♪♪Coffee in the morning, coffee in the evening...♪♪
Wait, those are the same thing now.
I'm now working a full 40 hours week at the store, for which I can't complain. I asked for as many hours as I could get, and that's pretty much it, without being paid for overtime. And it pays for all the spending I keep doing...
I bought a kotatsu from eBay. I've been wanting of of these for over two years now, but I always look for one in the winter, when they're way more expensive because more people want them. In the summer, with everyone complaining about the heat, I got one for a third of the price they usually sell for. It looks pretty nice too. All wood, unlike the plastic versions sold on most websites.
A kotatsu, for those who have retained their sanity and not learned useless trivia of Japan Cultural World thingie, is a low table, just the right height to be able to sit on the ground and work on the table. It's usually a good size, about a meter scare. What makes it special, is that there's a heating unit bolted underneat the table. You then put a futon, or some king of heavy conforter, on the table to trap the heat under it, and put a table top on top of the futon to get a straight surface. So when you have to get up at 5am to get ready for class, and it's freaging cold, you just sit with your legs underneat the conforter, all warm and comfy, without running yourself or your loved ones broke because you turned up the heat too high.
All in all, it's a neat little thing that'll work better than the old electric heater I used to sit in front of every morning during winter.
It's just that it takes 5 weeks to get here though...
On another note, yes, having people making christmas jokes at the register is getting old. But this week, I got one I appreciated. This couple from NewYork ask how we say merry christmas here, in french : Joyeux Noel. Then the guy answers that in NewYork, they say happy frigging christmas.
It beats being asked if it's not too early for christmas, or if the christmas songs are getting on our nerves, or what happens when it's really christmas, or why there isn't any snow...
But hey! Pretty soon I'll be coming home to my kotatsu, so it's all good. (That actully sonds really sad, doesn't it?)
posted by PHy @ 1:02 PM
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