口紅と時間

十月の終わり、十一月の始めだったでしょうか。何年も使っていた口紅がとうとう無くなってしまいました。

この口紅は、私が最初にお化粧をし始めた頃、バイト先のマネージャーが私にくれた物でした。おそらくもう十年近く前の事。きっとそんなに長い時間同じ口紅を使っていたら、体に悪いですよね・・

何しろ私は口紅を使うスピードが遅くて、いくつか他の口紅ももらったり、買ったり・・・で結局使い切るのが今年やっとになってしまいました。

はっきりは言えませんが、一歩、小さく前に進んだ感じです。今度日本にいったら、同じ会社の口紅を買います、絶対。こだわる程の事でもないかもしれませんが、私にとっては嬉しい思い出。次に選ぶ色が楽しみです。

After the Election

I think I'm ready to talk about the election now. Or, rather, about what will happen now that the election has ended, and ended the way it did. Or, rather, about what is happening, or what has been happening, since the primaries months and months ago.

But before that, I'm going to talk about my students. At the end of October, a couple of weeks before the election, my students from the Anime Club hosted a maid café. I'd never been to a maid café, even while I was living in Japan, so I was a bit tickled to be losing my maid café virginity here in California.

This maid café was a lot of fun, and very, very souped up. And get this—the students gave me an Attack on Titan scarf!! OK, supposedly I won it in a raffle, because paying for your entrance got you a raffle ticket (or two, I have no idea). But the raffle was rigged, I tell you—RIGGED!!! In fact, it was very Japanese of them to make it so that the club advisor won the raffle on the first go... kind of embarrassing, but very cute.