oh friday, how i love you

because i am slothing around right now watching tv from the states and NOT DOING HOMEWORK.

it was an incredibly long week even though we had a holiday on monday (some japanese holiday - there are lots). homework load is getting longer, i had to write two different compositions this week, one of which was a six page presentation, the other my take on anime based on the critical readings we'd done last week.

my right eyelid decided to swell up for some reason on tuesday, so that was ALSO fun. no sight problems, and it wasn't even that itchy or anything, but it is WEIRD to look in the mirror and see one eye open much further than the other, and some strange puffyness where i didn't expect it. and the whole feeling like i need to open my eye wider. luckily i've been doing warm water compresses on the eye and it is basically back to normal. i'm going to skip the contacts for another week or so though, just to be on the safe side.

so, as treat for myself I indulged in the 'from Mom's care package' velveta-mac-and-cheese-shells. I don't even *know* why I crave this stuff in Japan, since I don't EVER eat it in the states (well, I did in the 1990s as a teenager, but not since then), but ... yeah, it's like crack. Tasty, nuclear-orange-colored crack.

And so, after having consumed that, I am tucked under my kotatsu with the heat turned up high, watching the following (so here there be spoilers:

( Elementary 'Details'! )

( Supernatural 'Trial and Error' )

( Arrow 'The Odyssey' )

now i am sad i have no more TV.