Oof

Ack. First of all: I feel like apologizing for yesterday's post. It came off preachy but I was just in that mood. But I try to avoid that (on this blog at least. My Myspace blog is just random thoughts of mine rambling out but ignore that) because I tend to dislike blogs for that sort of reason. This blog is to let my friends know about Japan and to inform them that I am still alive. I hate the general concept of blogs because it gives most people an outlet for them to think highly of themselves and try to prove it to the world. This isn't true for all blogs (Like my friend Dave's blog where he reviews movies) but most blogs tend to just be people bitching about their day to day lives of mundanity in a way that attempts to make you pity them and elevate their egos as if they deserve something more than the niche they've created for themselves. [Just an FYI this is NOT a personal attack on anyone specific, so don't think I'm irritated at anyone. Go click on random blogs. It's like 95% people bitching about each other]. I try to prevent as much personal bitching as I can, but I'm not really... doing...much right now so I don't have filler content. I'll try to put up more funny videos and pictures and stuff and give more amusing situations. I am blogging to amuse and inform, not to preach or for pity. So I'll try to keep up with that ideal. As it stands, it's also difficult to find a middle ground where I can talk about my day to day life and people don't think I'm just whining about stuff. So I may have just been talking out my ass for a good paragraph here unless you're okay with me chronicling the bad events without whining about them. Let' give that a test.

Now for your regularly scheduled blog.

So apparently you can get Vitamin C poisoning/overdose. And it's pretty freakin nasty.

Remember that C.C. Lemon stuff I posted about?

Yeah, apparently it has something like twice the daily amount of recommended Vitamin C. And for someone who prides himself on eating as unhealthy as possible (As far as I'm concerned, anything green is bad for you) it takes less Vitamin C for me to OD on it. And therefore I ended up overdosing on Vitamin C because I love the CC lemon stuff (well... past tense now. Preeeetty sure I'm done with it after this.)

Considering I was up writhing in nauseatingly horrible pain (See: DO NOT CONSUME TOO MUCH VITAMIN C. I AM WARNING YOU) as a result I didn't get to sleep until about 6:30am when I had to be awake to get ready for a class no later than 7:30. But hey, if you wanna go to class in that condition be my guest. I took my get out of class free card and then proceeded to sleep off the rest of the sickness.

And my socks never arrived today. Durned post office. I waited for you...for a thousand summers. Waiting delayed me long enough in getting food that I went at the same time the staff did apparently, and I ran into Sarah from the Outreach Office who asked me why I kept coming panicky into the office. And it turns out I was right to panic because they didn't do anything they said they would. It's fixed now though, so I'm glad that she's awesome. If I had golden star stickers I'd give her like, three for all the help she's given me.

No food pictures today, and I was going to go out and get those nature pictures I keep talking about but some friends on AIM needed help so...by the time they went to bed it was dark out. And I get scared in Japan at night with the giant bees and the humongous crows and the evil demon monster things lurking around.

You don't know it's not real.

Yeah, not risking that for you jerks. Plus my camera doesn't have night vision anyways, so the best you'd get is the tops of the trees about 12 feet away.

Tomorrow is the beginning of the 10:30am-7:30pm nontstop school schedule. I have prepared crackers and water for the duration of the schedule. I need sustenance or else I shall perish.

Friday I'm going down to Beppu again, so expect pictures.

Enjoy this three-toed sloth crossing the road.