I am pulling a ladynorbert, and going to post my to-do listy thing for the next.... time. Or something. I should mention I'm doing all of this on a tight budget.


Monday
Go to work
Go to Nagoya to get headshots done for Audition. (2 hours there, 2 hours back)

Tuesday
Go to work
Finish calendar piece.
Write up resume

Wednesday
Go to work
HOPEFULLY receive headshots in the mail. If not, buy ink for printer and half ass them myself.
Finish calendar preview

Thursday
Go to Australia

Friday
Arrive in Australia
Find a hotel

Saturday
Audition

Sunday
Return to Japan

Monday
Arrive in Japan
Go to work, directly from airport




In between all that, I'm cleaning, and getting ready for my triumphant return to America.



I am absolutely insane.

Also: A little afraid the Australians are going to hate me for being an American. o.o

My list doesn't look as impressive as ladynorbert's

So. New laptop arrived. I pulled her out of the box, and named her "Baby" on account of her ITTY BITTY SIZE. She is adorable and cute in all ways.

Except one.


In that she doesn't work.


I am, as they say, less than amused. She is a Netbook. She's come equipped with a built in Web cam, and her entire purpose in life is to provide an easily portable connection to the webzorz.

She does not.

I don't know if it's because I'm on the Japanese webs or what, but what should have been as easy as "Plug in cable and surf net" has become an exercise in not throwing the damn thing across the room and screaming.

The entire point of me BUYING this laptop and having it laboriously sent to me (LOVE YOU, SMOOGIE) was so that I could have a working laptop before I came home from Christmas.

HahahaNo. I don't get this.

So now I have one laptop that will connect to the internet, but due to a fried video card, has all the graphic capibilities of a flip book. And I have one laptop that functions in all ways except it won't connect to the internet.

Oh. Also: play DVDs or Scan. Because both require me to "connect to the internet" to download the correct codec to do so.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFfffffffffffffff-



I have the depression from being in stupid Japan during Thanksgiving. Bleh.



Also: The auditions for HongKong Disney end on the 13- the day after I go home to Amurika. the Audition on the 13th? Oh yeah. That's in Hong Kong. You know. The place I actually have a conceivable hope of GETTING to.

There is an audition on the 5th that I could CONCEIVABLY get to, in Melbourne. I'm trying to convince myself that I should not do this, but it's depressing the hell out of me. Because I get the feeling that this might be the last opportunity to audition for Hong Kong Disney for quiiiiite a while. And I've decided that Hong Kong Disney would be just as acceptable as Tokyo Disney. Really, ANY Disney is acceptable, but these are the ones I have a .00001% chance of actually getting hired at. As opposed to the others, where I have NO chance.

Except Paris Disney. I have noooo interest in that. Srsly.

I get more packages on Thursday than any other day. I do not know why. Just that this seems to be the case.

ANYWHO.

Yesterday, I received a notification that the postoffice had a package waiting for me. And I was gleeful, for, I have been expecting my new laptop to arrive any day now. I still haven't picked it up (three more hours until I can do that! *squeee*), but I was highly amused upon reading the slip.

They had filled out the "To" portion just fine. However, they seem to have gotten a bit confused on the "From" part, once again.

According to the postoffice, this box is From: HAM


Now I understand where they could be getting this, between the place of origin, and the senders last name, but still: I am amused.


I think I will name the new laptop Bill :3

No seriously. Everyone watch this. It's like- Once More, With Feeling only with freaking BATMAN.




BAT.


MAN.

So.

Last night I dreamed I spat on, and then beat the living hell out of Hitler.





Huh.

Sooooooooo one of my sorta-friends (I like to consider us as "Likeable aquantances- we don't comment or talk much, but we both like eachother's work) on DA is running a contest. An OC contest.

Now normally, I stay the HELL away from OC's, the same way I avoid walking through spiderwebs. It just doesn't end plesently. But... these are Pokemon OCs.

