Emotions
I hate them.
I also hate how these earthquakes are continuing. Everyday I think we are getting hit by at least 5 mag. 6 quakes. Sometimes I start to get scared. I tell myself, "Tomorrow will be better." But tomorrow is generally about the same. Just uncertainty and earthquakes.
It doesn't help that my mom mails me at work, projecting all her fears onto me. I try to calm her down, mostly for my own sake. I live 133 miles away from the plant. I'm fine.
Then there are the blackouts. My mom told me an old woman got stuck in an elevator during one. I'm not the type that wouldn't know when my blackout is but my parents are coming this weekend and I'm afraid for them. They are pretty clueless but I'm going to be with them Sat, Sun, Mon. During the week I work and they will be in Tokyo. The center of Tokyo has no blackouts so I told them to just stay put there. I'm not sure how fun that'll be so they are bringing books with them. It's funny, the reason they are coming to Japan was to avoid possible conflict in Tibet (their original destination). After everyone around North Africa started protests the Chinese gov't forbid travelers from entering Tibet, so they decided to see me. Now there's conflict here. Now that's ironic. This was supposed to be the safe trip!
I'm going to try and sleep now because I need to get up at 6 and start cooking my lunch for school. This whole situation requires a lot of extra energy. My entire day has become focused on the earthquake and the aftermath. I read news alerts from NHK all day, then check them against the foreign press, then I read other advisories, and so on. It's so exhausting.
I also hate how these earthquakes are continuing. Everyday I think we are getting hit by at least 5 mag. 6 quakes. Sometimes I start to get scared. I tell myself, "Tomorrow will be better." But tomorrow is generally about the same. Just uncertainty and earthquakes.
It doesn't help that my mom mails me at work, projecting all her fears onto me. I try to calm her down, mostly for my own sake. I live 133 miles away from the plant. I'm fine.
Then there are the blackouts. My mom told me an old woman got stuck in an elevator during one. I'm not the type that wouldn't know when my blackout is but my parents are coming this weekend and I'm afraid for them. They are pretty clueless but I'm going to be with them Sat, Sun, Mon. During the week I work and they will be in Tokyo. The center of Tokyo has no blackouts so I told them to just stay put there. I'm not sure how fun that'll be so they are bringing books with them. It's funny, the reason they are coming to Japan was to avoid possible conflict in Tibet (their original destination). After everyone around North Africa started protests the Chinese gov't forbid travelers from entering Tibet, so they decided to see me. Now there's conflict here. Now that's ironic. This was supposed to be the safe trip!
I'm going to try and sleep now because I need to get up at 6 and start cooking my lunch for school. This whole situation requires a lot of extra energy. My entire day has become focused on the earthquake and the aftermath. I read news alerts from NHK all day, then check them against the foreign press, then I read other advisories, and so on. It's so exhausting.