Not in Japan yet, but sticking to an update scheduale

Time, I suppose, for an update. I'm actually surprised I am managing to do this in a timely fashion. I once, long ago and far away (read: fours years and Connecticut) had a web comic, and though it garnered a degree of popularity in some small circles of New England geekdom, I never did manage to write my scripts on time. So indeed this proves that one can change, given enough time, boredom, and ambition.

So I'm not actually IN Japan yet. Granted, in some ways, my mind has already left me, taking a direct flight from Tucson to Tokyo and is already enjoying takoyaki under the brilliant leaves of Autumn, but physically in the desert I remain. I leave in approximately nine days. It chills a bit, saying it out loud (or typing it as the case may be); as stated many times in my previous posts, I never imagined this day would come. I have gone years with a burning desire to go to Japan, and it's fast approaching (fast as say, a shinkansen). It's an unreal feeling, knowing that in nine days I will board a plane for the other side of the world, leaving all I know behind for a year. At once both frightening and exhilirating. So to beat that dead horse once more, I am freaked out about my trip (lol).

On a pleasent note, I am greatly looking forward to finally having seasons again. Arizona has it's moments, but being a New Englander born, raised, and forever at heart, I will simply never get used to the omnipresent desert sun and opressive heat. I long for snow, rain that last for three or more chilly days, changing leaves, frigid winter wind off of the ocean, fog, and the kind of damp that sinks into your bones. I love cold, and Japan, being about the same longitudal and latitudal placement as the Eastern seaboard, has cold. It's a temperate climate, with Tokyo being comparable to Baltimore. So I look forward to rain, cold, fog, and real weather. Not to mention my obsession with layered dressing, especially sweaters.