Wow, I have settled into a reasonably sustainable state of busyness. Im enjoying it, it has a very Tokyo feel to it, and im achieving a lot. The placement is all going extremely well, and Im working on a huge and interesting groupwork assignment for Managing Change with a really great bunch of people…. and i would love to tell you all about it, its just that, well, at the moment its 9am-8:30pm every day, and when i get home the last thing I want to do is turn on the computer (except to send Ken some messages, of course. Hes coming in August, wooo, thats only like 8 weeks away!!!). And on top of that my wonky arm is giving me trouble in the wrist and hand and it could probably do with a rest. And finally, I read a couple of entries that I wrote recently and they bored me! If I bored myself then god knows what im doing to you gentle reader! I need to have a bit of a rethink about what im doing here. I dont have the energy to feed Flickr either at the moment.

I made a pair of pants on Sunday, almost finished them, except for a weird bit of confusion with the vents on the side. I keep looking at the instructions but they just dont make sense. A dressmaker I used to know once told me that commercial patterns often have mistakes in them like that, but i thought that was just her paranoia talking. But these side vents, they are just wrong - so far towards the front that the front of my shoes catches them and twists them around to the front. And the fit is pretty bad, the waistband slopes from the front (just under my belly button) down to the back (just above where my butt starts to curve out) and the legs are wide where they should be narrow and vice versa. If I had tried them on in a shop I wouldnt have bought them. And the fabric was beautiful; gorgeous, velvety, dark mossy green stretchy cotton from Okadaya. Im so dissapointed. Vogue patterns dont usually turn out like that….

Oh well, I will keep trying to be creative and productive in non-computer related ways, and try to salvage them next Sunday. And start something new. And in whatever spare time there is left, there is a huntsman that has moved into my bedroom that has to go. I have only seen him/her once about a week ago in the window, on the other side of the curtain. Im a bit scared to go for him/her, but im also a bit scared to wake up and find that we are sharing a bed.

• MissSin (Tokyo) said on 07/06/07 at 11:03 AM.....

  when i read this post, the first thing i thought of was the Australis Tourism Board’s (or whatever you call it) slogan, ‘Where the bloody Hell are you?’
  imagine you going into your bedroom every night, looking for Ms/Mr spider thinking that…
  don’t think the marketing people thought of that twist on the slogan…tourists frantically searching for australian creepy crawlies…

• the goddess (Tokyo) said on 07/06/07 at 07:14 PM.....

  Fortunately Huntsmen don’t eat much other than bugs..  do you have bugs?

• j-ster (home, adelaide) said on 07/06/07 at 10:54 PM.....

  Hmmmm, not that ive noticed lately…  I am just terrified I will wake up one morning with the spider on either me or the bed!

• j-ster (home, adelaide) said on 07/06/07 at 10:57 PM.....

  MissSin, ha, i can just picture it - thong in hand ready to swat the potentially lethal crawly….

• Sigsy (Tokyo) said on 07/06/11 at 12:59 AM.....

  Euuuh.  Huntsman spider.  I just Googled it and it looks horrible.  A bit like one I had in my apartment in days of yore in deepest Kanagawa.  It was massive - when it scarpered across the tatami in my flat I felt an emotion I had never felt before.  We finally cornered it behind the stove and my friend crushed it with a bottle.  His wife gave him a bollocking because Japanese don’t like to kill spiders, especially these as they eat cockroaches. Now there’s a concept that makes me feel funny in a bad way.  Don’t kill the giant spider.  It will eat the cockroaches.