Just a few observations today.
This weekend I spent suffering through the nastiest viral stomach infection I've had since high school. I can also truly say I've had the first (and hopefully last) conversation in full Japanese revolving around the consistency of my excratory products.
It was also the hottest set of days so far this year. Humidity from 70 to 80 percent, with temperatures of 33 in the day and sadly not much cooler at night (31 last night at 10:00 in my apartment). For those of you still chained by the slavery of the long-defunct British Empire's silly measuring system, that's 92.5 and 88 respectively. Air conditioning becomes not a luxury at some times but a necessity, mostly due to the humidity. But you can survive, anyway.
I also watched The Incredibles and it was unsurprisingly ... incredible. Well actually I've preferred Pixar films but the studio has yet to prove itself anything but spectacular. What other film studio has produced nothing but amazing movies? In watching some of the "making of" disc 2 filler, I noticed that there were quite a few people my age apparently working cool-ass jobs at Pixar. Pixar!!! If that isn't one of the coolest places to work, please let me know what is. And here I am, rather shiftless in my career. I realized these people got there most likely through intense hard work, motivation, and probably a good smattering of luck. But with some of that hard work and motivation applied to myself, I too could perhaps be in a cool, enviable job. It's certainly something more to look forward to than the horror-stricken vision I suddenly had of working my life away in a lame thankless, meaningless office job.
Time to get moving.