January 05, 2007
First Day Back Blues
As many of you will know, in Japan we do not celebrate Christmas. Instead, New Year is the big holiday, and all dutiful Japanese employees get a couple of hard-earned days off work.
Today was my first day back to work, after spending a pleasant few days changing nappies and reading with Angelie and rocking little babies back and forth.
There are a few ways you can easily tell that it is the first day back to work after a vacation:
-don't want to get up (could say this about most days, though)
-can't find laptop, company ID, mobile phone etc (as above)
-trains are delayed a few minutes, as people re-discover that all-important knack of jumping on just before the vice-like doors crush your arms
However, I think my post-New Year-haze has to be the best. It wasn't until I got to the station that I realised that I was not wearing matching shoes.
Yup. They are similar, but the left shoe was bought a year or so ago at Next in Japan, whereas the right shoe is made by Clark's, and was purchased in Ashford last year. Would you believe it...?