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Vacation is over :(
Funny, an 11-day vacation went by WAY too fast. At least Ainori is back on! Though I'm now getting SICK of the whole Carbonara-Ryo-Remi plot and wish something would happen with the other people (besides them making fun of Miya). Surely something else must be going on with these people besides the whole rivals-now-bestest-friends-ever thing.
Today, since I for once didn't feel like it was my responsibility to eat Japanese food, I went to Diamond City to get lunch at Subway, and after that I peeked in Jusco out of curiosity and THEY HAD WHITE DRESS SHIRTS IN MY SIZE AGAIN!!!! So I bought a white dress shirt and I also bought a light lavender dress shirt. Y1980 each, and they're all polyester so I just have to throw them in the laundry and let them air dry and they should be wrinkle-free I hope. Yay. I tried to also get socks but failed for various reasons, mostly being unwilling to spend a lot of money on them. I also finally looked around more of the mall. There's an insane amount of children's stores on the third floor. I have to wonder how many stores full of Disney crap does one mall need?
Came back home, did laundry. Tried a new idea, namely putting towels in my laundry machine at home, then putting my dryerable clothes in the big 1-hour wash-and-dry machine at the laundromat, came home, and 45 mins later took my towels over to the laundromat to dry too, for "ten minutes", only it took twenty minutes for real. Then I washed the rest of my non-dryerable clothes using my net here. I guess it works, kind of.
Around 7:30pm I wandered down to Akabane with a whole ton of stuff to drop off at GEOS (easier to carry it all today than when I'm running to work in the morning tomorrow) -- dress clothes, boxes of omiyage, baseball calendars for 2008, etc. I came in, finished getting Christmas decorations off my door, cleaned up the mess of papers I'd left on my table, switched the lesson plans and props in my folder for this week, moved things off the whiteboard, put cards in drawers/packets, etc. I even checked in the office briefly to see if there were any messages for me, and it turns out that four of my students sent me New Year's postcards via GEOS! Cool.
My original plan for the evening was to grab Mexican food for dinner after stopping by GEOS, but I spent so long on everything today that it was 9pm by the time I left GEOS (and Il Torito has "last order" at like 9:30 and it's in Ikebukuro) so instead I went up to Kua'Aina in Saitama-Shintoshin for otherwise-gratuitous "foreign food", and had a turkey-avocado sandwich on wheat bread with fries and a salad. Then I stopped in Tully's. I wanted a chai latte, but Tully's here doesn't make that, so instead I got something called a "honey milk latte", which wasn't bad, but as I was drinking it on the train home around 10pm I realized it was probably pretty stupid to be drinking coffee so late. Oops. Fortunately, the one good thing about going out to Saitama-shi or Omiya or whatever for dinner is that the trains coming BACK are generally empty, so I could just drink coffee.
Now on News Zero, important news flash: Koji Uehara is playing catch! And Yoshinobu Takahashi is jogging! And Hisanori Takahashi is very bad at racquetball! See, it's time for "personal training", which happens a month before Spring Camp, which happens a month before normal Spring Training happens in America. Oh well, at least it's news, kind of. Also, Kazuhiro Wada looks really old. And about ninety billion press are watching Tsuyoshi Nishioka and Sho Nakata at a batting cage. I'd totally forgotten they were both Osaka Toin kids. Go figure.
Today, since I for once didn't feel like it was my responsibility to eat Japanese food, I went to Diamond City to get lunch at Subway, and after that I peeked in Jusco out of curiosity and THEY HAD WHITE DRESS SHIRTS IN MY SIZE AGAIN!!!! So I bought a white dress shirt and I also bought a light lavender dress shirt. Y1980 each, and they're all polyester so I just have to throw them in the laundry and let them air dry and they should be wrinkle-free I hope. Yay. I tried to also get socks but failed for various reasons, mostly being unwilling to spend a lot of money on them. I also finally looked around more of the mall. There's an insane amount of children's stores on the third floor. I have to wonder how many stores full of Disney crap does one mall need?
Came back home, did laundry. Tried a new idea, namely putting towels in my laundry machine at home, then putting my dryerable clothes in the big 1-hour wash-and-dry machine at the laundromat, came home, and 45 mins later took my towels over to the laundromat to dry too, for "ten minutes", only it took twenty minutes for real. Then I washed the rest of my non-dryerable clothes using my net here. I guess it works, kind of.
Around 7:30pm I wandered down to Akabane with a whole ton of stuff to drop off at GEOS (easier to carry it all today than when I'm running to work in the morning tomorrow) -- dress clothes, boxes of omiyage, baseball calendars for 2008, etc. I came in, finished getting Christmas decorations off my door, cleaned up the mess of papers I'd left on my table, switched the lesson plans and props in my folder for this week, moved things off the whiteboard, put cards in drawers/packets, etc. I even checked in the office briefly to see if there were any messages for me, and it turns out that four of my students sent me New Year's postcards via GEOS! Cool.
My original plan for the evening was to grab Mexican food for dinner after stopping by GEOS, but I spent so long on everything today that it was 9pm by the time I left GEOS (and Il Torito has "last order" at like 9:30 and it's in Ikebukuro) so instead I went up to Kua'Aina in Saitama-Shintoshin for otherwise-gratuitous "foreign food", and had a turkey-avocado sandwich on wheat bread with fries and a salad. Then I stopped in Tully's. I wanted a chai latte, but Tully's here doesn't make that, so instead I got something called a "honey milk latte", which wasn't bad, but as I was drinking it on the train home around 10pm I realized it was probably pretty stupid to be drinking coffee so late. Oops. Fortunately, the one good thing about going out to Saitama-shi or Omiya or whatever for dinner is that the trains coming BACK are generally empty, so I could just drink coffee.
Now on News Zero, important news flash: Koji Uehara is playing catch! And Yoshinobu Takahashi is jogging! And Hisanori Takahashi is very bad at racquetball! See, it's time for "personal training", which happens a month before Spring Camp, which happens a month before normal Spring Training happens in America. Oh well, at least it's news, kind of. Also, Kazuhiro Wada looks really old. And about ninety billion press are watching Tsuyoshi Nishioka and Sho Nakata at a batting cage. I'd totally forgotten they were both Osaka Toin kids. Go figure.