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Yesterday, I went to Soukeisen in the afternoon. Keio won, which was nice.
In the evening, I played volleyball with Intervoll. We had about 18 people, which is not enough to justify 3 courts. I had an okay time. I played pretty well considering how out-of-practice I am, but I ended up on teams that made it kind of hard to focus on the game, mostly people who seemed to be there more to socialize than to play volleyball (as opposed to me, where I am there entirely to play volleyball and not to socialize for the most part). I think I may have actually fallen off the TG volleyball mailing list since I feel like I haven't gotten emails about their games in a while. I see the next game I could make it to of theirs is June 12 though, and then there are some weekday games on the 16/23. I'll have to try to remember those.
Today is Sunday, and I went down to the Tokyo Dome not to watch baseball but to read stuff. Basically, I spent about 3 hours in the library at the Baseball Hall of Fame here, reading through some old college ball magazines for something I'm researching. Actually, the truly sad part is, they had a book there that I really really want to read, but I know it'll take me a while since I'm not very fast reading in Japanese -- I got through about 10 pages of it while I was there, among other things I was looking at -- so I looked the book up on Amazon and it's out of print from 2002, and used copies of it are going for like 4000 yen. Ouch! I am not sure that's worth it. Though I'm also not sure I want to like, go back to the Hall of Fame and sit there for 6-7 hours just reading the book... though that seems the cheapest way to do so (it's 500 yen to get into the HOF). On the other hand I did feel pretty good about how much I COULD read, even though I felt bad about how much I couldn't as well.
As an aside, I went through the Jingu guides for like 10 years trying to find my friend in there, and I couldn't see him listed anywhere. I'm wondering if either he played softball rather than baseball... or what... because he certainly wasn't in any of the club rosters. And I'm not sure whether I should say anything to him about it. ("I was trying to find an old magazine with you in it, but you don't seem to have actually PLAYED baseball for Hosei?")
They had the 1981 Japan Series (Fighters-Giants) playing on the TV there, so I watched for a bit. Korakuen Stadium was beautiful. I don't know why they had to knock it down and make the Tokyo Dome. Sheesh.
I got kaitensushi for dinner by the Dome, and then came home. Did some laundry, organized some stuff in my room... I am trying to write about Soukeisen now, but I'm pissed off because Waseda won today, so there is another game tomorrow, rather than the rookie league starting tomorrow. Grrrrrrr. That means I can't see the rookie league at all.
Oh, on another note, I bought a Keio t-shirt. It's great, it says "Keisousen 2010" on it, and has the Keio fight song on the back. They were selling a ton of stuff outside Jingu for the series... I wish Hosei would do something like that.
I have Monday off because I have to work Saturday and Sunday next weekend. Hooray. I'm hoping to go to Kamagaya. I would have gone today, but I overslept.
In the evening, I played volleyball with Intervoll. We had about 18 people, which is not enough to justify 3 courts. I had an okay time. I played pretty well considering how out-of-practice I am, but I ended up on teams that made it kind of hard to focus on the game, mostly people who seemed to be there more to socialize than to play volleyball (as opposed to me, where I am there entirely to play volleyball and not to socialize for the most part). I think I may have actually fallen off the TG volleyball mailing list since I feel like I haven't gotten emails about their games in a while. I see the next game I could make it to of theirs is June 12 though, and then there are some weekday games on the 16/23. I'll have to try to remember those.
Today is Sunday, and I went down to the Tokyo Dome not to watch baseball but to read stuff. Basically, I spent about 3 hours in the library at the Baseball Hall of Fame here, reading through some old college ball magazines for something I'm researching. Actually, the truly sad part is, they had a book there that I really really want to read, but I know it'll take me a while since I'm not very fast reading in Japanese -- I got through about 10 pages of it while I was there, among other things I was looking at -- so I looked the book up on Amazon and it's out of print from 2002, and used copies of it are going for like 4000 yen. Ouch! I am not sure that's worth it. Though I'm also not sure I want to like, go back to the Hall of Fame and sit there for 6-7 hours just reading the book... though that seems the cheapest way to do so (it's 500 yen to get into the HOF). On the other hand I did feel pretty good about how much I COULD read, even though I felt bad about how much I couldn't as well.
As an aside, I went through the Jingu guides for like 10 years trying to find my friend in there, and I couldn't see him listed anywhere. I'm wondering if either he played softball rather than baseball... or what... because he certainly wasn't in any of the club rosters. And I'm not sure whether I should say anything to him about it. ("I was trying to find an old magazine with you in it, but you don't seem to have actually PLAYED baseball for Hosei?")
They had the 1981 Japan Series (Fighters-Giants) playing on the TV there, so I watched for a bit. Korakuen Stadium was beautiful. I don't know why they had to knock it down and make the Tokyo Dome. Sheesh.
I got kaitensushi for dinner by the Dome, and then came home. Did some laundry, organized some stuff in my room... I am trying to write about Soukeisen now, but I'm pissed off because Waseda won today, so there is another game tomorrow, rather than the rookie league starting tomorrow. Grrrrrrr. That means I can't see the rookie league at all.
Oh, on another note, I bought a Keio t-shirt. It's great, it says "Keisousen 2010" on it, and has the Keio fight song on the back. They were selling a ton of stuff outside Jingu for the series... I wish Hosei would do something like that.
I have Monday off because I have to work Saturday and Sunday next weekend. Hooray. I'm hoping to go to Kamagaya. I would have gone today, but I overslept.
