows were open), which is nice, even though they're kerosene heaters and you have to keep the window cracked to avoid asphyxiation.... At least it's warm-ish.

Ugh, ok I'm tired of trying to see the rationality behind anything the Japanese do. I mean, they have fans in here, but they're bolted to the ceiling and rotating around so that every 5 seconds I get a gentle breeze of warm sticky air. Now, my grade school science memories are coming back a little... doesn't heat rise? Wouldn't all the HOT air be at the ceiling? Why would they want to blow the HOT air down? Wouldn't you want fans that are much lower to blow the COOLER (yet still sticky) air around? Am I crazy? Aren't these people SUPPOSED to be like really intelligent and high tech and all that? ........................? I seem to walk around this country with a permanent question mark floating above my head (think Sims style).

I can't wait to come home in December...

On another note, since I have soooo much time alone with my random string of thoughts that putter around in my head, I've been wondering what kind of an elderly person I'm going to be? Will I be one of those really sweet grandmas that spoils her grandkids to death? Or will I be one of those really bitter and grumpy ones? Here's what kind of an old lady I'm looking forward to being. Hopefully, by the time I'm old, weed will have been legalized (or hey, I might even need it medically). Either way, it should definitely be in the picture. I can imagine sitting on a park bench with a good friend (I'm picturing Aaron here), puffing away on our pipes talking about all sorts of nonsense things, bitching about whatever (cuz let's face it, we both thrive on bitching, hehe), and making really raunchy comments to people passing us by just because we're old, and we can! It definitely wouldn't work while we were young. No one would put up with that. However, as an elderly person, you can socially get away with so much more! I don't think enough old people take advantage of that. Well, except here where the old ladies will shove you aside and cut in front of you in line.... That's just rude. I wouldn't be rude. I'd just be blunt and dirty minded, hehehe! It'll be great!

Anyway, that was my random mind-wandering for the day. Now it's back to fanning myself, reading and whatever else I can find to pass the time... sigh...