Pre Surgery selfie

I'm not sure if I'm actually going to publish this one or just save it. To make a long story short, in order to solve some problems that have been bugging me for a long time, I'm going to have surgery done on my face. The date is May 5, which from when I'm writing this is tomorrow, but depending on whether I actually upload this or not it may be in the past.

This is a picture I took in the mirror last night as a sort of record of my old profile. It looks kind of goofy because I just took it in my room wearing a not very flattering red pajama shirt. But whatever... The point is you can see my nose pretty well.

This is actually my good side.

After surgery, I don't know how it's going to look. For a few days at least REALLY BRUISED AND SWOLLEN but when that all dies down in a few weeks the line of the nose and chin will be different.

(On that note, a certain person told me "I still want to hang out with you, broken nose or not!" To which I replied, "Yeah, dude, but you realize that if we're out together and I look like someone punched me in the face, you'll be the one getting side-eye.")

I'm looking forward to it (but not to the 7:30 start time, ugh), and I think my face will look really cute and still like me afterward, but I just kind of wanted to take this picture to remember how my face used to look. Even though I don't like the bump in my nose at all and the proportions have always looked wonky to me.

After surgery, I'll have to take a new photo of the difference. Depending on how bad it looks the "immediately-post-surgery" photos might not end up being posted online. But I'll probably take some just out of morbid curiosity just like I took selfies of my swollen up cheek post wisdom tooth removal.

Not looking forward to getting up at 5:30 tomorrow. But the medical staff all says I'll fall asleep under twilight sedation anyway, so it's not like I really have to be there for the surgery. I'm really hoping that as soon as they stick my arm I'll just wake up in the recovery room without feeling like any time has passed, and then just get down to the business of recovery.

Finally my stash of masks from Japan is going to come in handy! Not sure if I'll actually remember to use on after surgery on the day (my memories wisdom tooth removed, which is my only relevant experience, are pretty fuzzy) but I can definitely wear it when I'm going to the store or whatever in the ensuing days.

My Last Day in Japan...The Picture I Didn't Take

Even thought I made a trip to Fujinomiya, a town near Mt. Fuji, during my last month in Japan, that week was so rainy I couldn't actually see anything. It was really disappointing and I really hope I can go back sometime on a sightseeing trip to Japan when the weather is better!

The day before I left, I sold my iPhone, which was also my camera. So all the pictures I took at the airport were on my friend's iPad. I was settled into the plane ride from Hiroshima to Narita, and looked out the window every once in a while in case I got a chance to see Mt. Fuji, which I hear you can sometimes see from an airplane.

There were some clouds down below, and I didn't even know if I was sitting on the correct side of the airplane to see anything. I looked intently for a while, then read a bit and listened to music. After about ten minutes I looked out the window again, and saw...Well, not this picture because I got it off of Google images, but something a lot like this.



There were clouds all around just like this picture, but in between the clouds was this suspiciously triangle-shaped mountain. I was very close to flagging down a flight attendant, but got too embarrassed. I spent the next five minutes glued to the window watching it slowly getting left behind until we went by a huge cloud and it got covered up. All the while thinking "OMG I didn't miss it!"

And that is the only time I saw Mt. Fuji during my stay in Japan.

Hello Random!

While I was in Japan I started a blog to chronicle my adventures living in a foreign country. Now that I'm back in the States I decided to start a new blog to chronicle...something.

My Facebook friends all come up with pseudo-intellectual/artsy blog titles. Because they are deep. Me,  I know I'm not deep so there's no point in pretending. That's why I worked the word random into my blog title.