  Indeed they are. My lovely friends S&M have vacated the isle of inscruitable people and indeleble concrete for greater peace and glory in the UK. Well, more drugs and Marmite anyway. Their departure rattles me enough to start recording my thoughts in the form of this uLtRa-kEwL blog. Strange stuff. So now I sit in the school staff office of a small middle school on the north coast of the kansai area in Japan.
I will move on in about four weeks and I am completely unprepared for this event. My psudo-religious philosophy of "It will all work out in the end" has resulted in my not planning the next stage of my life any further than "get the hell out of this rice field" and thus I am beginning to feel the first smidgings of doubt. Need a job, need a job, need a job. The situation is compounded and complicated by the unplanned birth of a love affair - now about 4 months old. I still can`t believe that Y "likes" me (Nb. if a Japanese girl says she likes you, check your fingers for any rings she may have secreted on without your noticing) although I almost believe she does now...
If it wasn`t for her or the Baka Futari, who along with this Athapist make up the magneficent TEAM SD I would be straining at the leash to leave this place. Why? 1.The job is shit and pointless leading to a huge drop in my self esteem. 2.This town is simply too dead. 3.I have ridden my bike over every road for about 20kms in every direction; nothing more to see.
4.I have become an introvert due to lack of socialisation. I actually LIKE being left alone now and this is not healthy in a soon the be 25 year old. I will, however, miss: 1. The sea.
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Some of the little fuckers I "teach" English to.
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The familiarity that is easily mistaken for fondness that one builds with an area after one has lived there for some time. 4. Some other friends not mentioned. 5. Seriously, that`s it. 
