whoa, a public entry

I ate a lot of maple cookies today.
Last night I ate chocolate ice cream for dinner.
I should probably worry more about my eating habits than I am right now.
Went for italian food for dinner with some of my students tonight though. That was good.

Last night finished the series Walking Butterfly. I was a little sad by the ending... but I guess it made about as much sense as the rest of the show. I looked into movie listings for Flying Rabbits and it already fell out of the Movix rotation after 2 weeks, which probably means it is not very good. Who knows. I found out that the next Friday midnight dorama is supposedly called Mendol and is about three teenage girls who want to be idol singers (naturally played by idol singers from the AKB48 group), but who witness a murder and so a producer says that sure, they can be idols... but they have to be BOY IDOLS. So yeah, given this is Japan, nobody notices that three girls are acting as three boys, because all the boy idols look like girls anyway. Or something. I suppose it may be funny.

No more minor league ball this year, and I didn't go on Friday :(
Very little baseball left, period. Sad.
Can't decide whether to go to Seibu on Sunday or Monday. Leaning towards Monday. Eh. I think I'll go to Jingu and watch some college ball tomorrow instead.

I should clean my apartment. Yikes.

It got cold in Japan. Like it went from unbearably hot to unbearably cold in the span of pretty much one week. Sigh.

I bought a new Spitz album the other day, an old one really (the second Cycle Hits one). It's good.

I've got three baseball blog entries in my half-finished pile now. I don't even know why i bother... I should just post them as is.

resting day...

Today I didn't really go anywhere. I feel kind of sick... headachy and sniffly.
Like this morning when I woke, I debated going to Jingu for some college baseball but decided I just didn't feel like going early enough. Then in the evening I was supposed to hang out with Krispy and people down at Keio... but it's like an hour and a half away from here so I just couldn't get the energy to go (2-3 hours on the train for 3 hours hanging out doesn't sound so great when you are feeling sick/tired).

As it is, um... I did laundry and I cleaned up my apartment a bit.

I wanted to go get something good to eat today, but ended up just not. I actually screwed up making some macaroni for lunch and ate raisin bread instead, and then went to the 100-yen shop to buy some plastic bins to put stuff in, and then couldn't decide where to get food on the way back, so I ate instant noodles for dinner. Boring. I'm actually a little disappointed in myself and at the same time... it's ok, I didn't really want to spend a lot of time or money on food in the end.

I wish getting rid of stuff wasn't so difficult :)

I've been watching the Fighters 2007 DVD that I bought at bookoff a few months ago and still hadn't opened. In a way it's a good thing I left it until now... 2007 is SO long ago now. They showed Yukio Tanaka getting his 2000th hit in May and it felt like a lifetime ago. I actually cried -- I miss Yukio, he was one of my favorite players before he retired.

It's just, baseball here doesn't change quite like it does in the US... rosters are often fairly stable from year to year. So mostly, the lineups in these games on the DVD are the same as the teams now. But there's enough of a difference to notice... obviously things like Seguignol, and Hillman, and Kanemura, Tsuboi batting 3rd at ichi-gun, stuff like that. Furuta sitting in the dugout during interleague. Shinji wearing #30. Still...

(Sadly they only have Sapporo Dome footage on this DVD, and I didn't go there in 2007.)

The Fighters lost to the Marines today. It's tough. I'm not sure how I feel exactly about the postseason... I actually want the Fighters to finish in 3rd place in a way because there is a lot more chance I can go to Osaka or Chiba for playoff games than Sapporo! But, we'll see.