There had better not be a germ left in my body...

...what with the truly prodigious amount of mucus I've been expelling through various orifices this past day and a half. We're talking amounts perhaps equal to my body weight. It ain't fun. At any rate, I'm not up to much besides sleeping at the moment, so I leave you with school lunch:

Yesterday's green blobs

No one's quite sure what they were, or even what they were supposed to taste like.




Today's firefly squid

Someday I'll bring my real camera to work so you can see these at a resolution above 1.2 megapixels. You will begin to notice how all school lunches look eerily the same.




And a closeup of the above

Roughly life sized. The eyes go crunch when you eat them. These things aren't so bad at enkais when you're drunk, and the chef's removed the eyeballs and internal organs and replaced them with spicy mustard. Needless to say, none of these conditions apply during school lunch.

That will be all.

**Cool**

In Tokyo I picked up a book called Harcore Zen on a whim. And what would you know, it was a pretty good book, good enough that I've read it cover-to-cover twice in as many days. Its author was born and raised about 30 minutes from where I was born and raised in Ohio. He was former ALT who moved to Tokyo and became an ordained Zen priest. Turns out he was a former ALT in the town where I'm an ALT now, and taught at the school a block away from where I live. How cool is that? ^.^

That will be all.

So what does Shanghai look like, anyway?

Well, it looks like this.

( Day One )

And there you have it. I'll put the Taoist temple in the next post to give your bandwidth some time to recover.

That will be all.