Sunday:
Phew those six months flew by. The middle was last weekend but I think today is more representative of halfway through my stay in Japan. This morning I went to Yokohama with Sarah to see her off. I thought about spending some time around Yokohama station, but decided to come back home instead. I have a pile of things that I want to do around the apartment today and tomorrow (a holiday here) and I am already not so quick on my feet due to Friday night’s escalator incident.
The escalator incident: Friday night Sarah and I braved a typhoon to find some place izakaya like for supper. Leaving Yokosuka-chuo, we stepped onto an outdoor escalator. I took another step down, slipped, skidded down three steps on one foot, fell completely, my lower back making first contact with the edge of a step, and then proceeded to slide down another few steps on my back. Then I laid there winded, letting the escalator carry me (well I guess I was doing that before too), a little embarrassed by the shocked faces of upward going women gasping “abunai! abunai!”. Thankfully I was able to stand up at the bottom. I hit that low back sweet spot – right on the spine – that makes the words “paralyzed for life” flash before my eyes. Also thankfully, I had a patch of bloody escalator marks down my back. If you’re going to be hurting, you might as well have a visible wound that makes you laugh! When I was going up an escalator this morning, laughed and felt uneasy at the same time. The conclusion of the escalator incident is that I am in no constant pain, but there is a bruised spot that makes it hard to run, walk quickly, or walk up and down stairs. Enough of a disability to milk today, giving myself time to write, play guitar and watch tv.
Watch tv ???!!!
Yes you heard that correctly.
Meghan has a tv: It’s been quite a while and I was quite happy without one but when my moving friend offered me hers for my stay in Japan, a number of people recommended that I take it to help with my Japanese learning. Jeremy also noted that it helped him a lot. So I have a tv and it is weird but fun. I don’t understand anything but so many of the shows have bad soap opera lighting and I could never catch onto bad soaps either. I have it on now but with the volume down. It seems as though I have lost the ability to listen to tv and work at the same time. No matter, mostly sports…quite similar to Sunday afternoon tv in Canada. I am mostly paying attention to commercials. Right now I really want coffee, a new camera, and beer.
But not really beer. There was drinking both Thursday and Friday night and even last night I squeezed a couple in despite feeling like I had enough for a while. Had to – we dropped in on the Yokohama Oktoberfest.