with less than two weeks left until i go homeless again, things are starting to get a little more tense. im paid up on tuition and housing until the 30th of september, but after that im not sure what will happen next. the money i saved while teaching kids english in the JET program has been evaporating at a blinding speed lately, leaving me with only a couple options until i have to return to the states. im not complaining about the situation, because i knew it would eventually come to this. i guess im just a little surprised by how fast it all happened.

my immediate goal is to find a software job, and soon! when im not busy doing school stuff, im writing a lot of code, playing around with new languages and frameworks, and sending my resume out to recruiters and foreign companies in tokyo (and occasionally writing stupid blog posts).

basically, my options are: (a) enroll in more japanese classes at yamasa until i run out of money and have to leave japan, (b) move to tokyo and keep trying to find a job until i run out of money and have to leave japan, (c) move back to the states while continuing to look for a job in tokyo, or (d) completely give up on japan and move back to the east coast where im pretty sure i can find an awesome job pretty quickly.

ive got 12 days to figure things out and make a decision. hopefully at least one of the two interviews i have this week will blossom into something great, but i wont hold my breath. if nothing happens soon, ill be saying hello to my old friend homelessness again. hey mr homelessness, did you miss me?

hitchhiking fail (june, 2010)