It doesn't seem to matter how little or how much I sleep, I am always tired.  I have taken to having a small can (100ml) of red bull every morning before work  and a bottle of coke with dinner every night.  And I'm usually in bed by 9pm and often up by 5 (even though my alarm is set for 6).  Doesn't mean I always go to sleep right away (sometimes 10:30 before I get to sleep), but I usually wake up around 5, sometimes earlier, rarely ever later.  I don't get it.  If I stay up later, I still wake up early.  Weekends seem to be the only time I sleep in, then I'm lucky to be up by 9am...and then, of course, I can't get to sleep until after midnight and then Sunday night/Monday morning sucks balls.

My neck and shoulders are bothering me too.  My shoulders hurt and my neck feels like a wet noodle.  Which is probably contributing to the damned headaches ( I made it all day without a headache today, only to get one around dinner time =(  ).  I don't know......

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I got my new passport in the mail.  It looks a bit different than my old one.  I like that it says it was Issued in Tokyo = )  Now I have to take a day off work (probably the week after next while there are no classes) and go to the nearest Immigration Office (which is in Koriyama, 90 minutes from here by highway bus) to get my VISA and re-entry permit transfered from my old passport to my new one.  The sooner the better because I heard that the office is moving further away near the middle of April.

note to self....stop making excuses and put the stupid Christmas Tree away!  and find something else to use to confirm whether or not an earthquake is actually happening.

Sometimes I'll be sitting on the floor in my living room at the computer and I'll feel like I'm moving. I think...earthquake? Then I look up at my Christmas Tree and it's not moving...so I know it's just me.  I get a lot of phantom quakes.  Sometimes I feel like I'm moving slightly and I look up and the ornaments on the tree are gently swaying and then I know it's not just me.  It's like a crutch or safety blanket and I am reluctant to get rid of it. Even though it looks completely rediculous sitting in my living room in March.

Any ideas on what I can replace it with? 

ok i'm going to go to bed.  Have a nice day/afternoon/evening everyone :)