Now, providing you're not creating an OC that is ZOMG ONE OF THE TWIN CHILDREN OF JESSIE AND JAMES or ZOMG TTLY OTP WIF MISTY or whatever... I'm sort of... not offended by Pokemon OCs.

It's a video game. A video game in which you get to NAME your character. Not only does this encourage OCs, it encourages Self Insert. Which, really- MOST video games do.

So yeah. I'm going to enter. The only trouble is- WHO to enter. Every Pokemon game I play, I play a different version of... me. >.> But the teams are different! For example- my very first time through Pokemon, WAY back in the day, I was a fire trainer. AND ONLY FIRE. I was the MASTER of Fire pokemon.

Which... didn't really work out that well for me, as Fire pokemon have SO MANY WEAKNESSES. But I still love them the most.

Another one of my games, I was an Eevee trainer. I had one of all the evolutions on my team. That was pretty cool.

Another game, I built my team around mimicing the Greek/Roman panthion, with all my pokemon named after Green/Roman Gods and Godesses.


I'm only alowd one entry though. So I am a bit torn.


I have not done Pokemon fanart in FOREVERZ. Wuagh. ITS LIKE BEING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGAIN.

( In other, unrelated news... )


Wuagh. Why do I do this to myself?
At work. No spell check -_-

I chuckled.

Anyone else think that this movie would have actually been better than the one it's spoofing?

This update brought to you by my DICK TEACHER who enjoys glaring at me from across the English Department room, and cancled our lesson for this period without telling me. THANKS, DICK. From now on, I'm calling him Richard. >.<



I went to a boring and a game center.
The score in the boring was 105.
We spent two hours pleasantly. I want to go again.

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I went to the Toyota Stadium
My famiry big soccer fan
Do you know "Nagoya Guranpas"??
It is good a team <3 My relative bilong to gurampas!!
The game ended ni a draw
I will keep on aiding \(*O*)/
I went to Tokyo and Yokohama.
Odaiba is now meeting an event.
I look big "Gundam". It is moving face!!! *I don't "Otaku"
Next, wen tto "IkeA". Do you know IkeA??
I like "IkeA"<3<3 Big big furniture store. Very cut <3 <3
"IkeA" struch 3 years ago in Japan.
I bought desk, wall clock and mirror. Happy
Thankyou, my father<3

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I watched 24 TV.
I sad. Very very sad.
I feel emotion.

I'm sleeping.
Very very very....
Bye---!!

I went to Sea
It is very beautiful.
I scream complaints!

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I went to a dentist.
I don't like a dentist.
Oh no~!

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Yesterday we put up at a hotel
We were bought many thing!

Today watching Imoto!
I feel very emotion!
GLEAT

I went to school.
Because Sadou club.
I feel so empty.

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And now: An excerpt from the paper one of my Teachers is writing;


Staying in a farmhouse has somethign to help you unwind as much as staying in a high-end hotel; which is: pleasure of working up a sweat, and breakfast after early day's work. That makes you so hungry. What makes you hungrier is veggies fresh from your garden. That excites you from head to toe as if it's dinner served at a posh three-star restaurant.
There's nothing like taking a bath and having beer after one-day farmwork. You cannot help falling asleep before the date changes. Even an unfamiliar pillow won't disturb your sleep.






In other news: I have finally found the Alice in Wonderland notebook I've been looking for. SCORE.

There is not enough DO NOT WANT in the WORLD. >.O


Seriously? This had better be a prank.

All my friends here are getting my hopes up, telling me how I'd be an awesome hire-ee for Disney. I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm trying to be realistic... I KNOW how specific they are in casting. I just want to TRY.


Anyway. WHY NOT ME?
http://disneylizzi.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://bellesangel.deviantart.com/gallery/

Was walking home from the grocery store just a bit ago, and I was looking at the sky, noting how delightfully clear it was on this chilly November night, when I saw an honest-for-goodness real live shooting star.


SO. COOL.




In other completely unrelated news, I need to not watch "Goblet of Fire" unless I really DO feel like blue-balling myself. Lord.

