August 30: Super Math Bros.
Today's blog is unfortunately going to look quite a lot like yesterday's, as today was pretty much all about the math as well.
This morning I got up and ate dorm breakfast, which was really small again, but I can't for the life of me remember what was there (other than rice and miso soup). Maybe it was just that small!!! Or not. I got to work on time and started mathing it up for the rest of the day. By the time I left work, I had my joint distribution, my update equations and my parameter estimation equations (the fixings for doing CGS) all set and ready to go. I need to get them checked by Kabutoya-san on Friday before I get to coding, which is fine, because I will probably not feel much like jumping straight into coding first thing after the weekend.
At lunch I ate Java curry again, because their sauce-katsu-don looked a little... under the weather. D: For some reason the Java curry seemed a lot hotter today, and I actually had trouble finishing it due to spiciness pain in my mouth. My resolve to not be hungry in the afternoon held out though, and I ended up being able to eat it all (for nothing though, as I was hungry in the afternoon anyways). After eating I played handiball again, and I was half-decent still. My serves were really good today, and I went on like a 8-point streak of aces or near-aces. It's kind of unfair though, because I'm tall enough that I can just kind of smash it straight forward and it will shoot just past the net and then start wobbling wildly due to the silly ball. >_< Oh well, it works! ;D It will take some getting used to when I come back to Canada and am average-or-slightly-below again. D:
In the afternoon nothing too eventful happened, other than eavesdropping on the lady-whose-job-description-I-haven't-the-slightest-clue-about, who was whooping with laughter. She was speaking a little too quickly (between bouts of laughter) for me, but what I surmised was that she had tried to order a mechanical pencil, and ended up somehow getting 40 boxes (320 individual pencils) of them instead. She may have not even wanted a "sharp pen" (what Japanese people call mechanical pencils), but rather something to do with the word "sharpen". If she was trying to order a sharpener, that would explain why she didn't notice that her "one" pencil probably cost like, 10000円. O_O
I left work at 6:15 due to it being Refresh Day (and due to having finished off my parameter estimation equations), and found that I was actually the second-last person to leave from PIG. For some reason, today people actually took Refresh Day seriously. O_O I have no idea why...
I went to the Yokosan to pick up Akiba supplies for tomorrow, as the Sarushima BBQ (sounds frightening, I know >_<) I had been invited to by Kurauchi-san was cancelled due to typ(em)oon warnings. He sent me a delightful email saying that that the BBQ had been cancelled, and that some day we would "take revenge". I responded with an email saying "I train now, in anticipation of that day". His English is the weakest out of the PIG people, so it was nice to be able to have a short laugh in a medium that's likely more comfortable for him.
Dorm dinner tonight was ramen with a side of pork and green pepper mixture (and miso soup and rice). It was pretty good (I REALLY liked the green pepper dealie), though the ramen was too salty to drink the soup. D: I didn't see other people drinking the soup, so I hope that it's OK not to, and that I haven't offended the provider of roughly 48% of my meals... D: I had a hankering for dessert when I went to the Yokosan earlier, so I had bought a Haagen Dazs Matcha Cripsy Sand (why is their only matcha dessert 270+円) and put it in the fridge. When I went to retrieve it, I found the grapefruit I had put in there this morning for the exact purpose of having dessert on hand come this evening. >_< Hooray for double-dessert! I realize I could have saved either for later, but the calories don't count when you're not supposed to be eating it, right? ;D
It's now time for bed, as I want to try to get up decently early to get a nice, full day in Akiba, since an entire week away has felt veeery long after the vacation. D: Also, I want to try to do some shopping on Jiuna's behalf, and doing so in the morning on a weekday is probably the most advantageous time to do so. Night!
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