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I'm back in Seattle
I think I'm going through the same withdrawal I was when I came back here in January. It just feels like... I've gone from having 192340912034921 choices of what to do with my free time to having like... 2.
I mean, there are clearly plenty of things I can/should work on here -- like, getting all of my crap together in one place and then trying to get rid of things. And I have puzzle things to work on. And I could certainly do some writing and other catch-up on baseball things I didn't do when I was in Japan. And of course, I gotta find a job. But I mean, these all feel kind of like... work... tedious...
I guess the issue is just that, when I was in Japan, if I had some tedious stuff to do, it wasn't hard to figure out some plans so that I'd have a "hey, if I get this much done by 6pm then I'm going to go ________" goal to aim for, even if all I had in mind was a neighborhood of Tokyo and a kind of food I wanted to eat. Because I could just go walk around a lot and absorb Japanese, so even with vague plans, just by myself, I didn't feel like it was a waste of time.
But yeah, I guess part of the issue is that my diversions here just aren't as entertaining to me (mostly the lack of Japanese baseball games to go to, though I could certainly watch some of them over the internet, it's not the same).
To be fair, logically I know this year is a good time to not be in Tokyo, all things considered. It's just that logic doesn't mean you necessarily feel good or bad about a situation regardless of how good or bad it actually is.
Anyway, I'll be off to Spring Carnival tomorrow night (Mike is coming with me too) anyway, so that should at least be a nice diversion for a few days. I actually have very little planned for Carnival time... looks like I should actually get on Facebook and see what other people are up to.
I mean, there are clearly plenty of things I can/should work on here -- like, getting all of my crap together in one place and then trying to get rid of things. And I have puzzle things to work on. And I could certainly do some writing and other catch-up on baseball things I didn't do when I was in Japan. And of course, I gotta find a job. But I mean, these all feel kind of like... work... tedious...
I guess the issue is just that, when I was in Japan, if I had some tedious stuff to do, it wasn't hard to figure out some plans so that I'd have a "hey, if I get this much done by 6pm then I'm going to go ________" goal to aim for, even if all I had in mind was a neighborhood of Tokyo and a kind of food I wanted to eat. Because I could just go walk around a lot and absorb Japanese, so even with vague plans, just by myself, I didn't feel like it was a waste of time.
But yeah, I guess part of the issue is that my diversions here just aren't as entertaining to me (mostly the lack of Japanese baseball games to go to, though I could certainly watch some of them over the internet, it's not the same).
To be fair, logically I know this year is a good time to not be in Tokyo, all things considered. It's just that logic doesn't mean you necessarily feel good or bad about a situation regardless of how good or bad it actually is.
Anyway, I'll be off to Spring Carnival tomorrow night (Mike is coming with me too) anyway, so that should at least be a nice diversion for a few days. I actually have very little planned for Carnival time... looks like I should actually get on Facebook and see what other people are up to.