6 Months

As my mother pointed out to me this morning, today is the 6-month mark of me being in Japan. Crazy! I’m not sure if it has gone fast or slow. While it seems that I have been here longer than six months, it has also gone really fast at the same time….even though that doesn’t make sense. Hmm.

On an unrelated note, thank god Japan is a safe country. This morning marked the second day in a row when I left my apartment for work, only to find that I forgot to lock the door the day before. Hee hee. Yes, some day I will probably be murdered. Ah, well! Fortunately I didn’t repeat my accidental stepping-on-a-cat-at-my-front-door-with-my-heavy-work-shoes incident of yesterday! And fortunately for my sanity, it didn’t break into my house again this morning! Fucking scary cats!

On another random note, thank god for tatami being the best floor material in the entire world. Since moving here, I have probably spilled approximately 300 gallons of tea on my tatami, and they seem no worse for wear. I have also spilled bits of food, some miso soup, and god knows what else on there. This morning I topped that all by spilling a half a bowl of cereal (with milk, of course) on the damn tatami. Hmmm. Hopefully it doesn’t smell like rotten milk when I get home! Eww. Damn clumsy Jeff.