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Another day in Tokyo
Graduation was tremendously good. Only bad part is the realization that it's the last time I'll see most of those people ever again -- it's kinda like having my heart broken all over again from December.
In the evening I had made plans with my Fighters fan friend Sakamoto to go to Yakiniku Erika (Hichori's parents' restaurant) for dinner. We were supposed to meet at 6:30pm or so at Nippori. Only thing is, when I got to Akabane at 6:20, the Keihin-Tohoku line wasn't running -- there was some problem with it and it was indefinitely "delayed" at the time. Fine. I figured I'd take the Takasaki to Ueno and double back to Nippori and be a little late. Only thing is, while on the Akabane-Oku leg of that trip, something went wrong in Omiya and the entire Takasaki Line got stopped.
So I was stranded in Oku, near my JHS. And quite late. After a bit emailing back and forth I ended up walking from Oku to Tabata, which took like 15 mins, and then took the Yamanote from there. Met Sakamoto at Nippori station at 7:10pm. Oops.
But, we had a good dinner and caught up on stuff. Bizarrely he both thinks "it's too soon to start baseball after the tragedy" AND "man life sucks with no baseball I wish we could hurry up and start the season already." I don't get Japanese people sometimes.
And for the record, there's more Baystars stuff there than there was before but it's still overwhelmingly Fighters.
So, I guess I encountered a little of the train instability everyone's been talking about. And a tremor did shake my house at 5:30pm or so. But it really wasn't that big a deal...
In the evening I had made plans with my Fighters fan friend Sakamoto to go to Yakiniku Erika (Hichori's parents' restaurant) for dinner. We were supposed to meet at 6:30pm or so at Nippori. Only thing is, when I got to Akabane at 6:20, the Keihin-Tohoku line wasn't running -- there was some problem with it and it was indefinitely "delayed" at the time. Fine. I figured I'd take the Takasaki to Ueno and double back to Nippori and be a little late. Only thing is, while on the Akabane-Oku leg of that trip, something went wrong in Omiya and the entire Takasaki Line got stopped.
So I was stranded in Oku, near my JHS. And quite late. After a bit emailing back and forth I ended up walking from Oku to Tabata, which took like 15 mins, and then took the Yamanote from there. Met Sakamoto at Nippori station at 7:10pm. Oops.
But, we had a good dinner and caught up on stuff. Bizarrely he both thinks "it's too soon to start baseball after the tragedy" AND "man life sucks with no baseball I wish we could hurry up and start the season already." I don't get Japanese people sometimes.
And for the record, there's more Baystars stuff there than there was before but it's still overwhelmingly Fighters.
So, I guess I encountered a little of the train instability everyone's been talking about. And a tremor did shake my house at 5:30pm or so. But it really wasn't that big a deal...