I swear I've been to Akihabara more times in the last two weeks than in the entire last year.
I am listening to the greatest college marching band album ever. Okay, not really, but it's scary how many of the songs I know on it. It's the Tokyo Big 6 University League Baseball marching band music, all 6 universities' worth, and it's fantastic. I can't wait to go actually watch some college ball again this year! (Okay... I really just want to see Ohishi-kun and Suzuki-kun pitch. But still.)
Today I went to Akihabara again. This time it was for a few reasons:
1) I needed to print out resumes to bring to interviews over the next two days. Yes, interviews. More on that in a minute.
2) I was buying some videogames for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
oren.
3) I was going to get lunch/dinner.
4) I wanted to check out the Akihabara Book-Off.
Well, I did accomplish all of that. Went to Kinko's and printed out some resumes, which in itself wasn't too hard. I tried to see if I could print out the meishi that Westbay designed for me for japanesebaseball.com, but explaining what I was trying to do was apparently too difficult. Oh well.
Went to Yodobashi, found two out of the three games Oren wanted. Also managed to finally get my two Yodobashi cards combined to one! Yay! Now I just need to figure out a way to never forget any point cards ever again.
I went up to the 8th floor to get food... and I was going to go to the kaitensushi place there until I saw the waitresses outside "welcoming" people and remembered that they were really obnoxiously condescending and "helpful" to me last time. And since it was only 5:30pm or so, it was fairly empty, thus I was likely to get the same treatment. No dice. Went to a ramen place instead called Chabuya, and had some pretty damn tasty miso ramen.
Then I found the Book-Off. It's HUGE! 6 floors! Sheesh! I might go back sometime and actually look at books, but for the time being I was just poking around the cheap CDs, which is how I found the aforementioned college marching band CD (it wasn't that cheap, but). Wooo. Then I also found Oren's third game in the used games section, so, I really did finish all my missions for the day.
Stopped by Yokado when I got in, grabbed a tray of makizushi and some inari from the deli section. It's neat having a sushi dinner for 600 yen, which I was going to say is $6, except I just looked at the conversion rates today and DEAR GOD THE DOLLAR HAS TANKED so it's more like $7. Sheesh. Still, the good thing about buying supermarket sushi is that I can throw it in the fridge and then eat it two hours later.
Came home, did laundry. Meant to be productive, but... at least my problem tonight isn't Puzzle Pirates, since I haven't been playing. Instead, I've been spending the last like, 3-4 hours fighting with iTunes and my iPod. I keep most of my music files on a separate flash drive, so apparently unless I have that flash drive mounted to the computer with the same drive letter, things get really wonky. BUT I think it's finally all settled. The other issue is of course with the way iTunes handles Japanese song titles and artist titles... There's got to be a better way to rename all of this stuff, but I haven't figured it out yet. Yar.
Anyway! I have an interview tomorrow morning (so in 9 hours, eek, gotta wake up in like 6 or 7) and then TWO interviews on Wednesday! I called one of the places that hadn't gotten back to me, today, and they basically said it'd be no problem for Wednesday... and then another place emailed me back about interviewing Wednesday too. Go figure. It'll be fun. Go me? Then I fly to Seattle on Thursday...
Today I went to Akihabara again. This time it was for a few reasons:
1) I needed to print out resumes to bring to interviews over the next two days. Yes, interviews. More on that in a minute.
2) I was buying some videogames for
oren. 3) I was going to get lunch/dinner.
4) I wanted to check out the Akihabara Book-Off.
Well, I did accomplish all of that. Went to Kinko's and printed out some resumes, which in itself wasn't too hard. I tried to see if I could print out the meishi that Westbay designed for me for japanesebaseball.com, but explaining what I was trying to do was apparently too difficult. Oh well.
Went to Yodobashi, found two out of the three games Oren wanted. Also managed to finally get my two Yodobashi cards combined to one! Yay! Now I just need to figure out a way to never forget any point cards ever again.
I went up to the 8th floor to get food... and I was going to go to the kaitensushi place there until I saw the waitresses outside "welcoming" people and remembered that they were really obnoxiously condescending and "helpful" to me last time. And since it was only 5:30pm or so, it was fairly empty, thus I was likely to get the same treatment. No dice. Went to a ramen place instead called Chabuya, and had some pretty damn tasty miso ramen.
Then I found the Book-Off. It's HUGE! 6 floors! Sheesh! I might go back sometime and actually look at books, but for the time being I was just poking around the cheap CDs, which is how I found the aforementioned college marching band CD (it wasn't that cheap, but). Wooo. Then I also found Oren's third game in the used games section, so, I really did finish all my missions for the day.
Stopped by Yokado when I got in, grabbed a tray of makizushi and some inari from the deli section. It's neat having a sushi dinner for 600 yen, which I was going to say is $6, except I just looked at the conversion rates today and DEAR GOD THE DOLLAR HAS TANKED so it's more like $7. Sheesh. Still, the good thing about buying supermarket sushi is that I can throw it in the fridge and then eat it two hours later.
Came home, did laundry. Meant to be productive, but... at least my problem tonight isn't Puzzle Pirates, since I haven't been playing. Instead, I've been spending the last like, 3-4 hours fighting with iTunes and my iPod. I keep most of my music files on a separate flash drive, so apparently unless I have that flash drive mounted to the computer with the same drive letter, things get really wonky. BUT I think it's finally all settled. The other issue is of course with the way iTunes handles Japanese song titles and artist titles... There's got to be a better way to rename all of this stuff, but I haven't figured it out yet. Yar.
Anyway! I have an interview tomorrow morning (so in 9 hours, eek, gotta wake up in like 6 or 7) and then TWO interviews on Wednesday! I called one of the places that hadn't gotten back to me, today, and they basically said it'd be no problem for Wednesday... and then another place emailed me back about interviewing Wednesday too. Go figure. It'll be fun. Go me? Then I fly to Seattle on Thursday...
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