I get distracted easily

And when that occurs, accidents happen.

I was cooking hash browns, because I am a slave to the potato. Afterwards I went to go dump the oil into the sink so I could clean the pan. When I was doing that, one of the guys on the floor distracted me, and I instinctively turned on the water. For those of you who don't know (how are you still alive?) water and hot oil do not mix. So there was a violent explosion of hot oil that somehow missed me entirely (the other guy was far enough away to not be in danger). He kinda stared at me like "what the hell is wrong with you" and I didn't know how to explain "Dammit you distracted me and I followed routine and then this happened!" in Japanese.

Ah well, the hash browns came out great.

I also realized today that I have allergies. I've known that since forever, but they haven't affected me the entire time that I've been in Japan. Probably because the flowers just bloomed for the first time since I got here, and now all this pollen in the air is causing my face to leak in various gross manners. Hopefully I can make it through the season alive, what with my inability to purchase medicine here.

I know I haven't uploaded photos in a while. I've taken some, but uploading is an entirely different process. It's just a hassle, really. It's slow to take them from my digital camera, and then it's also slow to take them from my iphone (cause I have to deal with iTunes booting up). And then my internet here is awful, too, so it takes forever to upload them, not to mention that I resize them (most of the time) and that adds to the process.

I'll have some up by Saturday, promise.

In the meantime, here's some amusing videos:

Japanese censors loathe riceballs.

My life is not complete until I can pull this off.

Japan is really, really weird.