She's thinking again...

Bad thing about public holidays is that it gives you a taste for a real holiday. Just when you are starting to forget about work you are back at your desk wondering what happened to yesterday. Today I really have done nothing at all. No classes or anything. I tried to work on my CIR Times rag but couldn't concentrate. Too much time to think leads to too much thinking and too much thinking leads to too many thoughts. That's the sum of it today.

Still, let's try and talk about Tokyo. It is clearly a big place. It is kind of overwhelming when you think about. I should say try and think about it because the more you attmept to contemplate how 10 million people can live in such close proximity to each other without all hell breaking loose, the more understanding eludes you. There are just buildings everywhere and under the buildings, subway lines, train lines, roads, electric lines, gas lines, water pipes... what a mess. I wonder why the whole city doesn't just cave in since there seems to be nothing below ground but a rabbit warren of tunnels for the train system. And then there are actually people in all these buildings and trains and what not who are all playing some small part in keeping this chaos running. The more I think about it, the more it seems that the people are there for the city and not the other way around.

Despite being usually quite uncomfortable in such large cities, I felt quite OK in Tokyo this time. I think that all the time I spend in my little town has made me crave some kind of action. There were so many people around! It was great. AND they were all young! Imagine being able to go out and run into people of your own age. Wow.