Life is great when you have a fantastic hat.

Or two!  Went shopping with Benben and Andy in Harajuku today.  Andrew had a list about as long as my arm of shit he wanted to buy and Ben was looking for some shirts.  I was still on the hunt for hats, green cons, and maybe some sunglasses.  I didn't recall the cons being so expensive, but apparently the green ones I want are 5000 yen.  I need to check the ABC mart in Kashiwa; all of the places I've been to don't have my size!  I have started to realize how much I hate crowds.  Or maybe I hate shopping.  I was getting tired and cranky after only 3 hours or so and even coffee didn't help much.  When I have an idea of what I'm looking for in my head, nothing else interests me.  We went in a million shops (although most of them were only guys clothes) but nothing caught my eye.  The pitfall of Harajuku is all the stores have almost exactly the same stuff.  So it gets really tedius, especially with Andrew the stingy bastard dragging you around.  He spent oodles of money and still didn't get everything he wanted.  We called it a night and went back to their place and rented Back to the Future.  Came home.. and its nearly 2am already.  I was ready to pass out at 9 but I'm doing alright now.  Not doing myself any favours but meh.  There's some stuff I want to do before bed: do some reading, organize the crap off my desktop and search for this Vancouver Sun article about self-training for a 10K.  I am seriously going to start running again.  I know you're supposed to start easy and do 2 mins run, 1 min rest or something to start with but I need the times.  And then I'm going to make a running mix that has music with correctly timed intervals so I can do it properly since I don't have a stopwatch. 

( Retail therapy doesn't work for me )

This Foxytunes plugin I got fucking blows.  It makes writing entries a fucking pain in the ass (it keeps moving it to the top when I scroll down D<) and it doesn't even work with iTunes.  Fuck that shit.  I've also decided after I come back from Osaka and get paid next month, I'm going to get my hair permed.  Or see about getting my hair permed, at least.  They told Nikki they c/wouldn't do a straight perm for her because her hair is too died.  I think mine should be alright.  I really want more volume and something more interesting than just straight.  I'm going to splurge and have a new look for the fall semester. :3

WTH

Not that I'm not grateful to the asshole stomping around upstairs -- or next door, I can't quite tell -- for waking me up before noon but grinding, scraping, thumping and all kinds of fuckery isn't the nicest sound in the world.  I was actually up before 11.  For sleeping at past 4am again, that's good, I suppose.  I need to make a point of sleeping right after Himitsu tonight, no matter how much I will be buzzing.  Or hope to be buzzing.  I don't remember what the preview was but I might be turning it off if they do more fucking Calorie Cowboy bullshit.  Or switching to Code Blue so I can get hot and bothered over Yamapi.  Himitsu's ratings have sucked big hairy balls for the past few weeks.  Yamapi's on Fuji at the same time -- are you surprised?  That kid has big star power all by himself that rivals all five of Arashi together.  But, Yamapi in scrubs?  You're asking for trouble.  Ahh my ovaries are fluttering.

The retardedness seems to have subsided.  Let's hope it stays that way. 

I must do laundry either today or tomorrow and get the house spotless before I go away.  I don't have any plans today or tomorrow so that shouldn't be a problem but I have been killing too much time on the computer (ahem, LJ) and shit isn't getting done.  I should go find the library and renew the books I have so I don't get overdue charges and also so I know where the branch closer to me is.  I wanted to get started on Chapter Eight for Eq but I am fucking lazy.  It might do me good to give myself a deadline -- tomorrow night -- and maybe I'll get something done.  I tend to write either 500 words and get stuck or write 1500 and a whole chapter in one go.  Eight should be easy enough, I know exactly what I want to happen but things never seem to go as smoothly as I think. 

Just click your heels and say, "There's no place like home."

