It’s bug season. The sakura blossoms have all fallen away, replaced by bright green leaves that are so green, in fact, they look like a Kodak or HP advert, where they’ve adjusted the colour saturation way too high. It’s also nice and hot at the moment, with lots of clear, sunny days.
It’s also bug season. So when you’re riding around on your lovely 4 geared bike, you h ave to constantly dodge fuckin’ huge black bug things. They seem to swerve towards you when you’re going fast so they can brush your face just to piss you off. There’s also little midget insect things that make little swarms and then get in your eyes when you accidentally ride through them (e.g. when avoiding a large bug hovering in the air). There doesn’t seem to be any other types of bug though, which isn’t really that suprising.
On a completely unrelated topic, today was the beginning of Golden week – a cluster of unrelated holidays spread over a ‘Golden week’. It would be the perfect time to go travelling, apart from the small fact that 250 million people are thinking ‘It’s the perfect time to go travelling’. I was going to try and make it to the World Expo, but it’d cost about AU$380 for two days accommodation and entry – and there’d be an insane line for each exhibition. I might try later in the year.
Anyway I have a week of holiday time to figure out what to do with, so I’m off.
See you in a few months,
Danny
