{"id":1161,"date":"2012-06-03T21:29:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T12:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/life-in-japan\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2012-06-03T21:29:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T12:29:46","slug":"youve-all-heard-it-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"You’ve all heard it before"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busy, tired, no time.. yeah, you know the drill. I’ll write something of substance soon (yesterday, 6\/2, marks my fourth year anniversary in Japan. That deserves something of note).. but in the mean time, I leave you with a brief summary of my recent life. IN PHOTOS!<\/p>\n

\"One<\/a>

Nope.. I've got no shame<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t believe in necessarily putting things in order (I’m a “best foot forward” kinda guy, regardless of in which order that foot happened to come), so we’ll start with today. I went with one of my ex-HS students to her university and got the full tour today.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The aforementioned student<\/p><\/div>\n

Obviously everything is closed on Sundays, but it was still a lot of fun to look around a Japanese university campus (especially one out away from the city, where it has more room to spread) and see the facilities. University life here is way different from that in the states, so I still find it rather fascinating.\u00a0It’s also nice for me as the ex-teacher to catch up with some of my students that I taught through high school and see them coming into their own as adults and getting ready to move on into the adult world. I’ve also recently been catching up with another student of mine (but lives elsewhere, so we’ll have to make actual, concrete plans to go out for lunch. Probably this summer) who is actually doing a teaching internship at the school I taught her at and will become an English teacher next year.<\/p>\n

I’ve got to say, being in Japan for 4 years is odd enough. Having seen your own student graduate and then getting ready to become a teacher in their own right is even stranger. But a nice kinda strange.<\/p>\n

NEXT!<\/h1>\n
\"Got<\/a>

Should've stopped while he was ahead..<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve always wished that when you see some sort of police situation, you were given a number you could call for an update. I know it’s absolutely none of my business, but I really want to know what happened here!<\/strong>\u00a0I was on my way home from work (I get off around 5p, so usually nothing exciting is happening) and walked past a police officer trying to placate the young man while his partner stood by. The guy started yelling and kicking the railing (the police stood there and calmly asked him to stop. In Arizona, we’d have pulled out the taser) and in a matter of minutes, the car came up and more police showed up.<\/p>\n

I dunno what happened. I really wish I did. Life is fully of regrets.<\/p>\n

LAST!<\/h1>\n
\"Pon<\/a>

Pon de Lion cupcakes<\/p><\/div>\n

Look at this and tell me that they aren’t adorable. Okay.. now do it with a straight face.<\/p>\n

Basically, I got bored one weekend and decided to make cupcakes, throw doughnuts on top of them, and make PON DE LION CUPCAKES! Sure, they’re about 500 calories and will throw a healthy adult into diabetic shock, but.. that’s really not my problem<\/em>. My job is to make delicious food.\u00a0Well, not technically<\/em>, but you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/a>

Feeling hungry?<\/p><\/div>\n

There just wasn’t enough sugar in between the cupcakes, icing, m&ms (for eyes), chocolate (for the mouth), and the full doughnut.. so I threw candy inside for the confetti look.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Pon de Lion collection<\/p><\/div>\n

And this is what the spread looked like when I brought it all into the office. I try to make our department look like a group of professionals. That’s why I decorate my cubicle with stuffed animals.<\/p>\n

That lion means business.<\/p>\n

Other than that.. still alive, doin’ good.. just tired and busy. I’ll write more later! Now, I need sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Busy, tired, no time.. yeah, you know the drill. I’ll write something of substance soon (yesterday, 6\/2, marks my fourth year anniversary in Japan. That deserves something of note).. but in the mean time, I leave you with a brief summary of my recent life. IN PHOTOS!<\/p>\n

Nope.. I've got no shame<\/p>\n

I don’t believe in necessarily putting things in order (I’m a “best foot forward” kinda guy, regardless of in which order that foot happened to come), so we’ll start with today. I went with one of my ex-HS students to her university and got the . . . → Read More: You’ve all heard it before<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}