peoples!
people are giving too many gifts! including lots of money and umm expensive things, like brand name towels and hankerchiefs and stuff. ahhh!! i feel not worthy and unable to reciprocate.

like, a part of me is like, well okay, maybe they really enjoyed seeing me smile in the office, b/c i have like a perpetual glued-on smile on my face from all the glue i snort (kidding..! i dunno, i get high off the air or have an excess of endorphins coursing through my body at all times or something)

or i think, do they feel obligated? should i give something big in return? will they feel slighted if they get something dinky? all i'm giving are these not-brand-name handkerchiefs that i found in the not-brand-name department store.

oh wells. i guess i'll just hope it's the previous and not the latter. hopefully painstakingly-written letters in japanese will cover up for my lack of substantial gifts.

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omgosh i just realized i've been spelling handkerchiefs wrong all my life. or that i don't spell it that often, but i just never realized there was a "d" hiding in there. but it makes sense. a kerchief for your hand. it's just that no one ever pronounces the "d". (doh...slaps forehead)