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I'm sick... I think?
So, Saturday I woke up with a sore throat but went out in the evening anyway.
Sunday I went to the NPB U-26 vs. college ball game, but that was it.
Today, I went down to Ito Yokado for shopping and that was it, because I was feeling super-sniffly.
I don't really feel super-sick or anything -- not like "OMFG I CAN'T MOVE OR I WILL DIE", but this sniffliness is bugging me. Riding my bike home from Motohasunuma yesterday also felt weird, a little dizzy/coughy. Eh.
Yeah, yesterday was the NPB-College all-star game. The Japanese pro leagues picked a team of players 26 years old or younger, and they played against a college all-star team from all over Japan (the weird thing being that all the players were 1st-3rd years as all the seniors have retired). Doors were at 11, the game was at 2. I got there around 12:15 and the place was already PACKED. Worse, game programs were sold out! How the FUCK does that happen? Are these people a bunch of fucking morons or something? A sold out game at a dome that seats 45000, and you are sold out of programs almost two hours before the game starts?? SO fucking stupid. Besides, they should be GIVING AWAY a list of players and whatnot, not selling a program, anyway. NPB majorly fucked this one up, especially as so many people coming to the game had no fucking clue who the college kids were.
Me, I knew who all of them were, but I didn't know their uniform numbers on this team. Soh-chan was wearing #23 instead of #3, for example... Taki-kun had #28 instead of #39. Sugano wore #11, so Nomura wore #19. Echizen wore #24 so Habu wore #9. Things like that. Naturally the NPB team also had a little of that, like how Sakamoto wore #6 so Sho Nakata got stuck with #5.
So I basically went to this game by myself because everyone I knew who likes college ball either had reserved seats, or didn't get a ticket in time. Sat in the upper deck on the 3rd base side, took score, and watched the game. It was a 1-1 tie in the end, which... I'm not sure what that means. Either that I'm totally right about how next year will be a monster draft year for college players, or that the NPB kids weren't doing their best? Either way, I cheered for all of my favorite college players and it was good. And the game-tying RBI was hit in by Taki, from Hosei, who I've actually met, so that was cool.
It was ridiculously crowded after the game around the Tokyo Dome so I walked to Jimbocho and went to Sanseido bookstore, and sat down in the Japanese language study section and read through some grammar books and whatnot, which just made me feel more hopeless. Picked up a kanji drill book and a grammar drill book, but man, I am so totally fucked for the JLPT.
By the time I got out of there, after sitting there reading books for over an hour, it was 7:30pm, so I rode the subway back north, got my bike, got a bento from Saboten, came home, ate, and then basically goofed off for a while. I started feeling pretty sniffly as the night went on.
This morning I woke up feeling more sniffly, so I didn't go to any more fanfests, though the weather was lovely. I ended up getting lunch at Dona, an eggplant spaghetti lunch set that was pretty good and came with caramel tiramisu. Then shopping at Yokado, mostly for food but also for a few various other things I need around the house (and as I got home I realized I forgot to buy a lightbulb for the fixture in my room, though to be fair I am not sure what kind of bulb to get).
I spent a lot of time today cleaning, actually. Did a load of laundry, and also eliminated a few piles of junk sitting around. I took care of something I hadn't done in a year, too, which was sorting through paid bill receipts and filing them into a book. I've been trying to figure out why I'm not saving more money, and I do think part of it has to do with paying my back taxes (my last chunk of change is due on Feb 1, but I'm gonna pay it later this week I think), and part of it does have to do with utilities being a bit more expensive in the house than they were in the apartment... but really, I'm not entirely sure. I think the big difference is having evenings free! When I was at GEOS I could never really go and do stuff, which sucked, but on the other hand I never spent money during the week either. But on the other hand I don't feel like I am *that* big a spender. It might be just that I don't make all that much money :) I guess I was used to the days in the US where I made twice as much money as I needed to live, so I was saving a decent chunk, but now I basically make as much as I need to live, so I'm not. It's logical, but it sucks when I realize I'm going to be dealing with 3 months of no job soon. I'll be okay thanks to savings and also inheritance (which is part of what I'll be doing in that time; going back to the US to do paperwork and whatnot for my father's death) but I guess I just feel lame. What might end up getting me the hell out of Japan in the end will be a desire to return to the nice cushy tech salaries in the US...
...or, I should go write a book already. Not that I think book authors make that much money either, though :)
Anyway, off to read my kanji book until I fall asleep, then another week at school! Hooray.
