Sleep-Deprived Students

Right now, Rei and I are staying in a monthly apartment in Ota-ku (think "southern Tokyo"), down by Kawasaki.

They call monthly apartments マンスリーマンション (mansurii manshon).

Please don't ask me why in the world a nice, new apartment in Japan is called a "mansion," a マンション (manshon), while a small, usually older building is called an アパート (apaato), an "apartment."

Google images makes this distintion very clear.

マンション (manshon):

アパート (apaato):

アパート (apaato), by the way, is short for アパートメント (apaatomento).

Anyways, we're in a マンスリーマンション (mansurii manshon).

And most days, I wake up at 5:30 a.m. and write these emails before I do anything else (i.e. my real job).

But today, alas, I overslept:

The main reason is that I was up all night reading nerdy fantasy books on my Kindle...

Note that in this second one, instead of saying した (shita), "(I) did (oversleeping)," I wrote しちゃった, which is the casual form of してしまった (shite shimatta)/ してしまいました (shite shimaimashita).

して is te-form of する, "to do."

しまった (shimatta) / しまいました (shimaimashita) is the past-tense of... しまう (shimau), "to put away; to finish"

Anyways, the nuance is that I wasn't intending to stay up late, wasn't supposed to stay up late, but... oops, I did.

As a result, I didn't write this email at my desk at 5:30 a.m. I'm writing it at 11:36 a.m.

...and falling behind on work 38 times more boring than this.

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