Also, my significant other won't be around all summer anyways, so there's no guilt for abandoning him for almost a month to go to Japan. Interestingly enough, Anna's (one of the other girls from our team last year) husband was just deployed this past week for a year, so she's functionally single and also able to spend this amount of time in another country without leaving marital responsibilities. Funny how God sometimes works even unpleasant circumstances out so they're not quite as sad.
The main issue would be that I'll be losing three weeks of income to do this, but with some extra saving until that point, I should be fine. I just hope my employer doesn't hate me for taking that much time off.
Hopefully you can prepare yourself for more Japan posts, come July-August.
In other, belated news, I picked up a second job working for a Friesian horse breeder in the area.
Yes, they really look like this.
Yes, they are this epic.
And yes, they are complete lovers.
The owner wants me to help her feed, train, and ride her horses. So basically it's my ideal job--somebody pays me to sort of pretend his or her horses are my horses.
It's a really lovely establishment, the owner is great, and she has some wonderful horses--I'm excited to learn more about the place and finish training so I can work there more regularly (thus far it's sort of an on and off again, once-a-week thing).
In other news, I got a $159 speeding ticket yesterday because I was in unfamiliar territory, trying to read a friend's written directions, and gauging my speed by a car in front of me, since I didn't have extra brain energy to devote to reading speed signs (or, apparently, my speedometer). Unfortunately for me, the other car was speeding, but he, of course, did not get noticed by the cop. The thing that enraged me, though, is that I told the cop I had never been to this place before, and he kept acting like I should recognize street names and offices in the area. I asked three separate times for him to tell me where exactly I'd been speeding relative to my current position, and he refused to tell me and just changed the subject.
So I still have no idea where I was supposedly speeding, which makes me very unwilling to accept the ticket. Also, there's an illegible note he wrote on the bottom of the paper--who even knows what that's about. Something about "ruff" and "white lines." Anybody with experience with this know whether I should try to contest this ticket? I really don't need to be forking over a random $160 for something I'm not even sure I did because I don't know where I supposedly did it.
Any advice would be appreciated!
The end, for now.
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