The Crows

Today was my first official day off and I was up at 5 oʻclock in the morning.  Actually, Iʻve been waking up at 5 in the morning everyday and Iʻm not exactly sure of the reason why.  At first I thought it was jet lag, but it might be because of the sun because the sun is pretty much the same here at 5 as it is in Hawaii at 7.  Whatever the case, I didn't jog today like I had originally planned...perhaps I'll do that tomorrow.

After spending all morning sitting around I decided I wanted to make some stew so I went shopping for food again.  I'm hoping I can fall out of this phase of shopping for mass amounts of food everyday soon because everytime I go there I find I want something else...and by the way, for lunch I made some instant package saimin and I just want to let everyone know so you can remind me, that stuff makes me feel sick. The one I eat at home does too but I guess I couldn't come to terms with it 'til today.  I just can't live off the cheap instant food, I get sick.  I guess that's one reason to pursue a prosperous career, no?

An interesting thing that happened today is, as I was walking to the 100 yen shop, and I was crossing the street I felt like everyone was staring at me.  I immediately got worried because yesterday (I don't know if I told you this) I left the house in a rush to go to the grocery store and I re-wore a pair of shorts that didn't seem that dirty and I'm trying to put off laundry as long as I can.  So, I wore the shorts all last night at all the grocery store we went to and when I got home I felt a bump in the back of my leg then I reached down and fabric was hanging from the bottom of my shorts...come to find out, my boxers from YESTERDAY were IN THE SHORTS LEG, and its very likely they were sticking out for the whole 2-3 hours I was shopping...

So anyway, that's why I was worried today.

But, it turns out that people just seem to be scared of me because I look very different everywhere I go, and they don't know if I can speak Japanese so they never say anything but I notice what they do: One lady saw me at the crosswalk and wouldn't cross with me to wait on the same side, and another person saw me down an aisle at the store and immediately ran to another aisle.

Some might say I'm exaggerating, some might agree...but I think I just feel like I'm giving a bad impression because I don't smile at people or try to be friendly because if they talk to me I can't really talk back that well; or worse, if they actually are scared they might be all "stranger danger" you know?

Anyway, after all that weirdness, stew was good.  AND, one other weird thing...today at around 19:00 a huge flock of crows flew over the building.  Is that something I should be concerned about?

(^_^)v