Who knew earthquakes could be so anti-climatic?

While I was eating my breakfast yesterday morning my flatmate got up and said, 'Did you feel that earthquake this morning?' My only response was, 'What earthquake?'

That's right. I've been here for only two weeks and already I've slept through two earthquakes. It's as if I'm the guy from Polkaroo who always misses Polkaroo whenever he stops by. 'Oh no, you mean I missed him again??' I swear I would still be sleeping happily even if the walls were to collapse around me. I'd wake up in a pile of rubble saying, "What earthquake?"

Apparently these were both fairly big ones to. According to my roommate the walls were shaking and the hanging lamps were swinging a bit. I actually did feel a bit of a tremor later yesterday morning for a couple of seconds. It must have been an aftershock though which to me doesn't count. I saw later that night on the news that there was an earthquake in Chiba that morning so that must be what was felt. Tokyo and the surrounding cities are built up around a large harbour on the Pacific. It's like a giant upside down "U." We're out on the west side and Chiba is on the peninsula that runs down the east side. They showed some footage from a convenience store camera and it was quite cool. Food and videos and what not were flying off shelves that were shaking back and forth like crazy.

Unfortunately it rained again for the second straight day so I wasn't able to get any pictures. I'll try sometime when I'm on my way to work. Instead my Aussie roommate Adam, Jamie a Brit from nextdoor and myself decided to go to the local gym. It's a very nice gym and it felt awesome to be able to work out for the first time in about 4 months. The membership is about 6500 yen per month which is fairly reasonable. It's not much different than any other gym I've ever been to, except for the fact that you have to take off your shoes before you enter the change room.

let me get to sleep