Well, I havn't written for a while. It's not that I didn't want to or that I have been too busy. Rather, my computer has been tempermental lately. One day it doesn't want to sign into hotmail, then next 3 days it doesn't want to work at all. Well, it's finally all be straightened out and here I am.

I guess not too much has been going on. I have been feeling kind of under the weather lately so I finally went to the hospital on Saturday. Don't get too worked up, when I say 'hospital' it isn't like in the U.S. In Japan, people go to the hospital for everything from a sniffle to open heart surgery. Well, I guess the hospital I went to was pretty small so there were probably no major surgeries going on there. Anyways, so I had to fill out all the normal paperwork during my 1 1/2 wait. Then I met with a nurse who asked me all the same questions again. Then she took me back to the doctor (who I thought was going to need that open heart surgery judging from the look on his face when he saw me-a foreigner. He began barking at the nurses "What?! How can I talk to her?! Does she speak Japanese?") After he calmed down a little, he got on to asking me all the same questions the nurse had asked me. Maybe he felt safe with that since he already knew the answers and didn't really have to worry about talking to me. Anyways, then he basically said, "ok, here is your perscription," and that was that. How he came to a medical opinion on the information he had is beyond me. He must be really good. But, I am feeling better. I don't know, though, if it is because of the 3 kinds of medicine or because I have given up alcohol for a while. Or, maybe it's because I stopped eating that too-old kimchi. I guess I will never know.

Anyways, I havn't really been doing much else. I had wanted to work on my grad. school application last weekend since there wasn't much else to do. It was raining, as it does every weekend. Also, Jin was out of town again and, as I said, I wasn't feeling too great. I was all set to write my motivation essay and get everthing taken care of since I have a little less than a month but my computer was broken and for some reason, I can't think clearly and creatively with a pencil and paper. It's strange since, until I got into college, I can't really remember every typing a report on a computer. Everything was handwritten and I had some good stuff back then! I guess I have been spoiled. Well, maybe tomorrow.