Lazy day today. Woke up rather late after not sleeping very well last night, and with a sore throat. I was very thirsty when I got back to the burrow last night and drank a fair bit of water from the tap, though it had a slightly odd taste. Funny thing about the water here - it is not particularly refreshing, so to feel rehydrated one needs to drink a lot more water than anything else. My apple juice ran out yesterday too, so water it was. Spent the entire day reading, watching TV, and rang Sarah of course.
The view out the window wasnt that appealing either, bleak, grey, and raining on and off. I only left my burrow to go to Family Mart and replenish my phone card, and get some milk and bread. Too much effort required to go anywhere else, and I really didnt feel like it. Especially since I'm without a bike now... I locked it up at Sendai Station when I went to Tokyo this week, but when I got back again it had gone walkabout. No big loss really, though, because I dont like that particular bike, and I'm sure it doesnt like me. The chain would fall off, front and back, whenever I hit a bump in the road, and on Monday night it threw me off onto the asphalt and bruised me in two places, and gave me whiplash in the neck. I'm OK now except for a diminishing yellow splodge on my leg that hurts when I poke it (guess I should stop poking it, hey?), and my neck works properly again. So, yeah, all in all, I'm not sorry to see the bike go. One less thing for me to worry about when packing up. It was given to me anyway by someone leaving Sendai who knew it wasnt worth transporting anywhere else.
Speaking of other stuff to pack up, Eugene brought around the rest of the ANU stuff today - some more crockery, a futon and... a microwave oven! Well... at least these will be useful for the next week or two, but in two weeks I will be out of here for good! Cant wait!
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