Ah. Ahaha.

Ahahahahahaha.

Another snippet from In The Life Of...

Payday was last Monday. I was not paid. Nor was I paid on Tuesday, Wednesday, or yesterday. My city's CIR was contacted. City hall was contacted.

They'd forgotten to pay us.

Yes, that's right. Forgotten to pay us.

City hall is apparently shocked and horrified by this oversight. So am I.

You know, I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

In other news, while looking for Fourth of July images to slap on a listening test I'm writing (don't ask), I came across this photo. Doesn't it make the Washington Monument look rather...demonic? (If you don't get what I'm talking about, look carefully at the top of the monument.)

That will be all.

How to Get Real Paid in Japan

I should have mentioned this in the previous post, as it does much to add to one's understanding of my situation:

Salaries are paid on a monthly, not weekly, schedule in Japan. So when I express a bit of...exasperation...at the fact that someone's forgotten to pay me, it's merely because this oversight has set me short by a few thousand dollars, which I had counted on receiving this past Monday.

Another interesting Japan Tidbit is that no one receives a paycheck, ever. In fact, Japan doesn't use checks, period. One's salary is deposited directly into one's bank account by one's employers. Now, as Japanese society generally runs like clockwork, I'm usually right on the (ahem) money when I assume that my pay has been deposited on schedule. So you can imagine my surprise when I kept updating my account ledger at the ATM, only to find that no deposits had been made by the city since last month.

C'est la vie.

That will be all.