finally done

I've been commuting an hour-plus each way to a conference in Okazaki for the last three days. Fascinating and exhausting, as is usual for conferences. My head was turned big-time today by Japan's biggest evo-devo guy, who is a ball of knowledge and ideas and seems very friendly. Sooo tired now, though. NOT going to the lab this evening, despite how I could start things and do things. (Shut up, anxiety, we are not doing it.)

A tiny detour on the way from the train station to the conference center allows one to go by this lovely pond near a shrine and admire the ducks.



I love how all the cities in Japan have their own pretty drain covers. I'm sure people think I'm nuts to photograph them, but who cares?



There are a number of ways to get to and from the conference center using the same basic trains, and tonight I experimentally got off at Horita station only to find that my transfer to the subway was in another castle several blocks away, without good signage. While exploring I got veggies and meats, and found that one of the supermarket's posted slogans was "Various appetite materials want to employ you," which was worth every minute of confusion.

(Sometime soon, posts about the fun stuff I've been doing!)