March Madness

It's March Madness. March Madness to me means the end of "rainy" season in LA (all of 2 weeks), the start of midterms, the never ending supply of college basketball games on TV, spring break, and warmer weather. However, Hokkaido has a different definition. In 4 days, I've driven to school in 2 blizzards and had to shovel the office parking lot to get my car out.

Seriously, Hokkaido, let's just watch some good ol' basketball and melt that snow.

But on a different note, I've been a little emo. I'm pretty sure it's from the lack of Vitamin D. And maybe having my heart crushed a little bit when I opened my front door on March 1 expecting to see green grass and blooming flowers, only to be greeted by a fierce blizzard. It's been difficult to be motivated. I'm super lethargic every day. I come home from work and do nothing, and I can't get out of bed until my 3rd alarm. Unheard of. I'm definitely not the...normal me. I'm like....lame me. Really lame me.

But yesterday, I got back to the office late, and I still had prep to do for my night class. I was about to walk out of the office to go make copies in the hallway, and the office lady was like, "WAIT!" and ran into the kitchen area. Everyone in the office was confused and was looking around at each other; I had no idea what was going on. She emerged with a plastic bag that had a cake box in it. My coworkers started laughing, she said something I couldn't understand, so I took my cake box in a plastic bag to the copy in the hallway and made copies. Then I went home confused as to why I had a personal strawberry cake from a fancy bakery. I didn't know who gave it to me or for what reason, but I had a strawberry cake. Can't complain about that when you're emo.

This morning I walked to work with my boss and this was our conversation.
Me: "Umm, you know that cake yesterday...who was it from?"
Boss: "It was from all the male workers in the office."

Me: "Oh. Wait, but it's not White Day yet. My birthday already passed. I'm confused."

Boss: "Just something nice. A present."

A lack of vitamin D can always be replaced with a large dose of strawberry cake.

Madness. March Madness.