my life is boring but I update anyway

I am somewhat convinced that I'm not actually sick but that this apartment is just dusty and dry. We have a humidifier running right outside my room (it's between the two bedrooms) but maybe that isn't enough. As for dusty, I don't know the last time my dad actually cleaned the apartment. I'm not sure I'm CAPABLE of cleaning it.

The reason I became convinced of it was, I went with my dad to the chemo room today at Thomas Jefferson hospital. And after an hour of sitting there, I actually felt entirely great, like I didn't have a cold at all. So. Maybe it's just all the dust in here. Ugh.

Anyway, not much to say -- yesterday I went hunting for Phillies stuff. Went to Modell's and also to the actual stadium. I want a Phanatic keychain to bring back for a friend in Japan, but those don't seem to actually exist, which is STUPID. Got a few World Series things, including the Phinally t-shirt.

Lee's Hoagie House apparently shut down their center city locations entirely, and I confirmed that the one at 17th and Chestnut IS really gone. Argh. Will have to go hunt down the one out on 40th, I guess.

Taking the subway down to the stadium, by the way, made me realize how EASY it is to navigate Japanese subways. At least we have signs all over the station saying which trains are coming next, and they announce EVERY stop. Maybe not always in English but if you're listening at all you should hear it. On the Broad Street Line here in Philly, there's VERY little information and they just say "doors closing" before they do -- I wonder how often people accidentally overstay their stops. Seems the Market-Frankford line has slightly better info but not by far.

Anyway, I kind of just fell asleep last night around 11pm while sitting around doing stuff on my laptop, hence didn't update. Only thing is, I kept waking up every 2-3 hours to drink water since my throat was dry and painful. So I don't think I really got the 9 hours of sleep. Ugh.

Yar!

The humidifier is in my room now! We will see how well I sleep tonight with it on!

Hoping the cold, or theoretical cold, is almost gone. I want to start exercising ASAP because I feel ridiculously fat. I bought jeans at Old Navy the other day in my current size, so I need to make sure I can still fit into them for the next two months in the US, dammit.

I gotta work on the eating habits though. I think once I get out of "OMG STUFF I CAN'T HAVE IN JAPAN! NOMNOMNOM" mode it'll get easier.

Though tonight, since my dad got out of his chemo a bit early, we decided to go out to dinner to celebrate. I suggested Spaghetti Warehouse since I love it (so does my dad). We took a taxi up there, and oh man, I ended up getting an eggplant parm / manicotti combination, which, to my credit, I could not finish and DID NOT FINISH. Go me. Dad polished off an entire veal parmesan dinner and then also ate cheesecake for dessert (I skipped dessert, I had a salad before). It's weird because he wants to GAIN weight and I want to LOSE weight. I guess I'm just glad he's got a decent appetite.

But it was still a hell of a lot of food.

Been working on some stuff here. I really need to really bury myself in Perl one of these days.

Speaking of which, it was kind of funky to be at Thomas Jefferson hospital again today, anyway. Not only was I born there, but the last company I worked at before moving to Japan, TJ was using our medical software. Was funny telling my dad, "You know, I'm pretty sure the hospital has decent enough software to save your bloodwork data. Infact, I'm REALLY sure of it!"

I should write a Thanksgiving type post, but I don't know what to say. I'm glad to be alive! Everything else is sort of dependent on that statement.