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I don't even know what a normal day is supposed to be like anymore
It is apparently supposed to snow all weekend around here, although I doubt much of it will stick. My students told me that I should not ride my bicycle and get hit by a truck again. I would have felt better about this if it was going to snow on SATURDAY and thus the Matsuzaka-Kinchan baseball game in Yokohama would get snowed out, except no, it's supposed to be nice tomorrow and snow Sunday. I guess I can just feel better about not sitting outside in 40-degree weather watching baseball instead.
I actually have no plans at all for this weekend. If it really is this bloody cold/snowy, it wouldn't be the worst idea to just stay home and file baseball cards and crop Matsui museum pictures and watch doramas and write stuff and whatnot, but I think I would go insane being completely alone all day. At least if I go shopping or something, there'll be other people around, even if none of them will talk to the crazy gaijin. I did have this vague idea that it'd be funny to just go hop on a train and... just... go. Where, I don't know, exactly, but if I don't actually EXIT the stations, I don't have to pay, right? So if I could just stay on non-special JR, I could theoretically go pretty fucking far out of Tokyo, never actually leave any stations, and then just get on a train and come back home. Of course, one might ask exactly what the hell the point of such a thing would be, and I'm not sure I'd have an answer for them. "I went to have lunch in a train station in Ibaraki Prefecture, and dinner in a train station in Gunma Prefecture" sounds pretty stupid. But does it sound any more or less stupid than "I went barnstorming around Kanto looking for baseball card shops and ended up on an island"?
(Now I am kind of wondering, though, if I entered Warabi station with my suica at like, 12pm, and exited Warabi station at 6pm with my suica, would it just go "Ah, you've been hanging out in the station for 6 hours" and not charge me anything? Maybe if nothing else, finding out the answer to that is a good enough reason to Boldly Go to Train Stations where I have not gone before.)
As for today, Eri came with me on my ritual Friday kaitensushi run, and there was also an enka concert at the CD store near Heiroku! She was all like "Wow, this is CRAZY, you do this every week?" and I said "Well... yeah? Except the enka concerts only happen once every few weeks?" Still, I ate a ton of sushi, and I went to Daiso and found alphabet puzzles. Yay.
However, my children's class seemed a lot less amused by the puzzles than I was (once they had realized that they couldn't all spell their names, I only had one K). Instead, they decided to make paper airplanes out of our vocabulary cards. However, being as they had actually done a REALLY good job of saying "Can you pass me my towel? Mine is blue" and such, I was fine letting them make paper airplanes out of the towel/etc color cards they'd colored, I just insisted on them saying "airplane! fly!" before throwing them, and I even folded airplanes with them. There were only two girls there today, so they were singing random songs (they do that from time to time), and the one girl was singing "kisu shite hoshii", the Blue Hearts song that plays for some stupid commercial here all the time. So the other girl's like (in Japanese) to her, "haha, who do you want to kiss?" and the first girl's like "oh nobody, i was just being like karaoke", and I said in English, "I bet it's [Boy Classmate]", and both girls just screamed like "EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!" It was really funny (to me, at least).
Duane's students were all sad today. One of them, this was also her last class, so she was doubly sad ("I was going to still come say hi from time to time but you won't be here!!!" she told him). She's supposed to be moving to Kagoshima in the spring though, which is why she's stopping. We exchanged email addresses, she said I have to let her know when I go to Kyushu to see baseball and she'll come with me. She's actually a Chunichi Dragons fan too, though it's really just that she likes anything Nagoya-related (so that includes, like, Atsunori Inaba). We'll see what happens. The other student in that class, who I had to tell yesterday about Duane's quitting, apparently told Duane to tell me that I am in charge of making Duane's going-away party. Arrrrggggghhhh.
I went to the Kawaguchi arcade again after work and played Pop'n for like 40 minutes until my hands were falling off. You know what was most embarrassing? Almost entirely full-comboing Anpanman Ex, which is a level 27... and then fucking up the ending and not passing it. Sheesh I felt stupid. On the other hand I swear I got about 3/4 of the way through Murmur Twins lvl 28 as an extra stage. Wheee!
I came home and watched some TV, including Guren Onna, the 12:12am TV dorama this season that replaced Shigeshoshi. It's just as fucked up. Shigeshoshi was about an embalmer, this one instead is about a depressed high school teacher who dresses up as a ghost/vampire at night and goes around scaring people. Except then she starts meeting REAL ghosts who scare her even more. Midnight doramas are weird.
