Ichirou, is your school practicing for graduation too? My base school has been doing it for like a
week now. Today there's no classes so they can do the whole thing before doing it AGAIN tomorrow.

I was so close to using nenkyu but decided to stick it out. One can only go through random Wikipedia entries and read forums for so long, however. I'd try to watch something on Peekvid or Youtube, but I forgot my headphones today. Sux.
Some of the teachers asked me "oh, you're not going to come to the practice?" and I said "no, sorry, I don't understand why you have to keep practicing for something that everyone except for the first-year kids knows exactly what do to in every year over and over again." After which I asked if I had to go and was told it was fine to stay in the (warm) teachers' room, and one of them said he wished he could stay here too, but of course teachers have to go stand there and do nothing.
Guess I'll study some Kanji.