At 3:03AM I woke to the sound of thirty seemingly drunk Japanese people belting out a din nine stories under my hotel room window.  Now three hours later the seagulls have taken over.

I can hear these noises because my dorm sized room doubles as a human pressure cooker.  We have no control over our room temperature so I have to open the window in order to breathe again.  Keeping one’s window open also exposes you to the Saturday evening party rituals that can be somewhat noisy.

After nine straight days of blogging, I hit a brick wall last night.  I was emotionally overwhelmed with the stunning theater performance from Okayama’s ARTLINK 2007 teams.  Then back-to-back we experienced a giant music experiment called Big Big Band.

I need to take time to sort these wonderful experiences with my heart and head, so more to come later, I promise.