No More Toilet Paper!

No more Anpan!? What am I going to do for breakfast??

I went to the drug store today to buy shampoo and contact solution and was not surprised to find the place completely pack; line queuing out the door. I felt a little silly because everyone around me was buying survival gear and cleaning the shelves of all ramen flavors while I was just there for hair products and contacts. At least when shit  goes down I'l be looking great and with full vision right? Haha (have to laugh in the face of stress don't we? Otherwise i'd have an ulcer right now).

Took about 20 minutes to get through

This poor guy could barely keep up.
I would have just opened all the boxes and left them out for people to take at will. 

In other news, I've seem to have brought back with me a bunch of bitting little buggies from SE Asia (that's what I get for staying at cheap guest houses). They find me particularly delicious and now I look like I have the chicken pocks (seriously, the little buggers even got my face!). So I went to the doctor today after bombing my room and washing everything twice and got some steroids to calm down the itching (it's gotten to the point where I couldn't sleep last night because it itched so much it hurt). Amongst everything else that's going on this is a very minor problem I know, but it doesn't help my stress levels. 

My area also got put on the black out list from 4:30-8:30pm so my host sister is running about trying to find batteries (good luck sister) or candles (something that Japanese aren't in the habit of buying unlike westerners; host sister couldn't give me a reason why other than she thinks it's because Japanese aren't Christian --to which I informed her that neither am I but it doesn't stop me from buying shit tons of different smelly candles every year). In the meantime we're preparing for the black out by charging our phones and using the least amount of electricity as possible (it won't be that bad though, just four hours). Host sister also informs me that all toilet paper was sold out at the store and that we're running low at the house. Perfect. 

I can't get a hold of my work (Gaba) either to let them know that my trains aren't running so smoothly and I don't know if i'll be able to make it to work tomorrow (Although I think they'll figure it out, i'm just saying it'd be nice to talk to someone). I take Seibu Ikebukuro line and it's running, it's just that officials aren't letting the trains get super crowded so it's holding people up and the trains stop for longer than usual too (for obvious reasons). I might be able to get to work but getting back home would be the issue (host sister says I might have to walk from Nerima because she fears that the trains will stop operating after a certain hour). Yamanote is running just fine and all the subways are too from the looks of it. I think i'll just stay home though, just in case (I don't know the area well enough to walk home from a different station). 

Here's to hopping things start to look up~

Jamie