One of my elderly students arrived with a eye full of blood after a vessel burst. Wasn't painful at all, she was more concerned that I would be freaked out and offered to wear an eye patch. She thought it quite hilarious when I asked if I could photograph it. Sadly the eye is kind of in shade so you can't really see just how red it was. Somehow the photo ended up looking quite comical, I really like it..... but it's not what I intended.

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In other news, I swallowed a burning hot steel cleaning pad and it's lodged in my throat and no amount of hot lemon and honey will make it go away. And then there's the matter of the hot pokers being stuck into my shoulders, neck and back muscles, the tender balled knots just under my temples and the fluid pouring from my nose. OK, so no, I didn't really swallow a steelo, but I do have a bastard of a flu and it sure feels like there's something burning with sharp steel bristles in my throat. Spent all yesterday and this morning in bed but did manage to pull myself to 4 lessons today. The students all blamed it on tsuyu (the wet season weather weirdness we're having now) but I know better. Too much burning the candle at both ends - too much work, too much beer and coffee, not enough wholesome food or proper sleep-time....

Loving my airport express wifi right now, sprawled across the bed with all essential items within reach, including the mac on my lap, hot cup of lemon and honey, tissues, codral cold and flu tab's, big bottle of water and the ever-present torch, just in case the big one comes..... anyways, think I'm on the comeback trail now. But feel free to pour sympathy my way....

Australia play Italy tonight in our first ever soccer world cup second-round game. Timbo-the-punk-rock-pimpo rang me before, so excited he was ringing every Australian he knows in Tokyo just to have an excited rant. He's a funny bastard. Hope we win. It'll be riotous in Federation Square (Melbourne) if we do..... Melbourne has a HUGE Italian community. Alright, now I'm just getting stream-of-consciousness boring. Gonna go before I tell you how many dirty tissues there are by the bed.