{"id":408,"date":"2011-03-31T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T05:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/life-in-japan\/life-in-japan\/?p=408"},"modified":"2011-04-24T23:54:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T14:54:23","slug":"no-one-can-turn-down-cheap-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"No one can turn down cheap ice cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was supposed to go out to a recording studio today to cut some audio for a standardized junior high school test. Woke up early, got ready, and drove the hour or so to the recording studio. Get there, sit around with my coworker, notice no one&#8217;s there, call my boss, find out that she kinda forgot to make the arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Some days I love my job. Others, not so much. Though the really sad part is that this type of stuff doesn&#8217;t even phase me any more. I just got back in my car, drove home, came to the mall and bought ice cream. It&#8217;s the 31st today, which means that ice cream is 31% off. It&#8217;s hard to have a bad day when there&#8217;s cheap ice cream to be had.<\/p>\n<p>And that leaves me here, in the same place I came on Monday, reading a book about murder and killing time until work. Starting from yesterday, my new class schedule has begun, which means that I need to meet new students and start new classes. It&#8217;s really not so bad, and I actually enjoy meeting new students and doing introductions, but it is a bit stressful for the next month since my schedule can change on a day to day, or even hour to hour basis. It&#8217;s not uncommon in April to get a call an hour before class to be told a student will observe my class. My absolute favorite, though, is when no one bothers to call me and I just have a woman in front of me, telling me she&#8217;s my new student. Now that&#8217;s good fun!<\/p>\n<p>You can be angry or you can be happy. It&#8217;s really your choice.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, life&#8217;s going all right for me. Still uncertain what I want to do in the near future, so I&#8217;ll be writing resumes this weekend, but things are otherwise okay. I&#8217;m healthy, debt free, and have savings. I need to figure out how to break things off with my current short-term girlfriend, but I&#8217;ll figure that out. I usually go for the &#8220;o_o I died&#8230;&#8221; or the &#8220;Hey, uh.. How about we just never talk again! =D&#8221; approaches to avoid awkward conversations, but that&#8217;s not gonna work here. Blah. I asked my BFF Midori to break up for me, but she said no (selfish&#8230;.). I really think she should do it, seeing as I&#8217;ve never asked for a favor before. Besides, I was somehow born without tact. This doesn&#8217;t bode well for me.<\/p>\n<p>I should really get back to reading my book! Good luck, have fun, and enjoy the rest of your week. I&#8217;m gonna go back to being awesome. It&#8217;s just what I do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was supposed to go out to a recording studio today to cut some audio for a standardized junior high school test. Woke up early, got ready, and drove the hour or so to the recording studio. Get there, sit around with my coworker, notice no one&#8217;s there, call my boss, find out that she kinda forgot to make the arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Some days I love my job. Others, not so much. Though the really sad part is that this type of stuff doesn&#8217;t even phase me any more. I just got back in my car, drove home, came <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/?p=408\">No one can turn down cheap ice cream<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}