Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!yynet.tama.tokyo.jp!nf.asahi-net.or.jp!not-for-mail From: "Shannon Jacobs" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Shannon's Thematic Rut Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:31:45 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1478 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Lines: 43 Message-ID: <41e0fa0f$0$18466$44c9b20d@news3.asahi-net.or.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: i217030.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp X-Trace: 1105263119 news3.asahi-net.or.jp 18466 61.125.217.30 X-Complaints-To: ap-net@asahi-net.or.jp Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:24313 Wow!! Presumably a thread of my very own!!! Looks like a big one, too. Y'all really are desperate for amusement, eh? Must be so much fun to talk behind people's backs, eh? Without wasting the time to look at the link (or the thread), my own guess is that if it's actually "amusing" by the local standards of "humor", it's pointing to stuff that wasn't even written by me. It's actually the other way around--I don't play with trolls, but it doesn't bother me that I sometimes annoy them. On the other hand, do you masturbate while thinking that I care a whole lot? If so, you must be new around here. So now to reveal the reason for today's visit. An old friend of mine is looking for a few more eikaiwa teachers for her school. She managed to sweet talk me into pinch hitting yet another class for her, but as I was begging out of more favors, she asked me if I could help her find a good teacher or three. However, upon reflection, I realized that none of my current non-Japanese native-English-speaking friends are involved in eikaiwa, so I'd have to look elsewhere. When I first came to Japan many of my friends were involved in eikaiwa, but my older friends have gone on to better things and quite a number have left Japan over the years. A few have passed on. Finally there were a few that I've simply drifted away from. On a bit more reflection, I realized the drift was because our interests diverged too much. Really hard to put it politely, but there are some people who will teach eikaiwa forever because they can't sink any lower. Slummers, you know. Like around here. On third thought, no sense in posting an ad. She asked for "good teachers". Someone desperate enough to look for work in this newsgroup? Naw, too unlikely. Declan Murphy wrote: > Michael Cash wrote: >> >> >> >> No wonder none of the other kids will play with him. > > Strewth. Remove the fj.life.in-japan parameter & the result is > tsunamified.