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Last few days
Monday and Tuesday were pretty tough on me at school, so I'm finally writing now on Wednesday about the last few days.
Sunday, Mike and I didn't really do anything. We got yakiniku for lunch at Anrakutei, which turns out to be a really good deal -- 1000 yen for lunch gets you a salad, soup, bowl of rice, drink bar, dessert pudding, and then 3 kinds of yakiniku meat, one of which has to be kalbi, so we did the other two as rosu, and that worked out really well, and was really filling, and really cheap. I wonder if they always have those lunch deals.
We went to karaoke for an hour on the cheap afternoon rate, and then came back to the house and well, I worked on packing stuff. Mike brought an extra suitcase or two for me to fill with stuff for him to bring back to Seattle, but it's hard for me to decide which things are things that I definitely want to bring back, but also don't want or need to have with me.
So that took up pretty much all of Sunday.
Monday afternoon while I was at school, Mike took a plane back to Seattle... and apparently managed to lug all of my stuff from here to the airport and home on the other side just fine, so that is good :)
I had to give final speaking tests to my 3rd-years on Monday and Tuesday, and have the scores in by Tuesday evening, though, so I was at school until 9pm on Monday and something like 7pm on Tuesday, plus I forgot it was the last day of the month so I had company paperwork to fill out too... thus dinner on Monday was from the cheapo ramen place by the station. Tuesday I actually decided to go to Ikebukuro and get sushi for dinner there, at Tenka.
Wednesday I got out of school at a reasonable time, 5:30, so I could come back to Akabane and pay rent. (I paid bills late Tuesday night but I can do that at the convenience store.) I decided to practice solo karaoke for an hour, and then, because it was my old routine to do so, stopped by Heiroku for dinner, and all I could think was that it was a bad idea. Everything on the belt there sucks and has been sitting out for a while, I still have to order anything I want, they don't have the variety they used to, etc. I'd seriously almost rather just go 30 minutes out of my way to get sushi at Tenka or somewhere else rather than go to Heiroku, which is really, really saying something. Sigh.
A strange thing happened at karaoke, namely that the room suddenly became filled with what smelled like something burning... I went to the hallways and they also smelled like something was burning. But there were no fire alarms going off, and nobody ELSE was leaving their rooms. I went to the front desk and they basically said "It's probably due to the restaurant downstairs, we're very sorry, it should go away soon". And it did. But it was still weird.
Anyway, last night I also did laundry and played some PP for a change, and ended up joining the Made of Fail crew. I did say a year ago when I made my solo crew that I was going to join the first crew to make me an offer, and well, Mrpegleg hit the "invite to join crew" button on me half as a joke when I said "Why are all my hearties in your crew", and so I figured what the heck and just went ahead and joined. I don't expect to stay, but who knows.
I need to buy plane tickets back to the US so I can set my end date in Japan and start preparing for it. Only thing is, one-way tickets are EXPENSIVE. I'm considering actually getting a "round trip" and planning a time to come back, but just can't decide if I should do it for sooner (like, graduation ceremony) or later (like, September).
Sunday, Mike and I didn't really do anything. We got yakiniku for lunch at Anrakutei, which turns out to be a really good deal -- 1000 yen for lunch gets you a salad, soup, bowl of rice, drink bar, dessert pudding, and then 3 kinds of yakiniku meat, one of which has to be kalbi, so we did the other two as rosu, and that worked out really well, and was really filling, and really cheap. I wonder if they always have those lunch deals.
We went to karaoke for an hour on the cheap afternoon rate, and then came back to the house and well, I worked on packing stuff. Mike brought an extra suitcase or two for me to fill with stuff for him to bring back to Seattle, but it's hard for me to decide which things are things that I definitely want to bring back, but also don't want or need to have with me.
So that took up pretty much all of Sunday.
Monday afternoon while I was at school, Mike took a plane back to Seattle... and apparently managed to lug all of my stuff from here to the airport and home on the other side just fine, so that is good :)
I had to give final speaking tests to my 3rd-years on Monday and Tuesday, and have the scores in by Tuesday evening, though, so I was at school until 9pm on Monday and something like 7pm on Tuesday, plus I forgot it was the last day of the month so I had company paperwork to fill out too... thus dinner on Monday was from the cheapo ramen place by the station. Tuesday I actually decided to go to Ikebukuro and get sushi for dinner there, at Tenka.
Wednesday I got out of school at a reasonable time, 5:30, so I could come back to Akabane and pay rent. (I paid bills late Tuesday night but I can do that at the convenience store.) I decided to practice solo karaoke for an hour, and then, because it was my old routine to do so, stopped by Heiroku for dinner, and all I could think was that it was a bad idea. Everything on the belt there sucks and has been sitting out for a while, I still have to order anything I want, they don't have the variety they used to, etc. I'd seriously almost rather just go 30 minutes out of my way to get sushi at Tenka or somewhere else rather than go to Heiroku, which is really, really saying something. Sigh.
A strange thing happened at karaoke, namely that the room suddenly became filled with what smelled like something burning... I went to the hallways and they also smelled like something was burning. But there were no fire alarms going off, and nobody ELSE was leaving their rooms. I went to the front desk and they basically said "It's probably due to the restaurant downstairs, we're very sorry, it should go away soon". And it did. But it was still weird.
Anyway, last night I also did laundry and played some PP for a change, and ended up joining the Made of Fail crew. I did say a year ago when I made my solo crew that I was going to join the first crew to make me an offer, and well, Mrpegleg hit the "invite to join crew" button on me half as a joke when I said "Why are all my hearties in your crew", and so I figured what the heck and just went ahead and joined. I don't expect to stay, but who knows.
I need to buy plane tickets back to the US so I can set my end date in Japan and start preparing for it. Only thing is, one-way tickets are EXPENSIVE. I'm considering actually getting a "round trip" and planning a time to come back, but just can't decide if I should do it for sooner (like, graduation ceremony) or later (like, September).
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In the end, though, you're always going to end up back in the USA anyway, right? In which case, wouldn't an open ticket just be too much trouble (because you still have to buy the return leg)?
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My take (having done the round-trip thing for way too long when I first moved to the UK): Think of it as a one-off moving expense, like the cost of shipping your stuff, not a travel cost.
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Embarrassingly, I wound up doing the round-trip thing until last year when I had an excuse to overload a one-way transatlantic trip as a work trip to Chile. (so of course, if I move back to the US in the next year or two, I'll feel like an idiot :)
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There's no rule that says you have to use the return ticket.
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I dunno whether it'll work out that way in practice.
Also I will see you in Seattle in a few weeks. I bet the Isilon thing worked out pretty well for you?
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