Aug 1: Not the Best of Days
Ugh... Last night I had like, zero success getting to sleep. >_< I went to bed later than I planned to begin with, but then I couldn't actually fall asleep FOREVER. D: I woke up to my alarm at 7, and my nose was giving me warning signs, so I decided to sleep until 8 instead of running. It's a bit of a nasty feedback loop I've got going. I can't sleep because I don't run and I don't run because I can't sleep. D: I'm crossing my fingers that I can change this tonight.
In the morning I had chikuwa with green peppers and tiny fish, potato with egg and tiny fish, and oden-ish daikon and konnyaku (no tiny fish) with miso soup and rice. Unfortunately, the tiny fish were rather, well, fishy, and that made breakfast a little hard to eat while feeling like such crap. >_< I don't have much choice though, as my options to obtain additional food at work are limited, to say the least. I made it through without getting any surprise revisitations of previously vanquished tiny fish, so I guess it all turned out in the end...
I got to work on time and worked some on my performance testing and parameter variation in my newest model. I had a lot of trouble being productive today, as I had a headache due to tiredness. D: I did get some stuff done though, and I also did a LOT of reading about being a better Ruby programmer (a little easier to handle on an achy brain than papers, which was the alternative), so hopefully that will be an investment I will see the dividends of in the future.
At lunch I ate mapo-tofu on rice, which was delicious and cheap! Unfortunately not many of the usual suspects were available for handiball, which meant that the people from our group ended up playing with and against a bunch of derpy 20-somethings. D:< Easily one of my least enjoyable handiball sessions, possibly even beating out the one where I tried to gouge my eye out (since it turned out to be OK haha). What is it about being in their twenties that just seems to turn men into apes? I don't even speak Japanese well enough to fully understand what they were saying, but their derpiness transcended that barrier. Ballhogging and spiking straight into painfully obvious blocks is also a universal language. D:< I am looking forward to playing with my usual cohort again...
In the afternoon I was pretty braindead, but I did get make some useful progress in fleshing out my recommender. I unfortunately ran into a situation I feared might come up, but hoped would not. I will need to ask Kabutoya-san about it most likely, which means I will not be able to solve the problem tomorrow. I don't think I can puzzle out the solution for myself, as Kabutoya-san only provided me with the end-result equations for the model, and didn't give me any derivations or conceptual information, which are pretty critical if you want to make an informed judgement regarding making alterations. Nishida-san came over to my desk before he left and asked if I had seen the Evo final standings. >_< I'm not sure why he thought I would have, since they would have been posted during the workday... Nishida-san! At least I've gotten him excited about North American tournaments, and I'll admit I was thinking about checking them during some of my long tests haha (who cares about good Ruby style when there's Evo amirite!?!).
I left work pretty soon after 6 because I was at just about the lowest level of productivity I have been at since arriving in Japan, and it would just be an exercise in self-mutilation to stay past when I'm allowed to leave on a day like today. >_< I walked home, and it felt surprisingly short as I was totally zoned out for most of it. >_< I went to the Yokosan to buy carrots to bring to work tomorrow, as I my appetite appears to be returning to level more what I would expect from myself. I bought two bags, and of course, once I got home I remembered that I had ALREADY HAD THAT IDEA EARLIER IN THE WEEK! D: Oh well, I guess it's a good think I like carrots, because I am now the proud owner of about 12 rather large ones. >_<
I ate dorm dinner of a saucy hamburger patty and some assorted stirfried vegetables and something that I can only describe as being a cousin of SPAM (with rice and miso soup). There were some new hires eating dinner at the same time as I was, and they were of course dressed all nicely, making me feel a little slovenly in my wifebeater, pajamas and azure crocs (I also have not shaved in like 2 weeks). >_< They were pleasant though, and I tried speaking Japanese with them until they just decided that English was the better way to go. The one who talked for the most part had really, really good English, as he was an exchange student at Waterloo. He says he's from a robotics background and is worried about doing programming for his job now due to not having a good foundation in coding. He decided that he would ask me if he had any problems because I'm in Computer Science. He has, uh, clearly never met Joe Average UBC CS student or he wouldn't have so much confidence in me haha... >_<
After eating dinner, I finished my final entry (from yesterday) into my budget record for July. I am happy to say that I managed to save my goal of 50000円 (about $625), and I only had a deficit of 367円 in my discretionary spending tally! That deficit has been absorbed by today's unspent discretionary money, so I am totally in the black coming into August, even with the rather pricey Kyoto trip (although I will be getting reimbursed for more than I expected, as Kabutoya-san included costs Ikkidzuka->Shin Yokohama and vice versa as well as Shinkansen fare >_<). I ate some carrots and checked Evo results and videos, and talked a bit with Kusano-san before writing this up.
It is now time for bed, so I hopefully don't have a sleep-deficit-headache again tomorrow. D: Night!
PS - Just as I was about to post this, I got a message on my phone from "Area Mail", with some red exclamation marks, and the only part of which I could make sense of was 地震 (earthquake). I closed my phone and everything started shaking! O_O Luckily it was not serious in the slightest, but it was stronger than any of the others I've felt here (which would explain why its P-waves would have triggered the Area Mail). Gave me a little scare though!
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