Chi-Chia's blog

I felt physically and mentally unwell, and work stayed stuck on integrating a Chrome Extension with the existing architecture; after work, I bought daikon, shiitake mushrooms, and nagaimo to make lunch feel a little less repetitive.

Getting sick made my progress fall even further behind, so I got up early for work and walked to the office from Daikanyama through the cool, quiet streets. Setting up Flask-OAuthlib went badly all day, lunch was a satisfying steak meal with coworkers, and by afternoon I was still lagging far behind.

After the typhoon passed, Tokyo's sky turned brilliantly blue, but halfway through breakfast a migraine hit and I had no choice but to take the day off and stay in bed. Chills, cold sweats, vomiting, and dizziness came in waves, and even when I briefly got up in the afternoon, I still had no strength and could only worry about my progress before falling asleep again.

I had already planned to stay home and rest. After getting up near noon, I did some laundry and made lunch, then spent most of the day loafing around. I had meant to look at some programming-related things, but did not get much done. I just hoped the weather would calm down by tomorrow so I would not have to go to work with an umbrella.

On the second day of the first holiday weekend after starting work, I forced myself out the door and took the train from Shinjuku to Enoshima and Kamakura. I spent the day sightseeing on a tight budget, taking photos and collecting station stamps, unexpectedly wandered into Kodama Shrine to see a poem monument by Goto Shinpei, drifted all the way to Gokurakuji, and did not make it home until ten at night.

On the first weekend after starting work, I went to Ueno Zoo and stopped by a nationwide pottery fair on the way, where I bought a blue owl mug. The zoo was packed, and the elephants and hippos were impressive, but the red pandas were a letdown compared with Maruyama Zoo. After that I visited Toshogu Shrine, ate dorayaki at Usagiya, stopped at Yushima Tenmangu Shrine, then kept going through Ameyoko and Akihabara before finally dragging myself home exhausted.

Breakfast was rice, seaweed, and natto; during the day I got completely bogged down trying to deploy Flask on Google App Engine and work with Google Open Connect, while also having to start preparing for a presentation. At lunch I ate and had coffee with Ito-san, and in the evening I walked to Tsutaya Books Daikanyama to listen to music before making my way home along deserted nighttime streets.

After badly underestimating how crowded the 9:04 train would be, I had to wait for the next one; the day was spent checking backups, setting up Redis on EC2, and dealing with an ssh tunnel, while the evening turned into a slightly awkward but warm walk through Loft with another intern.