I’m sure I’m neither the first nor the last person to note that it probably says something about Japan that the ordinary meet-new-people ritual includes asking them “Please be kind to me.” But, you know, sometimes you have to be obvious.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’m in Kyoto, typing on a loaner laptop in the hotel lobby. Don’t expect a great deal of blogging via this method, because the keyboard is different, and I keep doing something to put it into hiragana<\/i> mode, which makes a great big mess. The hotel is very nice, though, abd the staff speak excellent English, so I have not needed my abominable Japanese yet, and soon we’ll be heading out to look at some cool old temples– we’re next door to \u00e3\u0081\u0095\u00e3\u0082\u0093\u00e3\u0081\u0098\u00e3\u0082\u0085\u00e3\u0081\u0086\u00e3\u0081\u0095\u00e3\u0082\u0093\u00e3\u0081\u0092\u00e3\u0082\u0093\u00e3\u0081\u00a9\u00e3\u0081\u008a (that would be Romanized to “Sanjuusangendoo,” I hope…), so tourism will get off to an easy start…<\/p>\n
As for the travel here, only two comments: 1) thirteen hours on a plane is a very, very long time, and 2) jet lag sucks ass. I got a reasonable total amount of sleep last night, but in one-hour chunks, because my body was convinced that it was mid-day, and I shoud get up from my little nap.<\/p>\n
On the bright side, the shower this morning was like a religious experience. Nobody manipulates hot water like the Japanese…<\/p>\n
That’s enough for now. Mata ne<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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