Unbelievably, I slept until fully six o'clock today, which was by far the lasest I have ever slept. Hilariously, after I had been up for about an hour, I was more than ready to go right back to sleep and left to my own devices would have. Nonetheless, I ended up going out with friends and playing video games at this great new place in town that lets you pay $4 an hour to play unlimited video games and use batting cages, sports places, darts, billiards, etc. All in all, I fear that I have discovered Shangri-La and will soon be killed lest I reveal its secrets.
Somehow, although I have been awake for all of 8 hours at this point, I am as tired as if I had just done a series of Herculean tasks, such as killing the Hydra, cleaning out the Augean Stables or working on the Howard Dean presidential campaign. As a result, I think I'm pretty much going to thump out a little more nonsense here and then go straight to bed.
Tomorrow night and Monday night as well I will spend at a nice grandmotherly old professor's house that is apparently some massive estate out in the country around Hiroshima. We're going to take part in this really awesome traditional cultural event that involves spending all day building a giant pyre several times the height of, say, Kareem Abul Jabar, then setting on fire after nightfall and grilling mochi and drinking sake on into ze night. This just proves that you can get away with doing anything as long as you say it's a traditional cultural event. I think I'm going to start hanging out with the exchange students in America, then having them do things like carry me up A Mountain on a palanquin "because it's the traditional way to express thanks." This is a stroke of genius.
- Gyaa! I'm give up
Naka-ku, Hiroshima
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