so still feeling like crap i went to school today, but no one had told me that morning class was cancelled so i had like 3 hours of waiting at the school until my next (and final) class. in the morning i had replied to that teacher's email. her email had said "are you okay? it'd be good if you got better before the JLPT on sunday." i don't even know why she's sending me this email, no other teachers sent me anything.

i replied "i'm sick, i went to the doctor and it will heal with medicine but i'm waiting for test results and things so i probably won't get medicine until thursday or friday, it affects my whole body a lot but i'll try to come to school starting from today. even if i AM in good health for the test, it's a very long test in a very bright room. at any rate i'll be aiming to pass it". i explained all this only because i already knew she thinks i'm lying about being sick. keep in mind i only actually skipped 2 days of class.

so i'm sitting in the break room with my wife, Angry Teacher walks past the room (which has its door open) and goes into the next room (secretary's office) and starts complaining to the secretary ABOUT ME! naturally i couldn't hear all of it but what i did hear was my first name quite a few times, and "...said he's sick but he's sitting in the classroom right now" and "...that's awful, don't you think?" in that tone of voice she uses when she thinks someone is doing sometihng horrifically unjust to her and she wants everyone else to agree with her.

then after a few minutes, she comes into the doorway of where i am (doesn't enter). "hello", she says quietly, "hello" me and my wife say. "how's your status?" as if she doesn't actually care. "i'm pretty bad" i reply. "so (i read from your email that) you went to the doctor and had some kind of test? you didn't get any medicine?" "no" "you didn't get any other medicine?" "exactly as i wrote in the email, i have to wait for test results before i can get medicine and i'll get medicine on friday or so." she didn't seem to believe me that i had any test results that needed a few days, or on that i didn't get any medicine - no idea why. i certainly didn't tell her that getting this medicine actually needed like 5 weeks of tests and the end of this week will get me to the final round. "okay. it'd be good if you got better before the JLPT on sunday.", sort of as if you get better after you've taken medicine for a single day. then she walked away without even saying "bye" or even attempting to talk to my wife, which is apparently a habit of hers.

my wife pointed out that this teacher said NONE of the standard, sympathetic stock phrases japanese people say all the time in this kind of situation - y'know, "don't push yourself" (無理しないで), "take it easy" (楽にしてね), "your health's more important than school", etc. neither her email nor her actual words sounded like she actually gives a crap about me but she still pretends to care about me. it's just frustrating. if you don't care then just leave me alone, don't come talk to me face to face after every little thing that happens, doubt everything i say, and not listen to me OR my wife.

in "english-american literature class" the teacher brought in a halloween dracula cape + hat that he put on briefly and invited us to try on (after class), and we watched a bit of Nosferatu, some 1950's dracula adaption and the 1990's interview with a vampire movie. i felt AWFUL, my stomach was hurting and i was getting hot flashes and feeling like i would throw up and stuff but it was still a really fun class.

when i was going home, for the first time i met a swede by total chance on the subway. it was a mom with her little kid. i was already standing next to them so when the mom moved to put the kid on her lap, i asked "går det bra att sitta här" - "is it possible to sit here / can i sit here" in swedish, but i think she didn't hear me properly and thought i was speaking japanese or something because she got this confused look on her face and didn't say anything. so i just sat down anyway and listened to her Extremely Standard Swedish.

then on the way home i rented the interview with a vampire movie, along with the new gintama live-action movie and a few episodes of jojo. got a bunch more hotflashes, bought sushi and some other stuff at the grocery store and made it home. i really, really don't want to go to school what with how sick i've been feeling but i also don't want to skip school so...