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My apartment really sucks, part 2
Well, sleeping under the kotatsu last night was so much fun that apparently I GET TO DO IT AGAIN TONIGHT! WHEEEEEE!
I took better pictures of it today, after I'd folded up my futon.
This is a view of it kind of from the top. You can see the heat level switch peeking out of the blanket on the right. Next to it is the space heater I've also been using.
This is a side view of the south half of my apartment. On the left you can see what I've been using as a "computer table" -- essentially, an ironing board on top of a set of plastic drawers, cantilevered with a stack of plastic trays full of junk, with my wonderful $13 folding chair from Ito Yokado.
I really would take better pictures of my apartment but it's too small and I don't have a wide enough angle lens to really capture anything.
Today, in the afternoon, I went to Kura and ate cheap sushi for lunch, and then I hung out at home for a bit typing stuff. I called Eri, who was at GEOS today, and she said she'd find out stuff for me, but what she found was a hotline for Leopalace internet problems. Oops.
In the early evening I went down to Komagome to check out another location of Mint. This one is really heavily interweaved with a toy store and thus wasn't nearly as cool as the others, although they had some amazing old box sets of cards, and DISCOUNTED. It took a lot of willpower not to do something rash like buying the 2000 All-Star card set for 1500 yen, but now that I think about it that might be a super-cool set to have. I think I'm addicted. I need baseball season to start again, dammit!
I also went down to Jimbocho for a bit. The cool part of that was taking the Mita subway line for the first time ever. I took the Nanboku from Hon-Komagome to Korakuen, and instead of getting out and wandering around the Tokyo Dome, I wandered about half a kilometer underground to the Kasuga station of the Mita line, which also involved wandering through the Kasuga station of the Oedo line. That's one damn confusing underground exchange, you never know what system or station you're in at the time (am I in Korakuen? Am I in the Marunouchi/Nanboku half? The Oedo/Mita half? AIIIEEE!). I found a few things I was looking for in Jimbocho and then wandered up the hill to Ochanomizu and took the train up to Akabane.
(It should be noted that the guy in the Jimbocho shop of Mint kept running to the back room to look for stuff and pretty much left me completely alone in the shop for several minutes at a time. Does this just mean that I've been there often enough that he trusts me not to run off with anything, or that he's just Japanese and never thinks "Hey, someone might try to run off with something"?)
I met up with Eri down at GEOS around 8pm, and she ended up calling Head Office and I talked to the Japanese teacher kacho, who spoke excellent English and listened to me talk about my heater problem and said she'd try to see if we could get someone out here by like, Wednesday morning to look at it. So... er... now I have to cross my fingers I guess.
Eri and I went to dinner after that at "Dona", a little Italian restaurant in the area under Akabane station. I said, "I really want spaghetti with eggplant", and amazingly I opened the menu and the first thing in the tomato sauce spaghetti section was "melanzane". I was like "Dude! Eggplant!" So I got my eggplant, and I had a salad, too. I told Eri about the jellybeans thing from a few days ago and she thinks it's literally the funniest thing she's ever heard.
I didn't make it home in time for 薔薇のない花屋, nor most of SMAPxSMAP. Oh well. I did however get to see Ainori and that was the important show of the evening. Carbonara confessed to Remi at the start of the show -- and it was a REALLY GOOD one too, very honest and straightforward and yet funny at the same time. Naturally, she shot him down the next day, because she's an idiot. But that's beside the point. Ryo went CRAZY about it -- he was REALLY pissed off like "WTF do you mean he confessed to MY Remi", but he cheered up a lot afterwards after the shoot-down. Everyone said goodbye to Carbonara -- and he was taking it all really well, really cheerfully, even saying goodbye in German. And then the bus drove off, and they showed Carbonara standing there talking to Kikuchi, one of the show's directors, and they were both just crying, and Kikuchi was like "I'm sad to see you go, man, you were awesome, your confession was awesome, etc." Poor guy. I wonder where things will go next in the show. I hope they don't start picking on poor Miya :(
I took better pictures of it today, after I'd folded up my futon.
