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I had a weekend, but I eated it
I had a weekend. It is now over. I did a lot on Sunday and nothing on Monday.
Sunday: Went to Meiji Jingu in the afternoon with Chris, who I knew from the japanesebaseball.com forums, and Rachel, his wife. They were in town from Seattle, oddly enough. We saw the Lions beat the Swallows 8-3 and I took a whole ton of pictures and bored both of them with my stories about every single player there :) I still need to write a game entry on Marinerds but I might just go to sleep early today instead.
I walked with C&R to Harajuku after that. It's great that they turned out to be really cool people. Come to think of it, overall, people that I have met online in baseball circles have turned out to be pretty cool.
Stopped by the big Shinjuku Kinokuniya to get the Doala book, which is, infact, made of pure awesome, lots of silly question/answers ("Doala, are you interested in the major leagues?" "Well, I'd be lying if I said no, but, see, mascots can't get free agency and I don't think Chunichi will post me, so I can't go follow Kosuke to America...") and it even has an interview with my favorite Dragon player Morino (who we just found out broke his middle finger a few weeks ago... ugh). Met up with Kohei after that and we went to an izakaya and drank beer and ate yakitori. A lot of people in Shinjuku speak English. It always confuses me.
Today I didn't go anywhere. Seriously. The furthest away I went from my apartment is about 4 blocks to the market. I woke up and did laundry, including washing my sheets and blankets, which direly needed it. I stopped by the 100-yen shop and got a pasta drainer and plastic bowl, and I... made Velveeta Shells and Cheese! Yaaaay! See, Chris had asked me if I wanted anything from Seattle, and I said, "This is going to sound dumb, but can you guys bring me some Velveeta Shells and Cheese?" So sure enough, they brought me three boxes! And this afternoon I cooked it and... man, I don't really know how to explain the feeling of eating shells&cheese again. It's like, "Oh man, this is SO bad for me, but oh, it TASTES LIKE AMERICA!"
I thought I might go down to Akabane and do some work, or I might go try to get a re-entry permit somewhere, or I might go off somewhere like Jimbocho to look for stuff, but... I ended up working on resizing photos from baseball, and cropping them, and by the time I thought about leaving it was already in the 6-7pm range. And I thought, it'll be like an hour of transit just to go to/from Akabane, so why bother going anywhere?
Instead, I started trying to take the JLPT 2 sample test I have, just to get an idea of how bad I am. And do you want to know how bad I am? I got 29/65 on the kanji section alone, so I decided to give up on taking the rest of the test right now, although I should probably do the listening just to see what it's like. Oh god I am SO doomed. I really need to find a JLPT prep course somewhere.
Then I watched TV and hacked on my picture scripts some more (I basically have written the equivalent of Photothumb in Perl now, using Image::Size, mogrify, and some other stuff), and cooked and ate curry rice for dinner. I was feeling proud of not spending much money today until I remembered that I spent like 1600 yen at the laundromat (the big cleaner/dryer that I put all my blankets in cost 1300 yen to use). Alas.
I saw Hey Hey Hey music champ for once, and they had "four goddesses" on -- Matsuda Seiko (check), Amuro Namie (check), Aiko (check), and Nakagawa Shouko (huh?). It was Matsuda's birthday and the entire show was mostly just fawning over her. I know she totally rules, but at one point Nagakawa just TOTALLY FREAKED OUT like "OMFG! SEIKO-SAMA! YOU ARE MY HERO OMG!" which was a little too weird for me. SMAPxSMAP was ok, though having Izumi Pinko as a Bistro "tomodachi" guest with Matsuoka Mitsuru was pretty strange. (I cannot believe he is 36. He looks 25.) After that was Ainori, which ruled, relatively. They're in the Czech republic now! New country, new characters (I can't help but think that Ryo was pushed by the producers to kokuhaku because of the new country though). Two new people, Umi, 21, guy from Kagoshima, and Yokko, 29, girl from Hokkaido. (I think she's doomed because she's too old.) They had this whole funny segment about how Czech beer is healthy. But.. it seems that Kuro might be falling in love with the bus driver, which is just plain retarded.