Sunday I went to the NPB U-26 vs. college ball game, but that was it.
Today, I went down to Ito Yokado for shopping and that was it, because I was feeling super-sniffly.
I don't really feel super-sick or anything -- not like "OMFG I CAN'T MOVE OR I WILL DIE", but this sniffliness is bugging me. Riding my bike home from Motohasunuma yesterday also felt weird, a little dizzy/coughy. Eh.
Yeah, yesterday was the NPB-College all-star game. The Japanese pro leagues picked a team of players 26 years old or younger, and they played against a college all-star team from all over Japan (the weird thing being that all the players were 1st-3rd years as all the seniors have retired). Doors were at 11, the game was at 2. I got there around 12:15 and the place was already PACKED. Worse, game programs were sold out! How the FUCK does that happen? Are these people a bunch of fucking morons or something? A sold out game at a dome that seats 45000, and you are sold out of programs almost two hours before the game starts?? SO fucking stupid. Besides, they should be GIVING AWAY a list of players and whatnot, not selling a program, anyway. NPB majorly fucked this one up, especially as so many people coming to the game had no fucking clue who the college kids were.
Me, I knew who all of them were, but I didn't know their uniform numbers on this team. Soh-chan was wearing #23 instead of #3, for example... Taki-kun had #28 instead of #39. Sugano wore #11, so Nomura wore #19. Echizen wore #24 so Habu wore #9. Things like that. Naturally the NPB team also had a little of that, like how Sakamoto wore #6 so Sho Nakata got stuck with #5.
So I basically went to this game by myself because everyone I knew who likes college ball either had reserved seats, or didn't get a ticket in time. Sat in the upper deck on the 3rd base side, took score, and watched the game. It was a 1-1 tie in the end, which... I'm not sure what that means. Either that I'm totally right about how next year will be a monster draft year for college players, or that the NPB kids weren't doing their best? Either way, I cheered for all of my favorite college players and it was good. And the game-tying RBI was hit in by Taki, from Hosei, who I've actually met, so that was cool.
It was ridiculously crowded after the game around the Tokyo Dome so I walked to Jimbocho and went to Sanseido bookstore, and sat down in the Japanese language study section and read through some grammar books and whatnot, which just made me feel more hopeless. Picked up a kanji drill book and a grammar drill book, but man, I am so totally fucked for the JLPT.
By the time I got out of there, after sitting there reading books for over an hour, it was 7:30pm, so I rode the subway back north, got my bike, got a bento from Saboten, came home, ate, and then basically goofed off for a while. I started feeling pretty sniffly as the night went on.
This morning I woke up feeling more sniffly, so I didn't go to any more fanfests, though the weather was lovely. I ended up getting lunch at Dona, an eggplant spaghetti lunch set that was pretty good and came with caramel tiramisu. Then shopping at Yokado, mostly for food but also for a few various other things I need around the house (and as I got home I realized I forgot to buy a lightbulb for the fixture in my room, though to be fair I am not sure what kind of bulb to get).
I spent a lot of time today cleaning, actually. Did a load of laundry, and also eliminated a few piles of junk sitting around. I took care of something I hadn't done in a year, too, which was sorting through paid bill receipts and filing them into a book. I've been trying to figure out why I'm not saving more money, and I do think part of it has to do with paying my back taxes (my last chunk of change is due on Feb 1, but I'm gonna pay it later this week I think), and part of it does have to do with utilities being a bit more expensive in the house than they were in the apartment... but really, I'm not entirely sure. I think the big difference is having evenings free! When I was at GEOS I could never really go and do stuff, which sucked, but on the other hand I never spent money during the week either. But on the other hand I don't feel like I am *that* big a spender. It might be just that I don't make all that much money :) I guess I was used to the days in the US where I made twice as much money as I needed to live, so I was saving a decent chunk, but now I basically make as much as I need to live, so I'm not. It's logical, but it sucks when I realize I'm going to be dealing with 3 months of no job soon. I'll be okay thanks to savings and also inheritance (which is part of what I'll be doing in that time; going back to the US to do paperwork and whatnot for my father's death) but I guess I just feel lame. What might end up getting me the hell out of Japan in the end will be a desire to return to the nice cushy tech salaries in the US...
...or, I should go write a book already. Not that I think book authors make that much money either, though :)
Anyway, off to read my kanji book until I fall asleep, then another week at school! Hooray.
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Apparently I missed out on some rap songs in the 80's.
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