Stupid earthquakes!

I was jolted out of sleep last night by yet another frickin' earthquke! I'm so not a fan. Apparently it was only an aftershock from the bigger ones on Saturday but I'm just not sure how that works. In any case I'm done now.

I'm also done with hearing about the shinkansen (bullet train) that derailed during the earthquake. I mean, I understand that it's a big deal because it's the first time a shinkansen has derailed in the 40 years that they've been running here in Japan but seriously, how many times do we need to hear the analysis!? Nobody was injured. Not a single person. The train was passing almost directly over the earthquake epicenter and still it just popped off the track. It didn't break through the concrete barriers and hurtle off of the really high bridge like thingy it runs on plunging hundreds of passengers to their untimely deaths. No. It just sort of flopped off the track. It doesn't even look very damaged and yet we hear of nothing else. I could tell you all about the failsafe systems they have to prevent shinkansen tradgedies but I refuse! On principal! This bombardment of once interesting but now just aggrevating information stops here!!!!! I'm also quite sad because apparently I can no longer spell.

The news in Japan really annoys me. I like watching the news because I like to know what's going on in the world and they have this lovely dubbed news on when I get home from work which I watch pretty much everyday (unless I'm drunk or craving some crap tv as does happen) but everytime there's a disaster, no matter how minor, they talk about nothing else for days! And when I say nothing else, I mean NOTHING else! And they do it twice! They'll tell you the story and then say, "and now more about..." and they go over the exact same information again but with different people. Same dialogue and everything. I just don't understand. Maybe I'm missing something. Did you know that houses built before the 1980s are increasingly vulnerable to earthquakes? Especially wooden ones? Because I do. They've just said it 4 times in the past 10 minutes. Oh wait, it's not only old wooden buildings that are vulnerable. No, concrete can be damaged as well. Does this really surprise anyone? Is it really shocking, earth shattering news? Should we all move out of our crap apartments into new super swanky apartments? Oh wait, if I could afford to live in a super swanky new building what on earth would I be doing in my 1965 crap building in the first place!? Happy thoughts. Must think happy thoughts.

I think this earthquake thing has caused me mental damage. I'm vulnerable to that sort of thing. I think I heard somewhere that women born prior to 1980 are more vulnerable to mental damage due to unnecessary repetition. While it's a well known fact that women born before 1980 are more likely to be vulnerable to brain damage due to this repetition it also seems that women with green eyes are more seceptable than those with blue. However, while this is true that women with green eyes are more susceptible to this kind of mental damage caused by overwhelming amounts of mind numbing repetition than those with blue, women with blue eyes are not exempt from similar kinds of damage caused by ungodly, inhumane and completely overwhelming amounts of ridiculous repetition!!!! Kill me now.