Halloween was a little "Ehh" this year, which is TOTAL SUCK, as I put a lot of effort into my costume this year, and was SUPER EXCITED. However, I managed to catch sick at Tokyo Disney in the miserable rain. I've never been sick for Halloween before, and I did not intend on starting NOW. So I ignored the hell out of my protesting body, and set out for Nagoya ANYWAY.

I have to say- while terribly impractical, hoopskirts are an absolute kick to walk around in. They're so light and a have a little bit of bounce- it's nice. Makes me feel like one of the flower dancers from Fantasia...

I was traveling light- sweatpants and a t-shirt in my bag, my wallet, cellphone, and Zune. So I didn't really have anything to do on the 2 hour ride up, so I pulled out my cards and started shuffling, much to the delight of some of the schoolgirls on the train. Then I accidentally sprayed myself in the face with half the deck. I laughed, they laughed- it was all good.

Another thing about hoopskirts. If you wear one, no-one.... NO ONE will sit next to you on the train. It was actually kind of funny to see people head towards me, then sharply veer away when they saw what I was wearing. Also: I understand why they never caught on as a fashion in Japan. There's simply not ROOM for them. I probably should have seen this coming, but I spent most of the evening being either trapped for not being able to squeeze past others, or worrying about knocking shit over. Which was... less than fun.

So I arrive in Sakae, and I'm headed towards the party when I run into another headed that way, who's already well on his way to being drunk, and somehow manages to make me feel completely unimportant while doing nothing in particular. WTF. I have no words to describe. It was just weird and undesirable.

We make it to the party, and I find myself a seat where my skirt will hopefully be out of the way. The trouble, of course, being that I myself am then out of the way. And this seat is... not near anyone who wants to talk to me. It's across the table from Jude, but that's it, and Jude is free to wander. Sooooo that was fun. Eventually I had two or so drinks, and decided "Fuck it" I'm moving around ANYWAY, which was awkward.

Most of the photos of me from that night look a bit... off. I am usually alllllll about the camera, but my smile seems very... strange in all the photos. I'm chalking it up to being ill.

Eventually, it came time for the costume contest. Last year, I didn't even get nominated, which was sad making, as again: Effort. But also: Obscure character. This year, I thought: Even people who don't know American McGee's Alice, still know ALICE, so I should at least get to stand up and have people clap.

But. No.

This year, there was no voting by applause. Which... sort of pissed everyone off. No-one I talked to liked the results. 3rd place was a store bought ninja costume, second place was Matt as Yama-Chan, which everyone was ok with, but first place was taken by Hanako, who's costume was.... painting herself white.

Both Hanako and our store bought Ninja aren't even JETs, they're Japanese friends of someone else. And hey. I love Hanako as much as the next person, but her costume wasn't even identifiable as... something. Was she supposed to be a skeleton? A ghost? A demon? What the hell was she supposed to be, other than "white"? According to everyone I talked to, Raven, who dressed up as Chun Lee, or the Sweeney Todd/Mrs. Lovett couple, or even yours truely should have placed, duther than Hanako or the stupid Ninja. But no. No voting. No recognition. Just... it sucked. At the time, I was drunk, and didn't feel like getting in to it, because I REALIZED I was drunk, and that I WOULD have started shit if I had tried to talk about it. But. Ugh. Thanks, guys. Thanks.

Shortly after that, the party broke up, and I was already long past last train, I chilled with the others at "The Absolute Halloween" party, that was happening at 3 seperate clubs. All of which was entirely underwhelming. In the end, I felt like crap because I was sick, and I couldn't do anything in my skirt, so I told the others I was headed out. Raven said she was going to cut out too, and ended up offering me a place to stay the night, as she lived in the city, and I payed our cab fair to her place.

When we arrived, as we were walking to the building, a man unzipped his pants and tried to start jerking off at us. However, he saw us seeing HIM, so kept it in his pants, and stroked himself OVER his pants. Because. Y'know. That's TOTALLY less noticeable. He also got out his cellphone and took video or pictures. THANKS, Japan, for that.

