Yes, I'm okay.

For those who have been keeping tabs on me, yes, I went to Tokyo today. Yes, I'm back at JCMU in one piece. Exhausted, but in one piece. I officially dub my excursion the "Turbo Tokyo Trip"- you really weren't meant to visit Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Harajuku all in one day...and I had to cut some stuff out, but I saw everything I really wanted to.

-In Shinjuku, I finally got to eat at a Mos Burger. It's a frou frou burger/frou frou coffee shop. (I had a teriyaki burger and a cafe latte...hee hee hee.) I also went to a garden and saw lots of crysanthemums and lily pads as big as half of me...no joke.
-In Shibuya, I got to see Hachiko (famous dog statue), I went to Tower Records (which is huge and has seven floors; used to be the biggest in the world), and I got to be part of the famous Shibuya pedestrian pandemonium not once, but two times. (At the intersection in front of the station, the traffic signal will occasionally make a four-way stop and this huge mass of people will just start walking really fast in all directions...it's crazy).
-In Harajuku, I saw all these really cool, trendily (is that a word?) dressed high school kids...I kinda felt under-dressed. They had the most awesome shops and at least two malls...but I can't even afford the stuff they sell out of a trailer set up on the street in Harajuku...literally. I also went to this art museum stuck randomly in front of Laforet...but it was really cool. I got a poster with some of the woodblock paintings reproduced on it. Then I saw a procession on the street. There were women singing and some Buddhist monks hitting a drum...they were protesting war (I suppose the war in Iraq). A couple of guys got really mad and started yelling, and at least one of them got arrested. Everyone was just kinda shocked, since this happened right in front of Harajuku Station...anyway, you know the drill. Someday I will post pictures, etc.

But right now, my brain has just exploded, so if you'll excuse me, I need to go clean that up...