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Yokohama FAIL
Bleh.
So... I went to the Baystars training ground today to try to stalk Kagami... and I accidentally walked in the staff entrance because I didn't know any better... fortunately I realized my mistake and got out of there ASAP but not before walking by a few people who stared at me in a very WTF way.
I got there around 1pm and of course it turns out that the rookie training was from around 10am-12pm :( So by the time I was there, all the rookies had finished up and gone back to the dorms to eat lunch and work out indoors :( I got to talking with an old guy who turns out to be the Yokohama equivalent of our Kamagaya Ojisan, and with a lady who seemed to be his sidekick (a la Mariko or Hiromi and such), and they turned out to be more curious than anything about me, especially since I had my Fighters bear hanging on my bag. But we got to talking, about the Baystars players who came from the Fighters, and I started babbling about college baseball and about Kagami, and showed I had my custom jersey, and well, I guess they decided I was okay.
But yeah, I have nothing really to show for my 2 hours standing outside in the cold :( We saw Sho Aranami working out a little, and some Baystars players came out to get in their cars and drive off, so we waved hi at Shintaro Ejiri (but I don't think he recognized me from his Fighters days, despite that I talked to him at Kamagaya a few times), and some other players. Taketora Anzai was also working out on the field and he came by to greet the Yokohama Ojisan guy, well, he came to the bullpen but didn't come all the way over to where we were. I might have asked for a photo or signature if he did, but I didn't want to be annoying and make him come over to us otherwise. So I just yelled "ganbatte" along with the others standing there.
I think there were only like 10-15 people hanging around, most looked like they were also hoping for signatures and stuff.
It takes me like 2 hours to get there, and I spent like 2 hours in the cold, and I had been feeling sick in the morning anyway, so I gave up and left around 3pm. I took the Keikyu lines to get there, and took JR to get back.
Well... or more like, I took JR to Ikebukuro and went to get sushi for dinner at Tenkazushi (where they actually acknowledge now that I come in fairly often), and then to Bookoff to look for stuff for Oren and Carl, and for cheap DVDs for me. Ended up not really getting a lot. The main thing was that I was undecided on whether to get some Nintendo DS games for learning kanji. I think, though, that the Kanken DS game I was looking at, might actually be the best one for me to get, so when I hit another Bookoff I'll hopefully pick it up.
Then home to sit under the kotatsu and be warm.
I was debating going back to Yokohama tomorrow -- since everyone was like "if you come here at 10am, you can easily talk to the rookies like Kagami and all", but that requires me getting up at like 6:30am, plus I still feel like crap, plus I feel a lot of time pressure to do a lot of stuff. Tomorrow I was thinking to call Yamato about getting some of my stuff shipped to the airport (I'm thinking to pack a "bag" that is really just a box of books... it seems that paying for an extra checked bag like that is actually cheaper than sending a box of books even with book rate. Not a joke. But getting said "bag" to the airport would SUCK), and maybe also to go talk to au/KDDI about changing my phone plan and all.
So I think I'm not going to do that.
And infact I think what WILL happen is that I'm going to go to Yokohama on Sunday with Mizushima and his dad and with Ms. Tokachi, and we're going to do our regular Hosei ouenstalking, and then Kagami will have no choice but to talk to me! Muhahahaha. I was planning to go to Kamagaya on Sunday and I might still after Yokohama, but only if someone else buys me a damn ticket in the morning, because I don't want to put up with the Saitoh crowds. Seriously.
I am vaguely kinda sorta considering going up to Lotte tomorrow morning for a little while to see if I can chat up Shuhei Fujiya, but that's different because it's only 20 minutes from here, not 2 goddamn hours, and doesn't kill my entire day.
I'm really bad at breaking down all the tasks of things I need to do to get ready to go... and I'm also really bad at actually packing and so on... gotta decide which things I'm willing to leave here, which things I'm just throwing out anyway, which things I'm taking but insist on having in my carryon, which things I'm taking but will check in the bag I take to the airport myself, and which things I'm taking, and am willing to put in a bag or box to be taken by Yamato to the airport. Grar.
