I’ve been tired at the gym before and today was quite special. I’m thinking it might have been a good idea to take a nap instead, but I often think that when I go to the gym. But now that I look at it in retrospect, I probably do need a rest. Good thing I’m going to be eating instead of exercising for two weeks.

I usually don’t get very stressed out about my trips to Japan. I think it takes me about 10 minutes to pack, if you don’t count the time I spend deciding what sorts of electronic entertainment I’m going to pack in my carry-on. That takes another 10 minutes at least. Once in a while I can get nervous about traveling and sometimes it’s subconscious, keeping me from sleeping well the night before, but I know that as soon as the plane leaves the ground I just need my ID and my credit card and I’m OK. Other than that I don’t worry too much. This year I might be getting more stressed than usual because I had a couple of weird dreams. One I was in an airport transferring to my Japan flight, wondering why I wasn’t on my direct flight from Portland to Narita. Second I was buying Japanese potato chips with two co-workers, wondering why I was in Japan working stuck eating junk food instead of being on vacation eating something better.

I also remember some sort of dream where I was in a graveyard watching ghosts hover over their gravestones. I’m missing Halloween, but I’m not missing Halloween I guess.