My brain, it is broken

Greetings, all! And I'm only, what, ten days late? It's better than my usual, but still a dismal failure given my "post every day" claim earlier. >.< To be honest, though, a post a day sounds good in theory, but it really isn't very interesting to read. I mean, something blog-worthy doesn't necessarily happen to me every day; sometimes my life is downright dull. Albeit dull in another country, which perhaps to some people would automatically render it not quite as dull as, say, folding laundry in Topeka, Kansas, but whatever...

For example, what did I do today? I rode my bike to a couple different stores looking for black fabric that I need for a costume for Comiket in August, but didn't find anything that would work (frouella 0, fail 2). Then I got rained upon, so I went home (frouella 0, fail 9000). Since I've been home, I've been researching internet articles about neuroscience and language (thank goodness I still have access to JSTOR) because of a passing reference in this article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

The article is very interesting in and of itself, but the author at one point mentions how the brains of people who learn languages like Chinese, Japanese, etc. function differently than the brains of people who learn alphabet-based languages, and I wanted to see if I could find some source material about it, since there's no reference given in the article itself. So far, no luck (frouella 0, fail 9001), but I have managed to read myself into a brain stupor, where the words I'm reading just kinda bounce back off with no penetration whatsoever. So, I figured I'd write my blog post to act as a mental sorbet of sorts. :P Ohh, the irony. On so many levels. Especially if you read the article in The Atlantic. >.> That actually may be the subject of a future blog post, but not tonight; my brain is officially jell-o.

Anyway, here's your J-pic:

Mmmm, okonomiyake!