Kancho, Costco, and fast food slash
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gogmagogThis is hilarious (link from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
enkiae). It's personal editorials by an American English teacher in several Japanese high schools, and his bizarre experiences with his students. Between the games of Dodgedick and Kancho and the fake cornrows and the chats with fifteen-year-olds about infidelity, it's pretty amusing, even if at times the writer can come off as a bit of a douche. (The rest of the time he's pretty funny, so it's OK.)
And because life's too short to not spend most of it traumatized, here's some Aqua Teen Hunger Force Frylock/Meatwad slash, courtesy ofshisochou. Never say I don't love all of y'all.
...Today at Costco I have discovered my computer. The computer I'm going to buy, that is. (I've been needing a new computer for a while now, and will definitely need one before I start grad school, so I've been keeping my eye out.) It's made by eMachines, which I know a lot of people don't trust. However, my last one lasted for ages, and it was an eMachines as well, so I have no qualms about getting another one. The one I'm looking at is similar to this one but it also comes with an NVIDIA GeForce 4 graphics card and a monitor for $630. Overall a pretty good deal, and I'm looking forward to going to Costco and picking it up tomorrow.
And while I'm on the subject of Costco, I'm feeling the need to pimp it. Seriously, I'm never going to go to Wal-Mart again. Every time I went to the big W, I always felt drained and horrible. Was it due to the poorly-paid and treated employees? (Seriously, once we had a pregnant woman - like, eight and a half months pregnant - as our cashier, and we found out she'd been on her feet at the register ALL DAY and hadn't even been allowed a bathroom break. I hate to think of what she must have been standing in.) Or was it due to the fact that most everything was chintzy and made in China? Either way, it was always an ordeal and I hated it.
I actually look forward to going to Costco. The employees there always are friendly and seem to enjoy working there, and you know they're getting breaks because often employees on break will be doing shopping or hitting the food court. The prices are great (as you can see from their website), and while you do have to buy pretty much everything in quantity most things come in at least manageable amounts. And even when you don't save any money, the stuff you get at Costco tends to be higher quality and allows you a better standard of living than you'd have with another store. (I even managed to find a cheese that's very similar to my favorite British cheese, Cathedral City - which is of course unavailable anywhere else I've looked - at Costco!)
Their food court is wonderful, and often we'll go to get lunch before we go shopping (so as not to shop on an empty stomach, natch). The food there is uniformly fresh and excellent (and also comes in large quantities), and you really can't beat the prices: $10 for a large pizza, for instance, or $1.50 for a kosher Sinai 51 beef Polish sausage and a drink. In the main store, they have a massive variety of items - furniture, gardening stuff, electronics, etc. (In their online shops they even have caskets, whicheikitty was talking about.) They also have savings on other services - travel packages, for instance, or getting your tires replaced, or buying a car.
And sure, it costs $75 to be a member, but you'll probably make it back in just a couple of trips. (If you take very much over-the-counter medicine at all, it may take less - their prices on Mucinex and that allergy medication ALONE saved us the cost of membership on our first trip!) And while you may be saying, "well, yeah, but I don't need to buy in quantity, I live alone/live with just one other person/don't eat because I'm hooked on heroin and spend my days scrubbing the bathroom with a toothbrush," I say bah! You can't tell me it wouldn't be a good idea for you to buy ramen or pasta in quantity! I guess the only reason I could see it would not be helpful would be if you never cooked and only ate out, like my older brother, and even then you might save enough on the food court or on non-food items (furniture, electronics, a casket to use as your Goth-styled bed) to make it worthwhile. Y'all should at least check it out and consider it if you live within easy distance of a Costco, okay?
Oh, and they're also a blue company (blue as in state). That's just the icing on the cake though. :D
enkiae). It's personal editorials by an American English teacher in several Japanese high schools, and his bizarre experiences with his students. Between the games of Dodgedick and Kancho and the fake cornrows and the chats with fifteen-year-olds about infidelity, it's pretty amusing, even if at times the writer can come off as a bit of a douche. (The rest of the time he's pretty funny, so it's OK.)And because life's too short to not spend most of it traumatized, here's some Aqua Teen Hunger Force Frylock/Meatwad slash, courtesy of
shisochou. Never say I don't love all of y'all....Today at Costco I have discovered my computer. The computer I'm going to buy, that is. (I've been needing a new computer for a while now, and will definitely need one before I start grad school, so I've been keeping my eye out.) It's made by eMachines, which I know a lot of people don't trust. However, my last one lasted for ages, and it was an eMachines as well, so I have no qualms about getting another one. The one I'm looking at is similar to this one but it also comes with an NVIDIA GeForce 4 graphics card and a monitor for $630. Overall a pretty good deal, and I'm looking forward to going to Costco and picking it up tomorrow.
And while I'm on the subject of Costco, I'm feeling the need to pimp it. Seriously, I'm never going to go to Wal-Mart again. Every time I went to the big W, I always felt drained and horrible. Was it due to the poorly-paid and treated employees? (Seriously, once we had a pregnant woman - like, eight and a half months pregnant - as our cashier, and we found out she'd been on her feet at the register ALL DAY and hadn't even been allowed a bathroom break. I hate to think of what she must have been standing in.) Or was it due to the fact that most everything was chintzy and made in China? Either way, it was always an ordeal and I hated it.
I actually look forward to going to Costco. The employees there always are friendly and seem to enjoy working there, and you know they're getting breaks because often employees on break will be doing shopping or hitting the food court. The prices are great (as you can see from their website), and while you do have to buy pretty much everything in quantity most things come in at least manageable amounts. And even when you don't save any money, the stuff you get at Costco tends to be higher quality and allows you a better standard of living than you'd have with another store. (I even managed to find a cheese that's very similar to my favorite British cheese, Cathedral City - which is of course unavailable anywhere else I've looked - at Costco!)
Their food court is wonderful, and often we'll go to get lunch before we go shopping (so as not to shop on an empty stomach, natch). The food there is uniformly fresh and excellent (and also comes in large quantities), and you really can't beat the prices: $10 for a large pizza, for instance, or $1.50 for a kosher Sinai 51 beef Polish sausage and a drink. In the main store, they have a massive variety of items - furniture, gardening stuff, electronics, etc. (In their online shops they even have caskets, which
eikitty was talking about.) They also have savings on other services - travel packages, for instance, or getting your tires replaced, or buying a car.And sure, it costs $75 to be a member, but you'll probably make it back in just a couple of trips. (If you take very much over-the-counter medicine at all, it may take less - their prices on Mucinex and that allergy medication ALONE saved us the cost of membership on our first trip!) And while you may be saying, "well, yeah, but I don't need to buy in quantity, I live alone/live with just one other person/don't eat because I'm hooked on heroin and spend my days scrubbing the bathroom with a toothbrush," I say bah! You can't tell me it wouldn't be a good idea for you to buy ramen or pasta in quantity! I guess the only reason I could see it would not be helpful would be if you never cooked and only ate out, like my older brother, and even then you might save enough on the food court or on non-food items (furniture, electronics, a casket to use as your Goth-styled bed) to make it worthwhile. Y'all should at least check it out and consider it if you live within easy distance of a Costco, okay?
Oh, and they're also a blue company (blue as in state). That's just the icing on the cake though. :D
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