| Current location: | Japan, Yo! |
| Current mood: |  mellow |
| Current music: | The humming of office machines. But "Dancing Through Life" is playing in my head |
| Entry tags: | japan, jet, thinking out loud |
Back from the Blue Lagoon.
Yeah, wow. It's been a whopping 49 weeks since I've posted on LJ. That's very, very close to a year. Sorry about that. Not that I've posted on blurty for the last six months either. >_< But in this case, no news means good news. My internet here on my island took about five or six minutes to load up blurty when I wanted to write up something, and I eventually lost patience with it. So I just read other people's entries, and wait the requisite three minutes for the comments page to load when I wish to make a comment.
But, anyway. I think I'll post some pictures up. I've really changed physically (and probably mentally and emotionally) over the last eleven (!!) months. I gained some weight in the seven months after I graduated and did nothing but sit around and surf the internet, and I didn't even notice. But wow. My face sure looked squishy in the pictures I took at events last summer. I only really began to notice after the first few months when my head seemed smaller in pictures. ^^; Huh.
One thing I hate about Japan is everyone's obsession with weight. I wasn't purposely trying very hard, but thanks to all my bike riding to and from school for fifteen minutes each way for three days (junior high) and eight minutes or so each way for the other two (elementary) and eating something green with my meals most of the time and taking the protein and prune extract my host mother wished me to take when I begin my day each morning, I've toned up a little. And I've learned that no matter what you do here (or no matter how much you flare your eyes at people), they love to mention dieting. That's how I know I'll never be able to live here for more than a few years. Because it's not about being healthy here. It's about being skinny/sickly. Even if I weigh the same amount that I weighed when I got here (which I don't), the fact that a lot of that has been turned into muscle accounts for nothing to these people. They can't see anything but a person's width, and that's how they judge whether someone's healthy or not. It's mind boggling.
Obviously, they've never seen that American commercial series that had "great" looking people suddenly collapse because they had high blood pressure or weren't taking in enough calories or some other crap. It's like no one's satisified here until your waist is twenty-five inches all around--and that's on the "big" side to them. o_O
Well, not everyone is like that. I cherish the people that I've met this year and become friends with who don't feel like it's necessary to mention shit like my weight every time we meet. For people who get insulted if you don't finish everything on your plate or (gasp) have an allergy to something, they sure are bitchy about people enjoying a meal. But people are stupid everywhere. This I have learned quite well over this past year.
Okay, that's enough of my sudden tirade. If I had before and after pictures of My Dramatic Changes™, I'd post them. Oh, yeah. I do. I need to get a photo account started at PicasaWeb.
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