Drinking Water

Not necessarily out of thirst, but much more out of boredom, I've been drinking a lot of water today. I just finished my fifth or sixth liter of water today, and I've also had about a liter of Kagome of varying flavors.

When my mom asks "Are you drinking enough water?" I feel like I can pretty positively say "I think so."

I understand the average person would need to drink in excess of a liter of water per hour for an extended period of time to notice any deleterious effects, so don't worry about me getting water poisoning or anything like that. My laziness limits how much I can drink because I have to go almost twenty feet to go get another liter of water.

Also, you need to have limited intake of foods to be at serious risk for long-duration water poisoning, and I'm sure you all know that I have no problems with consuming plenty of food.
But if ou are concerned, you could send me money to go eat out more often. I wouldn't complain.

I appear to have run out of water...

Follow the... Yellow-Striped Road?

I took the pictures for this post while I was in Tokyo, but I have been keeping it ready and written it for a rainy day. Or a slow day. Either way.

I don't know if this is a normal thing to Europeans, or maybe just people from large cities in general, but when I first got here, I had no idea why there these yellow tiles in a bizarre network across the entire city.

The reason they're there is so that people who can't see can navigate around more safely. Those patches with the dots mark intersections and terminating points, and are different enough from the ones with the straight lines that you can feel the difference through shoes without too much of a problem. I imagine it would be much easier with a little practice.

The weird thing is that I've never seen a single person using these. I know blindness isn't a really common thing, and you wouldn't expect to see people who can't see wandering around the city much. The thing is, I've seen a couple of blind people wandering near these things, but I've never seen anybody but me using 'em.

I think they're cool anyway.

In addition, it's fairly often that you will here a repeating doorbell-like noise that helps the visually impaired to find entrances to buildings, the subway, and whatnot.

Bleh.

Not feeling so good today, so I went into to class to take the quiz and headed back home. The teacher was really nice about it.