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tuesday i was back to the gym.. i asked the PT if i could pay for my late membership fees and bro was like oh no one from the office is here! so i did not pay. but guys even just gathering up the chops to ask was like several weeks in the making. this kind of stuff used to be hard for me to do in english so… yayyy.. while its not a completely closed loop since i stil havent actually. paid . we acknowledge incremental efforts! gym sesh itself was fun, i went in knowing full well it might be difficult to push the weights i was doing last time but i was able to match my dumbbell bench press so i naively thought id be ok for the other exercises and no i was not. but its ok!

after jim i broke open that salmon fillet and grrrrr i thought it was boneless but i had already cut into a bit when i realized it wasn’t… fortunately i was equipped with tweezers this time around but still its so annoying and i feel bad for my poor fatty fish that i kept manhandling to get bones out. but eventually i was able to cut it down, put two portions away and make a lovely salmon poke bowl… we sarang you crab salad!!!!!!!! i scarfed it down quickly because i was due to play some VALORANT with bernice and alexis YAY!!!!!! i had to banish them to unrated because my JP account is still far from level 20 but we’ll get there… we’ll get to gold!

wednesday was my first class back after vacation!! with the dreaded 23HR. I’m just joking they’re good kids but it’s like talking to a wall. something about the x3HR classes coz 13HR is the same way and those kids aren’t even sorted into different class streams yet. but whatever i’m looking forward to seeing what zines they make!

i went home for lunch just cuz and reheated my spaghetti broccoli chicken slop in the pan and that was much better than it being microwaved desshou. then i tried to grind out some more val xp time but all that did was make me mad as such. so i moseyed back to work, watched a bit more of the cs50 lecture 0 video, and had a random evaluation with fukukocho sensei and komatsu sensei where they just asked me how i rate myself as a teacher and i gave them some humble 3s and 4s. idrfc since i’m leaving so we ended up just chatting about how i’d love to do a marathon the next time i come back to japan HAHA.

i didn’t want to do my recovery run in the wind so i hit the treadmill at da gym. naoko 2 was there (though i haven’t seen naoko 1 in awhile so she might just get upgraded to naoko) and we had our new years greetings, will probably tell her that i’m quitting bjj next time rofl but i’ll still be around the gym. i wanted to try to read while jogging but that wasn’t working obviously LMAO.. anyways i finished that up and did some extra mobility back home but lowkey i feel like i’m in shambles… my hams… they hate me rn… my shoulders… hate me rn…

this got randomly long for some rather uneventful days so rest of night went as follows: prepped some lunch chicken in greek-inspired marinade, made oyakodon (unpictured) but it was actually very good with the addition of the sauce… i usually just eat straight up egg chicken and rice when making my bastardized version of the dish so it was a treat to make it kinda properly. i didnt have a big onion though so whatever… then i groaned through some val swift plays to get more xp before lazing around before bed at like 11pm… lowkey i need to sleep earlier @_@