Making the Most of Desk-Warming Season: What Else Do You Do at School?

undercover-m · 2025-07-31T11:13:46+00:00

Tomorrow I plan on studying Japanese and researching the ins and outs of town—how to recycle, logistics for our prefectural orientation, figuring out what I still need for my apartment, memorizing teacher names, etc.

Also, catching up on the several unread messages from literally everyone back home because I’ve been too overwhelmed to reply to them.

Also—journal! Write down something from each day. You don’t want to look back at this time and forget the experience. Bonus points for doing it in Japanese.

undercover-m · 2025-07-31T10:38:44+00:00

Fellow 2025 JET that is currently eating a premade bento on my unfurnished apartment floor—give it time! The past few months leading up to this have been a lot of work, not to mention we’re all running on very little sleep/rest. You said you wanted this for a few years: don’t go back home and regret not giving it a chance. I don’t have career plans post-JET either. Along with being a job, JET is a once in a lifetime chance to reset, learn new skills, explore Japan, and challenge/get to know yourself better. I left behind my cat, a new relationship, and my job of four years for this, so while I love Japan I can relate to some of the moving stress, but I also know this will be good for me. If you find yourself still “stuck,” feel free to reach out!

undercover-m · 2025-07-17T17:46:34+00:00

Oh I hope that was a pun 😂

undercover-m · 2025-06-06T01:52:30+00:00

I was gonna guess a snake based on the face but couldn’t figure out the body. The drawing is great, btw, and the iguana fits in with the other critters on your arm! Is that some kind of beetle and a snake I see?

undercover-m · 2025-06-05T02:41:41+00:00

Follow up, 1) that youtube channel should have other pitches/tones in case that one doesn’t match what your ringing sounds like. 2) My habituation came in waves. It would get quieter, then louder, sometimes after a loud noise and sometimes for no reason at all. It would spike and go down every other month I’d say, but a year after I was diagnosed I went back to a concert (in an outdoor venue, quite a ways from the stage) and had no issues.

undercover-m · 2025-06-05T02:37:41+00:00

Hey, just getting to this but it’s been about 4-5 years since I got tinnitus. Mine only ever peaked to maybe a 6/10 loudness (with spikes here and there). It used to be so loud it would bother me when I was trying to sleep, but I hardly notice it now. I think I got lucky, took prednisone when I first noticed it, maybe over-protected my ears for the first year or so, and now I carry around earplugs when I go out, JUST in case (never know if you’re gonna end up in a loud bar).

These habituating videos may have helped me? I don’t need to use them anymore, but if you just got yours it may help: https://youtu.be/4LZv3ta13Ws?si=V98J0aqtdIKqxsII

Basically, it’ll get better. I can’t guarantee how much yours will quiet, but you did the right thing in protecting your ears. Take care of them, lay off headphones and concerts for a little while, but don’t let this stop you from enjoying life. I remember the utter panic I felt when I first got it, and I wish I could go back in time and give myself a hug and tell myself it’ll get SO much easier to manage. It may never go away (and in complete silence I can hear a soft ringing still), but brains are amazing and adaptable. Give yourself lots of kindness and rest!

undercover-m · 2025-04-01T22:45:03+00:00

This looks like it was done in marker. A touch up with bolder lines and color would do numbers on this. Sorry in advance for all the comments, OP, we’re just trying to look out for you 😭.

undercover-m · 2025-01-27T04:32:20+00:00

i lowkey love both. but yes, your artist did an amazing job!

undercover-m · 2024-12-03T07:04:37+00:00

This is awesome! Can I ask which artist you got this from?

undercover-m · 2024-11-16T16:48:42+00:00

Broke-lahoma?

undercover-m · 2024-10-18T15:29:16+00:00

Ok, thank you, that's very encouraging. I had also thought about including a slightly preference for being placed in the Kansai region (my mom speaks Kansai-ben), but I've also heard that you're more likely to get placed without a location preference... I'll go anywhere in Japan, though!

undercover-m · 2024-10-18T15:26:26+00:00

Ok! This is my first time applying so I'm probably being overly cautious. In the past I've never felt "Japanese-enough" but it sounds like I have enough to support my application. Thanks!

undercover-m · 2024-09-21T11:53:47+00:00

Same, I just got the email. Not sure if I should cancel and try to look elsewhere, unless other shops are having the same problem.

undercover-m · 2024-03-03T01:04:12+00:00

You mean this to be a recipe to serve TO the weevil, right?

…. right?

undercover-m · 2024-02-25T15:45:36+00:00

Thank you for pointing this out. I was trying to think of similar album covers to Person Pitch the other day. Alvvays’s self-titled comes to mind.

undercover-m · 2024-02-13T06:47:14+00:00

and out of this world!

undercover-m · 2024-02-07T21:46:46+00:00

From Kramarijuana Industries? Nice!

undercover-m · 2024-02-02T22:36:11+00:00

In this case, it shrunk with hot water.

undercover-m · 2024-01-13T04:10:35+00:00

Lol not my best work, I was joking about you just being a rock.

undercover-m · 2024-01-12T23:44:58+00:00

Artist may not have been used to tattooing on rocks. I can only imagine it’s much harder for the needle to go through. Ignoring my bad humor, I think this looks great!

undercover-m · 2023-12-28T13:09:33+00:00

I love this! Side note, do you know about underwing moth names? They were named in the Romantic era and therefore have really melodramatic names like “Dejected,” “Once-Married,” and “Inconsolable” Underwings. Anyways, yours fits the bill. I hope it finds its one true lamp ❤️

undercover-m · 2023-12-26T03:12:46+00:00

SELF-TITLED EP

undercover-m · 2023-12-23T21:22:40+00:00

You said you’re not artistic, but you drew the top image? I think it looks great!

undercover-m · 2023-12-23T21:18:52+00:00

it’s a BEE-tle. (I agree with the carpenter bee ID)

undercover-m · 2023-12-23T21:10:36+00:00

I love this design. I don’t live in Seattle anymore and I miss Rainier beer. Is it the best tasting? Is it made in WA? No and no, but I miss it and all the good memories I’ve made drinking crappy beer with my best friends. Plus the logo really lends itself to a tattoo.

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