Contractual Agreements

It's official people, I've put my name down on my new contract, effective Oct. 28th, 2006, through Oct. 27th, 2007. I went in on Monday, my day off mind you, to the Matsudo branch, and got that all taken care of. Kinda takes a load off my mind, but at the same time, puts an entire other, somewhat more immediate and pressing set of obligations on my plate.

See, in the next couple days I have to go down to the Chiba Immigration Office (CIO, for short) and apply to get a new Visa. Not the credit card, folks, the 'you have permission to be here as long as you're not a complete fuck-up and do some kind of socially acceptable work' kind of Visa. But the office opens at 9am and gets busy quickly, so I basically have to be there when it opens, which means I have to haul some ass down there early one day to take care of it, and that's either going to be tomorrow (not gonna happen) or Friday, the more likely of the two. But, I'll have to go to work straight away, so all in all it's going to be fun.

Kerry (the boss) gave me a lot of paperwork to do something or other with but honestly as soon as she started talking about it my ears shut off and I have no idea what to do. Eh, I guess I'll flip that packet again and get shit figured out. It's kinda too imprtannt to really slack too much on.

OH. And that reminds me, this also means it's been about a year since I came here, and as such, a year since I got my phone. Wchich means I can get a new one cheaper. And a new phone shall I get. A supermegauberbadass phone, the battery of which won't die after two hours like mine, being a year old, has begun to. My phone is more or less falling apart, as I've noticed all phones do after a year. Or, at least ones I own. Every cell phone I've ever owned (4 to be exact) has made itself completely and utterly worthless after a year, with the exception of my Sony-Ericson T616, which even now still holds a battery charge, after a year of not being used, sitting around my room. But towards the end of my using it, it was startin to get a little slow.

Ok, anyway, yea. New contract. No raise, and I applied to have my days off shifted to Sunday and Monday. Kerry said she'd get back to me about that on Wednesday, so hopefully that will work out.