It's fall!!
The leaves have just barely started to change, but there is a definite nip in the air, there are pumpkin and apple-flavoured drinks and sweets everywhere, and there are a surprising amount of Halloween decorations everywhere I go!
This week was pretty uneventful. It was a bit strange, because Tuesday was a holiday (for the autumn equinox)... it's weird having a day off in the middle of the week. I celebrated by making cookies!
I am having some major internet issues right now - my computer has forgotten that it has a wifi adapter (an annoyingly frequent problem) and on top of that our always-flaky wifi signal has been paricularly garbage today. So this is going to be a short post, hopefully to be followed by a later, better post at another time!! :p
On Sunday I went with my friends to check out the Autumn Festival in Odori park. It ended up beong mainly a food festival (to the delight of my friend's kid, who eats like a growing hungry hungry hippo), so when we were finished we wandered up to the Hokkaido University Botanical Garden.
The most exciting news is that I saw a tanuki for sure!! He was just sniffing around on the road late one evening. I was so excited that I immediately told one of my labmates and he was like, "Wow, cool! Yesterday I saw a squirrel!!" He is from Tokyo and is generally amazed by all wildlife, so this was a genunie comparison. I found it funny because squirrels are really a dime a dozen at home (though they are kind of uncommon here), and to me tanuki and squirrels are on an entirely different level of excitingness.
I have also been watching some Trailer Park Boys, and I am really enjoying the Canadian accents. Someone in the lab commented that I have a different accent than Americans do... maybe I should show him this show to recalibrate his North American Accentometer.
The most exciting news is that I saw a tanuki for sure!! He was just sniffing around on the road late one evening. I was so excited that I immediately told one of my labmates and he was like, "Wow, cool! Yesterday I saw a squirrel!!" He is from Tokyo and is generally amazed by all wildlife, so this was a genunie comparison. I found it funny because squirrels are really a dime a dozen at home (though they are kind of uncommon here), and to me tanuki and squirrels are on an entirely different level of excitingness.
I have also been watching some Trailer Park Boys, and I am really enjoying the Canadian accents. Someone in the lab commented that I have a different accent than Americans do... maybe I should show him this show to recalibrate his North American Accentometer.
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