Digestion Issues ~ And Unrelated Ideas

Consigned to a 24 hour period of no solid food stuffs. . . . Can you say boring? Chicken broth, cider, mugicha, and water; three of which, are drinks. At least there is a slight variation to the flavor and options of salty or sweet. No texture to speak of, which is leaving my palette very unsatisfied. I expect that this will be an effective way of restarting my intestinal track. *sigh* It had better be anyway.

The good news is that I have demonstrated self control, and have not eaten anything solid since 10:30 a.m. Tokyo time. FYI. So about 7:30 p.m. at home. More good news, the menu for the next two days (after 10:30, if I'm going to be regulatory) consists of bananas, apples in mulch form (apple sauce), rice, toast, and more mugicha! :D Sounds much more varieties and more appealing if you were to ask me.

Random phone calls from random numbers. Random texts in mostly kanji that I have no understanding of, from random numbers. Random. Supposedly the text that I recently received was a scary chain mail, so my host mother told me. The calls come from unknown senders, and I would get back to them if they felt so inclined to leave me a voice mail; maybe folks in Japan don't utilize 'answering machines' (for lack of a better term.)

In other news, but not really relative to anything stated thus far, the weather has been fabulous lately. Nice, toasty, and clear outside. Still anticipating the rainy season, but for now I am quite enjoying the sunshine. Perfect for going to the park nearby, which is fabulous, might I add. One of the many mountains around here is dedicated to this park. Just covered in trees and bamboo. A couple of steep staircases to get up to the top, and benches scattered about.

Oh, speaking of steep staircases that lead to the top, that is one difference I've noticed in hiking here in Japan as opposed to the U.S. Paths, trails, you name it; Anything that a vehicle doesn't utilize is straight up the mountain. Switchbacks? No way. And here I thought switchbacks were a waste of time. . . I am no longer so opposed to such ideas. They take less stamina, which I have in excess.

Excess, which I have ample access to. . . . Now I am very tempted to begin a word association game. I may fall asleep doing it at this point in the post. That'll have to wait for later. But what a great idea! *high five me*




Moral of the Story: Black licorice is not available in Nagasaki.

Firefly Observation

The coolest little insects ever. I've never seen them until now. Amazing! Very vibrant yellow glow. They're so bright, I could see some in a distant rice field a couple hundred meters away. While flying they create a stream-like effect in the air. Kinda like taking a Fourth of July sparkler and writing your name with it in the air, how the light seems to linger.

Anyway, cool beans.

Cute and/or Optimistic Quotes

"Nothing in this world is worth having if it comes too easy ."

"Don’t dread on the past, enjoy tomorrow, it could be a better day than you think!"

"Choose the one who likes you, not the one whom you like. But if both like each other it's the best."

"A positive attitude may not solve all of your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I’d be at the bottom to catch them."

"When you know that you have sacrificed something really special for a friend, you know that you have a friend that you would do anything for you."

"The heart feels things the mind does not understand."

"A girl and a guy can be just friends, but at one point or another they will fall for each other. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever."

Inconsistency

Dear diary,

I need to whine today about what I need to do rather than doing something about it. No, not really. I do however need to make a better effort to change my eating habits. Sometime over the past two weeks (I assume) I gained 2.1 kilos. Dear diary, don't ask me what the conversion to pounds is, look it up yourself. In case you were wondering I am also 181 cm. Okay, this is going nowhere. . . .

Onto the Quote of the Day! Here you go: "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

and another for good measure: "I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."

In other news, since I'm not consistently updating my journal either, I am contemplating studying accounting and linguistics when I return to the states. 'Course, police academy sounds like fun too. :) But I don't think that I would be very good at being a cop. . . I'd be too nice. Or wishywashy. Or both.

Can you say scattered thoughts? Okay, so this isn't the first time I haven't been able to collect and organize what's going on inside my head. . .

Okay. I'm done.



Moral of the Story: Update a blog if you have something intelligent to contribute to society.