I actually have no plans at all for this weekend. If it really is this bloody cold/snowy, it wouldn't be the worst idea to just stay home and file baseball cards and crop Matsui museum pictures and watch doramas and write stuff and whatnot, but I think I would go insane being completely alone all day. At least if I go shopping or something, there'll be other people around, even if none of them will talk to the crazy gaijin. I did have this vague idea that it'd be funny to just go hop on a train and... just... go. Where, I don't know, exactly, but if I don't actually EXIT the stations, I don't have to pay, right? So if I could just stay on non-special JR, I could theoretically go pretty fucking far out of Tokyo, never actually leave any stations, and then just get on a train and come back home. Of course, one might ask exactly what the hell the point of such a thing would be, and I'm not sure I'd have an answer for them. "I went to have lunch in a train station in Ibaraki Prefecture, and dinner in a train station in Gunma Prefecture" sounds pretty stupid. But does it sound any more or less stupid than "I went barnstorming around Kanto looking for baseball card shops and ended up on an island"?
(Now I am kind of wondering, though, if I entered Warabi station with my suica at like, 12pm, and exited Warabi station at 6pm with my suica, would it just go "Ah, you've been hanging out in the station for 6 hours" and not charge me anything? Maybe if nothing else, finding out the answer to that is a good enough reason to Boldly Go to Train Stations where I have not gone before.)
As for today, Eri came with me on my ritual Friday kaitensushi run, and there was also an enka concert at the CD store near Heiroku! She was all like "Wow, this is CRAZY, you do this every week?" and I said "Well... yeah? Except the enka concerts only happen once every few weeks?" Still, I ate a ton of sushi, and I went to Daiso and found alphabet puzzles. Yay.
However, my children's class seemed a lot less amused by the puzzles than I was (once they had realized that they couldn't all spell their names, I only had one K). Instead, they decided to make paper airplanes out of our vocabulary cards. However, being as they had actually done a REALLY good job of saying "Can you pass me my towel? Mine is blue" and such, I was fine letting them make paper airplanes out of the towel/etc color cards they'd colored, I just insisted on them saying "airplane! fly!" before throwing them, and I even folded airplanes with them. There were only two girls there today, so they were singing random songs (they do that from time to time), and the one girl was singing "kisu shite hoshii", the Blue Hearts song that plays for some stupid commercial here all the time. So the other girl's like (in Japanese) to her, "haha, who do you want to kiss?" and the first girl's like "oh nobody, i was just being like karaoke", and I said in English, "I bet it's [Boy Classmate]", and both girls just screamed like "EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!" It was really funny (to me, at least).
Duane's students were all sad today. One of them, this was also her last class, so she was doubly sad ("I was going to still come say hi from time to time but you won't be here!!!" she told him). She's supposed to be moving to Kagoshima in the spring though, which is why she's stopping. We exchanged email addresses, she said I have to let her know when I go to Kyushu to see baseball and she'll come with me. She's actually a Chunichi Dragons fan too, though it's really just that she likes anything Nagoya-related (so that includes, like, Atsunori Inaba). We'll see what happens. The other student in that class, who I had to tell yesterday about Duane's quitting, apparently told Duane to tell me that I am in charge of making Duane's going-away party. Arrrrggggghhhh.
I went to the Kawaguchi arcade again after work and played Pop'n for like 40 minutes until my hands were falling off. You know what was most embarrassing? Almost entirely full-comboing Anpanman Ex, which is a level 27... and then fucking up the ending and not passing it. Sheesh I felt stupid. On the other hand I swear I got about 3/4 of the way through Murmur Twins lvl 28 as an extra stage. Wheee!
I came home and watched some TV, including Guren Onna, the 12:12am TV dorama this season that replaced Shigeshoshi. It's just as fucked up. Shigeshoshi was about an embalmer, this one instead is about a depressed high school teacher who dresses up as a ghost/vampire at night and goes around scaring people. Except then she starts meeting REAL ghosts who scare her even more. Midnight doramas are weird.
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Go with it. Have a wonderful day of seeing stuff you've not seen yet.
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I have some places I could go to, but it really seems silly for me to spend like $15-20 on a train to get to a baseball card shop or a bookstore in the middle of nowhere, if it's going to be too cold to really walk around said nowhere to see other things in the area.
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Hell, take a puzzle book with you and see how much you can get done on your adventure.
Take your camera and take pictures out of the window.
I'm also assuming that there is countryside to be enjoyed.
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Just my 2c.
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And I wasn't riding a bike through the cold all the time in Pittsburgh.
40 degrees is cold no matter what if you are standing outside in it for half an hour, and it is even WORSE if your fucking heater doesn't work, which is what happened to me tonight. Get over it and stop complaining about Seattle already.