Too hectic

Things have been too hectic here. Work has been kicking my butt and caused me to suffer greatly this past week. On Thursday, I was stuck on a 9 hour conference call and could barely do anything else like eat a decent meal before heading out to one of my coworker's birthday dinner later that evening. The place was at a wine bar and had a buffet style dinner menu. The dinner started out with drinks and when the food came out, I was a bit surprise on the portion size, as it was way too small for the 20 + people that was in attendance. It seemed everyone also didn't have a decent lunch so there was a mad rush to get the food. Unfortunately for me, I was too slow to pick up a decent amount of food. The stress that I have endured the past few days caused me to drink glasses of wine like water and before I knew it, I was drunk. I'm not quite sure if I was in the state where I started seeing doubles of everyone but I would say I was pretty close to that. Even though I was barely conscious, I was alert enough to try to make it home before the last train and luckily for me, one of my coworkers who lives just a stop away from me also decided to come home at the same time. I followed him and he made sure I got off at my stop. After that, I really had no clue how I went home. I remember getting off the train, but the next thing I knew I was vomiting in my apartment. No idea what happened in between. Anyways, I suffered quite a bit the next day. I had another conference call with my client in the morning, but I convinced him to delay it a few hours while I try to sober up. It was pretty bad. The finance and HR guy want to go to a beer garden (not really sure what it is as I've never been to one before, but I'm assuming its a happy hour like event with discounts on beer) on Monday night with me so I have to make sure I eat a decent size lunch and be very careful not to over drink like I usually do.

On a lighter subject, I went to my first Costco in Japan this past weekend. It was almost exactly like the one back home. The prices were a tad more expensive than the states, but they still had huge slices of pizza for less then 3 bucks and 2 dollar hot dog/drink combos. It was a good time.

Finally, Japan is considered a safe place to live especially having previously lived in the Washington D.C. area where there is a new story of someone getting shot or robbed almost everyday on the news. However, I feel disturbed on the number of stabbing/cutting stories I have been hearing on the local news recently. The latest being where a man went to invade his neighbors apartment and killed her. The sickest part of the story is that he cut up her body into tiny pieces and flushed them down the toilet. The parts where it wasn't flushable, he mixed it in with his burnable trash. The news crew interviewed the guy because he lived just two doors down from the "missing woman" before he became a suspect. He acted totally normal and had a smile like nothing happened. Stuff like this is just too sick for me to comprehend.