I've been here two months. Holy carp!
Oct. 5th, 2007 01:28 amTonight I decided to figure out if it's possible for me to do laundry after work at the laundromat 2 blocks away. It closes at midnight.
The answer: No, not really.
I guess I got home around 10:40pm (and that was pretty much finishing class on time, doing my paperwork quickly, changing clothes, and getting out of the school and on a train and to my bike; the only additional thing I did was try to call![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jessed, but I did that while walking from the station to the bike garage anyway). It takes 40 minutes for the washing machine to run, and then you can dry your clothes in increments of 10 minutes. But by the time I got there and got my laundry in the machine and all, it was 10:52pm, which means it was running until 11:32pm.
I spent 40 minutes basically reading LJ on my phone and emailing some people, and then I moved my stuff to the dryers as fast as I could. I split the one wash load into two dryer loads in the hopes that 20 minutes split would be as effective as 30-40 minutes together, but alas.
Around 11:40pm a message comes over the loudspeaker in Japanese which says something to the effect of "Thank you so much for doing your laundry at Whitopia, but we need you to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE BUILDING, we are closing at midnight." It literally repeats every 45 seconds; I know because I timed it on the clocks.
Some of my clothes were dry but some really weren't. They're all hanging off hangers from my loft bars now.
Other things about today:
I tried to get a ticket to the Chiba-Softbank playoff game on Oct 8th, this Monday. Tickets went on sale at 10am and I woke up around 10:15am, so I didn't get to a Lawson's until 12:30pm, and tickets were already sold out by then, all 35,000 of them or whatever. Fuck! I guess the bright point is that I won't have to be so paranoid about the "BIG FUCKING RAIN" weather report that I saw for Monday in Chiba, but knowing my luck it won't rain and I'll be sad. Monday is a national holiday, which is why people actually bothered buying up all the tickets.
I went to the post office bank after that to check my account, since I was supposed to get paid at the end of last month. I did! I have money! Hooray!
It occurred to me that I've been in Japan for exactly two months, so with my yay-I-got-paid mentality and my yay-two-months thought, I... got tempura for lunch. The lady at Tenya tried to hand me the English menu and I told her in Japanese, "no big deal, I can read this one... and I decided anyway, I'd like the joutendon, please." But I just realized I really ought to actually start eating the veggie tempura plates and veggie curry and stuff like that.
I also got a copy of this month's プロ野球ai, which is essentially an entire magazine dedicated to talking about how cute various Japanese baseball players are. I couldn't help it; the very existence thereof just amused me too much. Plus this week's Shukan Baseball was the Fighters V2 issue, so I had to get that too. I'm such a dork. To be honest, reading Shube makes me realize that I have such a long way to go with my Japanese studies.
One of my students brought me some candy from Kyoto, called Konpeito. He had tried to explain it to me before -- "this candy is 500 years old, it was what Nobunaga Oda liked to eat, it is really from Portugal but now it is made exclusively in Kyoto..." but I didn't really understand what he meant, so when he had a business trip this weekend he decided to buy some. The seasonal flavor is a sort of roasted chestnut flavor though, which I wasn't particularly into, but I thought it was really interesting anyway.
Next week I'm getting two new students. Exciting! (Of course... I am also losing a few students, so it all evens out.)
I didn't eat dinner tonight. I just had some crackers again. This system of eating at 1pm, 6pm, and 11pm, is a little weird for me, honestly; sometimes I just come home and then decide I don't feel like bothering to get food, but I'm kind of hungry, so I eat instant noodles or random junk food instead.
The answer: No, not really.
I guess I got home around 10:40pm (and that was pretty much finishing class on time, doing my paperwork quickly, changing clothes, and getting out of the school and on a train and to my bike; the only additional thing I did was try to call
jessed, but I did that while walking from the station to the bike garage anyway). It takes 40 minutes for the washing machine to run, and then you can dry your clothes in increments of 10 minutes. But by the time I got there and got my laundry in the machine and all, it was 10:52pm, which means it was running until 11:32pm.I spent 40 minutes basically reading LJ on my phone and emailing some people, and then I moved my stuff to the dryers as fast as I could. I split the one wash load into two dryer loads in the hopes that 20 minutes split would be as effective as 30-40 minutes together, but alas.
Around 11:40pm a message comes over the loudspeaker in Japanese which says something to the effect of "Thank you so much for doing your laundry at Whitopia, but we need you to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE BUILDING, we are closing at midnight." It literally repeats every 45 seconds; I know because I timed it on the clocks.
Some of my clothes were dry but some really weren't. They're all hanging off hangers from my loft bars now.
Other things about today:
I tried to get a ticket to the Chiba-Softbank playoff game on Oct 8th, this Monday. Tickets went on sale at 10am and I woke up around 10:15am, so I didn't get to a Lawson's until 12:30pm, and tickets were already sold out by then, all 35,000 of them or whatever. Fuck! I guess the bright point is that I won't have to be so paranoid about the "BIG FUCKING RAIN" weather report that I saw for Monday in Chiba, but knowing my luck it won't rain and I'll be sad. Monday is a national holiday, which is why people actually bothered buying up all the tickets.
I went to the post office bank after that to check my account, since I was supposed to get paid at the end of last month. I did! I have money! Hooray!
It occurred to me that I've been in Japan for exactly two months, so with my yay-I-got-paid mentality and my yay-two-months thought, I... got tempura for lunch. The lady at Tenya tried to hand me the English menu and I told her in Japanese, "no big deal, I can read this one... and I decided anyway, I'd like the joutendon, please." But I just realized I really ought to actually start eating the veggie tempura plates and veggie curry and stuff like that.
I also got a copy of this month's プロ野球ai, which is essentially an entire magazine dedicated to talking about how cute various Japanese baseball players are. I couldn't help it; the very existence thereof just amused me too much. Plus this week's Shukan Baseball was the Fighters V2 issue, so I had to get that too. I'm such a dork. To be honest, reading Shube makes me realize that I have such a long way to go with my Japanese studies.
One of my students brought me some candy from Kyoto, called Konpeito. He had tried to explain it to me before -- "this candy is 500 years old, it was what Nobunaga Oda liked to eat, it is really from Portugal but now it is made exclusively in Kyoto..." but I didn't really understand what he meant, so when he had a business trip this weekend he decided to buy some. The seasonal flavor is a sort of roasted chestnut flavor though, which I wasn't particularly into, but I thought it was really interesting anyway.
Next week I'm getting two new students. Exciting! (Of course... I am also losing a few students, so it all evens out.)
I didn't eat dinner tonight. I just had some crackers again. This system of eating at 1pm, 6pm, and 11pm, is a little weird for me, honestly; sometimes I just come home and then decide I don't feel like bothering to get food, but I'm kind of hungry, so I eat instant noodles or random junk food instead.