Raven's apartment is... AMAZING. It's smaller than mine, but I want it. I. WANT. IT. It has loft. It has everything I have ever wanted in an apartment. I am NOT EVEN JOKING. I took video of it for myself, just so I can be reminded- that somewhere out there, there is MY DREAM APARTMENT. IN EXISTENCE. FOR REALZ.

We changed out of our costumes and she put out a futon for me, and we chatted over how... entirely unsatisfactory this halloween had been, before passing the hell out.

The next morning, I felt like death, from (a) my first ever hangover, and (b) my body finally saying "Fuck you, I AM sick, now die."

Needless to say the train home sucked.

I took Monday off work, because I only had one class, and then, when I woke up this morning, I realized I had the day off for a Japanese holiday, so went back to bed. So now I'm feeling a little better, but still "bleh."


Anyway. Next year, halloween? Please try for less "suck". Thanks -_-

I love these kids.


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The elder sister (Godzilla) comes back today.
I'm very enjoyment.
It becomes complete by this by four sibling.



I went angling to capture the gobioid of the binner tonight in the family.
It became hot in the afternoon, so elder brother, the younger sister and I was drowned.
But it was very delicious.



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The contest was held in Shinshiro today.
The result was a silver prize.
But, I was very happy for everyone to blow.
I will never forget today.



I went to Toyokawa with the friend of club activities.
We ate a cake viking to lunch.
We were talking for a long time while eating a cake.
All stories were only very interesting thngs.
We are gonig to go roast meat next weeek.
We laughed all the tiem today.



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I made a trial product to take out in a contest.
A name of work is Maroyaka curry udon.
I was delicious unexpectedly.



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I and my friend played Wii at my house. We played "Mario Cart" We shouted, but hwe had a good time.
Later we talked 30 mnutes in front of "Kokoniko". It's "Girl's Talk" <3



I had a test today. Japanese wasn't able to be done so much. But it was able to English and math so-so. It is the enjoyment that the test comes back. It was club from the afternoon. The event, that is, the foppery happened. :D It secretly... ^_~



I went to see the movie "Harry Potter" with my family. It was good but it had been omitted from the original a lot. :/ I am excited about next movie. I die in paternal grandfather's house at night. Later we visited our ancestor's tombs. Because it was Bon Festival, I got the money from my grandmother and grandfather. Lucky <3 Hurray!!



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It is a summer vacation from today.
I try club activities hard.
Vs. the sunburn will plot it.



The birthday of the mother.
I said that congratulations many times.
There fore I present nothing.



It is August from today. Another
August or... I am instant for
one year.



A birthday of the older brother.
I forgot it.
I come and will lend several a year.



I met a friend of the gofware
part of the junior highs school. I did
not turn after a long abgence at all.
It is the friend of the life.



I made a coaster. It was small, and
it was hard. But I want to make
it again.



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I went to the theatre to watch the moveiy of
Hurry Potter.
I emagin if I vent to a mogic school. it was beautiful



I went to the barbarbarber to cut my hair.
I prefer a short hair style though,
I didn't request to cut it like that.



I went shoppign today with my family.
As My family eat foods very much.
We bough many foods like a mountain at the food area.



it is a sad as the summer holiday has nearly finished.
I like longer holiday. but do not like homeword home works.
To my teacher. plese reduse the homeword homeworks for us.



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It is a pand practice today.
I am vocal and drum.
Kimura Kaera's tune Rirura Riruha.



It is a band practice today.
It worked hard the drum.
I am excited about cultural festival.



It is a band practice today.
I thought the singing difficult.
Maybe we should pracitce more.



It is a band practice today.
No matter what, I will practice band.
I excited about cultural festival.



It is band practice today.
I thought the singign difficult.
Maybe me should practice more.



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I went to Ito yokadou with my friend.
I had a delicious crape in Ito yokadou.
I bought a Kachusya.

Who has two thumbs and spent the weekend at Tokyo Disney?

