Lunch Hour

So every day at work these days, I go and purchase a lunch box - called a bentou (弁当), and bring it back to the office on my lunch hour. While I'm eating, I often catch up on email, news, errands, or occasionally - like now - I create a new blog entry.

However, some days - like today - my coworkers come back early from work. It's 12:50 right now - I still have ten minutes - and yet, I feel guilty because my coworkers are here. And I feel like they are working.

And yet they're not. I glance to the right and the guy's surfing a video game website. The guy to my left is shuffling papers around, it looks like. I still feel guilty. Or maybe I feel guilty that I don't feel guilty about it, and continue to do it. Oh well.

I got good news last week. My mother is considering a trip to visit us in Japan! Heather and I are very excited. This will be the first (and probably only) time anyone has visited me in Japan. Heather and I have a really good handle on both Japan and Tokyo now, so we'll be able to show her some really cool things. She's planning on coming with someone, which is good because travelling with someone is always more fun. Anyway, I'm compiling a list of cool things that they can do while they're here - both in Tokyo and outside of it. Any suggestions?