Herro Flom Japan

I can't understand why McCain and Hillary are leading in national polls. McCain thinks invading Iraq was the right thing to do, it's going well and we should stay there for the next 100 years? I hardly ever hear anyone agree with that, but then again I don't watch Fox News. Who's supporting him and why? You know what, I wouldn't invite him to dinner because the entire night I'd keep glancing at my watch hoping it would be time for him to go home.

I don't understand what democrats see in Hillary. I see someone who will say and do anything to get elected. I don't see her as trustworthy candidate who can win the primary election, or as a president who will unite the country.

And while we're on the topic of not understanding America, when exactly did celebrity meltdowns cross over from the tabloids into daily mainstream news? Chris Crocker was right. Leave her alone already. Every time I see Britney's name in the headlines, I feel like screaming/crying enough to make my mascara run too. What's the attraction? She's mentally ill and needs help, preferably on some remote island in the Pacific. End of story. Whatever hole Michael Jackson crawled into, I hope there's room in there for one more person.

In other news, it snowed all yesterday and it was cold enough to stick on the ground. Very rare. This morning school openings were delayed and I rode my bicycle to the station though treacherous frozen slush. It's days like this I wish my carbon footprint wasn't so small.

The other news is that Tony is one of the lucky few who was able to snag a copy of Smash Brothers Brawl for the Wii and played it almost nonstop all weekend. I played it too but found it to be rather monotonous and unchalleging. Other than the hodgepodge of characters available, it's not offering much new or groundbreaking. It's just another sidescroller; Mario Brothers et. al. revamped and repackaged. I'd rather see Tony reading manga than wasting his youth on that game, but unfortunately bashing bad guys gives little boys a much stronger dopamine rush than learning new kanji. On the bright side, at least he's not shooting heroin.

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Last night I decided to sleep in the office because a "strong" typhoon (That's how they offically catagorized it. Yeah, real helpful.) was headed directly towards Tokyo. Most typhoons come up from Kyushu and by the time they arrive here they're not much more than bad rainstorms. This one was different. It came right off the Pacific ocean and hit land just south of Tokyo.

I have no idea how bad it was. Either I slept through it or it wasn't as nasty as predicted. However, it's 11am now and my coworkers are just starting to trickle in, so I assume the trains are a mess.

It's pretty miserable to commute when the weather is bad. I have a 20 minute one-handed bicycle ride, holding an umbrella that the wind wants to turn inside out, followed a soping wet, jam-packed train ride that lasts around twice as long as usual. Screw that, I slept like a baby on the office sofa and commuted a whole 5 meters to my cubicle. Tony called me this morning (he has his own little ruggedized kiddie keitai) to make sure I was still alive. Someone in Nagano Pref. was killed when a tree fell on him. Ouchie.

It's a good thing I didn't oversleep, because I like to sleep in the nude.  (Ha, ha, just kidding. Actually, I wore my socks and wristwatch.)

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