midweek musings

so, here i sit early wednesday morning @ 1:02am to pound another edition of my wheelings and dealings here in taiwan...the last week has been a lot of trying to forget my current state of unemployedness tho' i do have some good news on that front...more on that a little later on...i'll bring thee up to speed as to what has transpired as of late...

the last few days of teaching @ peers were good...thursday elisha and i had planned a fun afternoon of activities for the wee bastards...the plan, tire them out with a cornucopia of games designed to make them enjoy their last few days with us. we were almost thwarted in our plan as both our principal and administrator decided it wouldn't be copacetic if we took the kids to the park(a 10 minute walk from our school) ...dismayed but not defeated, we exacted our revenge by having the kids play our games in the front room of the school,as loudly as their little lungs could afford them, no doubt interrupting the other classes going on at the time...that's what you get....bitch. the kids enjoyed themselves immensely and so did we 'cos we actually didn't have to review again for the umpteenth time. it's a pain in my ass when co-teachers don't get on board, but not wholly a suprise as, well, pardon my french, they are first-rate cunts. friday was even better as the kids were able to fill themselves on sugar and watch "madagascar" as a whole school and it was a hit. friday evening was a bit lame mcplains...just sat at home, drank some beers and called it a night.

saturday started off slow as it always seems to...i did the usual clean of the apartment and then got some lunch with leesh and di. afterwards, leesh and i took a luxurious afternoon nap and then made some dinner plans. went out with seb and luna for some truly excellent indian, and i mean tear-inducing as it was the shit. apres mangez le dinner, we opted for a lounge bar called boven near the shilin night market...after some beers there, we eventually decided to check out a new club that had opened a few weeks ago...it was alright, but a tad pricey so don't know if i'll return or not. around 4:30am, we were all feeling a bit peckish so once again headed to swensons which seems to be the restaurant of choice these days. poured ourselves into bed 'round 6am which seemed much later than any of us had wanted...but, what are you gonna do?

Sunday was a late start...then, we found out typhoon haitang was on its way...this was a grandmother of typhoons tho...500 km across with winds @ 130 mph...yeouch! corey and anita had planned a bbq for this day and after a quick call to them they said it was still on...what an excellent afternoon...we all started drinking around 4 and eating and drinking and eating and then more drinking...by the end of the night (approx. 4:30) yours truly was completely maggot. special shoutout apologies to heather and dan for putting up with a drunk and dial and a long-distance phone intervention (i'm sorry dan, but it's time to give up halo 2) after corey had passed out, gus, gavin and i grabbed a taxi back to home sweet home...for some reason, i thought things would be a whole lot cooler if i spent the night at gus' pad, so that's what we did...woke up the next day to a terrific hangover and caught a taxi back home only to crawl into bed for another 3 hours or so.

The rest of the typhoon day was spent eating spaghetti, watching movies and taking it easy due to fragile states. watched million dollar baby and for those of you who haven't seen it, what the hell are you waiting for? it's fantastic.

today, i made some calls about jobs and had an interview this afternoon...i have actually been offered 4 jobs today, now i just need to make up my mind as to what i want to do...two of them are good, but it's teaching children younger than i have now and i have little to no interest in that but i can't afford to be too picky...the other jobs aren't starting for a few weeks and although i would enjoy the vacation, i'm not sure if my wallet will...sigh, decision, decisions...anyway, i have until the weeks' end to make me mind up. i'll let you know what the outcome is next time i write, that is of course unless you want to wait for the story of my life to come out, in which case i can't say i'd blame you...it'd be blockbuster fer sure...ok my lovelies, later.