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Backache, and more crippling pain to come
Mar. 9th, 2008 05:27 pmToday has been the kind of day I wish I had more of. Got up at 9am and wandered about in a fug until I threw myself in the shower, made a cup of tea and finally woke up. Then, in an uncharacteristic move of both organisation and motivation, I proceeded to do three loads of washing, tidy my living room, kitchen and bathroom, eat breakfast and hoover. And all this in just three hours. Then, I cycled into Kamata to search for the other train station and do some food shopping, came home, went back out into Omori-machi, bought breakfast for tomorrow's shinkansen ride and some flowers. I don't think I've been this proactive...ever. Perhaps it has something to do with this morning's earthquake shaking me awake at 6.30am.
My back has been aching this week. I think it may the combined effects of sitting on the floor and slouching on train journeys. I tried to stretch it out earlier with some yoga but it is having none of it. It especially won't like me tomorrow night, or Tuesday. I'm going snowboarding in Niigata tomorrow with some people from school. I have to get up at 4am to make the 6.30am bullet-train at Tokyo station. I really looking forward to falling repeatedly on my arse and further injuring my knees. Pain aside, it IS the most fun I've had doing anything remotely sport-orientated ever.
I also ordered and downloaded the new NIN "Ghosts I-IV" today as well. I was just thinking to myself only the other day that I should put together an instrumental NIN playlist for my iPod, and now I don't have to. Hurrah!
Last weekend I went to Saitama to meet up with Janan and few other lovely people. While we waited for the others to turn up Janan took me through Kawagoe to see the old Edo-period houses. I must confess to being disappointed. I was anticipating an area of houses to still be in their original condition, and unspoilt by electricity lines and concrete boxes. Alas, it seem I haven't been in Japan long enough to expect the worse. The houses themselves are interesting, however they are thoroughly spoiled by a lack of urban planning, as is much the same all over the rest of Japan. The highlight was finding a street devoted entirely to sweet shops, so I ate fresh taiyaki - chocolate and anko. Scrummy. We went back to Janan's huge apartment for which she pays only £90 a month, drank wine and ate pizza and chatted to Janan's boyfriend in London via Skype. He started eating a sausage roll which made everyone in the room (we were all English, including the honorary Japanese-English Kae) come over all nostalgic. Which made me realise that when I pop back to England at the end of this month it will be rather odd to come across all the little things I've forgotten about, like sausage rolls and limescale.
Okay, I need to get my bedding down from the loft as I will be sleeping downstairs tonight so I don't have to return home crippled tomorrow and find I can't get up the ladder to my bed. Then I must do some Japanese homework and all the other stuff I should be doing when I'm wasting time on the internet.
My back has been aching this week. I think it may the combined effects of sitting on the floor and slouching on train journeys. I tried to stretch it out earlier with some yoga but it is having none of it. It especially won't like me tomorrow night, or Tuesday. I'm going snowboarding in Niigata tomorrow with some people from school. I have to get up at 4am to make the 6.30am bullet-train at Tokyo station. I really looking forward to falling repeatedly on my arse and further injuring my knees. Pain aside, it IS the most fun I've had doing anything remotely sport-orientated ever.
I also ordered and downloaded the new NIN "Ghosts I-IV" today as well. I was just thinking to myself only the other day that I should put together an instrumental NIN playlist for my iPod, and now I don't have to. Hurrah!
Last weekend I went to Saitama to meet up with Janan and few other lovely people. While we waited for the others to turn up Janan took me through Kawagoe to see the old Edo-period houses. I must confess to being disappointed. I was anticipating an area of houses to still be in their original condition, and unspoilt by electricity lines and concrete boxes. Alas, it seem I haven't been in Japan long enough to expect the worse. The houses themselves are interesting, however they are thoroughly spoiled by a lack of urban planning, as is much the same all over the rest of Japan. The highlight was finding a street devoted entirely to sweet shops, so I ate fresh taiyaki - chocolate and anko. Scrummy. We went back to Janan's huge apartment for which she pays only £90 a month, drank wine and ate pizza and chatted to Janan's boyfriend in London via Skype. He started eating a sausage roll which made everyone in the room (we were all English, including the honorary Japanese-English Kae) come over all nostalgic. Which made me realise that when I pop back to England at the end of this month it will be rather odd to come across all the little things I've forgotten about, like sausage rolls and limescale.
Okay, I need to get my bedding down from the loft as I will be sleeping downstairs tonight so I don't have to return home crippled tomorrow and find I can't get up the ladder to my bed. Then I must do some Japanese homework and all the other stuff I should be doing when I'm wasting time on the internet.
