After I moved to Tokyo and lived there for a number of years, I got used to having a pile of to-do lists, and my calendar always looked like a mess, with loads of things to do written across it.

当我搬到东京并在那里住了几年之后，我习惯了列一堆待办事项清单，且我的日程表看起来总是乱糟糟的，上面写满了要做的事情。