This week was more or less made of suck on accounts of needing oral surgery. One of my wisdom teeth was removed. Yes, one. The other lower one they were going to take out turned out to be attached to a large nerve in my jaw, so no go on getting that one out this time around. The one that they did take out had three roots, which is apparently rare, so more work… yay…

On the whole, the experience was one of the worse ones in my life and not one I’d care to repeat. Unless I need something in a completely emergency-like fashion, I don’t care what they say, I’m getting the next one out while I’m completely unconscious. Sounds like the internal wrenching of a branch being torn from a tree, smells like something is burning and general discomfort at all the pressure and whatnot… >_<

Also, for some reason I can’t fathom, the music playing on the little stereo in the room was Elton John. What the hell?

The rest of this week was taking painkillers and trying not to go batshit crazy. I did manage to get to my graphics class and I’m going to have to get special permission to get the slides in that class just to keep up. Luckily the lecturer seemed to sympathise with me, so I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to keep relatively on top of it. I managed to get some work done, but not a whole lot. Still having trouble focusing for any length of time, and the pain(killers) don’t seem to be helping with that.

The week actually started off with me going to a seminar/interview for foreigners that want to work in Japan. I didn’t really follow most of the seminar (it was in Japanese), but the interview afterwards was interesting. Talked to a couple of older Japanese guys, one who’d worked for Panasonic for 40 years, the other who worked for the company that organised the seminars. Mostly advice that I expected – improve my Japanese, research the companies I target properly, Japanese companies mostly only really consider workers that are going to be around for 5 years or more… I think I’ll still look into finding something for after I graduate since I think working here for a year or so would be a great experience, but I don’t know how realistic my chances are. We’ll see.

This weekend I spent a bit of time coding on a pet project with Ian, and my brain also spent a good portion of the time in some space that meant a complete lack of function on my part. I don’t even know if I would have been able to form sentences when I got like that. As such, I missed an opportunity to go to the Tokyo Motor Show with Jon, which is a bit of a shame.

I have been a complete waste of space this week. Hopefully next week will be better.