Well, back home, it's the Fourth of July. Wonder what everyone's doing.
I went to school. At lunch, I bought a curry rice at the school cafeteria. It wasn't bad. Was a little different from the boil-in-bag variety. Afterwards, I had Pocari Sweat, which doesn't go well with curry.
This afternoon, we had a special go class. Go, or Igo as it is called in Japan, is a very old board game played by placing black and white stones on a gridded board. Unfortunately, the lecture was entirely in Japanese, so I still don't really know how to play. However, I did win the one game I played. I think I'll try to get a go set from a toy store before I come home. There is a Toys R Us here. It's subtitle is TOI ZAA RASU.
After go class, I speed walked the ~2 kilometres back to the station and came home.
When I started today's entry, I discovered that the newt's internal storage was full. Upon checking the soup entry, I learned that I have 933k of storage for NewtWorks for 70 items! Not only that, but there's only 238k free on my 32M card. I never expected to fill that thing up.
My head is finally becoming smooth again. It hurts less and looks less ghastly today. I won't let that happen again.
I'm so tired. I don't wanna go on no stupid overnight field trip this weekend. I have to share another furnitureless room with 3 other people. I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE FUCKING ONSENS. I don't like sitting in extremely hot water doing nothing and I'm not bathing in front of other people. You don't even get to soak with guys when you wear a towel. Bah.
Today I talked to another geek. Some guy from Seattle with really bad eyes. He wears thick bifocal glasses and uses a lens to read. When he looks at you his eye wiggle back and forth. He brought a Toshiba laptop with wireless enet running linux and plans to walk around the city looking for a wireless network. Personally, I don't expect he'll have much luck in this backwater, ass backwards town.
My host mother seems to enjoy making work for herself. For example, The other day, she swept the floors with one of those new rag-on-a-stick brooms and then she went all over the house on hands and knees rubbing the floors with a sponge with squeeze bottle full of white liquid attatched to it. The other day, there were cathairs all over the carpet, but instead of vacuuming, she went around on hands and knees with tape and picked up all the hairs. There are at least 2 vacuum cleaners in the house but I have never seen them used. Heh. I stand corrected. It sounds like one's being used right now.
I just had home made chahan [fried rice] with authentic Japanese ingredients. I say "authentic Japanese ingredients" because I couldn't identify any of them except the carrots. Little colorful chunks of stuff in some tan-colored rice. It was good. We had squid, chicken and edamame [green soybeans, often boiled in brine; analagous to boiled peanuts in the Southern US and China] to go with it. I didn't eat any squid. It was just tentacles swimming in a brown sauce. I ate them shortly after I came here, and I don't think I will again.
I'm listening to a radio music countdown program. So far, I've heard Will Smith, Oasis (I didn't know they had a new cd; gotta check that out when I get home), Eminem, and several other American acts which I didn't recognise. Currently, there's a JPOP song on which someone removed the vocal track from Boogie Oogie Oogie and replaced it with some poppy chik lyrics with a chorus of "Driving all night". Cool! Da Pump! [a very popular rap group] Last night I heard Japanese girlie rap. It didn't really seem to work for them.
Ok, Oasis #6, Eminem #5, "Driving All Night" #4, DaPump #3, some crap #2, a catchy little rappy song whose name I couldn't understand #1. Kuso.
I forgot to take my fucking towel to the bathroom and had to dry myself with my stupid little bunny carrot washcloth.
Oh my god. A tv show to teach old people how to turn on a computer. They went through power up, winblows initial set up, and now he's teaching them how to use a mouse. "Kore wa MAUSU"! He's literally showing them how to push a mouse around and double click. GAG. Their laptops have huge screens and they're using big silver bubbly mice. Oh, and their laptops are stupid like current generation bookshelf stereos. Man, it is beyond me how or why people tolerate using winblows. Aside from stupidity. The blowjob wallpaper!!! AAAHAHAHAHAHA [the original Windows95 wallpaper had a shape in the clouds which looked like a woman giving oral sex to a man; it's unmistakable once someone points it out to you]! Ooh, apparently, Japanese winblows comes with Asian-y wallpapers. XP looks kinda crappy. And now, how to turn it off. So we've learned how to plug it in, turn it on, push a mouse around, change wallpaper, and turn it off. What else could one need to know? On second thought, XP looks REALLY crappy. It outright mocks you with its pretentiousness.Bedtime. Gotta pack up for the extra inconvenient internet cafe.