I was just about to go to aikido last night (haven't been in two weeks b/c of Golden Week holidays) and was leaving the office -- jacket on and bag slung -- when I got sucked back in to do some emergency translations. This FSA audit is no fun. I'd forgotten how tiring it is to write Japanese, and of course I can't stand the fact that after 10 years of studying I still can't write a decent Japanese sentence. Now I remember why I quit my job working for the Japanese gov't: translation as a job is neither fun nor easy for a monkey like me.
But anyway I'm gonna try to bail early from work today and catch the 6:30 aikido class.
Still rainy/cold, btw. What's up with the weather? Serious El Ninonization or something going on, but hardly any snow in the winter, and then nice warm early spring but now nasty cold front coming in from the mainland...maybe North Korea has developed some kind of weather control weapon and they're sending all this cold air over Japan...could prove more effective than the spy-disguised-as-fishing boats they normally send over.