In which I ride the bullet train and forget my camera

I managed to sleep impressively late this morning!  I went to bed at ~9:30 and didn't get up until 6:30, which is way better than I normally do when I'm severely jet-lagged.  Unfortunately, it isn't even 8 p.m. here and I'm pretty exhausted, so I think I'll be having another early night.

I took the bullet train from Tokyo to Nagoya today, which went pretty well, except for the bit where I decided to plug in my camera battery on the bullet train so that it would be charged when I arrived in Nagoya and then managed to forget both the battery and the charger on the train.  AUGH.  I've contacted the station lost and found, and they're going to contact me in the morning when they find out whether the Hiroshima lost and found has it or not.  Guh, I can't believe I did that...  If I can't recover my battery, I guess I will just get a new camera; I've been needing a new one for a while and I guess this is a reasonably good excuse.  Oh well.  We'll see how it goes.

Otherwise, my day hasn't been terribly exciting.  It's currently too hot for living and 97% humidity, and, no, it's not raining.  It's just THAT HUMID.  It feels like drowning in the air.  And it's only going to get worse!  'cause summer hasn't even properly started yet!

Other exciting things that have happened today: I had CoCo Ichibanya for dinner,* which was an excellent decision; I still remember where everything in Nagoya is despite having been gone for almost a year; Beard Papa's** special flavor for June is matcha, which means that I am prepared to say farewell to all my money.

...wow, okay, I am really tired now and falling asleep on my keyboard, so I should probably head toward the shower and then bed.

*Best curry house ever.  I had their "summer vegetable" curry, which had pork and chicken and asparagus and eggplant and cherry tomatoes and okra and was DELICIOUS.

**Beard Papa is a cream puff store in Japan.  Every month they have a special cream flavor and this month it's matcha and I can never say no to matcha.
Also, weird bit of trivia, Beard Papa (the character) appears in Wreck-It Ralph.  He's the guy guarding the car factory.