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Oh shit. I woke up this morning realizing I haven't thought at all about the lesson I have to teach to my beginner's conversation group tonight and I've only got a few ideas for a speech I need to have written and edited in Japanese by Friday (memorizing will take the month after that). All this, plus tomorrow is our teacher's physical health check, Friday I teach the advanced conversation group, and next week I start back in regularly on classes. That and today is already Tuesday because yesterday I had off from work for Coming of Age Day. Of course, I also have a slew of odds and ends to wrap up, some more fun than others, plus a whole different slew of things I've had on the to-do list for a while and the longer I go without doing them the more embarassing it is (such as finding a new textbook for our first year students).
This weekend I resolved to study an hour of Japanese every day and an hour of GRE pre-work every day. I've since decided that this will not begin today, since the speech is of dire importance.
My newfound resolve is inspiring, though. I even did a rather productive at-home workout on Sunday night, which I plan to continue into the year. I'm disgusted by all the muscle tone I've lost, so I copied a friend and started doing an augmented version of the workout they used to get the actors from the movie "300" into shape. Since I can't run in the snow, I'm talking about attending yoga with some of my ALT friends in the next city over. Now that I'm starting to panic with busy-ness though, the prospect of adding another solid commitment to my schedule is pretty stressful.
So far I guess I'm doing all right, I managed to hold myself back from writing a blog entry until after I'd worked on my speech a little. The tragic thing, however, is that even though I've exhausted myself of ideas, I only have about two pages in English. According to what I've heard about page-to-minutes statistics, I have about 4 minutes out of a 25 minute speech...Shit...
This weekend I resolved to study an hour of Japanese every day and an hour of GRE pre-work every day. I've since decided that this will not begin today, since the speech is of dire importance.
My newfound resolve is inspiring, though. I even did a rather productive at-home workout on Sunday night, which I plan to continue into the year. I'm disgusted by all the muscle tone I've lost, so I copied a friend and started doing an augmented version of the workout they used to get the actors from the movie "300" into shape. Since I can't run in the snow, I'm talking about attending yoga with some of my ALT friends in the next city over. Now that I'm starting to panic with busy-ness though, the prospect of adding another solid commitment to my schedule is pretty stressful.
So far I guess I'm doing all right, I managed to hold myself back from writing a blog entry until after I'd worked on my speech a little. The tragic thing, however, is that even though I've exhausted myself of ideas, I only have about two pages in English. According to what I've heard about page-to-minutes statistics, I have about 4 minutes out of a 25 minute speech...Shit...
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