One of the unforeseen side effects of my almost-four years in Japan is a tendency to care a bit too much about What Other People Think of Me.
I'm not saying that I want to live in a world where I stop caring completely about WOPTOM (handy acronyms! Woohoo!), but I would like to Stop Caring What Other People Think of Me (SCWOPTOM) so much.
For instance - last night, I had a very vivid dream where I went back to the Gakuen to teach again, and spent the whole time wearing long-sleeved turtleneck shirts and socks so that none of my tattoos would be visible. I woke up exhausted from the effort of disguising myself.
That's just a minor example. I can't really discuss any of the others, the Real Time examples, because they all involve Real Time situations that are best left out of this blog.
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I got derailed mid-thought, and don't remember where I was going with this.
Do you have any suggestions on how to SCWOPTOM?
More booze? ahahahah
ReplyDeleteYou are one heck of an awesome woman and friend. Just keep reminding yourself of that.
:)
You're in the Yukon, where SCWOPTOM = ICBHIWTBAIYDLITYPANM (I can be however I want to be and if you don't like it that's your problem and not mine).
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