Plates of delicious curry rice eaten: 1
Tailless stray kitties seen: 7
Breaks at work enjoyed: 1
Hangovers suffered: 1
- beers drank up: 3
- bottles of warm sake enjoyed: 1/2
- drunken rants: 2
3 year-old nose pickers: 2
7 year-old toenail biters: 2
5 year-old toe suckers: 2
Children put in the corner: 1
Kanji learned: 5
Dinners cooked at home: 0 (ha!)
Sore throats endured: 2
Inspiring conversations shared: 1
Bicycles dodged: 50+
Tomatoes enjoyed from my tomato plant: 0 … still
Servings of sushi gobbled: 8
Japanese novels translated into English begun: 1
- References to living in Japan understood within the first100 pages: 5
Isometric exercises secretly carried out during awkward adult classes to quell boredom and improve my ever-fattening bottom: 1000s
Trains ridden: 12
Yen spent on train travel: 4220
Yen spent on the phone bill: 2990
Yen charged for utilities: 6100
Yen spent on a heather gray on-sale sweater: 1450, marked down from 6000
Instances where “sumimasen” was uttered: countless