This is a view of it kind of from the top. You can see the heat level switch peeking out of the blanket on the right. Next to it is the space heater I've also been using.
This is a side view of the south half of my apartment. On the left you can see what I've been using as a "computer table" -- essentially, an ironing board on top of a set of plastic drawers, cantilevered with a stack of plastic trays full of junk, with my wonderful $13 folding chair from Ito Yokado.
I really would take better pictures of my apartment but it's too small and I don't have a wide enough angle lens to really capture anything.
Today, in the afternoon, I went to Kura and ate cheap sushi for lunch, and then I hung out at home for a bit typing stuff. I called Eri, who was at GEOS today, and she said she'd find out stuff for me, but what she found was a hotline for Leopalace internet problems. Oops.
In the early evening I went down to Komagome to check out another location of Mint. This one is really heavily interweaved with a toy store and thus wasn't nearly as cool as the others, although they had some amazing old box sets of cards, and DISCOUNTED. It took a lot of willpower not to do something rash like buying the 2000 All-Star card set for 1500 yen, but now that I think about it that might be a super-cool set to have. I think I'm addicted. I need baseball season to start again, dammit!
I also went down to Jimbocho for a bit. The cool part of that was taking the Mita subway line for the first time ever. I took the Nanboku from Hon-Komagome to Korakuen, and instead of getting out and wandering around the Tokyo Dome, I wandered about half a kilometer underground to the Kasuga station of the Mita line, which also involved wandering through the Kasuga station of the Oedo line. That's one damn confusing underground exchange, you never know what system or station you're in at the time (am I in Korakuen? Am I in the Marunouchi/Nanboku half? The Oedo/Mita half? AIIIEEE!). I found a few things I was looking for in Jimbocho and then wandered up the hill to Ochanomizu and took the train up to Akabane.
(It should be noted that the guy in the Jimbocho shop of Mint kept running to the back room to look for stuff and pretty much left me completely alone in the shop for several minutes at a time. Does this just mean that I've been there often enough that he trusts me not to run off with anything, or that he's just Japanese and never thinks "Hey, someone might try to run off with something"?)
I met up with Eri down at GEOS around 8pm, and she ended up calling Head Office and I talked to the Japanese teacher kacho, who spoke excellent English and listened to me talk about my heater problem and said she'd try to see if we could get someone out here by like, Wednesday morning to look at it. So... er... now I have to cross my fingers I guess.
Eri and I went to dinner after that at "Dona", a little Italian restaurant in the area under Akabane station. I said, "I really want spaghetti with eggplant", and amazingly I opened the menu and the first thing in the tomato sauce spaghetti section was "melanzane". I was like "Dude! Eggplant!" So I got my eggplant, and I had a salad, too. I told Eri about the jellybeans thing from a few days ago and she thinks it's literally the funniest thing she's ever heard.
I didn't make it home in time for 薔薇のない花屋, nor most of SMAPxSMAP. Oh well. I did however get to see Ainori and that was the important show of the evening. Carbonara confessed to Remi at the start of the show -- and it was a REALLY GOOD one too, very honest and straightforward and yet funny at the same time. Naturally, she shot him down the next day, because she's an idiot. But that's beside the point. Ryo went CRAZY about it -- he was REALLY pissed off like "WTF do you mean he confessed to MY Remi", but he cheered up a lot afterwards after the shoot-down. Everyone said goodbye to Carbonara -- and he was taking it all really well, really cheerfully, even saying goodbye in German. And then the bus drove off, and they showed Carbonara standing there talking to Kikuchi, one of the show's directors, and they were both just crying, and Kikuchi was like "I'm sad to see you go, man, you were awesome, your confession was awesome, etc." Poor guy. I wonder where things will go next in the show. I hope they don't start picking on poor Miya :(