More Eating and Not Moving Around

I've been lazy with blogging lately; actually, I've just been lazy with life in general. All I do is eat, watch t.v. and eat again, with a lesson plan thrown in here and there. I really don't think I'd survive in a place where it's cold all the time; I might as well be a vegetable.

Last Friday, Ann, Jeff and I took Emily out to dinner for always driving us places. Actually, she took us out (since she has the car) and we just treated her. Hehe. We went to a Japanese buffet place in Tatebayashi. Needless to say, we got our money's worth.

On Saturday, Jenny, Ann and I trained over to Jeff's to watch Brokeback Mountain. Thanks Jeff, for LEGALLY downloading the movie! My review? Great acting and great directing. Heath Ledger was awesome, although we could hardly make out what he was saying most of the time since he mumbles throughout and plus the copy we watched was a bit quiet. Jake was good as well, of course. However, how is he in the supporting actor category anyway? Oh yeah, I thought Michelle Williams was good too (I always knew she was the most talented out of the Dawson's Creek cast, though there wasn't much competition then, with Katie-look-at-my-crooked-smile-and-confused-expression-as-I-go-insane-and-have-Tom-Cruise's-baby Holmes) but she barely had any screen time! We had a debate over who's hotter, Heath or Jake, and I chose Heath. I loss three to one. More Heath for me! Now if he could just dump Michelle Williams and their newborn baby...

That night, many of us ALTs attended the Ota Intl Xmas Party? Not sure about the Xmas part, but yeah. There were various performances which were pretty cool to watch. Jenny and I decided to look for the best-looking boy during the Indonesian dance. Good news: We found him. Bad news: He's probably still in jr. high school. For the Samba number, a few scantily clad women came out and danced for the audience of horny-as teenagers and old men....and I'm not talking about the ALTs nor the life-long ALTs. I thought it was very bold of those women to wear their outfits, ESPECIALLY in Japan. Good for them...and I'm not being sarcastic. After the party, a group of us went to karaoke...on top of Gen. Where else would we go, right? We get the same room every time; it's like they know we're coming or something. Anyway, that was really fun as we haven't been to karaoke in ages. What did we do after karaoke you ask? Uh huh, you guessed it.

Wednesday was another Ota night out. We've suspended the potlucks recently since it's SO cold and no one seems to want to cook or bike to someone else's apt. Not me, at least. Meeting at the station and going to a restaurant seems like a good substitute for the winter. However, only Sean, Jeff and I showed up this time. Sad! We had yakiniku and then decided we needed some exercise so we walked to Sean's place. Not really. Well, we DID walk to his place but NOT for the exercise. Instead, it was for our nerdy exchange of important computer programs, t.v. programs, that is. Hehe. Jeff and Sean swapped t.v. shows and movies from their hard drives as I stole stuff from the both of theirs. Thanks, guys!! Come to think of it, I don't think having more t.v. and movies to watch at home by myself is a good idea at this point...hmm. Oh well!

No thought of the day today b/c I am lazy. So there!