{"id":813,"date":"2005-09-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2005-09-27T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:00:00","slug":"mysterious-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I say good morning to a lot of people on my way to and from school.  I&#8217;ve got a routine down, and most people along the way know when I&#8217;m coming and are ready to great me with a smile or a &#8220;good morning&#8221; right back to me.  <\/p>\n<p>Today as I was walking down the stairs to leave the station at Takasago a lady that I see everyday was walking up the stairs.  As she looked up to say good morning her foot slipped right out of her show and she almost fell over.  I stopped and checked to be sure she was OK, and she was &#8211; but her face was bright red with embarrassment.  I&#8217;ve never seen anybody turn that red that fast.  I&#8217;m not sure if she&#8217;ll be in a greeting mood tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I had two classes about complaining today, and they went much, much better.  One was with Ms. Miyake, and one was with Ms. Tsutsumi.  The students seemed to enjoy the lesson a bit more, even though it&#8217;s a fairly difficult topic.  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Ms. Miyake, she gave me some homemade yam jam that she made over the weekend.  I brought it home and had it on some bread with Kuniko and it was delicious.  It had little bits of vanilla bean in there, too.  Yum!<\/p>\n<p>I helped Ms. Miyake with her English homework, and we talked about the upcoming wedding.  She is more excited than I am about it, I think.<\/p>\n<p>The history teacher got his tooth properly re-installed, and his grin is much toothier now.  I managed to avoid him most of the day, and had to seek refuge in the nurse&#8217;s room a couple of times to dodge him.<\/p>\n<p>I had the nurses look at a strange bump on the outside of my wrist.  It feels like a lump of bone &#8211; it&#8217;s very hard and there is no matching lump on the other side.  It only appears when I bend my wrist down.  The nurses decided that it is probably swollen because of some kind of injury, and I need to give it a rest.  They gave me a cold compress and some ice, but that didn&#8217;t seem to do anything.  I&#8217;ll keep an eye on it over the next week or so.<\/p>\n<p>I was lazy and didn&#8217;t cook Kuniko dinner tonight.  Instead we went to a yakitori down the street &#8211; not the usual one because Tuesday is the night that Denya is closed.  This place wasn&#8217;t as good as Denya, but the price was pretty good.  Some of the food was really greasy, though &#8211; just what we were hoping to avoid.  <\/p>\n<p>After dinner we did a little bit of shopping at Ito Yokado, and now we&#8217;re back home.  Tomorrow is a full day for both of us, but at least for me it only gets easier after tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say good morning to a lot of people on my way to and from school. I&#8217;ve got a routine down, and most people along the way know when I&#8217;m coming and are ready to great me with a smile or a &#8220;good morning&#8221; right back to me. 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