You must be tired.  Oh boy, yes I am.  After a whole day of standing on my legs and making an effort not to lock my knees, interrupted only by two short bathroom breaks and a barely longer lunch break, I feel like conking out right now.  I think I will.  You’d be tired too if you’d talked to divisions of some of the largest companies in the world in Japanese all day. 

The knee’s a bit better, but then I’ve been favoring my left leg all day and making real use of the railing whenever I go up or down stairs. 

The lunchbox contained a batter-fried Hida beef “korokke,” but it was a bit of a cheat because it was only thin beef wrapped around asparagus and deep-fried in a lot of batter.  And the big fried thing was a potato patty.