August 31/September 1: Month 3 Begins
Holy crap... It's hard to believe that I've been here for almost 3 months now! Even scarier is that means that in a few weeks I will be 1/3 done my stay here. ;_; Ugh... Let's not think about that...
Yesterday I went to Akiba. 'Nuff said. Haha, if you really want more detail, then I can tell you that I ate the korokke that I'd bought for breakfast before taking the bus to Yokochuu. For some reason the traffic was reaaaaaally bad, and it took forever to get there, but upon arrival, when I beeped my Pasmo to exit the bus, the screen showed that I had been given a 300円 credit for my next bus. O_O I still have no idea what causes this (the bus wasn't THAT slow), but I am always happy when it ends up happening.
I didn't waste any time in Yokochuu and took the Keikyu line and then the Yamanote straight to Akiba. I started out the day trying to do some shopping for Jiuna, but unfortunately I'm an idiot and did not take down nearly enough information about the things I wanted to try to buy. Going to Akiba and being like "this CD is here.... Somewhere..." is not a winning strategy in the slightest. >_< I tried feebly to check in Tora no Ana (no dice), and was going to go the the Lammtara, but there was a blockade of really obnoxious-looking people at the entrance to the store so I abandoned the idea. I ate at Tenya for lunch, and they got my order right this time, but gave me the saddest amount of rice I have ever seen. Maybe they think I made Jiuna mad and that's why she's not here, and now they're taking revenge on her behalf or something... I have no idea what's up. >_< I will keep going and hopefully if I smile enough they will start giving me the correct dish/proper amount of food again. D:
After eating, I spent the rest of the day in CLUB SEGA 2 and HEY!, where I sucked horribly at all the games I touched. D: It was quite frustrating, and I couldn't help but think about whether it was karmic retribution for not trying harder to find Jiuna's stuff. >_< I ate stamina-don for dinner at Meryl Streep, which was tasty as usual, but I felt a bit funny for the rest of the day. I have never had that experience before (either that or I just haven't noticed haha) from Meryl Streep, so I don't know what that's about. Since I'm still here today, it obviously wasn't anything too serious; I could have just been dehydrated for all I know (for some reason my frozen Pocari Sweat refused to melt... D:<).
After dinner I went back to CLUB SEGA 2 and played a million games of ESP Galuda 2, and after a while I started to actually get respectably far (by my own standards, of course haha D:). Emboldened by my success, I went over to HEY!, where I tried my hand at Mushihime again (I had seriously almost game-overed on the first stage earlier in the day), and I managed to get as far as I ever have (4th stage boss with 20% health left), and got the highest score I ever have (since moving to the 1P side, of course). I checked my phone for the time and it was unfortunately already 9pm, and so I had to leave right after that. >_< Apparently I should start all my Akiba days with 1000円 worth of ESP Galuda 2 haha.
It was a good thing I didn't try to play chicken with my leaving time, because as I found out on the Yamanote line back to Shinagawa, the Keikyu line was behind schedule (due to passenger injury, they didn't specify of what sort O_O)! This unfortunately meant that, after getting on a train at a fairly regular time, the train then had to take FOREVER to get to Yokochuu, as it had to wait at all kinds of lights and such, presumably due to running outside of what I would assume is a rather tight track schedule. Bleagh. And I didn't even have any new vocab lists. D:<
I got home pretty late, but decided it would be a good idea to go on the Internet (I'm such a genius), and ended up talking to Kevin until I realized that I was so tired that I had a headache. D:
This morning I got up a little later than usual (I had rescheduled my chat with Mom and Jiuna), but I had some errands to do before talking to them, which took waaaaay longer than I expected, and I ended up starting our conversation about 30-45 minutes later than I'd originally advertised. O_O Sorry! I did get quite a lot of necessary household shopping done though, so I do feel good about that. I've got a fresh supply of paper towels, laundry detergent, shampoo, conditioner, tissues, and a bunch of other things. Unfortunately they only gave me one bag at the Matsumoto Kiyoshi (the drug store), and so I had to go back home to drop my purchases off before going to the Yokosan to get breakfast. Even I have enough shame to think it's tacky to walk into the Yokosan with unbagged tissues and paper towels from a different store under my arm haha.
I chatted for a while with Mom and Jiuna (they talked about swimming in the ocean, which is certainly something I miss), and then played some StarCraft with Kevin. My StarCrafting was cut short by noticing that my computer was actually hot to the touch. >_< It was 32 degrees today, which is hotter than usual, and I guess too hot for my poor little laptop to run StarCraft. D: I closed the application and it got better again quite quickly. I guess I'm glad that my games with Kevin weren't of the 40-minute variety, as I enjoy having a usable computer in my room. D:
After stopping StarCraft, I started trying to read Blue Mars from where I'd stopped, but that was apparently waaay too long ago (come to think of it, I think it may have been an entire year since I last read Blue Mars), as I could not for the life of me remember what the characters were talking about in terms of current events and plotlines. >_< I think I will need to start again from the beginning of the book.
I DIDN'T have LAWSON STATION food for dinner tonight! I actually planned ahead and left home at a reasonable time to go eat dinner at the "Chinese" restaurant down the road. It was a pleasant enough experience, although I have no idea why I ordered ma-po tofu, since it's one of the few things on their menu that I HAVE eaten before (at their restaurant, no less!). The Yokosan today actually had a small bucket of matcha ice cream, so I had some of that for dessert. I realize now that having caffeinated ice cream at like, 7pm is possibly not the best idea when I am already expecting to have trouble getting to sleep, but for some reason the RJ that existed at 7pm did not think about this while stuffing his face with ice cream (gee, I wonder why). I will try going to the chinese restaurant again and ordering something a little more adventurous, all though to be honest, that's a pretty silly adjective to use, as everything on the menu looks pretty benign.
After supper (and a somewhat prolonged dessert, the spoon I had was TINY) I tidied my room a bit (and finished off my laundry) before watching some StarCraft. Today's matches were decent enough. The team I wanted to win won, but unfortunately not in the manner I wanted them to (they were already out of contention for the league playoffs, but if they won by more than 1, which they did, they kicked their opponents, another team I like, out of the playoffs). Because they won so handily, I didn't get to see either of my favourite players play, either. D: Oh well, there's always next season.
Anyways, I told myself today that I would go to bed at a reasonable time to set a good pace for the week. Well, you know how well that went from the timestamp on this post. That means I'd best get to bed to salvage what I can from my available sleeping hours as soon as possible. Night!
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