( This gal, right here. )

I pause here to make an observation.


Japanese people LOVE waiting in lines. Like- I don't know what it is, but there was a line. For. Everything. No matter how small, no matter how trivial, there was a line. And people would WAIT in these lines, for EVER. 40 minutes to get a tub of popcorn. The only thing they DON'T cue for is taking photos. That, my friend, is a free-for-all, and if you're non-Japanese, you better be ready to either push your way to the front, or have everyone, their 2 month old kid, and their 85 year old grandmother cut RIGHT in front of you like you don't even fucking exist. But yeah. Lines. For. EVERYTHING. Shortest wait of the entire weekend was 30 minutes.


( Anyway. Back to the Haunted Mansion. )

( And then we got lost in Tokyo Station. )

( We had decided to get up at 7, and try to make the park by 8, to hopefully beat some of the lines. )

BEST MOST AWESOME WEEKENED EVAR

Deleating the fuck out of some of my old RP journals, because they're old and full of such fail it brings me pain to think on them. Guh. Marsden Moodswings. *THUMBS UP*



1. What's the first word that comes to mind when you think of me?
2. Go to http://images.google.com/ and search for that word.
3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
4. Put this in your own blog so that I can do the same.

( QUIZ )

Outsiders can't see the comments, as the board is locked to non-members, but I WANTED TO SHARE MY SRRS BSSNS WIF PEEPUL


( Bull Testicles: Who's got'em )


YAY IMMA BITCH XD

Sooooooooooo night before last. I'm in bed. I'm wrapped up in my blankets. I'm sleeping. I'm having good dreams. All is well.

Until all of a sudden my cell phone goes off.

Now, I use my cell phone as an alarm clock, so yeah, I wake up when it goes off. Only it's still freaking dark. "What the heck is going on," I wonder to myself. Checking the phone, I see that I've received a text. Also that it's 1:44 AM.


This had better be one freakin' important text.


I flip open my phone to see it's from Ernesta, the guy who is ALWAYS late to our monthly meetings. His oh-so-important-must-go-out-now-cannot-possibly-wait-until-morning text?




Fromernesta
Date14.10 1:44am
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I will definately be coming to the dinner.




The dinner in question being a little night out Justin, another AET is holding in Toyohashi tonight. Captain Manners here decided that EVERYONE simply MUST KNOW that he was coming, so hit "reply to all" at two in the freaking morning.

Now, I was pissed. Normally, I'd be like "whaaaatever," and been ANNOYED AS HELL, but not pissed. But I had Fukue the next morning. The school that takes for freaking EVER to get to, so I have to get up EXTRA EARLY to make it on time. So yeah. I'm pissed.

So I text him back.




FromBlaze
Date14.10 1:51am
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what the fuck makes you think 2 am is an ok time to send a general, non emdrgency text?! i have work in the morning for fucksake




It is hard to type angrily on a cellphone pad. >.> also: TWO IN THE FREAKING MORNING. Then, a minute later-




Fromernesta
Date14.10 1:52am
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Which jackass is this? Sorry dude dudette. Sorry for disturbing your dick pulling fest.




... Oh it is OOOOHN. Lucky for Manners McGee here it was TWO IN THE MORNING and I wanted MORE to go back to sleep than I did to get into a bitch fest. Also, I don't have his NUMBER, just his text address, so I couldn't just call and scream at him, which is WHAT I WANTED TO DO. Still. I was now angry, so it took me for freaking EVER to calm down and go back to sleep. The next day I was tired as hell.