Sunday: Went to Meiji Jingu in the afternoon with Chris, who I knew from the japanesebaseball.com forums, and Rachel, his wife. They were in town from Seattle, oddly enough. We saw the Lions beat the Swallows 8-3 and I took a whole ton of pictures and bored both of them with my stories about every single player there :) I still need to write a game entry on Marinerds but I might just go to sleep early today instead.
I walked with C&R to Harajuku after that. It's great that they turned out to be really cool people. Come to think of it, overall, people that I have met online in baseball circles have turned out to be pretty cool.
Stopped by the big Shinjuku Kinokuniya to get the Doala book, which is, infact, made of pure awesome, lots of silly question/answers ("Doala, are you interested in the major leagues?" "Well, I'd be lying if I said no, but, see, mascots can't get free agency and I don't think Chunichi will post me, so I can't go follow Kosuke to America...") and it even has an interview with my favorite Dragon player Morino (who we just found out broke his middle finger a few weeks ago... ugh). Met up with Kohei after that and we went to an izakaya and drank beer and ate yakitori. A lot of people in Shinjuku speak English. It always confuses me.
Today I didn't go anywhere. Seriously. The furthest away I went from my apartment is about 4 blocks to the market. I woke up and did laundry, including washing my sheets and blankets, which direly needed it. I stopped by the 100-yen shop and got a pasta drainer and plastic bowl, and I... made Velveeta Shells and Cheese! Yaaaay! See, Chris had asked me if I wanted anything from Seattle, and I said, "This is going to sound dumb, but can you guys bring me some Velveeta Shells and Cheese?" So sure enough, they brought me three boxes! And this afternoon I cooked it and... man, I don't really know how to explain the feeling of eating shells&cheese again. It's like, "Oh man, this is SO bad for me, but oh, it TASTES LIKE AMERICA!"
I thought I might go down to Akabane and do some work, or I might go try to get a re-entry permit somewhere, or I might go off somewhere like Jimbocho to look for stuff, but... I ended up working on resizing photos from baseball, and cropping them, and by the time I thought about leaving it was already in the 6-7pm range. And I thought, it'll be like an hour of transit just to go to/from Akabane, so why bother going anywhere?
Instead, I started trying to take the JLPT 2 sample test I have, just to get an idea of how bad I am. And do you want to know how bad I am? I got 29/65 on the kanji section alone, so I decided to give up on taking the rest of the test right now, although I should probably do the listening just to see what it's like. Oh god I am SO doomed. I really need to find a JLPT prep course somewhere.
Then I watched TV and hacked on my picture scripts some more (I basically have written the equivalent of Photothumb in Perl now, using Image::Size, mogrify, and some other stuff), and cooked and ate curry rice for dinner. I was feeling proud of not spending much money today until I remembered that I spent like 1600 yen at the laundromat (the big cleaner/dryer that I put all my blankets in cost 1300 yen to use). Alas.
I saw Hey Hey Hey music champ for once, and they had "four goddesses" on -- Matsuda Seiko (check), Amuro Namie (check), Aiko (check), and Nakagawa Shouko (huh?). It was Matsuda's birthday and the entire show was mostly just fawning over her. I know she totally rules, but at one point Nagakawa just TOTALLY FREAKED OUT like "OMFG! SEIKO-SAMA! YOU ARE MY HERO OMG!" which was a little too weird for me. SMAPxSMAP was ok, though having Izumi Pinko as a Bistro "tomodachi" guest with Matsuoka Mitsuru was pretty strange. (I cannot believe he is 36. He looks 25.) After that was Ainori, which ruled, relatively. They're in the Czech republic now! New country, new characters (I can't help but think that Ryo was pushed by the producers to kokuhaku because of the new country though). Two new people, Umi, 21, guy from Kagoshima, and Yokko, 29, girl from Hokkaido. (I think she's doomed because she's too old.) They had this whole funny segment about how Czech beer is healthy. But.. it seems that Kuro might be falling in love with the bus driver, which is just plain retarded.