April was BUSY. Busy because lots of people came to visit, and the weather got a littttle bit warmer so people here started coming out of their holes. People and flowers.  It was like (mentally) getting dropped into a world of white-pink clouds. If you ever have the chance to visit Japan in cherry blossom season, it’s not over-hyped. And like sunsets, the pictures never quite do it justice – the fun and wonder really comes from just being there, surrounded by these things immediately and peripherally. (And a good part of it comes from everyone else keeping them in the backs of their minds too).
It was great taking a little walk at lunch, and seeing a middle aged suit taking pictures with his phone. Next to the punk stripey-socked girl also taking pictures with her phone. Both of them looking at the screen, slightly shaking their heads, and looking back up with a little smile.
Some other highlights of the month include:
- getting a ride through Tsukiji on a fish cart! With fish! (So cool I forgive people for making me get up to go w/ them)
- hanami at yoyogi with assorted friends and friends-of
- making pizza, yum.
- having a trip to china cancelled
lowlights
- discovering that friday-saturday-sunday counts as one 24 hour period in terms of atm cash withdrawal limits
- being stuck at work ’til 11pm
- being stuck at work ’til 1030pm
- being stuck at work…