So... I went to the Baystars training ground today to try to stalk Kagami... and I accidentally walked in the staff entrance because I didn't know any better... fortunately I realized my mistake and got out of there ASAP but not before walking by a few people who stared at me in a very WTF way.
I got there around 1pm and of course it turns out that the rookie training was from around 10am-12pm :( So by the time I was there, all the rookies had finished up and gone back to the dorms to eat lunch and work out indoors :( I got to talking with an old guy who turns out to be the Yokohama equivalent of our Kamagaya Ojisan, and with a lady who seemed to be his sidekick (a la Mariko or Hiromi and such), and they turned out to be more curious than anything about me, especially since I had my Fighters bear hanging on my bag. But we got to talking, about the Baystars players who came from the Fighters, and I started babbling about college baseball and about Kagami, and showed I had my custom jersey, and well, I guess they decided I was okay.
But yeah, I have nothing really to show for my 2 hours standing outside in the cold :( We saw Sho Aranami working out a little, and some Baystars players came out to get in their cars and drive off, so we waved hi at Shintaro Ejiri (but I don't think he recognized me from his Fighters days, despite that I talked to him at Kamagaya a few times), and some other players. Taketora Anzai was also working out on the field and he came by to greet the Yokohama Ojisan guy, well, he came to the bullpen but didn't come all the way over to where we were. I might have asked for a photo or signature if he did, but I didn't want to be annoying and make him come over to us otherwise. So I just yelled "ganbatte" along with the others standing there.
I think there were only like 10-15 people hanging around, most looked like they were also hoping for signatures and stuff.
It takes me like 2 hours to get there, and I spent like 2 hours in the cold, and I had been feeling sick in the morning anyway, so I gave up and left around 3pm. I took the Keikyu lines to get there, and took JR to get back.
Well... or more like, I took JR to Ikebukuro and went to get sushi for dinner at Tenkazushi (where they actually acknowledge now that I come in fairly often), and then to Bookoff to look for stuff for Oren and Carl, and for cheap DVDs for me. Ended up not really getting a lot. The main thing was that I was undecided on whether to get some Nintendo DS games for learning kanji. I think, though, that the Kanken DS game I was looking at, might actually be the best one for me to get, so when I hit another Bookoff I'll hopefully pick it up.
Then home to sit under the kotatsu and be warm.
I was debating going back to Yokohama tomorrow -- since everyone was like "if you come here at 10am, you can easily talk to the rookies like Kagami and all", but that requires me getting up at like 6:30am, plus I still feel like crap, plus I feel a lot of time pressure to do a lot of stuff. Tomorrow I was thinking to call Yamato about getting some of my stuff shipped to the airport (I'm thinking to pack a "bag" that is really just a box of books... it seems that paying for an extra checked bag like that is actually cheaper than sending a box of books even with book rate. Not a joke. But getting said "bag" to the airport would SUCK), and maybe also to go talk to au/KDDI about changing my phone plan and all.
So I think I'm not going to do that.
And infact I think what WILL happen is that I'm going to go to Yokohama on Sunday with Mizushima and his dad and with Ms. Tokachi, and we're going to do our regular Hosei ouenstalking, and then Kagami will have no choice but to talk to me! Muhahahaha. I was planning to go to Kamagaya on Sunday and I might still after Yokohama, but only if someone else buys me a damn ticket in the morning, because I don't want to put up with the Saitoh crowds. Seriously.
I am vaguely kinda sorta considering going up to Lotte tomorrow morning for a little while to see if I can chat up Shuhei Fujiya, but that's different because it's only 20 minutes from here, not 2 goddamn hours, and doesn't kill my entire day.
I'm really bad at breaking down all the tasks of things I need to do to get ready to go... and I'm also really bad at actually packing and so on... gotta decide which things I'm willing to leave here, which things I'm just throwing out anyway, which things I'm taking but insist on having in my carryon, which things I'm taking but will check in the bag I take to the airport myself, and which things I'm taking, and am willing to put in a bag or box to be taken by Yamato to the airport. Grar.