PMT
Of course it takes me this long-- up to vol.6-- to realize that the web will provide me definitions of Japanese phrases much faster and more informatively than the wordtank or my many many paper dictionaries and phrasebooks.
I must also note that in Ima Ichiko's Taisho/ Shouwa world, no merchant's wife can bear children. All heirs are byblows from geisha mistresses. It's one of her Things, like boys disguised as girls and occasionally vice versa.
Slept into past noon without waking once, which means a good ten hours plus. No idea what this narcolepsy is about. Dreamed that my family had moved into a new house but while I was away during the morning (I knew where I was away at when I woke up but have since forgotten) my parents had moved all my furniture into a small bedroom that I didn't like at all, because there were other bedrooms on the the other side of the central stairway that were larger. Also the drawers had all become wonky from being moved and some of them I couldn't get open. Couldn't find my own clothes to go out in (to the same place I'd gone that morning) and wound up having to wear a dress of my mother's from the 40s or 50s, with lace ruffles and ruffly ankle socks.
We couldn't use the front door, my father said, because the lock was broken, but there were actually two front doors, side by side, and as I was standing there an Asian woman came and unlocked the second one. She had her little son with her and said she was the new fourth floor tenant. This led to much dialoguing between my parents and my younger brother about was she really the tenant and did the house actually have a fourth floor, and by the time they figured that yes, there was a fourth floor, the woman was so put off she decided not to rent the apartment after all.
So since I couldn't use the front door I went out the back, which led to a nice walled garden with raised brick defined flower beds, which led to an opening in a wall or hedge, which led to the outdoor patio of a restaurant. Most of the tables were occupied and al the guests and waiters were charming gay men including my former coworker Stephen, who was very surprised to see me. But I took a seat and was being very happy and then I woe up.
I must also note that in Ima Ichiko's Taisho/ Shouwa world, no merchant's wife can bear children. All heirs are byblows from geisha mistresses. It's one of her Things, like boys disguised as girls and occasionally vice versa.
Slept into past noon without waking once, which means a good ten hours plus. No idea what this narcolepsy is about. Dreamed that my family had moved into a new house but while I was away during the morning (I knew where I was away at when I woke up but have since forgotten) my parents had moved all my furniture into a small bedroom that I didn't like at all, because there were other bedrooms on the the other side of the central stairway that were larger. Also the drawers had all become wonky from being moved and some of them I couldn't get open. Couldn't find my own clothes to go out in (to the same place I'd gone that morning) and wound up having to wear a dress of my mother's from the 40s or 50s, with lace ruffles and ruffly ankle socks.
We couldn't use the front door, my father said, because the lock was broken, but there were actually two front doors, side by side, and as I was standing there an Asian woman came and unlocked the second one. She had her little son with her and said she was the new fourth floor tenant. This led to much dialoguing between my parents and my younger brother about was she really the tenant and did the house actually have a fourth floor, and by the time they figured that yes, there was a fourth floor, the woman was so put off she decided not to rent the apartment after all.
So since I couldn't use the front door I went out the back, which led to a nice walled garden with raised brick defined flower beds, which led to an opening in a wall or hedge, which led to the outdoor patio of a restaurant. Most of the tables were occupied and al the guests and waiters were charming gay men including my former coworker Stephen, who was very surprised to see me. But I took a seat and was being very happy and then I woe up.