12-25 Christmas

12-25 11:19am

Merry Christmas!
I was just sitting up to write this when I got a call from my mom, that was nice, in her typical, business call sorta way.
Last night after work I went to see King Kong with Ash and Bryan. Not bad, it had its ridiculous moments like all flicks these days that try to be good, but all in all, not bad.
Afterwards we wandered around Kashiwa until we discovered this delightful little Indian restaurant, and I have bene craving Indian food something awful, so it was really nice to sit down and have some tikka masala with naan and relax with friends. Next time though we’re going to have to ask for the stupid hot version, rather than that one just shy of stupid hot we went with this time just to be safe. I had mango juice, and immediately thought of the book Death of Vishnu, and laughed to myself. Dad will understand this comment.
I got a Christmas card from my grandparents, and apparently some people are mailing me things, but, I don’t expect a lot this year. Honestly, money, like every year, is the best thing anyone can really give me, but, it’s kinda had to do that in this kind of situation.
When we got back to South Kashiwa yesterday and were going up the escalator, Ash and I saw a Caucasian woman and I told her Merry Christmas, since it was all of 12:02am at the moment. I got the strangest feeling last night that it was somehow ok for us to be silly and Western then and today, and be loud or openly celebratory because this was the holiday of all Western holidays.

Today, I think I’ll take a while and really clean out my room. Then, work out a holiday budget, and plan where I really want to go. Ready…..go!