Stress!!!!!

Everything has been seriously piling up this week. We have a ridiculous amount to do by Friday and no time to do it in. We've had to apply for Chinese visas, but our passports were only returned yesterday, just in time for our appointment with the Australian Embassy at 10 a.m today to have our Application for Marriage duly noted (for which they charge 1,700 yen per signature), just in time to send it to Cairns before the cutoff date. We've had a sayonara party to plan, boxes to send home, traveller's insurance to get, the last day at our company being today (I won't say "yay!" but "f**kin' yay!". No work for 2 blissful months!), final reports to do, medical claims to get processed, vaccinations to get (no easy task in this land, may I assure you), rehabili appointments to attend, damn, I've even had classes to teach. And the sick pleasure Japanese companies seem to get out of their petty bureacracy is sure as hell not helping. There is a barrier to everything.

And don't even start me on the lobotomised princesses swarming the land. Don't get me wrong, I dig a lot of Japanese chicks, but there is an annoying breed out there who ditz around like there is nothing upstairs.

You know the ones I mean. They spend half an hour on the train doing their makeup, vacantly stare off into space with their lipsticked mouths hanging open, walk soooooo slowly and erratically that you constantly trip over them and they don't even notice, prance around like spaced-out chickens, hands all aflutter, toting their Louis Vuitton handbags and dreaming of their next blonding appointment with their hairdresser.

They've really been pissing me off lately, I guess because I've been rushing around and have no patience for the flocks of LPs barring my path. Yes, I know, patience. If only I had time for it...