flemmings | (no subject)

Dreamed last night I was in Tokyo with a doctor's appointment in ohh yanno that place there, and an acupuncturist appointment in ohh yanno the other place, and I couldn't get to them because the Japanese were lying down on the railway tracks en masse and stopping all JR trains to protest the government forcing them to put chili flakes on their food. Which struck me as sensible but I had these *appointments* and even though I belatedly remembered the subway would take me there, being private companies and all, it takes so loong to get anywhere by subway in Tokyo and I'd have to transfer so often... Which is true, it does, is why this was real!Tokyo and not the dream!Tokyo I usually go to.

Started The Hobbit. Thinking of Bilbo as Martin Freeman helps with the tweeness a bit, but it's still going to be a slog.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Martin Freeman, for some reason, strikes me as very hobbity. :)

I was only in Japan for about a week, but I remember the trains... The subway map was very colourful indeed.

Well, he is. But it's his air of moral sincerity (as Watson) that adds depth to Bilbo, because Tolkien's narrator condescends to Bilbo all the bloody time.