Sunday, July 24, 2011

The First Time I've Slept in a Public Place

I had quite the four day weekend.

It started with morning baseball on Wednesday morning so I got up at 3am and then we had a farewell party for one of our teachers on Wednesday night.  So we had a nice fun Japanese work party with tons of delicious Japanese food and drinks.  Three parties and lots of karaoke later, about 2:30 am, the parties were finally over and I returned home.  I got to my front door about ready to collapse after being awake for the past 24 hours.  I reached in my bag for my keys, and found the bag was empty!  I had left my keys at school! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

So I walk to school and get there about 3am and of course the front door is locked so I just set up shop in the little entrance way and sleep for 4 hours there, using my camera case as a pillow.  It's funny how comfortable a concrete floor is when it's 3am and you're used to going to bed at 8pm.

I wake up at 7am to the newspaper delivery people who thought I was surely either a robber or a homeless guy sleeping in front of the school.  I was too tired to understand everything they were saying but suffice it to say they were pretty surprised to see a foreigner sleeping in front of the school.  About 7:30 rolls around and it's the first day of summer vacation and it's Japan so of course a few students start coming to school.  I'm still in my work clothes from the day before so I just pretend like I'm ready start a day of work while doing my best to hide my current state. Finally an office worker shows up somewhere around 7:45 and opens the school and I get to the teachers room and find my keys sitting where I always put them.  I get home at about 8 or so and of course I gotta check gmail and facebook and I see folks are playing video games so I start playing this incredibly long and boring and pointless game of MineralZ in Starcraft 2 and it was a complete waste of 5 hours of my life since I didn't even unlock the Archon unit thingy, but it was good to play some games for the first time in nearly two months.  After Mike and Andy and folks went to bed at around 3pm my time, I also went to bed.

I woke up at about 6am the next day, sleeping for a total of about 15 hours and still feeling tired.  The next two days consisted of good games during the day and lots of Japanese studying during the night.  By Sunday night I had played a solid 25 hours of video games (bringing my total for June and July to about 25 hours) and written out every word from the movie 秒速五センチ (5 Centimeters per Second)  It is definitely the saddest movie I have ever seen but it is currently my favorite movie of all time.  It reminds me of Heather and how lucky I am to have her.

This morning was a sad one.  My last morning baseball game.  However, this means I won't be having to wake up at 3am any more so I guess that's good.  The last game went well except I had a crazy time pitching.  I walked the lead off batter every single inning (5 innings) but ended up only giving up one run during the game.  By the 3rd inning, I was like "wtf, I have only walked 3 batters this year before this game but I have already walked two" then I walked the next guy on 4 pitches.  However, the season did end on a good note.  In the 5th inning I walked the lead off batter on 4 pitches and got really mad at myself and proceeded to strike out the next 3 batters on nine pitches to bring the season to a close with a 8-1 victory.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Sunday, July 10, 2011

久し振り

According to my visitor statistics it shows two people that have checked this site every day and a third person that checks it about 5 or 6 times a week.  I commend you three for sticking with your daily checks of this blog despite me not posting for like a month.

So I apologize for the lack of updates.  I think everyone that reads this is probably my facebook friend.  But if not, here are some pictures that summarize my last 2 weeks pretty well: 


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Now that she's returned home, I'll probably resume my unassuming life where I only do ten things for six months straight:

1) Sleep
2) Check facebook
3) Eat
4) Cook
5) Starcraft 2 related things
6) Study Japanese
7) Bike around town
8) Shop
9) Teach
10) gchat cool people

However, Mama is coming to visit in a month so that will surely prevent me from blogging again for about 2 months.  Big Japanese test in December, and  I haven't learned any Japanese in about a month so I need to start buckling down.