The Week In Review

Life's been pretty normal lately, oddly enough, but here are some funny things that have happened lately.

Last Saturday I went out for dinner in Roppongi with Dave and Andy to eat duck at this Chinese restaurant Dave knows. The duck was good, and the restaurant was funny because it was styrofoam breasts and asses all over the walls, subtly painted the same color as the brick so you didn't really notice until you took a closer look around. After dinner we went to The Heartlands, my least favorite elitist yubby snob bar ever, where we met up with Kieran and Ty and thusly began our allnighter. Just to kick it off right, I ran and jumped on Kieran while he was making some booty call or other to one of the hundreds of girls he sleeps with that isn't his fiance, and he just crumbled and fell instantly. Andy and I got stuck in Muse without the rest of us because they wouldn't let Ty in with his sandals on, so Dave went with him to Motown and a few other bars while Kieran of course, hopped in a taxi and spent 6000yen going for a lay.

I finally met back up with Ty and Dave after Andy took me to a bar that was closed to meet up with someone, who turned out to be the girl Ty used to be sleeping with, Naoe. He didn't realize that I know her, like, somehow it isn't public knowledge that Ty Dave and I all live together. What I guess I don't understand is why go to her, I mean, she's not really the super hottest girl, and she's pretty dumb to boot, not to mention the ration of vowels to consonants in her name is just absurd. Hi, my name is 75% vowels. Nice to meet you.

So around 5am I decided to catch first train back, said goodbye to the guys after meeting back up with them and going to some bar populated entirely by Filipinas and being generally sick of being awake.

The next day I met up with Greg and Saki to go bowling, and of course I was beat to shit tired and so my head was all messed up and it took me until late in the evening to really get myself back to normal. Greg needed some cash for the train, so he rode his bike from Minami Moriya to Toride so I could meet him and hand him off some money over the ticket gate. Saki came back to my place after bowling to watch more of Anchorman with me, and we got about another third of the movie finished before saying screw it and retiring to my room for related activities. I really like this girl.

Monday I had my Japanese lesson with Mayumi, where basically we just reviewed what I had gone over in my book over the previous two weeks, so I can't say I really learned much. But, I promised I would keep my ears open for things I wanted to be able to say, so, hopefully I'll start to be able to take greater value from them soon.

Tuesday after work Rich and Allen and I went to Saizeriya after work to meet up with a bunch of our students for Allen's farewell party. He finally got a new job working in design as he always wanted to, and that's a good step for him, as I think he reached 30 and suddenly realized he's living in Japan with no wife and no real job, and kinda went into panic mode. I think his girlfriend was thinking the same thing so they're probably gonna get married and this is that new more serious job that will somehow make him feel like his life is more meaningful and/or successful, so, good for him. After eating we went to karaoke at the new joint by our work and it was really fun. Youichi really belted it out, and Karin, wow, what an amazingly soft voice when she sings. Rich and my taxi fare was 4600 yen, but thankfully Youichi gave us a voucher from his company for a free taxi ride, so we didn't have to pay a thing. Nice deal.

Wednesday I went out for Yakiniku with Kieran Dave Ty Ethan and Andy, and it was deeelicious. And, we got to make fun of Kieran and Andy for their antics Saturday night. I didn't stick around for long after we went back to The Hub after dinner, I wanted to catch last train, but it was a good night. Fun with the guys. As we know, that's rare for me, I've never really been a "one of the guys" kinda guy.

I got called in to work an hour of overtime yesterday and to work in Kashiwa instead because Juan called in sick to work, and, an hour later, so did Hannah, so they were 2 people short. Not only that but Jeremy went to Moraju on accident and was late for his first lesson, so there was this generalized panic in the staff room for most of the day, which I managed to avoid by just tuning out the universe for the most part. And then, to top it all off, to help they called in Dara, Kashiwa's old AT, to teach a few lessons, who's now an Area Manager for a different block and is the creepiest, sleaziest, shadiest guy imaginable. So, more tuning out the universe.

The rainy season is in full swing, and by swing I mean it's swelteringly hot and humid one day and dreary, cold and rainy the next, sometimes both in the same day. It's one thing to live with a bipolar, but to have the weather need mood stabilizers is an entirely different story. Today it's party cloudy and neither hot nor cold, so I'm gonna go jogging and we'll see how it all works out. Peace.