Nyahhh
November 07, 2002
Ok, I will not just put up links today (not that there’s anything wrong with link-only-updates). The links are right before this update.
So yesterday I saw my friends and we went to a funny little restaurant that served all kinds of food. In Japan, most restaurants specialize in one food so if you step into an udon shop, you can only literally order udon (several different kinds of udon though). It’s not like Vancouver where you can get spaghetti, steak, quesadilla, and (pshh) chinese stir-fry in the same place. The restaurant we went to was pretty good but most of the time was spent just having a couple of beers and playing janken for whatever food was left. I lost several times so I got stuck with the fourth round picks and a piece of lemon. Bah. I am craving a gianto plate of good ol fashion spaghetti. It’s the easiest thing to make but there’s no incentive for me to go buy the stuff and spend half an hour cooking. I’d rather go to the convenience store and pick up some sandwiches or o-nigiri for half the price and a tenth of the effort. Anyways, I digress. I haven’t seen one girl since June, one guy since July, and another girl since October. They were pretty high level English speakers and they also stayed in Vancouver for well over a year. When I was in Vancouver, they had no problems speaking English. Yesterday was probably one of the first few times they’ve had the chance to practice speaking so their levels were quite low. It was an hour into dinner and a couple beers downed before they were speaking more naturally. It’s not that I’m judging or anything, it’s just made me think you have to keep practicing something just to keep where you are. That sucks because I enjoy a whole variety of hobbies and therefore I will not have the time to practice and therefore I will never be good at something. Sucks to time constraints.
On a happy note, today I understood a woman when she was asking for directions. I even pointed her in the right direction (she was lucky I recognized the train line). I am such a divine gift.
I am running on 4.5 hours of sleep again. It will be like this every Thursday since I work at 7:30am. This shift sticks out like a sore thumb because I usually sleep at 1 or 2am every night because I usually work at 3pm. I do feel I accomplished a lot in the day though. I just can’t wait to get my hands on them monies that were promised.
