Not a lot going on at the mo. Being stereotypically Japanese in this respect, the gallery directors take forever to make a decision, so while I'm on the verge of getting a pretty good part-time job there, nothing will be concrete until this Thursday, I'm told. It was meant to be today that I got a decision, but clearly I have to bring in the infantry and go there in person to get something done.
So in the meantime, I've been going to art exhibitions, knowing that despite my uncontrollable spending urges, art works are simply too expensive to buy on impulse and so my budget this week is relatively unbruised. Some of these exhibitions have been excrutiatingly bad. The Yokohama Triennale has to be one of the worst shows I have ever seen: a colossal waste of time and money for all involved. Thank God it's only every three years. Perhaps they should make it the once-every-blue-mooniale and spare us the torment.
I also registered on a freelance English teacher's website so as to get some proper money (the gallery won't pay very much). And so I now find myself the mastermind of an international homework cheating racket. This woman contacted me because her daughter is at university in England and needs help with structuring her essays and arguments etc. She'll be back in Japan next month and I'll give her some lessons then, but in the meantime I'm being sent her essays by email, correcting the English (most of which is fucking perfect cos she's blatantly copied it out of a book already) adding a conclusion to tie it all together (which I copied off the internet) and getting paid!
Well, what?! It's an essay on Max Weber, what the fuck do I know?! ;-)
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