Hello friends and sorry for
the radio silence the past few weeks.
Life has been rather dull, largely thanks to two Typhoons passing
through on consecutive weekends. I had
two straight weekends of literally pouring rain from Friday night to Sunday
night. At least I didn’t get swept out
to sea so I guess I have something to be thankful for.
Our kid’s Halloween party was
a success, and my cross dressing lunch lady costume was wildly popular. Actually I think the moms that came with the
little kids got the biggest kick out of it.
I didn’t think a costume consisting of a blonde wig, an apron and two
rolled up socks would delight so many people.
I think next Halloween I will be a cross dressing witch.
I was also forced to wear a
one piece elastic Mario costume for an entire day of work this Monday. I actually got lucky as the branch boss
dressed as Yoshi (the turtle/dinosaur) which was a heavy cloth costume on a
not-so-cool fall day. The kids were
delighted. I have one particular class
of eight grade boys that has been behaving terribly, so I was planning on
giving them a good talking-to on that day, but the felt mustache I had taped on
my lip derailed those plans. For some
unknown reason the boys all participated, didn’t make any dirty jokes and
stayed in their desks for the full 45 minutes.
I guess I have to wear another cosutme next week.
Speaking of dressing up, I
went to a cross dressing bar last night.
Two coworkers and I decided to do it on a whim after splitting a bottle
of wine. The bar is only 10 minutes from
our house, and there were two “hostesess” there that poured drinks and chatted
with us for an hour. The whole thing was
really silly and one of the “ladies” was a 60 year old man in a wig with no make
up. At the end we had a fencing duel
with foam sords and he (whoops she) beat me soundly. In the Japanese tradition, we each paid a
flat $30 fee for an set period of drinks and conversation. At the end I found out I had been charged an
extra $10 for letting our hostess have a drink as well. The hostess bar experience has been on Japanese
bucket list for a while, so the gender bending thing was really just a
bonus. If there had been actual women
there pretending to flirt with me there’s no knowing how much money I would have
wasted!
Other than that I have been
trying to read a light novel that I accidnetally bought. I though it was a comic book, so I bought a
set of three for like three dollars. It
turns out light novels are just small books with pictures every 20 or 30
pages. So far in two weeks I’m up to
page 60. It’s even less impressive than
it sounds since the book is like 3x4 inches and each page has 10 lines of
text. Oh well, another thing off my
bucket list.
Okay it’s a work night here,
so I should wrap up and get back to watching late night TV and plotting revenge
on the teacher who made me wear the Mario suit.
Good luck and good night!
