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I wonder if I could train a dog to rebound my jump-shots for me.

Did nothing this past weekend. Just stayed in my apartment, cooked, cleaned, studied, shopped (briefly for household supplies), and lounged around. Felt good to have all the time in the world and to not feel pressed to do anything in particular. I think I really need the lazy weekend time, after two straight weeks of crazy weekend plans logjammed around plans of skiing.

Heidi finally replied to my pre-Christmas email, it came when Simona was at the apartment.

Random thoughts come few and far in between when one has 5 classes a day.

During lunch, Kazuya (the introverted kid with glasses, who played the kamikaze pilot during the 3rd year 文化祭 play) tried to join in a coversation between Masaru (the kid with the cool hari who went to Temecula), Erisa (the girl volleyball captian with bucked vampire canine), Mamoru (the fastest runner of school) and Yuki (the cubby and very smart girl who called me Jack because I forgot her name), four kids arguably more popular than him. It was an awkward sight. He could never get his timing right, and never managed to jump into the conversation. When he did manage to interrupt, his utterances were never picked up by the rest. It was sad for me to sit across from him, and watch him laugh uncomfortably along the chatter from the outside.

Also during lunch, Yurie Oko (the girl with pouty laugh, not pretty but really really cute) said Gon Shi Fa Chai to me. They learned it from the daily reading comprehension warm-ups I wrote for them. Moments like this made me feel all fuzzy and slightly more useful as an ALT.