Yasumi!

I have been a bad blogger the last couple of days, but my life really hasn’t been exciting enough to write about. Wednesday was shougakkou, which was fun, as usual. That night we had the Ota dinner at Gen, an izakaya in Ota. It was good and fun, but there is a crazy old woman who works there who will get my foot up her ass next time she hints that we need to order more drinks. Those who have seen her know what I’m talking about! But yes, it was fun, plus we had some adopted Otanians for the night, which is always nice.

Thursday was yet another holiday! It is weird to have a random day off on a Thursday. I slept in, but half expected my JTE to ring me in the morning, wondering why the hell I wasn’t at work. Fortunately, that didn’t happen! I literally didn’t even know the reason for the holiday until I looked at my calendar on Wednesday. It was Culture Day. Um, I don’t even know what that means? To celebrate Culture Day, I stayed in my house all day and watched American television while downloading like 15 albums (completely legally, of course). It was the best day off EVER! For those who don’t watch Grey’s Anatomy, you need to watch that shit. SO GOOD.

It was also nice to be at home because it meant I could FINALLY talk to Eduardo for 2 hours without worrying about stupid time difference shit! It was soooooooooooooo nice. I miss me some Eduardo :( :( :( Right now is Day of the Dead, and it’s weird to not celebrate it at all. I need some Mexican culture in my life! Expect more bitching about this come Three Wisemen Day. Mmmm, bread. Anyway. So, I celebrated Day of the Dead by listening to some Kabah, only the best Mexican band EVER. I have no idea what their songs are about, but they are the shit, yo.

Actually, I lied, I did leave my house in the morning to go on a pastry tour of Yabuzuka. Sadly, two of the bakeries were closed for the holiday, but the one in Fujimart didn’t let me down. I couldn’t decide which one I wanted, so I may have bough three. Mmmm, pastries! Hmm, I lead a sad life.

Last night the doorbell rang at 8:30, which was strange because it never rings, let alone at 8:30 PM on a Thursday? I answered it, since I can’t see shit out of my peephole (yes, I will open it on the yakuza some day and die, but oh well), to find a nervous guy from the Yomiuri Shinbun (newspaper) trying to get me to subscribe to his shit. Eww! I made the mistake of speaking Japanese to him…damn me for blowing my cover! I made the excuse that kanji suck and I couldn’t read the paper, but then he tried to get me to subscribe to foreign papers. Then he brought out coupons for beer and said I would get them if I subscribed? Only in Japan. “Do you read the newspaper? Do you drink beer? If you subscribe to the newspaper, you’ll also get beer!” That is seriously what he said. Anyway, I finally shooed him away, but I have learned my lesson…next time I’m gonna do a big ol’ “wa..ka..ri…ma…sen?” in the biggest honky accent I can do! Gotta get ready for whenever I am pulled over by the cops ;)