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偶然だよ
One of the Fighters fan guys I met at the Seibu Dome on Monday night -- the guy who let me try on his Hokkaido jersey to see if it fit -- said he was at my first Kamagaya Fighters game on May 12. He said he threw out the ceremonial first pitch, even. I thought he was kidding, but we traded email addresses, and I just looked back through my photos and OMFG I have one of him standing on the mound (but not of him throwing). How fucking bizarre is that? Seriously? I mean, it's one thing for the Fighters fan gangs to be like "hey, we saw you in Sendai! and Fukuoka! you're the crazy gaijin!" but HOW WEIRD that I happened to be sitting in the stands in Tokorozawa next to a guy who won a janken contest to throw out a pitch at my first Fighters minor-league game. Jesus. I'm going to mail him tomorrow morning and I bet he'll be super-surprised too!
I think the next most bizarre story recently was, I was in that bar in Sendai last weekend, we were showing Fighters photos to each other, and one of the ladies says, "HEY! YEAH! I'VE HEARD OF YOU FROM THAT GUY," pointing to one of the guys who asked me and Lisa to pose for a group photo in the Tokyo Dome. Well, wouldn't you know it, last night I ended up riding the train from Seibu Dome to Nishi-Tokorozawa with the entire group of guys from that photo. I was like "Excuse me... umm... we took a photo together at the Tokyo Dome last month, right?" and they were like "Yeah! You're the crazy gaijin girl who cheered her guts out!"
Which reminds me that I have to email back said lady since she is coming down to Tokyo next week for the games, too. Hrm.
Anyway, you know, while I don't know if these people qualify as friends exactly, I think it's possible that I will be able to find folks to sit with from now on at most games I go to. Shame the season is almost over and the Fighters are barely coming back to Kanto, though :(
Also, the more I read about Takagi-san the more I feel like a complete fucking moron. Boy, I wish I had known all this before I met him so I could ask him all these baseball questions.
Hmm. So, today was. Heiroku for lunch was funny, old man Saitoh was out there behind the belt and he's like "oh hey, it's you. what's up? no summer vacation?" "no." "do you want california rolls? you like them, right?" "not really, I like the ebi-tartar maki better." "oh ok. how about some salmon? is that what you always order?" "no, can I have some hamachi please? i never order salmon." Don't know whether he's messing with me or not, since a bunch of the other chefs DO know me pretty well by now. And Fukumoto sees me and goes and gets me a cup of cold water before I even ask now. I don't know whether to feel guilty about that or not, like I'm a pain in the butt (I need to learn a proper Japanese phrase for "thank you very much as always, sorry for troubling you").
Kanazawa lost in Koshien this morning to Osaka Toin. Not too big a surprise but I was sad because I really want to see Kawahara (their submarine pitcher). Sigh. I think I'm rooting for Toho now but I'm honestly not really sure.
I stopped by Kawaguchi on my way home today and played some UFO catchers at the further back arcade. Oddly, what happened is: I put in 100 yen, failed to get my Stitch, put in a second coin, knocked it ALMOST down but it got a little stuck, so put in my third coin and got it! Yay! Only I noticed the machine still said I had a credit coming. I don't know why, I'm fairly sure I didn't put in a 500 yen coin or anything. So I played again. Ended up getting 3 more Stitches before the machine stopped letting me play more. Don't really know why. It balances out because the other machine with Stitches in it got turned off in the meantime.
Oh yeah, also, I talked to my dad this morning finally, I was getting worried since I didn't see him on IM all week. (When your dad has cancer, these things worry you more than they would otherwise. Turns out that he had just reinstalled the OS on his computer he usually uses for IM/Skype and hadn't reinstalled them yet, though.) It sounds like the radiation treatments might be working a bit, and they're going to start chemo soon... but the catch is that he doesn't want to eat food anymore. Like he says he eats 3 bites and feels full. I totally can't imagine my dad not wanting to eat food, so this is pretty weird to me.
I think the next most bizarre story recently was, I was in that bar in Sendai last weekend, we were showing Fighters photos to each other, and one of the ladies says, "HEY! YEAH! I'VE HEARD OF YOU FROM THAT GUY," pointing to one of the guys who asked me and Lisa to pose for a group photo in the Tokyo Dome. Well, wouldn't you know it, last night I ended up riding the train from Seibu Dome to Nishi-Tokorozawa with the entire group of guys from that photo. I was like "Excuse me... umm... we took a photo together at the Tokyo Dome last month, right?" and they were like "Yeah! You're the crazy gaijin girl who cheered her guts out!"
Which reminds me that I have to email back said lady since she is coming down to Tokyo next week for the games, too. Hrm.
Anyway, you know, while I don't know if these people qualify as friends exactly, I think it's possible that I will be able to find folks to sit with from now on at most games I go to. Shame the season is almost over and the Fighters are barely coming back to Kanto, though :(
Also, the more I read about Takagi-san the more I feel like a complete fucking moron. Boy, I wish I had known all this before I met him so I could ask him all these baseball questions.
Hmm. So, today was. Heiroku for lunch was funny, old man Saitoh was out there behind the belt and he's like "oh hey, it's you. what's up? no summer vacation?" "no." "do you want california rolls? you like them, right?" "not really, I like the ebi-tartar maki better." "oh ok. how about some salmon? is that what you always order?" "no, can I have some hamachi please? i never order salmon." Don't know whether he's messing with me or not, since a bunch of the other chefs DO know me pretty well by now. And Fukumoto sees me and goes and gets me a cup of cold water before I even ask now. I don't know whether to feel guilty about that or not, like I'm a pain in the butt (I need to learn a proper Japanese phrase for "thank you very much as always, sorry for troubling you").
Kanazawa lost in Koshien this morning to Osaka Toin. Not too big a surprise but I was sad because I really want to see Kawahara (their submarine pitcher). Sigh. I think I'm rooting for Toho now but I'm honestly not really sure.
I stopped by Kawaguchi on my way home today and played some UFO catchers at the further back arcade. Oddly, what happened is: I put in 100 yen, failed to get my Stitch, put in a second coin, knocked it ALMOST down but it got a little stuck, so put in my third coin and got it! Yay! Only I noticed the machine still said I had a credit coming. I don't know why, I'm fairly sure I didn't put in a 500 yen coin or anything. So I played again. Ended up getting 3 more Stitches before the machine stopped letting me play more. Don't really know why. It balances out because the other machine with Stitches in it got turned off in the meantime.
Oh yeah, also, I talked to my dad this morning finally, I was getting worried since I didn't see him on IM all week. (When your dad has cancer, these things worry you more than they would otherwise. Turns out that he had just reinstalled the OS on his computer he usually uses for IM/Skype and hadn't reinstalled them yet, though.) It sounds like the radiation treatments might be working a bit, and they're going to start chemo soon... but the catch is that he doesn't want to eat food anymore. Like he says he eats 3 bites and feels full. I totally can't imagine my dad not wanting to eat food, so this is pretty weird to me.
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