Catching Up

There's a lot to catch up on, it's been a busy, frantic couple of days.

Saturday the 18th after work, Greg and I got together after work and I was able to give him the 17,500 yen I owed him from the loan back at the start of the year. Good to be free of that. We went to Di's mexican restaurant in Shin-Matsudo and chatted over tequila and Sol and a particularly delicious plate of nachos, which promptly gave us both gas.
We went back to my place to get the surprise gift I had for Greg, and when he laid eyes upon that box of Girl Scout Thin Mints, he was all lit up with joy. It was cute.
Greg wound up kickin it at my place that night, we drank a few more beers and then a lot of silliness ensued. It was like we were in grade school, lying there pretending to go to sleep, and then giggling and busting out laughing about the tiniest things. Fantastic.

Sunday after work (now all the while here I'm still pretty much sick, still am even now almost a week later) Greg somehow convinced me to go to Nishi Nippori with him to Anton's going away party. Greg had been drinking all day with his friend Craig, so by the time I met him up in Nishi Nippori he was pretty much ready to blow chunks, which he did, shortly after arriving. Then we went and bought booze. I chose a bottle of red wine.
Party highlights:

Naomi and Carrie from my crazy night in Roppongi were there. I mostly ignored them, except for one good chat with both at one point in the evening. Neither have gotten prettier with time.

Yuji out of nowhere provided me with a bag of weed, which I have no use for.

I'm an arm wrestling champ. Against girls.

Greg dropped and broke the LCD screen of his digicam.

Monday, I went out and bought a 60gig iPod, black. I'm very happy with it, especially cause I can load pictures on it and always have pictures of my friends close to me, and show you off cause some of you are pretty hot.

Tuesday I went to Mito with Bryan and was a guest on his radio show, and I played Walking Away and Brothers on the air, as well as picked all the songs for that day's show. Next week I'll get a CD of the show. Brothers I kinda played a truncated version for time, and my rythm guitar sucked because I've very rarely played it all the way through. My leg was shaking violently and it was kinda bad. But, walking away went well, so I think I might rip that part and make a track of it. Thanks to my new iPod the hour or so train ride either way was much more bearable.
Afterwards, we went to Shinjuku to meet two of Bryan's friends for drinks, but I accidentaly left my bag on the Yamanote, so all those Japanese lessons where you have to describe your bag to the stationmaster came in little handy, since the stress made it all go out the window. In the end though, I waited for the train to come all th eway back around the loop, and there it was waiting for me. I pulled the shadiest maneuver of all time when I walked onto the train, grabbed my bag, turned around and walked off. I had to pull the, hit myself on the forehead like I'm so stupid so people didn't think I was a terrorist. The rest of the night was fine.

Yesterday I worked with Dara all day, so yeeeefreakin haw. That's all for now. Sorry for the long post.