Two more nights

 I have only two more nights in quarantine, then I'm free to go about masked and distanced business.  This morning I told Malachi I would try to fold a crane from a gum wrapper.

There it is next to a toothpick.  It's about half of a Trident gum wrapper.  You have to start with a square, so that's the first step - tearing the end off a rectangular piece of paper to make it a square.  It's not as difficult as it might sound.  Two folds is all it takes to get the crease in the right place.  One of the folds is the first step in making the crane, so that works nicely.  It's the smallest crane I've folded to date.

Last night I watched Hush from Buffy Season 4.  It's among Jen's and my favorite episodes, but not one we typically watch at night.  I think the appropriate question to ask after seeing that episode is "After the Gentlemen, what's your second scariest/creepiest television or movie monster?"  It first aired in December of 1999.  The fundamental problem faced in the story doesn't translate to today, but if you put yourself in that time or before it works very well.  This is not an episode I'm planning to use in class.

My lunch today was tantanmen.  It's not a Japanese dish.  Rather, it's based on the Chinese dish dandan.  This was spicy ramen with pork and egg.  No extra sauce or flavor packets.

Windows has a translator program built in.  It even accepts "ink" input.  Right in the middle is "tantanmen," and I could even read it in 7-11.  When I tried writing it on my computer, though, I would get really crazy output.  Computers are not perfect, by any means.  So, I ended up searching Wikipedia.

I've been asked a few times if it is odd or difficult keeping track of the days and nights.  It really isn't too bad.  When I wake up in the morning, I know it's the previous night in Michigan.  If I have to be aware of a particular date, like Gabe's birthday coming up here, things get a bit more complicated.  Even there, though, it isn't terrible.  I can always set my school Outlook calendar to give me a reminder if I need to.  Since that is tied to SVSU's servers, it stays on Michigan time.

So, that's what I have for today.  In less than 48 hours I'll be in Tokushima.  Counting down in a reasonable manner so I don't go stir crazy tomorrow.