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Grrrrrrrrr
It's Sunday afternoon, and I am sitting at home doing laundry (occasionally running over to the laundromat to dry stuff) and typing LJ because it's actually warm enough in here to be comfortable, unlike in the nighttime.
I'm kind of pissed off because my landlady never came by today, never called me, and I've tried twice to ring her doorbell and once to call her, and no answer. I'm going to try again later and then write a VERY angry letter because it is COLD in my apartment at night even with these fucking space heaters and I am not happy about it. PLUS it's so dry in here lately that my hands are chapping. She said she'd do something about it on Sunday, which is why I'm still sitting at home, so I'm sort of doubly annoyed about that -- I wasted a day AND I still don't have a working heater. I guess the bright part is that I slept in until 1pm, although that wasn't even good because it means maybe I could have gone to bug her in the morning earlier. Ugh.
I figure when it gets dark and I'm done my laundry I'll go out and do other stuff. I'm thinking I'll go check out the Mint store in Koshigaya and then go up to Saitama-Shintoshin, eat a ridiculously large burger at Kua'Aina, and see a movie. It'll probably be Gin-iro no Season as that is most likely to disappear from theaters soon, though I'm also interested in Sweeney Todd, and maybe Silk, and maybe Kagehinata no Saku. I want to see "Zenzen Daijoubu" but I don't think it's coming to Movix, which means I have to find another theater carrying it. Argh.
(Actually, maybe I don't want to see Silk. See Japan Times review of it here, with the funniest last line ever -- "In another era, and another movie, Herve would have simply come to Japan, taught English and found a nice girlfriend — end of story.")
As for yesterday, Duane stopped by our school in the evening to write more stuff and clean more stuff and just to say hi, and he ended up staying around to commisserate with me and Eri for a while, so around 8:30pm I was like "I'm hungry! It's past 8! We can leave! Let's go get dinner!" After much deliberation, we ended up at the sushi place under the tracks in Akabane station, where we ordered a whole ton of stuff and shared it. I tried some new things including ume-shiso-maki, which was not particularly to my taste, and some fish that I forget the name of. The waitress was all like (in Japanese), "You three look so international! Where are you from???" I'm like "Dude, I live in Saitama." Duane said he was from Canada and then I said I was from America, but still. I guess that's what happens when you have a black guy, a white girl, and an Asian girl sitting together at a sushi restaurant in Japan.
We called Fukuoka-san, the Urawa GEOS manager, and convinced him to come down and hang out with us, but he had to work until like 10pm, sheesh. So he got there at like 10:45pm and hung out with us for about an hour. Fukuoka doesn't really speak any English but he is a REALLY FUNNY GUY and it was hilarious watching him and Duane talk to each other. Though it was sort of frustrating understanding 70% of what he and Eri were babbling about in Japanese, but being largely unable to contribute to the conversation beyond laughing and saying a few short sentences. He tried to convince us we should all go to a bar and play darts until morning, but Eri had to get home. If he'd suggested karaoke until morning I totally would have gone for it. Alas. Maybe I should have suggested it but I figured Duane would have killed me :)
So Duane and I rode home the train together. A random Japanese lady asked us in English if we were headed to Urawa and said she wanted to go drinking with foreigners. I think she was already pretty drunk. It was bizarre. I got home a bit after midnight. It wasn't a bad evening, I guess.
Oh, as it turns out, my science-museum student used to live in Nagoya, so she actually knows Moeyo Dragons. I was like "We totally have to go sing it at Karaoke together!" So, someday. Woohoo.
I'm kind of pissed off because my landlady never came by today, never called me, and I've tried twice to ring her doorbell and once to call her, and no answer. I'm going to try again later and then write a VERY angry letter because it is COLD in my apartment at night even with these fucking space heaters and I am not happy about it. PLUS it's so dry in here lately that my hands are chapping. She said she'd do something about it on Sunday, which is why I'm still sitting at home, so I'm sort of doubly annoyed about that -- I wasted a day AND I still don't have a working heater. I guess the bright part is that I slept in until 1pm, although that wasn't even good because it means maybe I could have gone to bug her in the morning earlier. Ugh.
I figure when it gets dark and I'm done my laundry I'll go out and do other stuff. I'm thinking I'll go check out the Mint store in Koshigaya and then go up to Saitama-Shintoshin, eat a ridiculously large burger at Kua'Aina, and see a movie. It'll probably be Gin-iro no Season as that is most likely to disappear from theaters soon, though I'm also interested in Sweeney Todd, and maybe Silk, and maybe Kagehinata no Saku. I want to see "Zenzen Daijoubu" but I don't think it's coming to Movix, which means I have to find another theater carrying it. Argh.
(Actually, maybe I don't want to see Silk. See Japan Times review of it here, with the funniest last line ever -- "In another era, and another movie, Herve would have simply come to Japan, taught English and found a nice girlfriend — end of story.")
As for yesterday, Duane stopped by our school in the evening to write more stuff and clean more stuff and just to say hi, and he ended up staying around to commisserate with me and Eri for a while, so around 8:30pm I was like "I'm hungry! It's past 8! We can leave! Let's go get dinner!" After much deliberation, we ended up at the sushi place under the tracks in Akabane station, where we ordered a whole ton of stuff and shared it. I tried some new things including ume-shiso-maki, which was not particularly to my taste, and some fish that I forget the name of. The waitress was all like (in Japanese), "You three look so international! Where are you from???" I'm like "Dude, I live in Saitama." Duane said he was from Canada and then I said I was from America, but still. I guess that's what happens when you have a black guy, a white girl, and an Asian girl sitting together at a sushi restaurant in Japan.
We called Fukuoka-san, the Urawa GEOS manager, and convinced him to come down and hang out with us, but he had to work until like 10pm, sheesh. So he got there at like 10:45pm and hung out with us for about an hour. Fukuoka doesn't really speak any English but he is a REALLY FUNNY GUY and it was hilarious watching him and Duane talk to each other. Though it was sort of frustrating understanding 70% of what he and Eri were babbling about in Japanese, but being largely unable to contribute to the conversation beyond laughing and saying a few short sentences. He tried to convince us we should all go to a bar and play darts until morning, but Eri had to get home. If he'd suggested karaoke until morning I totally would have gone for it. Alas. Maybe I should have suggested it but I figured Duane would have killed me :)
So Duane and I rode home the train together. A random Japanese lady asked us in English if we were headed to Urawa and said she wanted to go drinking with foreigners. I think she was already pretty drunk. It was bizarre. I got home a bit after midnight. It wasn't a bad evening, I guess.
Oh, as it turns out, my science-museum student used to live in Nagoya, so she actually knows Moeyo Dragons. I was like "We totally have to go sing it at Karaoke together!" So, someday. Woohoo.