Holy Crap My Legs are Long & Skinny!!

Well... that wasn't the original title for today's thoughts. I had planned something more eloquent or elegant, something like, "What a Big Fat Pig!"

But then I looked at the photo I took of myself in the mountains today (with a precariously balanced clamshell cell phone perched on my bike parts) and even I was shocked by my own legs! If somebody who didn't know me saw those stilts, they might seriously wonder if I don't have some bizarre muscle-devouring disease that makes them look so ... gaunt! GAWD!

Anywhoo...

Today I spent my latest "full time job" which is spending the entire day looking for work. I had an interview with a recruit company (in Japan, in Japanese, for the Japanese market) who just needed extra info for my registration, as well as explain to me the "rules of engagement".

I decided to pay my translator that I use to outsource translation work (yes, I'm a "translation company" and no I don't do it myself - are you crazy??) to translate my current English resume which I need to submit to the recruit company. I had to do a lot of other online stuff with them as well.

I worked on a few other angles, took breaks and stuff, and then finally the heat and humidity got to me.

So I changed clothes and at 5.30 got on my bike and rode up to Thinking Rock. This is a picture of me sitting on Thinking Rock. I know I know I know you may not be able to see the rock for the legs, but try hard. It is under my bony arse.

It was a good ride, I did a lot of deep breathing, and calmed down my semi-spinning mind. The weather was perfect, the bugs were not bothering me.

And... on the way down... while I was doing very relaxing deep breathing and screaming down the mountain at break-my-neck-if-I'm-not-damn-careful speeds... I turned a corner just in time to see...

the most GINORMOUS wild boar I have EVER seen! OH MY GOD! It was HUGE! GARGANTUAN! (make a great pig roast...) It was about as tall as my bike frame (Stephanie knows how huge it is but nobody else here), and a meter (3ft) wide! I'm not kidding, it looked like a monstrous giant "tawashi" (traditional Japanese scrubbing brush: http://tinyurl.com/ot2mro) on legs!

As soon as we met it turned around and barrelled into the forest, down the mountain and was gone. But I got to enjoy it for several seconds as it trotted down the road into the forest.

For the rest of the ride home I continued my deep breathing, relaxing, sporting a huge cheesy grin and repeating over and over,

"Thank you for this glorious day, Universe. I appreciate everything you bring to me. Thank you so much. I love you!"

Wow.... that inoshishi (wild boar) was really the biggest boar I have ever seen!
Wow.... my legs are skinny.
And long!
Especially those damn shins!
Now you know how much it hurts when THESE shins cramp. There's a lot of muscle going on under the skin of these babies.

I love you!

Cam