Holy crap.  Double attack of the roaches.  I want to google them and see what kills the fuckers but I'm scared of seeing pictures.  I'll have to read that article mama sent to me and check it out and try some of those things.  One was on the counter when I was going to the convenience store but I think it crawled down the drain because I didn't see it after.  And then I went to put my rice cooker back on the shelf and there was a white roach underneath!  Where do these bastards come from!?  I was in my room all evening and took the rice cooker off the shelf and put it on the floor to cook and then put it back -- how did it get under there?  I couldn't find the big black one (we're talking like 2 inches) unless it scampered behind the bottles and spices on my counter but I'm not about to go hunting.  I just did the dishes in the sink so it must have disappeared.  I think these traps I bought are useless becuase the white one ran into the corner (or limped, it wasn't very fast) but didn't go in.  I attacked it with the vacuum and may it die a slow starving death in that little dust compartment.  Maybe the traps are too small?  I should get some bigger and better ones tomorrow to set out while I'm away.  I'm thinking of sealing up the drains too with saran wrap to keep them out but I don't know if that will make the place stale and smelly. 

Went out today and ran some errands.  I wanted to print Equilibrium out so I could have a hard copy of it (for not particular reason) but the flash drive I bought was being fickle with me and crashing explorer every 5 seconds so I took it back to Bic Camera to see if I could exchange it even though I threw out the reciept like a moron.  I dug out the old SD card from my HP brick/camera and saved the files on there but 7-11 only prints pictures from cards, not documents, as does Bic.  And we don't have a Kinko's nearby.  I'll just have to wait til school starts so I can do it for free.  Got some bathmaths to keep my floor dry and a few groceries.  And shoes!  I finally found my green cons.  I loves them!  I'm going to wear them to Osaka with pride.  :D

Green cons!  Just like Aiba-chan.  And they match my layout!

They tried to tell me at Bic that it was because the flash drive was for a Japanese computer but mine's in English which is totally and utter crap.  He said I should do a Windows update or try and different USB port and if that didn't work, come back.  I tried a different port and it worked fine...  I don't know what's wrong with the other one.  They're so full of shit anyway.  Now all my fic files are saved there so I don't have to keep sending stuff home and uploading to Gdocs all the time at work.  I'm going to save the OT5 files there as well.  And maybe the installer for PSPad as well so I can load that up at work since the server won't let me download. D<

Sat at Starbucks and wrote today.  I think I cross out as much, if not more than, I actually write.  I want to transcribe it now but I'm afraid I'll get in a groove and be up until 4am... again.  I wonder if I should just stay up all night tomorrow.  I don't know if I'll get any sleep on the Shinkansen but I have to leave home at 6:30am to get there, which means waking up at 5:30am.  I need to clean and do laundry tomorrow so I shouldn't sleep in too late and I thought about doing a run but I'm probably not going to.  And packing.  Still haven't found something to give Yuka's parents for letting us stay and none of the tacky omiyage booths in Tokyo Station will be open at 730am on Saturday.  What is Kashiwa famous for?  Dick all.

I just learned Jpod was canceled after 13 episdoes.  Fuck you, CBC.  You finally make a show that doesn't completely suck ass and you doom it to death by slotting it in on a Friday night.  Why must you be so cruel?  But the DVD comes out in September. :D  I have something to look forward to when I get back.  And mom did ask me what I want for Christmas... speaking of mom, should email her back.

Also found a comment box code for OT5 which I should test out.  And this goddamn song has been playing everywhere and is stuck in my head.  It's so fucking bad, but starting to sound good.

Edit: 12:35pm.  The black monster emerged just as I was about to go to bed.  Went to the bathroom and saw the bastard crawling on the kitchen floor.  How did it get past me?  I didn't see it after it was on the counter.  Unless it got onto the floor and crawled under the clothes I have waiting to go out while I went to the conveneince store.  The traps are definitely too damn small for these beasties.  I was tempted to take a picture but I didn't want it to disappear.  I chased it out of the house with a towel and hopefully it won't try to crawl back in under the door.  It couldn't quite escape that way without me opening it (and then it fell on it's back so maybe they're like turtles -- it'll just die that way) so I don't think it can get back in again.  I fucking hope not.  I feel accomplished that I tackled these buggers with minimal screaming and no crying this time but now I'm jumpy as hell.  Damn it!  And I was tired too!