Woe was I...

Yesterday was NOT MY DAY!
Things started off well....well normal anyway. I had a really good lunch...Chanko Udon...I got my gaijin card...work was "work"...after work we all headed to a used/new furniture store...as we were about to cross the street in front of the Board of Education I slammed on my front brake and next thing I know my chin was barely touching the concrete...First of all I STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHY I HIT THE BRAKES OR HOW IT HAPPENED! Second, my hands (thank God for hands) positioned themselves to brace for impact and my body was parallel to the ground but the bike was perpendicular to the ground....AND I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED! So everyone stopped to make sure I was ok...I was...hands a little scraped...throbbing wrists...but I was ok...Third, we crossed the street and all of a sudden my umbrella (my green Benetton umbrella that I brought all the way from Georgia and love sooo much) jumped into the spokes of my front tire and was completely destroyed...mind you it was very cloudy, very windy, and about to rain at any given moment! So we stopped again..."I'm OK!" and we continued to the store...after we left the store I decided to go to Trial to buy a new umbrella and half way there I noticed that my bike was pulling and the ride was a little bumpier than usual...FLAT TIRE! GREAT! So in addition to a new umbrella, I bought a new bike and left the old one at Trial! About an hour after I got home I rode to the cell phone store with the others just to see what kind of phones there are...something funny happened and I went to take a picture and VOILA! MY CAMERA WAS BROKEN! All the photos came out red! So I gave in, texted Justin, and called home...I went to the drug store an picked up a disposable camera for this weekend (Fukuoka Orientation and Isla De Salsa)...And guess what...TYPHOON! Wind and rain like nobody's business all night/morning long...Orientation was cancelled this morning and I'm surely not gonna dance outside in a typhoon on Saturday! So now I'm trying to figure out how to get a refund for my Isla De Salsa ticket...I called and had a conversation with a lady in half Japanese/half English and the plan is to make Saturday's tickets valid on Sunday in the event of inclement weather...but if Sunday's just as bad...well, I'll have to check the website for that info later...but right now they're still deciding...oh yeah, and now I have a zit triad...forehead, left cheek, right cheek (on my face by the way)! And no I will not post a picture of that!

So that was my terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 12 hours! But I am alive and well so I suppose this was just a narrative and not just complaining...




This is one of the jolliest Buddhas I've seen (if one can call someone else's religious figure "jolly") ...