That feeling when...

DwnWthVwls · 12-11-2016, 09:29 PM

Why do you live there? Not sure if you've ever said.

The Batlord · 12-11-2016, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Why do you live there? Not sure if you've ever said.

He and Ked moved there so that they could live in an religious bubble familial unit within a country that actively kept them socially isolated.

Zhanteimi · 12-11-2016, 09:38 PM

I met Kedvesem in university in the States, but she'd grown up overseas (mostly Italy and Japan), so once we decided to marry, we saw Japan as a convenient option. Her family is here. (No, she's a white American girl.) So we moved here as soon as we graduated back in 1997. For the first six months, we took over hr parents' English classes while they were on furlough back in the States. (They're missionaries.) This gave us a window to find jobs and an apartment, both of which we did with alacrity.

I thought we might stay a couple years, but time marched on. We had kids, I got a great job, and the financial support for child-rearing is excellent here, so we decided to stay.

Fast-forward to 20 years in Japan! I've taken a different route from most, though, by cobbling together jobs instead of going for full-time slavery. So, I write gay romance novels and Ked is an editor working via telecommuting with a publisher in Canada (yay for paypal!). I also dress up like a priest and perform hotel weddings on the weekend. In addition, I sit at a desk at the front of a university classroom and tell the kids to get into groups and speak English with minimum input from me.

And I get eight weeks of vacation a year.

Life is a dream.

Zhanteimi · 12-11-2016, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

He and Ked moved there so that they could live in an religious bubble familial unit within a country that actively kept them socially isolated.

ninja'd

The Batlord · 12-11-2016, 09:54 PM

crazy'd

Zhanteimi · 12-11-2016, 10:03 PM

TFW Batlord answers your questions for you.

The Batlord · 12-18-2016, 11:53 AM

TFW your friend tells you just how OTT wasted you were the other night but you can't remember any of it and you kinda would have been okay never knowing so thanks, bro.

GuD · 12-19-2016, 07:34 PM

tfw you can't find your p38 and need to open a can of ravioli at whole foods so you resort to your best friend in your pocket- a rusty nail. After 15 or so minutes of violent thoughts taken out on aluminum I ended up ruining it with too much pepper. Yay, tetanus.

**Frownland** · 12-19-2016, 07:36 PM

Heh, tetanus.

Tristan_Geoff · 12-19-2016, 07:40 PM

Tinnitus?

12-11-2016, 09:38 PM	#4473 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	I met Kedvesem in university in the States, but she'd grown up overseas (mostly Italy and Japan), so once we decided to marry, we saw Japan as a convenient option. Her family is here. (No, she's a white American girl.) So we moved here as soon as we graduated back in 1997. For the first six months, we took over hr parents' English classes while they were on furlough back in the States. (They're missionaries.) This gave us a window to find jobs and an apartment, both of which we did with alacrity. I thought we might stay a couple years, but time marched on. We had kids, I got a great job, and the financial support for child-rearing is excellent here, so we decided to stay. Fast-forward to 20 years in Japan! I've taken a different route from most, though, by cobbling together jobs instead of going for full-time slavery. So, I write gay romance novels and Ked is an editor working via telecommuting with a publisher in Canada (yay for paypal!). I also dress up like a priest and perform hotel weddings on the weekend. In addition, I sit at a desk at the front of a university classroom and tell the kids to get into groups and speak English with minimum input from me. And I get eight weeks of vacation a year. Life is a dream. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

12-11-2016, 10:03 PM	#4476 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,873	TFW Batlord answers your questions for you. __________________ Zhanteimi LetsTalkMusic

12-19-2016, 07:34 PM	#4478 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	tfw you can't find your p38 and need to open a can of ravioli at whole foods so you resort to your best friend in your pocket- a rusty nail. After 15 or so minutes of violent thoughts taken out on aluminum I ended up ruining it with too much pepper. Yay, tetanus. __________________ I spit bullets in my feet Every time I speak So I write instead And still people want me dead ~msc

12-19-2016, 07:36 PM	#4479 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Heh, tetanus. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x