Nothing deep today or spiritual today just an account of the last few hours…

I woke up this morning just 20 minutes past 6am with a headache from the fumes of lingering bleach from the kitchen when I spent 4+ hours on Sunday going at my apartment with a wire brush, sponge, and cleaning disinfectant to get it clean for some guests today and Lexi later this week (wed).

My back hurt getting up and I still have a cough from when I was sick. My head was still fogged with a convoluted dream about a big ship, my boss, and Al Roker trying doing a cooking presentation with Samuel L. Jackson constantly interrupting (must of been the bleach fumes).

It’s a sunny morning in Mutsu, but it’s cold. Outside was -3C, inside my apartment 10C and because last night my heater ran out of fuel I just sat frozen on my couch with a cup of coffee starring at the wall with my hair everywhere. I thought of writing something about something when I got to work, but I couldn’t figure out how to write it.

Getting ready for work took under 5 minutes. I’ve reduced my routine this winter to basically: Make coffee, put in my contacts, get dressed, dampen and blow dry my hair and comb it into a less offensive “I sorta tried” shape. Then run out and start the car, run back, and drink a cup of joe while I stare at the frost slowly melt off my windshield.

Driving to work in the mornings I used to listen to “Iron and Wine” but their new Album I’m don’t like as much. I’ve sorta turned into a folk junkie and lately been enjoying this band “Horse Feathers”– this morning the song, “In our blood” particularly caught me (Lyrics and video at the end of the post).

Before getting to school I made sure to stop at a Lawson’s convient store to get some cash from ATM. I’ve been broke all last month and this month, but luckily it’s payday today. However, I’ve got used to being broke, sick, & sorta not doing a whole lot of expensive (over 2,000 yen) things– so maybe I’ll just keep it up and save whatever isn’t taken out by the “invisible hands” (bills) which probably will be everything anyway.

So that brings me into about where I’m at now. I sat down at my desk and booted up my laptop to write that thing I was going to try and write eariler when I read this article on the Willamette Week–

“I just want to talk less and less,’ says Holcombe Waller. “It’s like, conversations walk by and I have all these ideas of things to say, and I just sit there and let them go because I’m like, I don’t really need to say that…” Link

I feel this way sometimes– and I still find it remarkable at how common and “unremarkable” it is with us all linked up together for someone to be able to communicate something that I can read some 6,000 miles away– and have it be an attitude that I also share in one way or another. Wild

With that all out there– there’s nothing much more– that’s about the bulk of this morning’s state– What you should take away?

Everything isn’t so bad when the sun comes out, when it’s not in your eyes at least.. .

~J out

Lyrics to In Our Blood :

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