Snow!

It's snowing! After Sunday's scorcher I thought it was about time to get the woollies packed up and posted out of the country, but yesterday morning I awoke with an even stronger than usual aversion to getting out of bed. It wasn't until I was shivering in the shower that I figured it was gonna be a cold one. (At least it gives me and bus-stop-fellow something to talk about, the weather is an inexhaustible conversation topic in this country. Next week we can talk about how cold this week was. Joy.) Yesterday there were wee flurries of snow. Kinda like ash after a burn off. But today school has been looking like a run-down snow-globe all day. It's days like this that I wish I could eat the hot school lunch... even if it does smell like socks.

Something I'm really not gonna miss about Japan is my pajamas always smelling like my lunch. My morning schedule is finely tuned, every second counts. In the 20-30 minutes between prying myself out of bed and racing for the bus... the hot water goes on, the veges go in the frying pan, the rice is out of the cooker, I shower while it cools, I dress, I dash. Um... breakfast happens in the shower. So you can see, until I am in a country with wheat-free sandwich possibilities, I shall bear the delicate scent of fried vegetables in the evening. Living alone huh.


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