I'm going to Japan tomorrow morning. I leave at eleven in the morning, fly twelve hours, and get there three PM the next day. Even more unnerving is that I leave Tokyo at six in the evening, fly twelve hours and get back in Chicago at four PM on the same day. I get back before I left. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation--something involving international date lines, various tricks of special relativity and whatnot--but my mind refuses to wrap itself around this fact.

Also--I can't imagine the weather there can possibly be anything like the weather here. I figure since they speak Japanese, they won't get the same weather. Yeah, I know it doesn't make sense at first but that's often the case w/ logic in it's purest form.