A Musings
...written on 02.17.03, @ 2:09 a.m.
Mon February 17, 2003
It's almost 2 in the morning. I just got back from Damian's place. Brad, Matt and I met over there to have tacos and watch "The Magnificent Seven". Too bad we didn't have a little mood music to go with our mood food while we were preparing it all. It was yummy!
Damian's Chinese friend was over there too. I imagine it was her first (and probably last) taste of Mexican food. I don't think she liked the tacos too well. We had cut up raw veggies like onion, red-yellow-green bell peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, etc. and put it on top of meat purchased from the Brazilian market (was it cow beef? I don't know) sprinkled with cheese and capped with salsa with fresh cilantro. What is there not to like? Maybe my friend Sarah G. can help me with that. Sarah, do people down your way eat lots of raw veggies? Was the combo bad?
Anyway, it was fun and now I am back at my apt thinking about a few things:
1. Hey, who is the person that is reading LARGE chunks of my diary in several sittings? I'd love to hear from you!
2. I think I am going to pull a "Doug" and just give up on the fourth part of my four part trip story (Doug wrote some amazingly detailed entries about some Japanese snack food that I had sent him and when he had had his fill of writing about it, he called it quits and I admired that. I hope he is flattered by this imitation.) Himeji castle wasn't that big a deal anyway. The people at the information counter at the train station were VERY solicitous and helpful. It flurried a little while I was there. They are redoing the outside of the castle because the plaster has to be replaced every 30 years, so there was a lot of scaffolding up, and I didn't get a guide, and I hustled through it all so I could catch up with Veronica so we could start our journey back to Japanese language boot camp. There, story over, no video at 11.
3. I really need to go shopping. Since I have been both sick and working on Sundays for the past month, I haven't been out and about. Shopping, and that means window shopping, really soothes my soul. I am considering going to Gifu tomorrow and hitting some new places and maybe even catching a movie! Laundry and cleaning up the place comes first though, so I shall endeavor to get up early and get it all done in a flash. Then I shall hurry home and cram for my Japanese lesson on Tuesday. Shame on me.
FYI: For almost two weeks my desk has been cluttered with a two foot high pile of books and other teaching debris. I attacked it today and felt like an archaeologist going through all the sedimentary layers and such. I gave it a deep cleaning, even pruning the junk out of my desk drawers. Afterwards I did a little happy dance and chanted "Tomohiro is jealous, Tomohiro is jealous" (Tomo is my next desk neighbor) and my boss said "You can make your desk messy in just one day". "Hmmm," I thought with an eyebrow cocked, "them thar's fightin' words, Mister!" Anyway, I am very pleased at my effort.
Oh, I added a picture to the last entry! It is one of Sogo in 1985 with the "yin-ish" drawing that I mentioned in the background. He definitely looks more robust and happier these days. I must tell you that while I was at his house, many times I thought about how different my, his, our life would be if I had said "yes" to marrying him. I couldn't come up with anything really concrete, but I just wondered.
4.Tonight, the moon in the midnight blue sky looked like a perfectly round dime brilliantly shining in the sun. As I was riding beneath it, I remembered Brian and I cuddling up under blankets and towels in a shorn rice field closeby to watch the 2001 Leonid Meteor shower. What a show that was!
I am eating Valentine milk chocolate M&Ms right now and I want to stop.
Oyasumi.
Kimu