and i was doing so well until dinner time! at 8.30 i set out to find dinner, having wrapped myself well in sweater coat and scarf, and had gone two hundred metres down the street when the sky broke open on me. i turned around and started running, and made it indoors not soggy but considerably damp. i wheeze my way up eight flights of stairs and peel off layers of damp clothes and decide i don't want to go out again, umbrella or not. there wasn't much of a choice if i stayed in: ramen or ochazuke. i love ochazuke, but as i haven't yet found a japanese supermarket and am down to 6 packets of ochazuke topping, i thought it should be conserved for colder, more luo4 po4 nights. this is how i ended up eating ramen and thinking, well, i've done the work for one class, and i'm reduced to eating ramen, i deserve to read some aickman. and then i did and it was morning.