The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill & Came Down A Mt. Fuji.

Jun 27, 2005 09:53

I have now officially climbed to (and farted at) the top of the talles mountain in Japan. I went down to Shizuoka, to Mt. Fuji on Saturday afternoon with my friend Eri, her boyfriend and two of his friends. We started climbing at about 10pm, and reached the top at about 4am. It was a long climb, but not actually as difficult as I expected (as long ( Read more... )

Leave a comment

Comments 5

lottie8aspirin June 27 2005, 04:38:06 UTC
the first sentence was the best. i am both happy and appalled that i read it.

how've you been? i've been off doing other things and now i am going to rest my neck. i power lifted something at my yard sale and now i can't move my neck to one side. humph!

*waves*

Reply

monkeytastic June 27 2005, 05:56:37 UTC
I'm guessing you liked the part in brackets in particular ;op

I've been up to quite a bit recently. Mainly consisting of sweating my balls off in the non-air-conditioned staffroom where it's currently 31C and about 1million % humidity. Bastards. Anyway, apart from that, climbing Mt. Fuji, smoking cigars and drinking cognac and seeing my friends mostly.

I hope your neck feels better soon. I'm slightly confused though, how you hurt your neck lifting something. Isn't it usually your back, or were you lifting it with some kind of ingenious head-harness?

Reply


abraxas365 June 27 2005, 16:11:37 UTC
Congratulations. Climbing Fuji is still up there on my list of shit to accomplish.

Reply


anonymous June 28 2005, 21:33:37 UTC
I was going to write that Japanese set phrase that you say at the end of the work day or a job well done...but I don't want to speak gratuitous Japanese and sound like a jerk. I'll just say, Nice going, Cowboy.

-angela

Reply

monkeytastic June 29 2005, 00:02:43 UTC
Thanks Dom & Angela. It was something I really wanted to do before I left, so I'm really pleased I managed to see it through. Now I've just got to shag 40 Japanese girls in the last 4 weeks and I'll have accomplished everything I wanted to. (j/k)

Reply


Leave a comment

Up