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Laugh out loud? No, LOL is League of Legends. League of Legends is a computer game I played while living in America. Since coming to Japan I was not able to play due to the high ping. Ping is crucial to any competitive online game. Ping is the delay between your PC and the game server. In order to play League I would have to connect to the American server. It wasn't too bad but I was unable to play ranked matches. Just recently a Japanese server opened up! Riot (the company that owns and runs League) offered a free server transfer to anyone living in Japan! Now I am able to play with an even lower ping than when I was in America. The Japanese server is located in Tokyo and it is currently in open beta. I encourage anyone to come play with me on their free time. We can have lots of fun.

The game has 5 different roles. You can play top, mid, jungler, ADC, or support. Top is mostly a 1 v 1 early on and so is mid. The jungler gets to go around killing monsters through the a jungle and helping the others. ADC is usually a ranged character that does a lot of physical damage. Last but not least is support. Support is all about utility and keeping the ADC as well as the team alive and fighting. I mostly play support and jungler. What roles do you want to play?

Do you like PC games? What is your favorite video game?  

I've had a cough for over 4 weeks now. I don't have a fever (but then, I don't tend to get them) and my throat seems okay, but I can't stop clearing my throat. My voice sounded kinda scratchy this past month but of course I couldn't stop singing and teaching. I pity all of my students who have to hear it!

Last week, it took a turn for the worst. I was annoyed with sounding funny and not being able to karaoke. But suddenly I couldn't sleep. I woke up coughing several times a night.

I took to the internet to find some suggestions on cold remedies in Japan. The blogs aimed at foreigners in Japan were wildly unhelpful. Most of them suggested stocking up the next time I'm back in America. Sound advice, but not helping the problem now! Also, a lot of medicine that we're used to having in America is illegal in Japan. So I can't take it with me anyway. Like I stated before, Americans take care of cold themselves and don't go to the hospital or a doctor unless they feel they aren't getting better.

My friend suggested 2 things right away. To stack up my pillows as best as I could and eat some limes. I was perplexed at the latter. Limes? I thought limes were just for flavoring things. Who eats limes? But I bought one and set about to make some limonade. Haven't tried it yet. I drink lots of lemon ginger tea with honey but it hasn't changed anything.

Asking around, I found some cough syrup called BRON. It tasted like root beer, which I thought was funny. Medicine in America usually tastes like cherries. I think it actually helped, along with the pillows thing. I tried decongestants and cough drops too, but they don't seem to do much. The cough drops need some menthol in them, otherwise they just taste like candy.

Here's hoping that I get back to normal. I want to sleep and SING!


  

I used to brag all the time that I "never get sick". Obviously it's not "never", but I really do rarely get sick. The few times that I do, it is relatively short-lived, and I'm nearly dead by the time I get over it. This time seemed like it would be like the former. Okay, my throat hurts. I'm kinda losing my voice, but that's happened before. Oh, my head kinda hurts too...what, I have a fever? How bad is it? 37.4?! Wait, check again...okay, 36.5, that's not too bad...and I'm back up to 37.9. This is new. I don't know if I ever had a fever that fluctuated like that before. It got bad enough that I felt like I had to take off from work on Saturday (one of the busiest and longest days of the week for me, next to Thursdays). It was probably my first time actually calling in sick. The only other time I had to make arrangements to take off work was when I was trying to get my driver's license, and the only available time and day to take it made it impossible to do without taking the day off.
So I took the Saturday off, tried resting as much as I could. Thought I had somewhat recovered on Sunday, only to discover, nope, not at all. Sunday night I slept horribly, tried to rest some more on Monday. Okay, now I am feeling better...wait, nope, still feeling like a sack of trash. But Tuesday I had to work. I thought I could do it, I thought I could survive the day...but then I end up calling in sick again (rather, they suggested I take another day off. They really are so thoughtful. Plus I'm sure they wouldn't want me infecting anyone else, XD).This time I am in bed pretty much the whole day, save for when I had to eat or use the restroom.

Suffice to say, I'm still not 100%. Kind of better, but I don't want to say so, because I don't know if I am suddenly going to get worse. Sigh. Getting sick sucks. I'm glad it doesn't happen all that often to me.