The Smell of Sweat
May 06, 2003
You can tell by the title this update will be lovely.
Yes.
It is becoming quite hot.
It was 30 degrees two days ago.
That’s right. It was 30 degrees in early May. Vancouver barely hits 30 in the peak of summer and here I am in early May rolling around in sweat at night because I can’t sleep without a blanket over me. The people who have been here awhile tell me the worse is yet to come. Really? Oh that’s just great. My body is tuned and geared to battle cold weather. I wear shorts and t-shirts in winter. Well, I guess Vancouver winters were never lethal as they are in say, Siberia, but it does get chilly. Ok… the winters in Osaka are colder than Vancouver but that just proves my point - the weather is fucked
I am starting a new schedule with a late shift followed by four earlies. Earlies start at 7:30am so I wake up at 6:00am. That’s right. I’m waking up earlier than I did in highschool. What sort of drug persuaded me to do this you ask? Well, it was LOVE! This way, I get to see Eri more since she works a normal 9-5, Mon-Fri job. Furthermore, my old schedule motivated me to sleep at 4am and wake up at 12, sometimes 1pm - leaving me free time only from 11pm-4am. You can’t really do much at those hours. Now, I can see daylight after work, buy groceries on the way home, and take up things I wanted to do. I am planning to get a japanese teacher very soon. I’m juggling the idea of learning a martial art or teaching part time elsewhere to pick up some cash. I got lots more to do now and time to do it. It sure was hard trying to sleep early though. I slept about 2 hours and had a full schedule yesterday. Today was much easier. I think things are going to be good
Prior to this, I had my 2 weekends and got to hang out with Daniel from Vancouver for a couple of days. It was good to catch up on all the news from the ELI. I really miss that ol’ place. It really was an enjoyable place to be. I’ll be in Tokyo in about a week to hang out with some students from last summer too. It’ll be great. Oh yes, on May 15, a worldwide earthquake will kill us all! This is according to Panawave Laboratory, a cult as fucked as those dudes who thought there was a space ship hiding behind that Bopp comet. By the way, they think microwaves are evil and a Bearded Seal named Tama-chan is the cause of the cancer growing in the founders’ lunatic body.
SARS deathtoll: about 500. Annual worldwide death from the common cold: 250,000
I am in dire need of sleep.
