mindstalk | beeblrpthagnzzzz (Reply)

I'm back. It's 10am Wednesday Tokyo time. I was not able to sleep on the flight. The trip went as well as could be expected: no delays, customs was a breeze (though we had to go through security again, despite not having left a secured area). Planes were crowded, as was the shuttle bus, and I got loud headphones and roaming knees from the undergrad next to me. I hate sitting next to young males. I miss the parts of Japan where there's, like, a train to the airport (common in the US in real cities) and where no one talks on their cell on the train, because they're not supposed to, they use text or e-mail instead (not common in the US.) So things went well but I feel subject to various stressors, including the ear-piercing whine of the Bloomington Shuttle's luggage door being open.

Thanks lyceum and hanashoujo, for various travel things.

My real laptop feels clumsily large after two weeks on the eee. OTOH it's nice to be able to see entire webpages again and have a standalone page down key, though I'm still getting used to that.

Final Japan logging will come later, like tomorrow.