THANK YOU JAPAN FOR THE BIRTHDAY QUAKE IT WAS DELICIOUS
Okay, so my birthday seems to have ended with a SERIES OF HUGE FUCKING EARTHQUAKES. Jeeez. Around 1am my apartment started shaking for a few minutes, enough that I actually wasn't like "Must be a truck driving by on Sangyo Doro," but rather "OH MY GOD THIS IS AN EARTHQUAKE WHAT DO I DO??" So I've been freaking out at ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
samuelp over IM for the last hour since he's the only person in Japan I know who is awake and on IM right now. Jesus that last one was originally ranked as a 7.1 but got rated down to a 6.7 so far. Still, holy crap these are scary, even though they are like 100 miles away. I'm amazed I haven't lost power or internet or anything.
As for the rest of the day, overall it wasn't anything special insofar as birthdays go. My best frienddvarin called me this morning, which was a nice surprise, and makes me think I should set up Skype so I can talk to people sometime. My dad also called, but he called while I was in the shower and I didn't notice until much later. And many people emailed me and/or commented birthday wishes on my last entry and you are all wonderful people and I wish I lived closer to you all so I could have a party this year :(
I have two major birthday wishes and no candles to blow out, so I guess they probably won't come true.
I went to work, and it was... work. I got sushi from Heiroku for lunch as I usually do on Wednesdays, and it was fitting for my birthday. I had decided last night that the rule for my birthday was just that I could eat as much chocolate and junk food as I damn well wanted to (since usually I try not to eat anything after I come home, and definitely not many sweets). So last night I drank hot chocolate and ate chocolate cookies and a chocolate bar, and today I got katsudon for dinner and bought a big slice of chocolate cake from the Ginza Cozy Corner bakery, and then I ate another chocolate bar when I got home. And now I should probably go back to eating reasonably again...
I was kinda hoping I might convince my 9pm class to go do something celebratory after work, but then the guy who is most convinceable wasn't able to come to class today, and then the head office person had to talk to another one of the students about contract stuff, so... no luck there. I went to the Kawaguchi arcade and played Pop'n. Whee whatever.
The Fighters lost today and I'm angry at Nashida for leaving Darvish in as long as he did, but hey, the Dragons won AND Masa Yamamoto got the win! GO OLD MAN GO! ONLY 6 LEFT TO 200!
Oh yeah, funny conversation withthe2belo this morning on IM:
[10:56] jankhater: happy birrrrrrrthdaaaaaaaay tooooooo yoooooooooou
[10:56] Deanna Rubin: thank you
[10:56] Deanna Rubin: hey, i am 31 now. like morino's uniform number!
[10:57] jankhater: bwahahahahah PERFECT
It is funnier in some ways that Morino is the poster boy for May on my Chunichi Dragons wall calendar, too. I was saying yesterday that also part of why I like him so much is that he looks more like ME than most Japanese baseball players -- big eyebrows, bigger nose, wider face, etc. It is kind of sad that I have a Dragons player that I love love love love so much though when I do not have a Fighters player that I love love love love so much anymore.
samuelp over IM for the last hour since he's the only person in Japan I know who is awake and on IM right now. Jesus that last one was originally ranked as a 7.1 but got rated down to a 6.7 so far. Still, holy crap these are scary, even though they are like 100 miles away. I'm amazed I haven't lost power or internet or anything.As for the rest of the day, overall it wasn't anything special insofar as birthdays go. My best friend
dvarin called me this morning, which was a nice surprise, and makes me think I should set up Skype so I can talk to people sometime. My dad also called, but he called while I was in the shower and I didn't notice until much later. And many people emailed me and/or commented birthday wishes on my last entry and you are all wonderful people and I wish I lived closer to you all so I could have a party this year :(I have two major birthday wishes and no candles to blow out, so I guess they probably won't come true.
I went to work, and it was... work. I got sushi from Heiroku for lunch as I usually do on Wednesdays, and it was fitting for my birthday. I had decided last night that the rule for my birthday was just that I could eat as much chocolate and junk food as I damn well wanted to (since usually I try not to eat anything after I come home, and definitely not many sweets). So last night I drank hot chocolate and ate chocolate cookies and a chocolate bar, and today I got katsudon for dinner and bought a big slice of chocolate cake from the Ginza Cozy Corner bakery, and then I ate another chocolate bar when I got home. And now I should probably go back to eating reasonably again...
I was kinda hoping I might convince my 9pm class to go do something celebratory after work, but then the guy who is most convinceable wasn't able to come to class today, and then the head office person had to talk to another one of the students about contract stuff, so... no luck there. I went to the Kawaguchi arcade and played Pop'n. Whee whatever.
The Fighters lost today and I'm angry at Nashida for leaving Darvish in as long as he did, but hey, the Dragons won AND Masa Yamamoto got the win! GO OLD MAN GO! ONLY 6 LEFT TO 200!
Oh yeah, funny conversation with
the2belo this morning on IM:[10:56] jankhater: happy birrrrrrrthdaaaaaaaay tooooooo yoooooooooou
[10:56] Deanna Rubin: thank you
[10:56] Deanna Rubin: hey, i am 31 now. like morino's uniform number!
[10:57] jankhater: bwahahahahah PERFECT
It is funnier in some ways that Morino is the poster boy for May on my Chunichi Dragons wall calendar, too. I was saying yesterday that also part of why I like him so much is that he looks more like ME than most Japanese baseball players -- big eyebrows, bigger nose, wider face, etc. It is kind of sad that I have a Dragons player that I love love love love so much though when I do not have a Fighters player that I love love love love so much anymore.