Bug Poker weekend.  Never have I played so much poker than I have this past weekend.  I played for like maybe 7 or 8 hours worth.  Got my $10 back in one tournament but lost $5.50 in another.  On Friday we said good bye to Lauren at her soubetsukai, which involved a great round of crazy karaoke.  But the weekend ended with swimming at an incredible waterfall spot in Susami.  A great weekend, but could have been better had I not hit the bottle so hard every night of the weekend.  Not so bad on Friday though, just a couple bottles of sake. 
        Finally the heat wave has broken and with it has come rain, again.  Enough of the rain.  Tomorrow marks the end of the 1st tri-mester of the school year.  Teachers are filling out grade cards.  I had to give my students at Miyama chuu grades.  I couldn't give anyone a bad mark so they were either good, very good, and great.   The great kids were the ones that usually speak a lot in my classes. 
     Tomorrow is the last day of school.   The last activity of the term is to clean the whole fucking school and wax the gym floor.  I haven't yet decided if I am going to stick around for the 'big clean'.