enter Satan, stage left
great opportunity, or annoying bump in the road?
The head of the English department at my old school recently wrote and asked if I was interested in going back to work there. This welcome and unwelcome news comes just after we have gotten the BBR/KLA studio almost ready for broadcasting and local friends are expecting good things to come about soon in the realm of truthful broadcasting- local, national and international.
It’s welcome news because…
it pays. I wonder about whether the truth pays.
I just need another year of ‘system’ work in a job that pays into the Japanese national pension scheme to begin to at least collect some kind of pittance upon retirement.
my family is in Japan,* and wife would be happy if I got back to ‘normal’ work, not fly-by-night/who- knows-what-Dan-is-doing shenanigans in Montana. (I share very little of my dissident media work with family.)
it’s a great school, quite prestigious and highly sought after by teachers, next to a beautiful park with a great Mt. Fuji view.
the job is low stress and my living situation would allow me plenty of time to continue truth-spreading for the tin-foil-hat brigade.
I could get my Golden Triangle student tours thing underway, bringing Japanese kids to Montana, and maybe vice-versa.
I could reconnect to my Japan-dissident-friends network, and get my Japanese websites back up and running.
I have house/car/bicycle/health insurance/surfboard in Japan. In USA, I possess none of the above, except as something temporarily borrowed.
It’s unwelcome because…
as I just stated, “What the heck Shumway? Get things ready; build up the suspense for BBR and kla.tv/studio Montana and now you’re bailing? FCOL!
I love Montana!
Japan is covid-obedient. Still they are mostly masked, overwhelmingly jabbed, and believe the fraud. At least in the US the masks are off and a huge percentage of the populace is calling BS on the whole thing. Teaching English conversation to already demure, shy and quiet students is hard enough. Put a mask on them and it’s hugely frustrating, unless you’ve acclimated to it, which I hope I never will be.
Japan probably isn’t going to be the tip of the spear in the worldwide resistance-to-tyranny movement.
* speaking of family- son Kyle is coming to Montana! '“Welcome to America, Kyle! Be an entrepreneur or something- sky’s the limit! By the way, I’m going back to Japan. See ya!”
Here’s is my former co-worker Martin’s take on the pros and cons [my explanatory notes]:
pros: closer to family, steady income, X High School students are nice,
partner tchr. [a troublesome/annoying presence] is leaving, Paul [co-foreign-worker] is easygoing
cons: boring compared to MT, teaching eikaiwa [conversational English], M-F slog,
Freak Brigade [covidians everywhere and the usual insane Japanese work environment], is this what you want to do for the next 7 years?
Of course I’m surveying my friends on this one. So far, nobody on the side who wants to see BBR get underway has said, “You should stay in Montana!” They’ve been very open to the idea that Japan might be part of the plan. On the semi-normie side, a couple have said I should go for the responsible option and get back with family in Japan.
Pastor John and others at the church expect me to get a sign from God, and I’m waiting for it. Very soon I’ll have to make my decision.
OK, I’ll use my remaining allotted space to finish up the two-part memes post.
Hey! Did you guys see the Jokovic news? You gotta watch this clip. Some yahoo in the stands at the Australian Open screams out, “Get vaccinated!” right as Jokovic is serving for match point.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1748767199873970660
and then this, for those who might scoff at the idea of waiting on a sign from God:
meanwhile, more Weinstein remembrance:
I don’t trust this oddball:
Apparently Mirei was recently seen in front of the tunnels synagogue in Brooklyn.
