Sorry Jesus.

Lent this year has gotten off to a bad start. As per every other year I can remember I have given up chocolate for lent. Unlike every other year I can remember I have defaulted on this pledge. And if you're going to default, you may as well really default. So I've eaten chocolate in some shape or form everyday of lent so far. Until today. Yesterday's portion was a white chocolate cheesecake, but as we all know there's really no chocolate in white chocolate. In fact it's only called "white chocolate" because "vanilla flavoured cock-a-doo-doo" wouldn't sell so well. So I don't think it really counts. In which case I started properly yesterday.

Yesterday was also the day the stalker emails began to stop. Largely I think because I continually "forgot" to reply. On Friday night I went to dinner with Nao chan to have the Gay talk and to get to the bottom of the whole giving-out-of-emails scandal and as usual nothing was as it seemed. First my being gay was barely worth batting an eyelid, indeed she has other gay friends (big sigh of relief- no having to explain that one at every party then; I had suspected it would be more of an enigma than vegetarianism). But then she asked me if the Girl-Who-Eats-Her-Feelings (tm) had emailed me. "Yeah, like, a thooouuusand times", I said in my best Californian-high-school bitch voice. The following conversation revealed that last Wednesday while I was visiting Nao chan in her office, GWEHF joined us and while Nao chan made tea, GWEHF swiped Nao chan's phone and copied out my email address, no doubt wondering which food she would text me about first. Thank God we never got onto desserts...

Well, the rest of the weekend was spent pondering what shift is happening in the stars as things seem to be quite strange all round right now. After a brief spell of shopping in which I actually bought nothing (thus making it a brief spell looking) I bumped into Rachel and Kathryn and we eventually headed off to meet Amy, Bob, D-ran, Claire, Ilana and her Dad and a whole host of other for dinner in Asian Kitchen before heading to karaoke where Adam and Julia joined us straight from the cinema. They couldn't stay long as they had to be up early to film an English video in a zoo (!?) and showed us a hugely innuendo laden script which had me chortling for a long while.

Despite Amy's hobbling (she'd been injured in a rugby game), she, Herb, Bob and I headed off to the Aussie bar for conversations about burning-out, school, teaching and gossip before heading back to theirs via 7-11 where I indulged in an Oden feast (picture to follow. Oden is my new fetish).

Sunday was another day of easy socialising and career advice as Amy shared her expert knowledge on writing (thank you!) and we then met Claire for lunch in a lovely cafe in town. After more shopping Julia took me to a flower arrangement show where we sneered in perfect English at some of the more outlandish designs and had coffee before I headed back to Katsuyama.

It's now Monday after and GWEHF hasn't emailed me for close to two days. Fingers crossed I shake her off before my date on Thursday. I don't want to be accused of two-timing vulnerable ladies. That would be TOO bizarre...