終わり

All good things must come to an end unfortunately.  I've done nothing but max out since New Years and I love it.  Hung out with Andrew, helped Justin move to Saitama, did a bit of shopping, watched a bunch of movies and season one of CSI: Miami.  Rather productive I'd say.

I got my hair cut today, starting the new year off with a fresh look.  Well, not really.  It's nearly the same, just cleaned up the layers and fixed the fridge.  Growing it out is a PAIN.  I wish I hadn't cut it in July... Big regret.  It's slowly getting back to something managable. 

Apart from being a completely lazy ass this last week, Andrew's old roommate Carla stopped through Narita on her way back to Canada from a wedding in Australia.  She flew JAL and had a 23 hr layover initially but they wanted to change it, so they put her up in a hotel overnight.  Andrew and I went out to Narita and had a hotel party with Carla!  It was like a time slip, because she was staying at the Nikko Narita Hotel which is the same place that my family stayed when we first flew over to Singapore and transited through Narita.  I hardly remember it: I vaguely recall a white marble lobby and the restaurant we ate breakfast in.  So I didn't have any big nostaglic feelings when we got off the shuttle bus from the airport.  And they did a lot of work on the place in the last 15 years, I'm sure.  But it was fun hanging out with Carla again.  We raided the convenience stores and ate ramen for dinner.  We got stupidly drunk, watched Captain Planet (thanks to Andrew) and took retarded pictures in the hotel in the middle of the night.  Also managed to bust my camera lens, so thats in the shop for repairs.  Nothing serious, just jammed the lens when I dropped it on the floor of the elevator.  Lucky its still under warranty. 

Finally heard from Tatsuya about what I'm supposed to do at the elementary schools.  Nothing epic, and I could have decided that myself.  "Introduction about yourself, songs and daily conversation."  BORING.  But I'm still pissed off because I was supposed to know this before holidays.  Well, they're letting me knock off from JH early tomorrow to go over to the elementary school to "meet" with them about my lessons.  UGH.  Whatever, it'll be over in 2 weeks. 

Hopefully, I will be able to sleep at a reasonable hour tonight.  I managed to get myself up at 10am this morning but I'm feeling energized for some reason.  I'm doing nothing exciting.  Maybe I'm excited to go back to work??  :O  Shocking!!