4 Visitations of Terror

Today our wandering took us to Hokkaido University and the University Museum there, and from there to a fabulous vegetarian restaurant, and from there to Sapporo Station so that I could show Bunny all four of the malls that converge there. Sapporo University Museum by the way, is pretty fun for a free museum based at a University. It has all manner of academic and researched based exhibits, but it also has skeletons of dinosaurs and animals, bugs in cases and wax models of body parts with horrific skin conditions.

On our wanderings I came across four signs - omens or portents, I'm not sure which - that chilled my blood and filled me with dread and foreboding. Or dread foreboding, if you'll allow it. What can we read into these four visitations?

fig i : The skeleton of a duck at Hokkaido University Museum

fig. ii : The skull of a tapir at Hokkaido University Museum.

fig iii : Terebi-Tou San (the personified mascot version of Sapporo's TV Tower) and a Donkey-Creature outside Sapporo Station, dancing.

fig. iv : A monstrous Pikachu, worshipped by a line of small children who queued up to enter between its legs.

Tins and Fractures

Yeah, so apparently I'm not so invulnerable. And chewing on foil didn't magically strap adamantium to my bones.

NB: This is just a google image photo, not my actual x-ray.

I went to a small clinic in the middle of nowhere, where they kept the bandages in old food tins and the x-ray machine was yellowing with age, to get verification that I cracked a rib snowboarding last week. I'm strapped up, I've got cold compresses and drugs and I'm pretty optimistic I'm not going to die.

Fingers crossed!

The old clinic was very cool actually, it was clearly well run, clean and very good, it's just that everything in it was very old. I didn't mind, it was actually quite cool to see all that vintage stuff and the doctor in his modified recliner/swivel chair thing.

And now... taking it easy.