Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Neither healthy, wealthy, nor wise.
If you were to ask me what time I moved into my Osaka apartment (which happened over a month ago), I could pretty accurately tell you. It was about 5:15pm. How do I know this? Quite simple really; about 15 minutes after I moved in, I was introduced to what would be my new best friend for the next two weeks or so.. the alarm clock from hell. Seems that someone from down the hall turned the alarm on their alarm clock on, and conveniently went on vacation, or died or something, because every day from 5:30 to 6:15 the alarm clock rang continually for about 2 weeks. The story, of course, gets better.. this isn't one of those fancy clock radio alarms I'm talking about here... this is oldskool, two bells and a hammer and a little stick to set the alarm time on. These bad boys don't care if its AM or PM. 5:30 is 5:30, so every morning for the next 2 weeks, Damian woke up at 5:30 and of course couldn't get back to sleep until after the alarm automatically deactivated at 6:15.. What a great initiation to a new environment. After complaining to the super and being essentially told, "Um, yeah, that's gonna continue for a while; I'm gonna need you to be patient", I figured that the best thing to do would be to pick up a pair of earplugs, which worked pretty well.. until of course I got an ear infection. At least I got to experience going to a Japanese ear, nose and throat specialist.
Medical specialists have walk in clinics here, its so weird and great at the same time. This one is set up like a dentist's office. The specialist has the chair that you sit in with his tray of ear, nose, and throat probes and swabs and whatnot, as well as a harem of hygenists (I swear that's the proper collective noun.. I checked.. somewhere) to hand him his stuff and those paper files with the multicoloured number stickers on them that are only used in dentist's offices to keep patient information .
Anyways, I'm much better now, and I think the batteries in the alarm clock have died, so I can sleep in peace. So now you know... "Yo, Joe".
Medical specialists have walk in clinics here, its so weird and great at the same time. This one is set up like a dentist's office. The specialist has the chair that you sit in with his tray of ear, nose, and throat probes and swabs and whatnot, as well as a harem of hygenists (I swear that's the proper collective noun.. I checked.. somewhere) to hand him his stuff and those paper files with the multicoloured number stickers on them that are only used in dentist's offices to keep patient information .
Anyways, I'm much better now, and I think the batteries in the alarm clock have died, so I can sleep in peace. So now you know... "Yo, Joe".
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That story is gold!
I've been relying on ear plugs in a growing list of situations. Sleeping, camping, rock concerts, flights, studying(back when I used to). Ear plugs are awesome.
I feel your pain, Damian, because you may wonder about the "camping" in the list above...well while 90% of people wake up earlier than I do, 100% of birds do as well...and a helluva lot earlier too. Luckily there aren't many birds where I live...just buses.
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I've been relying on ear plugs in a growing list of situations. Sleeping, camping, rock concerts, flights, studying(back when I used to). Ear plugs are awesome.
I feel your pain, Damian, because you may wonder about the "camping" in the list above...well while 90% of people wake up earlier than I do, 100% of birds do as well...and a helluva lot earlier too. Luckily there aren't many birds where I live...just buses.
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