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Sep 20, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Waiting tables at a fancy sushi restaurant. Look, I understand from the management's point of view that they wanted someone polished, someone to do the job and do it well, not someone who was endlessly "trying their best" and on training wheels...
But, boy did they expect too much. Memorize the menu before we'll let you take your own tables and get paid full wage, rather than letting me learn on the job? Make me memorize what each diff. saké is like, and what each piece of fish on each diff. sushi platter is?
And then at the end of the day, we didn't get any free food from the menu - like we did at the deli I'd worked at - no. We had to suffice on miso soup and fish heads and whatever sort of extra scraps... not to mention all kinds of add'l hard cleaning work I never did at the deli.
I don't mean to complain too much. I certainly acknowledge my privilege, and my white-collar upbringing and so forth. Tons of people have much harder jobs, and I know it.

But, it asked for my worst job, and this was it.
After four or so weeks of being expected to pull myself up by my bootstraps, memorize the menu on my own, adapt to their strict atmosphere, etc etc I just up and quit.

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Feeling helpless and hopeless today, and very much on the verge of tears.

This coming Monday, May 15, marks the 50th anniversary of Okinawa's "reversion" to Japanese governance, i.e. the end of the formal American Occupation of Okinawa.
The Tokyo International Forum is one of several places holding exhibits in connection with this history.

(This one up only until Monday)

t-i-forum.co.jp/en/event/
For fifty years, Okinawans have been protesting, in great numbers, in numerous forms and venues, and yet the military bases are still there. The toxic spills, the plane crashes, the occupation of Okinawan land, the devastation of the environment, the countless incidents of SA.
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Very interesting. Living here in Japan for the last few years, I've begun to think more and more about how, even when we know dictionary definitions, and are fluent enough to get by well, there is still so much that can be so elusive as to the connotations or nuances of words...
Mishima Kitan here informs us that when women / fem-presenting people use boku 僕 as their first-person pronoun ("I"), it can be read as butch, queer, trans, and/or as cringe, as someone who is too influenced by pop culture and/or trying too hard to create a persona for themself.
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Thanks to Simon @B4Btv for letting me know about this exhibit at the Japan Newspaper Museum 日本新聞博物館!

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While the museum did not allow photos in the main portion of the exhibit space, it was mostly just reproductions anyway - so, if I take the time to go to NDL and look up the microfilm, I can see (and get a printout copy of!) these very same materials anyway.
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