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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.)
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. :-)