Entries this day: Dream Hiroshima Shinkansen kyoto meal

Dream

7:11am JST Thursday 2 October 2003

In the restroom, sitting on the john at work when Guy came in and sat on the throne across from me. I was surprised that no divider separated us, but we just talked like it was no big deal, though I was having a hard time excreting anything, and after just a ridiculously long time, I used my fingers and realized that my number 2 was lodged up in me sideways and would *never* have come out without assistance. After I finished, I went back to where everyone was in a school type situation, at an assembly at the end of the semester, after all the dorm residents had cleaned out their rooms so they could be cleaned / sprayed / etc during the winter break. I was in the assembly where some social upheaval had taken place because Buzz Lightyear was the class favorite, a fact which he had prior knowledge of, so he didn't sit next to Betty Crocker because he didn't want to be next to her when the announcement was made. She was all upset and all the cameras were watching her reaction and asking her questions and I really had to poop again so I put on my shoes and ran over to my coat and backpack, trying to optimize my time so I distinctly wondered which I should put on first, and finally decided on coat *then* backpack, and I ran at super high speed alternating between high speed and low speed but long floating steps down the hallway and gingerly busted through a door making sure I didn't destroy a student standing slowly nearby and down the next hall and outside and about to bust through the gate, but I noticed it was Locked.

So I checked the next gate and it was locked and realized they were all locked because the semester was over and we weren't supposed to be in the dorms at all, and I wondered how I was going to go number 2, but I ascended the fence anyway and went up to the building wondering if it would be unlocked, and it was. I carefully walked up the steps and woke up.

Hiroshima

12:30pm JST Thursday 2 October 2003

Bought postcards, wrote one to Josephine, bought trolley passes, rode around on the trolleys while janette yammered with a Japanese woman who seemed she just wanted to practice speaking English. Ended up at Hiroshima port to track down our Starbucks bag with camera, postcards, Hiroshima mug from Starbucks.

Eating at a pastry deli at Hiroshima Port now.

Shinkansen

5:40pm JST Thursday 2 October 2003

Zooooooooom!

From Hiroshima to Kyoto.

kyoto

5:49pm JST Thursday 2 October 2003

In the hotel in Kyoto now. Took a 200 yen subway from Kyoto station to Shijo station. Cool thing is that surrounding Kyoto station are Kujo Station and Gojo Station. "Go, Joe, here comes Cujo!"

Got choto lost on the way to the hotel, but meh.

meal

8:42pm JST Thursday 2 October 2003

Ate dinner at a Chinese restaurant. I forgot it was Chinese and asked for okonomiyaki since janette has been looking forward to trying some. The waitress said "Chinese" in Japanese and I was like, "oh yeah!" and ordered gyoza. janette was having different trouble ordering since she didn't know the word for noodles with chicken, and I tried to help her ("soba, um, tori") which also wasn't working, so the cook came over to rescue us. He spoke far better English than the waitress.

The gyoza wasn't like I expected (I must be used to the Japanese version) but it was still pretty yummy. janette got chicken and broccoli which was even better.

After we finished, the cook came to ask if we wanted dessert. I told him he was a good salesman after we ordered ice cream and cheesecake. The cheescake was flavorless and the ice cream had bits of orange peel in it.

janette gave me a bite of her ice cream and asked if I liked it. I was like, "the peel isn't very appealing to me."

She removed some peel and gave me a peel free bite. I was like, "peel free to give me another."

janette repealed the peel from a bite and I squealed with appeal and delight.

Then we went to the hotel for the night.