End of the year party

I didn't do much today other than get my computer all fixed up with some more software that it needs. I've been doing that consistently lately to make sure that I have everything up to date. But I've noticed that my space on my hard drive is getting lower and lower because of it. I' m not sure what I will do about that though. I want to be able to add more stuff and I'm adding things to the D hard drive, but that's still not helping either. That's a bit weird for me since I have so much more space than I used to, but I still am running out of space. I really don't like that either. It would be easier if my C drive was just larger. It's only 20 gigabytes, which is still a lot, but not enough for me. I have a total of 100 gigabytes for this laptop, but I just don't like the way that Sony partitions their computers.

I was able to get a lot done today, which was a very good thing. I downloaded the new AIM triton, which has a ton of spy ware, but it seems ok. I haven't seen too much improvement from the last version that I've used, but I think that it will get better in time.

After I finished all that, I got ready to go to the end of the year party at the Imperial Hotel. I first needed to go to the school since I was going to get a ride to the hotel. The train ride was ok, and usual. It was a bit warm, but still very cold. When I first pulled up into school, I noticed that I recognized someone I had seen somewhere before. It was EK's younger sister. I haven't met her in person yet, I talked to her online when I was in Taiwan, but that was the closest that I've even had contact with her. I then proceeded to complete some grading of the 11^th graders listening comprehension test.

Soon after that we left to go to the Imperial Hotel. Dinner was very good, but exactly the same as last year's menu. That wasn't so interesting though.

I got tennis balls, a calculator, and a towel for my bingo gift. I think that this year, the school got cheap with gifts. I didn't get a great number, but still the quality of the gift hasn't been high recently. Even the people who got a good number only got rice cakes. Last year, I got a low number, but got really expensive class with the Keio mark on them. So, everyone's expectations of the quality was well, everyone was disappointed. You could tell.

At the after party, I had to sit next to the principal, and that seems to be usual for me.