sick. sick. sick. sick as a ...... bad headache for 2 days, every muscle group in my body aches, i have chills, and no energy. great way to start the week of halloween festivities at school. a week of costumes, crafts and cameras. s'posed to be all yahoooo-like.

somehow got through work today (dressed as a panda - very comfy, indeed). been swallowing lots of vile tasting chinese medicine from the local pharmacy, some ascorbic acid and water.

how i wish i worked in a place that didn't fall apart if one of the gaijin teachers gets sick. hope i didn't infect any of the kids. but then again, they probably gave it to me in the first place. ah, the joyous cycle of germs. give and receive. actually, i could have picked it up in shinjuku on saturday night.

anyways, i should have just stayed in bed today. am going there now. hope the elephant upstairs decides to stop stamping from his kitchen to his tatami room every 3 minutes.

oyasumi. good night.

ps - did you notice that the partly finished galleries are finally online? very much a work in progress, ok. so check back every few weeks. also a redesign in the works too. or have i mentioned that already like a hun'red times?