Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!

School's out for summer! Japanese summer is pretty short--I think classes start back end of August/beginning of September (note to self: check calendar). But regardless, I have quite a few weeks of boredom sitting at my desk. Despite the fact there are actually no students, teachers in Japan come to work every day. Sucks. It's not like I don't do anything during the day... I prepare materials for various English camps I have been roped into and for next fall, I tutor interested students (why is it always the ones who need help the least who are interested?), and I study Japanese... But this leaves ample time free for reading, surfing the web, and picking out that grit that accumulates under fingernails.

In other news, I went to Osaka last weekend to watch the Big Red bring home second place in the RoboCup competition. The set up a team blog for the competition. It was great to see Mike, Chris, and a bunch of people I didn't really know despite having many common acquaintances. Unfortunately, I got kind of sick over the weekend, so I didn't enjoy as much as I could have, but it was still great see people who understand my sense of humor. Mike even agreed to go with me to see the new Star Wars. I didn't want to go with Japanese people, because in the past I've had movies largely ruined by completely inappropriate audience responses, leading to me laughing at completely different parts of the movie.

Well, that's all for now. I anticipate more frequent updates since I have a lot of free time at work.