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Mental Crash

For the loyal few of you who keep returning to this page, hoping to see a report of my life spiraling out of control, lick your chops.

A few things have happened since the dreaded JET interview -- namely, I was made an alternate. This is both bad and good for me because it was obviously my first choice and one which would provide the best "package" for a foreigner, but also being named an alternate means I can reconsider whether or not I really want to hold out hope for living in a rice field.

I've got a few options now. I'm going to "accept" JET and wait and see if they contact me but I'll also apply to a few of the big english companies like NOVA and AEON. Its not like I live to teach english. In fact, fuck it. But its a job and more importantly it represents the visa necessary to work in JP. Anthony has been offered a nice gig in Chiba at AEON and is currently interviewing with Brian in Chicago with NOVA. My head is spinning from all those prepositions. A huge "plus" for going the private company route is that you're gonna live within striking distance* of a big city. Thing is, for us pampered western workers, benefits would be pretty much nil.

My leading Plan B is probably AEON, but I haven't even contacted them yet. In the meantime I keep going back and forth in my head: am I crazy? do I really want to do this? So people, leave comments telling me that I should.

That's about all. Maybe I'll return to my normal insane blogging sometime soon.

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*Zerg rush.!