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Sunday, January 9th, 2005 02:50 am
My hotel room in Shibuya-ku (Tokyo) also has free Internet access, if you know enough to go down to the front desk and snag a cable.

I have now slept on a futon in a room covered with tatami mats and enclosed by rice paper doors. I have eaten things I do not ever want to know the name of. I have probably walked ten cumulative miles inside train stations. I have learned where to go to purchase nonfunctional demo models of cellphones, the gazillion-knob toilet seats, a Walkman the size of a lipstick case, or a dishwasher the size of my purse. I have learned not to answer the phone "Moshi-moshi" unless I am completely prepared to continue the conversation in Japanese. (oops.)

No matter how yummy the picture in the advertisement looks, I am *not* ordering out for octopus and mayonnaise pizza. No. Even if it weren't thirty-six dollars.

Square dancing tomorrow.

(ps: it's 7:50pm.)
Sunday, January 9th, 2005 07:42 am (UTC)
wow! what an amazing experience you're having!

how are you feeling? still coughing and yucky? are you getting enough rest to let your body heal and your brain recover from the daily onslaught of new information?

[/mother hen]

glad you're able to report in ~ i love hearing about your travels.
Tuesday, January 11th, 2005 03:35 am (UTC)
I'm still coughing in huge red-faced eye-watering fits. I have noticed the weirdest thing lately: I have bruises all over me for no reason at all. Well, no reason I can remember, anyway! I'm actually starting to wonder if my coughing is bursting blood vessels somewhere. It doesn't make much sense -- why would my left leg have the most of it? -- but no other explanation makes any sense either...

But really I feel much better than I did a week ago. I have some of my normal energy level back, and twice in the past four days I've slept through the night. This is a WIN. I'm enjoying the trip a lot more now. :-)