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Every day an adventure (in its own way)
Today I decided not to go to any baseball games. I dunno, I just didn't feel like going up to Lotte Urawa and braving the stupid Golden Week crowd plus the Giants crowd, and didn't feel like going to Jingu to watch college baseball because it was the same four teams I saw opening weekend, and didn't feel like going all the fucking way to Yokohama alone to either cheer Chunichi or Yokohama. Plus the Fighters-Lions game was on BS1 TV.
So, instead, I spent the early afternoon experimenting with a bike ride. I basically rode my bike to Arakawa 7 JHS, the school I teach at. It took 35 minutes, AND I got mildly lost on the way. It's about 7 kilometers. It's a kind of tricky ride though, as it involves crossing over the JR Saikyo and Keihin-Tohoku tracks, and going through a bunch of construction near the highway intersections with 122 and 306 or whatever it was. Weird thing: getting there seems to be quite easy, it's getting HOME that sucks ass. I was a little sweaty but not ridiculously so when I arrived at the school.
After riding to Arakawa, I rode to Oji station. It took 10 minutes from the JHS. Finding a place to park my bike was a lot more annoying, but I did eventually.
I rode to the Tokyo Dome to buy a ticket to one of the Dragons-Giants games later this week. Here's the thing: the Tokyo Dome apparently had a freaking X Japan concert going on today, so the place was PACKED WITH J-ROCK GOTHS. I really should have played the "stupid gaijin" card and taken photos of them all, but just didn't feel like wasting the time. There were some pretty crazy outfits and hair there though. I was surprised, since I didn't think that scene still thrived. Shows what I know. (I was going to say "I thought it died a decade ago", but realized that would be in bad taste. Holy crap though, is the concert on the anniversary of his death on purpose? Or just because it's Golden Week?)
Anyway, the Tokyo Dome still sells baseball tickets. So I got one. Visitor's cheering section, Dragons-Giants, Friday May 8th. The lady at the ticket window was like (in Japanese) "are you sure? do you understand you will be surrounded by people screaming and singing?" and I said "look, I hate the Giants and want to support the Dragons. Is that okay?" and she laughed and handed me the ticket and my change. If she had continued to give me a hard time I think I would have started singing Moeyo Dragons or something.
I rode back to Oji, realized I was starving, grabbed a sandwich from a bakery there, and then commenced trying to ride home.
And riding home, to put it mildly, sucked. There's no way around the fact that Oji is simply LOWER than Akabane, and much lower than where I live. I thought I could get around the hill by riding to Jujo, since I know riding home from Jujo is only a slight incline and I barely feel it, but even getting from Oji to Jujo has a ridiculous hill. Sigh.
I picked up a bento from Saboten and watched the Fighters game when I got home... ate the bento around 4pm, just before Inaba-sama hit a walkoff homerun to win the game for the Fighters in the bottom of the 12th. It was pretty awesome. I was honestly just glad the Fighters didn't lose, to be honest.
In the evening I went to play volleyball. I'm going to whine about that in a friends-only entry.
Tomorrow I'm going to Chiba for the Fighters game. I'm wondering what'll happen if any of my friends see me on the field before the game... I'm almost considering trying to hide in the media room and camera well for the whole game instead of going out and cheering. We'll see.
(EDIT: Also, dammit, the Lotte-Giants minor-league game I decided not to go to, not only did my ni-gun boyfriend Hiroki Ueno pitch but he got the win! I still haven't seen him pitch this year! Sigh. It figures... I know it sounds dumb, but I figured if I went, he wouldn't pitch, and if I didn't go, he would.)
So, instead, I spent the early afternoon experimenting with a bike ride. I basically rode my bike to Arakawa 7 JHS, the school I teach at. It took 35 minutes, AND I got mildly lost on the way. It's about 7 kilometers. It's a kind of tricky ride though, as it involves crossing over the JR Saikyo and Keihin-Tohoku tracks, and going through a bunch of construction near the highway intersections with 122 and 306 or whatever it was. Weird thing: getting there seems to be quite easy, it's getting HOME that sucks ass. I was a little sweaty but not ridiculously so when I arrived at the school.
After riding to Arakawa, I rode to Oji station. It took 10 minutes from the JHS. Finding a place to park my bike was a lot more annoying, but I did eventually.
I rode to the Tokyo Dome to buy a ticket to one of the Dragons-Giants games later this week. Here's the thing: the Tokyo Dome apparently had a freaking X Japan concert going on today, so the place was PACKED WITH J-ROCK GOTHS. I really should have played the "stupid gaijin" card and taken photos of them all, but just didn't feel like wasting the time. There were some pretty crazy outfits and hair there though. I was surprised, since I didn't think that scene still thrived. Shows what I know. (I was going to say "I thought it died a decade ago", but realized that would be in bad taste. Holy crap though, is the concert on the anniversary of his death on purpose? Or just because it's Golden Week?)
Anyway, the Tokyo Dome still sells baseball tickets. So I got one. Visitor's cheering section, Dragons-Giants, Friday May 8th. The lady at the ticket window was like (in Japanese) "are you sure? do you understand you will be surrounded by people screaming and singing?" and I said "look, I hate the Giants and want to support the Dragons. Is that okay?" and she laughed and handed me the ticket and my change. If she had continued to give me a hard time I think I would have started singing Moeyo Dragons or something.
I rode back to Oji, realized I was starving, grabbed a sandwich from a bakery there, and then commenced trying to ride home.
And riding home, to put it mildly, sucked. There's no way around the fact that Oji is simply LOWER than Akabane, and much lower than where I live. I thought I could get around the hill by riding to Jujo, since I know riding home from Jujo is only a slight incline and I barely feel it, but even getting from Oji to Jujo has a ridiculous hill. Sigh.
I picked up a bento from Saboten and watched the Fighters game when I got home... ate the bento around 4pm, just before Inaba-sama hit a walkoff homerun to win the game for the Fighters in the bottom of the 12th. It was pretty awesome. I was honestly just glad the Fighters didn't lose, to be honest.
In the evening I went to play volleyball. I'm going to whine about that in a friends-only entry.
Tomorrow I'm going to Chiba for the Fighters game. I'm wondering what'll happen if any of my friends see me on the field before the game... I'm almost considering trying to hide in the media room and camera well for the whole game instead of going out and cheering. We'll see.
(EDIT: Also, dammit, the Lotte-Giants minor-league game I decided not to go to, not only did my ni-gun boyfriend Hiroki Ueno pitch but he got the win! I still haven't seen him pitch this year! Sigh. It figures... I know it sounds dumb, but I figured if I went, he wouldn't pitch, and if I didn't go, he would.)