I read the latest chapter of xxxHolic, even though I keep promising myself I'm not going to spoil anymore of it for myself. Oh, well, nothing major happened. It was interesting, though, because it was about the Chrysanthemum Festival on Sep. 9th. I recently finished reading The Pillow Book of Sei Shounagon for Japanese History, and Shounagon talked about it. In this chapter of xxxHolic, I found out that the reason they had it was because the sun's energy was supposed to be at its peak on that day. Something about the double day, 09/09. It was unlucky, so they had the festival to counter the bad luck and drive away evil. There were lots of festivals like that, like Hina Matsuri, which they still have. Anyway, it all had to do with Yin/Yang. I thought it was interesting. I've learned a lot from that manga, like why April 1st is called Watanuki (finding that out made the pronunciation of those kanji make a lot more sense) and why eggplant is lucky to see in a New Year's dream. It's pretty informative sometimes.