Today was Wednesday

And I slept in. Yay!

I read a bit, watched some tv, showered, talked to people. Got some food. The usual. I've been deciding things with coin flips lately. That's probably a bad habit.

Did a questionnaire for a friend that was about my health and diet before APU and after APU. Was pretty interesting, and I have to admit that I eat much, MUCH healthier here in Japan. Partially because greens taste better here, and partially because I don't have much choice in what they put on my food. So there's that.

Also cleaned my room a bit and invited Fanxing over to watch some Family Guy. It stopped loading for some reason, so we had to watch the ONE episode that I have downloaded, which turned out better because he has a class first thing tomorrow morning. Hopefully I can get this crap working tomorrow.

I also still cannot find a large box. Japan doesn't seem to believe in boxes over a certain size, and I need to fit my briefacse and a bunch of books into one. This is making it difficult to ship things home, dammit. I did find a really nice luggage that I need to pick up that's surprisingly cheap. Although this'll be my third one, so considering how much all three of these have cost, I should've just gone for a big expensive one in the first place. There's probably a long standing lesson to be found in that revelation, but why bother.

I talked with a guy at the kebab cart the other day about Japanese teaching style, as well as my friend Max earlier today. The fact that other people are bringing up how awful it is leads me to believe that it's not just my procrastinating learning style that has a problem with it. This is good to know, as I'd hate to think anything like that was my fault, no matter how much it probably is. As an American, I prefer to heave the blame onto somebody else's shoulders as frequently as possible.

Also this may sound odd, but I am in love with a mechanical pencil. It's literally the greatest mechanical pencil (or as the Aussies call them, "pacer") that I've ever owned. Fits my grip perfectly, feeds the lead in a consistent, tight fashion, and somehow enchances my writing so that it's at a consistent thickness, instead of other mechanical pencils that tend to vary between thin and sloppy thick the longer you write with them. You know, like normal pencils do when you dull the tip. I'm buying like 10 of these things and shipping them home so that I can use them for the rest of forever. Maybe I'll get a whole bucket full and just distribute them to everyone.

Maybe... maybe I'm a bit too excited about it.