Lloyd

As I was walking to my apartment door this evening, I stopped and had a little conversation with my buddy Lloyd...Who's lloyd you ask...well he is the proof that I might just be certifiably insane. Midway thru my short conversation of, "hey man, how's it going?" I realize...I am having a conversation with my buddy the praying mantis...He's been hanging outside of my apartment for about a week and a half now...and i find myself looking for him everyday...you know, just to make sure he hasn't been squashed or anything. I worry about the little guy...but he's pretty stubborn and for some reason won't go back to the ground floor...I think he likes the fact that on the higher floors of the apartment, he is protected from the elements...i.e. typhoons (btw there is another one coming on friday or saturday.) See here we go again...I have just wrote a paragraph about a bug. Do you see my problem....i think I might really be going nuts. I've Disneyfied a bug...oy-vey!!

Another random fact about Japanese students: after school they are REQUIRED to go straight home. They are not allowed to stop at the local convience store to get a drink or candy, they must go straight home. Once they have gone home and changed out of their uniform, then they can go to the convience store...I learned this, because the Gym teacher gave a rather forceful lecture during lunch today about student behavior. And that was point number 1. Point number 2 was about how they had found cigarette butts outside the gym and figured some of the kids had started smoking...of course, they have never seen the kids smoking there, and they lock up the area every day after school. But the gym is often used at night by the ADULTS in the community for various sport activities. I mean not to point out the obvious to the teachers...but why does it have to be the STUDENTS who are smoking? I mean, if you were a student and wanted to be all badass and smoke...why would you go back to school after school hours, sneak over the fence and smoke? That's too much hassle...I would of smoked behind the church or somewhere slightly more discreet...why not behind the grocery store or better yet the Convience store??

I saw the movie Big Trouble in Little China tonight....I don't remember ever watching it before. It was fantastic....the epitomy of cheesy action movie from the 80s...if you haven't seen it...watch it with a couple cans of beer. Oh and I saw the movie at my friend A's house, with a couple other westerners...(I had to add that, so people wouldn't be too worried about me and Lloyd)