133/365: Nov 24. You know how your body is. It can take only so much. And then, when you are over that essential hump - that event/project closure/exam... whatever.... bang. It gives up. And you go down with nary a whimper. I'm sick. Stayed in bed all day, watched a lot of TV - The Wire, The Medium, 4400..... Dosed up on mandarins, and ascorbic acid.

134/365: Nov 25 2008. I crawled out of bed to teach a lesson. Sayaka. We've been doing lessons for 4 years now. We've come such a long way.....(this is her back in Oct 2004) - she's a pro model and dancer these days.

135/365: Nov 26 2008. Dr Sketchy's Tokyo November - Erochica Bamboo. Fabulous fun as always, and even though i was sick, I couldn't miss the chance to photograph this supremely gracious, fun and sexy class act. Erochica is a veteran of the burlesque scene, she's a classy lady and I am a HUGE fan.

146/365. Nov 27 2008. Started out the day doing some lessons, but after doing 2, I knew there was no way I could continue so cancelled my remaining classes and limped home to bed where I monitored my 38 degree temperature and drank about 4 litres of water.

147/365: Nov 28, 2008. A special day for me. Forced myself out of bed and rugged up well and met Kat and Jakey for dinner at 5, before heading out to Christian & Tylers gig at Nanahari in Kayabacho. This picture was taken at Tokyo station by Ms Sigsy in the last half hour of my 41st birthday. A mellower birthday I have never had, not a drop of booze passed my lips.

148/365: Nov 29 2008. Birthday fun continued. This pic was taken about an hour after the one above, I guess it sits in that blurry area where it could be dated either way - one can date it the 29th since technically it was, but I hadn't yet made it to bed from the 28th....

This is my darlin' friend Minako - she opened her bar, Mikorin, the same day as my 39th birthday so we share birthdays and I am forever bound to that bar. My body was screaming to just go home but I couldn't *not* go. Oligation is the enemy of good health, ha! Jane and I dropped in to Mikorins to help her celebrate the bars second birthday. Made an appearance, posed for photos, made my farewells and wandered feebly home. Got home and had a coughing fit to wake the dead and have self-diagnosed a throat infection. It'll pass soon enough. I plan to stay home all weekend, take good gentle care of myself. Catch up on all those personal chores like budgeting, and planning an exit strategy for the over-whelming task of moving to another country.

149/365: Nov 30 2008. A superb blue sky day. A mellow yellow kind of recovery Sunday. Met up with Kat down at the park for a stroll. Can't believe how much Jake Taiga is walking these days. Came home, watched The Kite Runner and a whole lot of crappy downloaded TV and vowed that this coming week I would seriously curtail the whole TV binge I've been on this past week.

Looking forward to the week to come.

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