i'm going to prove the impossible really exists*
Today is just another gloomy day in my little area of Hokkaido. Yesterday was sort of sunny, but today is cloudy and started out with pouring rain. It is warmer outside than inside most of the buildings. 15 degrees C (that's 59F) outside, but in the hallways it feels about 10F colder (at least). Ah....Japan. Where the buildings actually work against achieving and maintaining comfortable temperatures. It is either really cold or really hot and there seems to be no middle ground. In the summer, my house remained so hot even through the night that the fish in my tropical fish tank were dying of heat. Even using icepacks to cool the water down did almost nothing. Now, in the winter, my house is colder inside than it is outside, even though I use the heater to warm it up while I'm there, when I leave, it gets closer to freezing temperatures than the temperature outside. How is it that Japan has invented reverse insulation?! Mah. It's also frustrating because I wake up to a cold house and pile on the clothes and then when I step outside it is so much warmer than my house! But it's the opposite in summer. Gr....
It is the same in the schools, except for one thing. The classrooms are easily kept at around 27C/80F with huge humidifiers going, but the moment you step out into the hallway, it is (and I wish I were kidding you!) 4 or 5C (39F). Going in between classes and to the bathroom becomes a very rushed walk...
There is no hope in washing your hands to warm them up, as in schools and most businesses even, there is no hot water. Just icy cold fresh water comes from the taps. This is wonderful in summer (all 3 months of it), but miserable the other 9 months.
Back in Minnesota, I used to love winter. Now I still like it, but with that there is a certain fierceness that I feel towards it. Like I have to battle it out. When I win, I give a triumphant snear and bitter laugh. And the snow hasn't even really started yet!
Well, so I've been lax in updating this since last week. Wanna know something sad? I just recently got around to checking the hotmail email that links to the stats counter for this blog and looking at the weekly reports since the end of October it has become clear that this blog is much more liked when it is not updated. Ha! It went from 12 visits (on average) per week to 1 visit in an entire week after I started updating on a regular basis.
Looking at it that way, I think what I might do is this: leave my blog entries archived here, but start posting to my LJ account exclusively, regardless of content. Seeing as most people who read this are on LJ anyway, why not just update there? Plus, then I might actually be able to keep up with fandom.
Mah. Not sure why, but the idea puts a bee in my bonnet. I feel a certain loyalty to the blog because it was the first place I started posting. I'm tempted to just copy and pasted any blog-type LJ entries I make to here, but at some point, I have to ask myself why I would even update here....
*Bjork - "Cover Me"
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