Well today I’ve felt generally much better, though eating a meal still takes me over 2 hours. They told me hospitalization in Japan was remarkably longer than in the US — 10 days compared to roughly 3 — although I can’t fathom how someone would be able to have gone home in 3 days after this… Perhaps if they ha parents or whoever at home to look after them. But since. I live alone I am so very glad I was in here for 8 days.

That’s right, 8! It’s official, I can go tomorrow. It feels like time off for good behavior at prison or something. But this hospital is great. It’s like a hotel really, so leaving isn’t exactly like breaking out… Except I’ll be glad not to have this moaning pornstar next to me (shut up, man).

I’ll also be glad to get back to my current hobby, editing the Wikipedia page on Echizen, Fukui. When I first came here, there was literally one sentence about my town, leaving me in the dark about this place. This month, though, I’ve been focusing on changing that, and day by day adding more to the page and updating the information already there. If you go there now I hope you’ll be impressed by the job I did!

Have I mentioned like 10 times yet how amazing the iPhone is?? This little tool is the cure to boredom and loneliness in a place like this. I’m sure I’d have been miserable or at least unhappy and bored without it. But I’m downright enjoying myself. It takes all the focus off the pain and lets me do a huge variety of things. This is the trinket I have been waiting for all my life. If I had this when I was a kid, there would never have been a chance for boredom in my life. I can’t imagine what all you old people must have done when you were kids without computers. That’s just not living!

Anyway, back to Dracula, chatting with Hitomi, and playing RPGs simultaneously on this thing…

Tomorrow I get to leave the hospital ahead of schedule! Yay!

I’m feeling much better today compared to the past 2 days. Plus I just had a shower, which always makes me feel a little better. The nurses here have all been really nice and friendly so far. And my really noisy neighbor finally moved out this morning, so it’s been nice and peaceful! The new neighbor is more quiet, but he’s constantly moaning like he’s trying out to be in a porno… I feel bad for him because he must be in a lot of pain, but really… I think he might just be overdoing it a bit. The guy across from me with his stomach sliced open is always bright and friendly, never complaining. Oh well, at least the other guy is gone. He kept me up all night and all day shouting with his 60 of more guests who visited him constantly… And every one of them knocked my curtains back ad didn’t fix them so I had to keep getting out of bed. What’s Japanese for “indoor voices please” I wonder…

I wish I had blogged more recently, as I’ve been neglecting this site for a while… But I guess the busier I am an the more things going on in my life, the less time I have to write about them. Catch 22.

I really really feel gamer’s withdrawal. I need 10cc’s of D&D and a line of Warhammer stat!