so fucking AWAKE. got back from japan on thursday morning, before the time when i left japan, and then promptly slept for nearly 24 hours. now it is 6:15 am and i am wide awake because it is only, what, 8:15 pm in japan?
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if i can figure stuff like this out, i will be fine. and the language. and food that isn’t seafood (or apparently beef, which is in short supply). other than that – yeah, it’s cool.
i had the best hamburger tonight – it had to be the fixin’s – fresh tomato, onion, ketchup, brown mustard, pepper jack cheese, toasted buns…mmmmmmm…
i still have some things that i would really like to get for my trip to japan: comfy shoes that can be put on and taken off easily, a mid-weight coat and maybe some lightweight pants in case it gets warmer. i went shopping today to find these things and came up with…NOTHING.
why do i even try anymore? i can never find anything that doesn’t look all weird/craptastic and if i actually do find something i like, it doesn’t fit me. today’s excursion was one of the most solidly demoralizing experiences of my life. why can’t i just be 4 inches taller? it is SO FRUSTRATING to not be able to find clothes that fit. i hope that once i’m in japan i’ll be able to find some things in my size. if not there, then where?
the one area of shopping in which i am successful is electronics. so, true to form, last night i ordered a digital camera from amazon.com for the trip. originally i was going to buy the sony dsc-t11 once i got to japan, but decided that the price was a bit too steep even though it’s such a good looking camera and the lcd is so large and clear. i considered buying the t1, which is available in the u.s., but after reading a few reviews that brought a few good points to mind, i decided to go with my original choice, the canon powershot s410.
this weekend i helped eric paint his new room. it was awesome except that the last 5 people that painted didn’t bother to tape off the moulding, so when i pulled my carefully placed tape off (after i had scored it and everything), the new paint still looked messy since apparently no one else gave a shit. argh.
monday was andrew’s birthday and he had a bbq in the afternoon. it was soooo yummy and people brought food and bourbon slush too (sgmt and stef are, perhaps, gods).
yesterday i helped eric move (almost) the last of his stuff up to lincoln square then we ate what will probably be our last cross-rhodes meal in a long time and promptly passed out.
today is also the one-year mark for eric and i. tonight: cooking and ‘the punisher’, which i’ve heard is pretty good despite it’s craptastic trailer. we are so romantic, eh? 🙂
well, almost nothing. i laid around a lot and watched sex & the city and band of brothers. i ran a ton of errands while i had command of eric’s car. saturday night i hung out with my high school friends that live in chicago. conrad, brandon and i went to pat and jessie’s apt. and watched all of aqua teen hunger force. turns out that brandon lives all of 2 blocks away from me. 2 BLOCKS! we felt like total asses for not spending more time together over the past, uh…6 months…heh heh…heh… but we had a good sci-fi catch up (this is where we go on for hours talking about our favorite sci-fi shows and bask in our mutual nerdiness). he has an EARRING!! wtf?
today i received the copy of ‘the confusion’ that i bought for eric and i can’t wait to finish ‘cryptonomicon’ so i can move on to ‘quicksilver.’ though i do have to admit i’m really in love with ‘cryptonomicon’ and will be sad to leave it. wired is running this interview with neal stephenson about ‘the baroque cycle.’
sometimes you’re just floating along, thinking everything is ok, you know, you’re just trying to maintain…then someone drops a bomb on you and you realize that you’re totally wasting your time and that essentially, you suck. such a time was last night when i got my first look at jon’s portfolio site, filament21.com.
where has this week gone? i guess i did stuff every night so that’s why it flew by, but really – shouldn’t it only be tuesday or wednesday?
i played chip’s challenge for a couple of hours last night (ok, more like 5) and in looking for the level code i couldn’t remember, discovered that this game has 150 levels. 150. i am only on level 30-something. i will not rest until i have reached level 150.
not much has been happening lately – kate is out of town for awhile and the office has been in a flurry as temps work on fulfillment for our big project. my mom is coming in town at the end of the month (she skipping out on parent/teacher conferences at the grade school) and we’re going to go get those pots and pans that are to be the christmas gift my parents gave themselves this past year. it’s sweet (really! way to go dad!) and cute and this is something that they really need. i think they’ve had the same pots and pans since they were first married.