This weekend passed in a blur of failing to work because of looking obsessively at the news about Japan interspersed with random email exchanges with Japanese friends along the lines of たいへんですね。 めちゃこわい ：（ I lived noway near the area when I was in Japan, but friends have been very kind about my immediate barrage of panic stricken emails demanding to know of their whereabouts, health and safety. The low number of fatalities in Tokyo and the, so far, not as bad as it could have been news from the nuclear power plants (note how carefully I phrased that fate - I am NOT tempting you) is testament to the Japanese spirit and engineering/architecture. I just hope they can follow through with similar success on the recovery and clear up. The Japanese interest in the short lived beauty of cherry blossom makes sense when the island's history of vulnerability to such complete devestation comes into play.
Right. Now for something completely different. I have to get back to an essay on female circumcision. Amazingly I find myself either in a position of defending it or else condemning all cosmetic surgery including male circumcision. I think I prefer the latter position, but at the same time recognise that that's because of my upbringing in a secular but Christian morality influenced home - you are as you were made, deal with it.
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