Entries this day: Sigh fun

Sigh

6:00pm JST Saturday 22 January 2005

Pretty depressed most of today. Did some quintarks; did some data entry (actually a lot) and talked to Jen some. I don't really have any friends in Japan. Jen is my one friend in Japan. No one else really knows me. Why? Because I don't like to do the social things: sit in a haze of smoke and drink, whether it be at karaoke, an izakiah, or a concert.

This is a gross disgusting smoking country and I'm sick of that.

Where's my I-group? Where are people who are doing personal work instead of medicating?

However, tonight, I'm going out with the gang from Millenium House. I really like Richard, but we don't really know each other. Maybe that can change.

I'm not going to take my backpack nor computer.

fun

10:50pm JST Saturday 22 January 2005

Pretty much had fun tonight at the bar place in Ebisu. We walked over to Matteo's (new to me but for him no longer so) new apartment to chill out for a bit. We diverted to a ramen shop to chow and were watching a silly game show where players had to guess the meaning of different what-cha-call-ems. Here is "I understand:"

    stand
    -----
     eye

You understand? Okay, but they had them in Japanese, and I pretty much couldn't get any of them; I could barely read all of the kanji on the screen before the round was over. Anyway, when it came to the end game, they had The Super Tricky ones.

There were three different ones, and for the first one they said, "if you can get this, then your IQ is at least 115."

The query was a set of about 7 symbols, some of which I remember:

火　ノ　月

And the answer involved mix-n-match with the kanji to make a double compound kanji word.

I didn't get it.

The second one was supposed to indicate an IQ of 110.

イ　ニ　サ　＿　ゴ　シ

The question being, "what goes in the blank?"

I got it.

ロ, of course.

The last one was worth 105 IQ points:

-   -   - 
 | | | | |
-            
 | | | | |
-   -   - 

That's supposed to look basically like 300 made out of right angled lines of equal length.

Move only two lines and make it say "1"

I got it.

- - - -

By the end of the show, I was done eating (everyone else was already finished) and we headed over to Matteo's after grabbing drinks at a local convenience store. And by local, I mean 20 meters away, 80 meters closer than the next convenience store.

Waited until Tanya showed up and then headed out to Ebisu, which is one station away (on a different train line) from Nakameguro (190 yen), but costs 160 more yen to get there.

- - - -

There was a woman dancing all crazy in front of the performers (vocalist with hand drums, keyboardist, guitarist, bass guitarist, and a guy on rock drums (what are they called?)) so I joined her with my own flavor of crazy dance and it was great.

Later, I saw her and I was like, "good dancing," and she didn't respond to that, but just asked, "can I play something?" as in could she play an instrument on stage? What? No; you're just someone in the audience; of course you can't play. And I'm just another someone in the audience. Stop being crazy.

I was talking to Tanya for a bit; we both like Beastie Boys and hip hop. She's not as fond of Eminem as I, but she likes Ministry and Outkast, whose name came up because they played an Outkast song between sets that had like really speedy beats and then slow girly R&B and then speedy beats again. I liked the tune.

Before the next set started, I decided it was time for me to head out, so I went to get my coat.

- - - -

Upon arrival in the bar in Ebisu, I took off my coat and looked for a place to put it. All the chairs at all the tables (of which there weren't many) were taken. Matteo walked upstairs, so I followed him, hoping he knew of some space we could squat. No.

Headed back downstairs cause the girls were like, "that's him; that's Q," the vocalist slash hand drum player we had come to see. He didn't look at all like I expected. He was physically fit, young, with short dread-ish kinda hair. I had expected an old, plump, balding jazz musician type.

That's when I saw the woman dancing like crazy.

I wanted to dance like crazy, but I was still holding my coat. And in my coat pocket was my 2 liter plastic bottle of Amino Supli. I had consumed half of it during the evening up until that point.

I spied two chairs that were unused. They were right next to the band's corner, and I wasn't sure if I could use them for my coat, so I asked Shoko. She was basically like, no, saying they were probably for the band.

The woman was still dancing quite effectively.

I shifted my brain to I-know-what-I'm-doing mode. Walked over to the chair, hung my coat on the back of it.

Danced, danced, danced.

- - - -

Walked over to the chair upon which I had hung my coat and was like, "excuse me" to the woman who was sitting on the chair. "I just need to get my coat."

There was a coat on top of my coat, so I lifted it up to find another coat on top of my coat. I picked them both up and found a coat hanging on the back of the chair over my coat. Picked it up and found another coat. I was running out of hands, so I just felt under that coat for my coat. Nope; another coat was on top of my coat. So I lifted up three coats to get my coat and found another coat under those three. Lifted up the four coats, thankfully found my coat. Grabbed it and hefted it onto the floor by my feet. Rehung the four coats and lay the 2 coats on those coats.

Put my coat on, and the friend of the woman who had been sitting on the chair came back and was *totally* smiling at me. Like such a long smile with eye contact that I began to think she was a bit off. I had zero percent interest in hooking anything up with her so I didn't say anything flirtatious. "just getting my coat."

- - - -

Said bye to my peeps and headed out.

Saw Katrina on her way in. She was focused on her phone, so I said, "you're super close;" I figured she was reading directions to the place.

"I'm in a pissed off mood."

"Wow. Do you want me to show you where the bar is?"

"I know where it is."

"Okay; see you later."

I'm glad I left before she arrived in a pissed off mood.

Walked to Nakameguro station to save 160 yen and to prove I knew where it was (I did) and to have a bit of a new experience, and to let my coat air out stinky cigarette smell.

Shower and laundry and now bed.