http://negativespace.net/gusto/ en-us 2009-03-17T11:43:20-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006860.html Joy, You still have your chair and diaries at my parents' house. You have a job. Please find a way to ship it out. Need I remind you again? Seriously. Why is it still there?... matty-b 2009-03-17T11:43:20-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006671.html By the end of January, I will have made more dollars in the past two months than any two consecutive months in my life -- about a third of the annual salary of my previous job. Thrown into the mix... matty-b 2008-12-29T04:58:20-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006666.html Kinda cold here in Sachi's place, but the breakfast she made was pretty darn good. I have to go to school today, first to learn, then later to teach. Putting myself in the student chair is quite difficult. Lost my... matty-b 2008-12-15T16:19:11-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006654.html So I am back in school. Finally delving into Japanese lessons. Got a text and everything. Been studying new structures, and verb conjugations. What I don't get is conjugating adjectives. Adjectives have tenses and negatives. . . 楽しい　楽しかった　安いけどおいしいかった　 Been drumming... matty-b 2008-11-03T15:48:37-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006600.html Arrived in what is called Incheon yesterday, which is pretty much Seoul. But I booked it onto a ferry after a long bus ride, a taxi that took me to a train station instead of a ferry terminal, and inside... matty-b 2008-07-26T06:11:43-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006595.html Tokyo can take all your money away and give it back in dumb-ass ways. maybe i had fun tonight and spent all my money. but maybe i didn't. but i do remember drinking on enoshima beach at noon. and soon... matty-b 2008-07-22T11:29:37-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006544.html Year! That's a popular way Japanese like to say "Yeah!" I get it in emails. Is this new? Or am I getting old? My 28th birthday is on the way. I am going to buy myself a computer, and book... matty-b 2008-06-27T00:11:35-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006516.html In other news, I drank curry flavoured soda pop last night. Sachi picked me up a bottle of the putrid stuff. She also picked up a bottle of fried-octopus dumpling soda pop as well. Also bad. I love not working... matty-b 2008-06-15T20:52:51-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006492.html New pad good. Got a six mat tatami room with a garden outside. Tatami mats new. Great smell. Got a 4.5 mat kitchen with a private bathroom. High cielings. Bath. Shower. Private. Small building made of concrete (as opposed to... matty-b 2008-06-02T20:16:23-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006393.html I will use my free-time and study the Tokyo music scene. This will include going to one or two shows a week and purchasing CDs. I will also research promoters, venues, record labels, studios, managers, and so on. By the... matty-b 2008-04-24T00:51:35-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006386.html New weekend. Starts in Shinjuku after work on a Saturday at five-thirty pm. Work begins on a Wednesday at six pm. That's a lot of time! Ended up firing my band after the show. Gotta work on making contacts with... matty-b 2008-04-21T01:08:10-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006363.html Done the first week of classes. Less stressful than I thought it would have been. Though my attention to paperwork is my main concern. Yes. To be in charge of my own classes is a satisfaction I have never dealt... matty-b 2008-04-12T10:33:07-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006357.html w00t Got a new job. Never going back to Junior High School. Once was enough. Though the timing was nice with the collapse of NOVA soon after I started at JHS. New job looks cool. Central Tokyo. Shinjuku and another... matty-b 2008-04-09T00:34:54-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006240.html I don't know why but I feel the need to announce that I'm seeing somebody, quite steadily, and am quite happy with her. She's Japanese, an ex-student of mine -- so cliche. But we get along and she's nice to... matty-b 2008-01-25T03:22:54-08:00 http://www.negativespace.net/gusto/archives/006198.html happy new year folks! brought it in with a bang on a consumer island made of garbage! no shit! there was a giant sky wheel (ferris wheel) with a great view of rainbrow bridge and tokyo tower. and so on.... matty-b 2007-12-31T18:48:55-08:00