Miscellanea

I'm kind of kicking myself for not buying a PS3. I could have at least resold it on Ebay for twice the cost. Oh well, sometimes having too much common sense can be a disadvantage.

Fumiko just returned today from Kyoto where she attended her brother's wedding. That brought up a couple of (possibly cultural?) incongruities. For one, Fumiko had never even met her brother's wife until she arrived in Kyoto. In fact I don't think she even knew her name until she heard that they were getting married. And then when I asked if I was invited to the wedding, she looked at me as if I had two heads. I thought it was only natural that you would take your boyfriend of approximately eight or nine months (at that time) to a wedding with you. But perhaps not. I was happy to not have to pay the $250 train ticket to Kyoto.

I managed to get hold of a poppy at the Canadian Embassy before Remembrance Day. I wore it a couple of days to work. I was a little worried whether I might stir up some controversy (it really shouldn't-the poppy after all is from the First World War) but shockingly enough in my classes nobody even mentioned it. I was a little upset actually. I mean, I had a freakin flower on my chest and yet nobody could be bothered to be curious as to why.