So! Today, when I had some free time, I composed this, and sent it off:




FromBlaze
Date15.10 10:00am
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ohhh, good on you! not only are you messaging people with your oh so URGENT message at ass o'clock in the mornign, you're doing it to people you dont even know. classy. really, well done.
sarcasm asside for the moment, basic phone manners dictate that its simply not polite to call after a certain time, as most people dont like or react well to such an awakening. now, i can see how you could have lost track of the time when you ssent th einitial text. god knows thta if i didnt have work, i'd still be up and abotu at that hour. but i do have work. so after you received my admittedly cranky as hell responce, YOUR responce should have been an appology, or, better yet, nothign at all.
in summary, have some consideration, and if you're called on your douche behaviour, man up and appologize. otherwise stfu




LONGEST. TEXT. EVAR. It's really amazing the amount of effort I'll put into being pissy.
Now. "appropriate calling hours" vary from person to person. I know this. At home, I have friends who wouldn't get off work until 11:00 at night, so I felt perfectly fine calling their cell at 11:30. I would NOT call their house phone, because I wouldn't want to wake everyone ELSE up. I also have friends I know who like to sleep in. So I know that generally, I shouldn't call before 11:00, as this would wake them up. And NO ONE likes to be woken up.

Just because it's a text and not a voice call doesn't make it ok. Would a person CALL all the people invited to this party at 2am to say "HEY GUYZ! AHM COMMIN TOO"? No. Because they'd get a bunch of angry teachers yelling at them.

RAWR.

I fully expect another douche text back from him. WE WILL SEE.
EDIT I WAS RIGHT. IT GOES ON.




Fromernesta
Date15.10 10:53am
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I bet u r a female cause u r messagign me these long emotionallyfilled messages. anyway...I don't need to know u, don't care who u and an apology wasn't warranted nor will one be forth-coming.. sorry to disappoint u miss
Have a wonderful day. ^_^




FromBlaze
Date15.10 11:05am
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you seem to have confused "rational" with emotional. emotional was the first text. the next was mosly heavy eye rolling an an attempt to give you the benifit of the doubt. you are acting like a child. a bit dissappointing, i had higher expectations of you.





Dammit. I wish I could read previous texts while I text'ed. I didn' mean to use the "dissapoint" again. OH WELL.
Return of the Edit OH HE DOES NOT DISSAPONIT :D




Fromernesta
Date15.10 11:14am
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Who is this?




FromBlaze
Date15.10 11:24am
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lol i thought you didnt care
your ernesta, right?




Son of the Edit!Still going...




Fromernesta
Date15.10 11:32am
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That's right ma'am!




FromBlaze
Date15.10 11:36am
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good, i thought it was. i'd feel silly if i had that wrong
this is blaze




Fromernesta
Date15.10 11:36am
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Hey blaze babes. What's up. Gomen ne honto ni.




FromBlaze
Date15.10 11:40am
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n'much, n'much. oral exams all morning, now just chilling




I WIN. Or I'm calling it as a win. Dunno if there'll be anymore edits. CUZ YOU CARE.

So for those who hadn't heard, or did not know, there was a huge freakin typhoon in Japan yesterady. It was hella intense. I've been in Japan for about 4 other typhoons, but I've never been directly UNDER one before. Aditionally, this is the largest typhoon they've had in like... 10 years. People were nuts.

but yeah. I surived unscathed, as did my appartment, excepting the fine covering of dirt now plastered to it. You would think with all that rain it would have been washed shiney and clean, but this is apparently wrong. Oh well.


Still alive!

"About Tropical Cyclone (Typhoon) On The Day An AET Meeting Is Scheduled

When storm warning (bo-fu keihou) that is issued on Aichi prefecture before the beginning of the AET meeting is called off before 10:00 amon the day, the AET meeting will be held as scheduled.

When storm warning that is issued on Aichi prefecture before the beginning of the AET meeting is valid after 10:30 of the day, AET meeting will be cancelled.

When storm warnign that is issued on Aichi prefecture before the beginning of teh AET meetign is called off between 10:00 am and 11:30 on the day, the AET meetign will begin at 2:30 pp on the day.

If you cannot come to the AET meeting because of being stricken by the typhoon or an interruption of transport service, please telephone BOE as soon as possible."



I get (I think) what they're saying here but JEEZE.

... and I aaaaaaaaaaache. But more on that later.

( The Ugly )

( The Bad )

( The Good )

In parting, I give you the world's happiest bird