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1-1-06 – 11:59pm

Happy New Year. Yeesh. What a couple of days.
The 30th Ash and I went out to Mito to join Bryan for his performance at Club Sonic which was a lot of fun, despite being expensive, and way the hell out there. Little did I know before departing, the train ride one way is about 1,600yen. That means there and back is stupid expensive, not to mention the 4,000 cover charge for the 飲み放題 nomihoudai/tabehoudai 食べ放題. But Bryan’s set was amazing, and the other bands were really good as well. We had a good time, and afterwards we went to Chidax, a karaoke bar to pass the time until first train at 4:30. I got to meet Bryan’s buddy from Australia, and we all had a fun time. Ash got his mack on with some Japanese chick and got a little kiss action, which made all of us so very happy for him. We had a bet going they would exchange email addresses by the end of the night, since Ash doesn’t have a phone. We won. It was cute.

Yesterday I woke up at around 1pm after arriving home and wanting nothing more than a sausage McMuffin with egg and being denied by late opening hours due to New Year’s, and went for a walk. I got a text message from Greg saying I should come out with him to the Yebisu Garden Palace for the New Year’s Celebration, and offered to spot me till payday, so I accepted. Greg and Katie and Adam and I made our way to the spot and waited to meet up with Alan and Hallie and Emma. On the train there though, there was a cute Caucasian couple wearing goofy glasses with a cock and boobs on them. It was hilarious watching the reactions from the Japanese.

We all met up and made our way to the Palace, where we were slightly disappointed by the venue and the lack of crazy super party like we had expected. The countdown was great, but other than that, we were kinda disappointed by how lax the party was for how much we paid to get in, and then still had to pay for drinks. At least Yebisu is having a good New Year. We all kinda split off into groups pretty quick like and Adam and Katie decided to head home. Greg and Hallie were having some sort of problems, and were off doing their own thing, so that left Emma and Alan and I sitting on the ground smoking and talking, and passing the time till Greg showed back up and we could leave. We went to Shibuya and grabbed some tasty ramen and then Greg and Hallie decided to go back home. Alan and Emma and I went to the Gaspanic dance club and Emma got groped by older black guys for a while so we decided to take off. We went to an いさかや isakaya afterwards and had a few drinks, and then made our way back to 江田 Eda where Emma and Alan live, which is way, way out on the west side of Tokyo, in either 神奈川 Kanagawa or 川崎 Kawasaki, close to 横浜 Yokohama, quite close to Mukogauka-yuen where I used to live.
After kickin it there for a while Alan took off, and I crashed with Emma, who for the record produces an absurd amount of heat while sleeping. All today we just slept in and then watched Garden State and Amelie. It was just a lot of hungover superchill movie time and talking, which was a lot of fun admittedly. I kinda felt bad just kinda hanging out there and all, but she didn’t seem to mind at all and we had a good time. She got to bitch about hey boyfriend who dumped her on Christmas day for being a lush, and I got to laugh and wish her well on her resolve to stop diving into things and drinking so much. I give it a week.
Anyway, after the two hour train ride home, I watched Proctor with Ash and here I am, tired from two all-nighters in a row, and looking forward to some good rest. Tomorrow I’ll shave the goatee I for some reason or another grew out, which, in light of having met a halfway decent gal, is no longer acceptable for me to have.
And no, for the record, I’m not smitten with this girl, despite being a cute brunette New Zealander who can hold down her liquor and has surprisingly much in common with me. So don’t get your panties all up in a bunch just yet. My neurotic post-Liesl standards for women will kick in any minute now and that’ll be the end of it.