Thanks for your concern, everyone. I'm a little more sane today. Still a bit shellshocked though. I just want to get on with life.

Started my first Japanese lesson today. Shucks. Don't remember much. Oh well, I guess that's why it's going to take sooooo long. Allll the way till December. Eeep.

Tomorrow I have training. As in the kind where you have to run. The race is this Sunday and I'm pretty nervous. Frankly, we have less chance of winning than an Eskimo has of buying a refrigerator. But that's what courage is all about isn't it? Going into the battlefield knowing you're going to be absolutely slaughtered, but still going in anyway.

Oh, I think there's a fine line between pessimism and realism. Especially since the world ain't a pretty place these days.