So annoyed!

I'm STARVING!

One of the less glamorous parts of life in Japan is that the ATMs are not open 24 hours a day in most places, the places where I live and work, being two of them. Instead, the ATMs are open:

8am - 8pm on weekdays
noon - 7pm on Saturdays
noon - 6pm on Sundays

It's annoying, but I've adjusted. The worst part though is that I never get home from work until after 9 and I have no time to go to the ATM during the day at work because it is too far away. So, if I want money, I need to get it during a 2 hour window between when the ATMs open at 8 and when I must leave for my train at around 10. It also means that I must use the ATM Friday morning if I will need money between then and Sunday at noon. There are no opportunities otherwise.

STUPID me, forgot to use the ATM Friday morning and I have only exactly enough money to take the train home tonight. I am STARVING and have plenty of money in the bank, but I can't access it and can't eat. Worse, the only food I have at home is a packet of chili seasoning, an opened jar of peanut butter, a green pepper, and half of a bag of frozen shrimp. I am STARVING! Have I mentioned how STARVING I am?! I haven't eaten since last night, and I am STARVING!

I am so aggrivated right now. 1) because of my ridiculous job that makes me work unpaid for a bizillion hours a day and prevented me from getting to the ATM before it closed at 7 today even though I ran nearly two kilometers as fast as I could after my lesson to get there in time, and 2) because of the ridiculousness of not allowing people to access their money after such early times in the day!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

But instead of thinking about how hungry I am, I am going to go teach another lesson, then run to the train and barely make it in time to get home at 10:20 (after leaving for work this morning at 10:15) and apparently eat peanut butter, shrimp, and water from the tap. What a great life I have here!!

(I hate being this angry, but sometimes you've just gotta vent and let it out!)

Oh...and I haven't heard back about the job I interviewed for and it is now the end of the month, so that means that I probably didn't get that and will still soon find myself unemployed. And it is finally my day off tomorrow, and not only is it going to rain, but I am also getting sick.