prairie_grass | I have a JOB! All hail and glory!

*dances*

Oh yeah, that's right, job is me. Me is job. Job is kickass rocksaw omg garden house* of COOOL!

Whooooooo!

It's at a jewellery kiosk where I am not permitted to sit. (Even on the rubbish bin! The RULES SAY SO!!!) And I'm workin from 12-4:30 on Friday, and 2:30-4:30 on Monday. Awesomeness ahead. I am sooooooo thrilled and now I'm really really super-duper looking forward to next semester! Onward and upward! Sure, more hours might have been better money-wise, but I have such a mega workload next semester (compared to what I'm used to) that it'll probably be perfect.

So yeah, I totally get all weekend and every evening free, plus it's just stylish-casual wear so I can go straight from uni and, all in all, I'm sweet-fucking-as. *dances more* I'm really looking forward to a semester of normality and schedule-sameness. It will hopefully encourage me to have good writing-headspace.

Anywayzz, I gtg, I need to cook myself an egg and then get ready for bed. Sleep is me because tomorrow work is me. Love love everyone and thanks to all who cheered me on in the land of no-work. hugs for all!

*garden house lives in my brain. Garden house is a name of a restaurant that is regularly referred to in my Japanese text book. Everything is 'ガーデンハウスは　どですか。' (How about, (we go to) Garden House?) Apparently, although ジム　ハリスさん (Jim Harris) and 山本　みち子さん (Yamamoto Michiko) are quite happy to go and eat there, カレン　ロペス (Karen Lopez) thinks that it is too うるさい (noisy). Isn't that just sooooooo fucking interesting, that you want to read about it about 50 million times??????? @_@ (sorry, learning a language can be very... interesting, sometimes...)

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ooo no sitting? but i am so jealous of your fly job, yo!♥

HAHAhA URUSAI is SOOOOO rude, she is ttly gaijin. i'm surprised you guys don't use the Genji workbooks, most places seem to, but i know what you mean, the stupid naaaames and the stupid situations...it is all so silly. pouts. ♥

「どですか」は「どうでか」ね？

ガーデンウスへ行きませんか！　XD

waaaah! You always confuse me with your non-formulaic japanese. It's like, my brain KNOWS those words, but because they're not in the crazy set-standard formulas then it's like, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!

Care to translate?

just that i think you forgot the う because 'do desu ka' doesn't mean anything.

the other one is perfect grammar! it's an invitation. you know how, first you say "Ikimasen ka?" then "Ikimashou!"

oh, right, I did. ;_; those extra vowels always kick my ass. >:[

Okay, that's what I thought, I just wasn't sure. In which case, いえ, I don't want to go because I am SICK of FRIGGING ガーデンハウス! *cries* (and I realise I should be all, ちょっと...., but I won't! I refuse to be polite in my dismissal of the house of nothing-to-do-with-gardens!)

*nods* but now you will remember, right!

いいえ...that reminds me of this great yoochun clip. he says いいえ to the interviewer and it is SO RUDE, yet he does it in such a way (THE EYES) that he gets away with it.

yeah. obsessed desu.

....possibly? ^_^

XD I love how insane it is that the extreme-politeness on Japan is incorporated into the language. It's soo cool, and very hard for non-Japanese not to sound like idiots or arseholes when speaking it. :(

I wasn't going say anything at all. .....okay, maybe I was. XPPPPP

It's AGAINST THE RULES! The rules even state that you're not allowed to sit on the FLOOR! Obviously they've had problems with SITTERS before!

Hah! Is it!? Good to know! I've only heard it when telling someone to shut up, and I thought that Karen sounded like a WHINER! winge winge, it's too noisy, it's too messy, send me back to fucking america with my frou-frou hair and my stupid skirts. Michiko-san was just trying to be NICE! *glares at Karen* I have started developing all this subtext to everything that's going on, so I'm glad you told me that. I don't think Karen likes Michiko very much, she turned her down for コーヒー earlier, as well. Maybe she's a RASIST!

i guess they have. it's kinda understandable though...it sucks to have to stand for hours on end.

it issss. she sounds like a h8a. AND WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD TURN DOWN コーヒー '_____'

yeah, and, if they have a problem with it, why not just include a stool in their kiosk design? Customers don't really freak out if someone it sitting, especially if their still looking busy while they sit.

*is gleeful* I would turn down coffee, but only the actual drink, I would still go and partake in beverage-delights. I wouldn't be all snooty-pants!

idk...i suspect they must've decided that standers attract customers....or maybe sitters sleep?

:P

The theory tends to be that if a customer sees a shop-assistant sitting down then said customer thinks either a)the assistant is bored/grumpy and not going to be helpful, or b)assistant is bored/has nothing to do because the place is crap and gets no customers, so customer shouldn't even bother going near shop. I think that's true ONLY if the assistant is really unresponsive to the customer and is sitting there looking un-busy. You can sit and clean things or fold things or do files and still attract customers, in my opinion.

Oh, and we;re using the Waseda University books, which is apparently famous for it's teaching-Japanese-to-english-speakers division or something. I dunno, at first it was all pretty spaz, but now things are starting to link together and make sense. Helped when I realised the reason there is no grammar in the book is that there is another book specifically for grammar that isn't a require text. Gonna be buying THAT one next semester. -_-;;

ah~ i'm sure it's good. maybe it's better than Genji.

by which i mean Genki!

eh, that kind of thing tends to be pretty 6 of one, half-a-dozen of the other. I think the focus of these books tends to be more, learning how to manage in Japan as a foreigner, rather than, this is a concise, logical run-through of Japanese. It's very all over the place. Good for learning specific things, not so good for a well-rounded selection, if you ask me. :/

Heheh, in my Japanese text book I had to compare people I knew to マイカル　ジャクソン　や　ビル　クリントン　(Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton, god help me). Try finding a friend of yours you want to compare to those two. How can you honestly say, why yes, Sally reminds me of Michael Jackson because they are both white...sort of. Oh, and my friend Joe? Yeah, he's like Bill Clinton because he likes to have sex in public places! Gotta love the Japanese:)

羨まし～　大学で日本語をとりたかった、でも私のCOURSE　SCHEDULEであいてた場所がなかった。楽しいですか？難しいですか？　そして仕事を見付けておめでとう。

Awesome! * all hail and no glory. Hugs till you pop and then some&

I have a JOB! All hail and glory!

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