This was not a boating accident...

Well, I have had no opportunities to survey beautiful Tokyo or parts surrounding for the past two days because I've been in one meeting after another, generally working 12-15 hour days since I got here. I knew this wasn't going to be a vacation, but sheesh.

I have found my hosts to be very hard working but welcoming people, and they seem pleased by my attempts to use Japanese phrases (which I do only sparingly). I have discovered (thanks to ACM) that the little cotton bathrobe garment is called a yukata. I am attempting to hunt one down, maybe a silk version to go with it, for V on my return.

I also learned, quite by accident, that the little origami crane they place on my pillow is not just decorative, but it has clairvoyant properties as well...its color forecasts the weather for the following day: white for snow, red for bright sunshine... I have received three grey ones in three days....doh!

Hope to have more interesting things to report (you know, things that go on outside my hotel room) but who can say.

Off to a breakfast meeting.
posted by MT at 5:38 PM |