August 25: Meeting Jeremy
Today I got up a little earlier than I usually do on weekends, but by the time I was out of bed and ready to eat, the Yokosan was open, meaning I ate cold korokke needlessly. D: Oh well. Also, my grapefruit today tasted quite sweet, but also a little bit wrong, so I pitched it to be on the safe side. I called Jeremy and Celine (friends from high school who are currently travelling in Japan), and they said that they were going to a museum today, but would call me after they were done if I was going to be in Tokyo anyways.
I set out for Akihabara, and the trip was pretty uneventful. I did however, notice a rather funny sign on the way to Yokochuu, which had the shop name in big letters, and then off to the side it read "A florist that loves flower." Um, yeah? I mean some people hate their jobs, but someone who hates flowers becoming a florist seems pretty much impossible to me haha. I'm sure there's some (rather bitter by this point, surely) counterexample or other on Earth, but whatever.
Once in Akihabara I went to Tenya, which was tasty as usual, but I unfortunately had a bit of a service problem this time. D: I went in and got seated in a corner, and then I think they forgot about me or something. I waited a while for one of the waitresses to come around, and when one did, she walked right past me to take the order of a guy who came in after me. When she was on her way back I flagged her down and ordered the thing I've gotten every single time I've been there (which has probably been around 10 times since Jiuna arrived). However, when it came, it was an All-Star Ten-don, not an All-Star Set. >_< It was one of the same waitresses that's been taking my identical order all the time, too. Oh well, at least the non-set comes with miso soup, and is 100円 cheaper haha.
After eating I went to CLUB SEGA 2, and found a 3rd Strike player who was *gasp* incredibly evenly matched with me! We played quite a bit, and I think we both put about 300円 in the machine, which, I must say, is rather more enjoyable than having to put in 600円 all by yourself for the same amount of play haha. He was using Ibuki, which probably contributed to my enjoyment, as Ibuki and Elena are pretty close in terms of tier, and have a 5/5 matchup. I won the last set and then he never put another coin in so I moved on to HEY!, where I played Mushihime once, where I did quite well, before moving on to Mushihime Futari, where I did quite poorly haha. I was going to play more Mushihime not-Futari, but Jeremy called and said that he and Celine were done with the museum, so I made my way over to Shibuya, where they currently were.
In Shibuya Jeremy, Celine and I just kind of walked around for about 4 hours haha. It's interesting how quickly the time goes when you're spending time with people you know well and haven't seen in a while. We walked up and down a bunch of streets near the station, went into a couple of clothing/department stores (nobody bought anything, there were rhinestones EVERYWHERE), spotted some lovely Engrish advertising Combustion Tomato Cheese for sale (how exciting! In Japanese it just said Fried Tomato Cheese), and went to Tower Records.
In Tower Records I FINALLY found the Legend of Mana Soundtrack that I looked for in every store I went to with Jiuna when she was here. It was only about as overpriced as all Japanese CDs are, which is nice, but I was kind of hoping to find a good deal somewhere, as the game DID come out when I was in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. D:< Nope. Apparently everyone else liked the music from that game as much as I did and hung on to their copies. I also saw a Japanese release of Scissor Sisters' "Night Work" album, but the only difference appeared to be the inclusion of some remix bonus tracks. The cover and back design were identical to the North American release (the bonus tracks were advertised on the paper spine cover inside the wrapping), and I have yet to hear a remix of a Scissor Sisters song that I actually like (plus, they were of "Fire with Fire" and "Invisible Light", nothing to get terribly excited about). They also had Scissor Sisters "Scissor Sisters", but it didn't have the UK bonus tracks as I'd hoped it might. Oh well.
After Tower Records we went and got some food at the Food Show! underground in Shibuya Station. Both Jeremy and I settled for fried rice, although there were a great many other foods I would have tried, given infinite money, stomach capacity and metabolism. We sat against a railing outside the station to eat it, and chatted and caught up. Apparently Jeremy is trying to transfer to UBC for the coming fall, which could be cool. He has 2 years of credits from Langara, so he won't be done by the time I get back (unlike everyone else I have ever known at UBC except for Oliver). Yay! Maybe I'll have someone to get mushroom burgers with again...
At 8pm, Jeremy and Celine caught the last Hachiko bus to get back to their accomodations, and I took the Yamanote back to Shinagawa, and then made my usual way home from there.
I didn't get much Akiba in today, but I enjoyed my time with Jeremy and Celine, which more than made up for it. I think I am going to try to do more Akiba days on Wednesday in the future, as I seem to stay up late after coming home haha. Also, there wasn't that sort of Sunday Blues following me around all of today (actually it did appear now and again when I temporarily forgot that it wasn't actually Thursday ahahaha), which was really nice. Tomorrow I'll no doubt get it a bit, but at least I'm not going to then be prone to spend money to stuff my pain. :D
Anyways, it's really, really late here, and I want to get to bed before birds start chirping or something. Night!
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