So, yesterday was pretty much a nothing day. After waking up at 5:50am and not being able to get back to sleep, I did the usual email/RSS feed checking then proceeded to not do terribly much. I did some accounts, watching some anime, wrote journal entries and talked online to people. As usual, I wrote a bunch of email… sometimes it seems like I spend way too much time on email and never get anywhere with it. Oh, I read some xkcd as well – I’m all up to date, and I suggest those of you with an intellectual bent to your humour go check it out.

Today started off somewhat interestingly (if far too early again) with a conversation (via posts on one of my Facebook photos) with two of my ex-flatmates from Seattle. Before heading into Uni I also received the very sad news that my girlfriend’s grandfather has passed away. Been coming for a little while, but still sad and I wish I could be there for her more than I can.

After this sober news, I headed into university for my next basic language class. It seemed like a lot of commuting for really not all that much time on campus. I think I spent about as much time commuting as I was on campus. I ran into Stefan and chatted to him for a while, then mucked around doing odds and ends in my room before I was due to go out.

Tonight I went into Shibuya (met up at Hachiko, the dog statue) and met up with Simon (a.k.a. Wocky), an old friend of mine from when I used to work at the internet cafe in the Arts Centre in Christchurch (which is no longer there, sadly). We stopped in at a phone place and picked up pamphlets for me so I could browse through models and so on and make up my mind later. From there we went to a little spicy restaurant and Wocky got me to try various bits and pieces of Japanese cuisine. I wouldn’t be able to tell you what they all were now, but it was all good. I also tried Chu-hai, a kind of Korean alcohol that’s pretty common here. Tastes kind of like a watery, low-level vodka mixer, really – fairly bland and probably good if you want something cheap to imbibe small quantities of alcohol but don’t want to drink beer. We also ordered some habanero chicken – damn that stuff is hot! Had to wear the protective gloves and so on just to eat it. Wocky had sweat pouring off him and both of us required lots of liquid. Anyway, it was great to catch up with him again and hopefully I’ll be seeing more of him, since he lives here in Tokyo.

Back at the dorm and man am I tired. Long day.