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On Monday Megumi is often away at her tea ceremony lesson. This leaves me to my own devices for an evening—at least until she gets home and we eat dinner at around eleven or so.
Tonight I’m spending these hours alone in several carefully planned ways:
- Forgetting a couple of things at the office. I was reading The Telling by Ursula LeGuin and I had a saved game of おとなのゴルフ on the Nintendo DS. The book and the game unit are both sitting on top of my locker at work now.
- Drinking a can or three of chuhai. Grapefruit. Kirin. Good stuff. Not too sweet, not too weak . . . I remember tales of (brave? idiotic?) high schoolers drinking this citrus booze on the way to school back in the late 1980s—not the lovely new Kirin brews in the diamond-pocked cans, but something along the same lines—but I can’t imagine they got away with it.
- Correcting homework. With no book to read and no game to play, what else could I do during my train ride? I’ve got a few more weeks of the spring/summer term to go, and there are assignments to cover in red ink. I’m on it!
- Watching The Blues Brothers. Good stuff. The Penguin is beating Jake and Elwood with a ruler right now.
Like I said, carefully planned. I have some more photos to comment on from the UK trip, but that will happen later this week. Tomoya got word from the University of Edinburgh that he was formally accepted; he might even have a dorm room. We’ll be sliding him a pile of pounds to cover the books and classes and haggis and whatnot.
There are other important photos to post . . . they portend great things. Great things. More to follow. Stay tuned. I promise the next entry will come soon!
School chapel
Back to the trip!
Yeah, I was always running around in a necktie back when I was a high school student. I remember those days well. Or at least I would, if I hadn’t always been fashioning my necktie into a rope to lower myself down the school wall, to get to the beer machine . . . Anyway.
Megumi took this one in the chapel in Tomoya’s school. I hear this is a popular room right before exams start.
Christian and Nora
Cousin Chris sits with Nora, daughter to cousin Lisa. The shot was taken in a hospital room where grandma Ruth took her last breaths early Monday morning. A sad event, but a happy way to go, surrounded by grandchildren and great-grandchildren. More to follow on all of this later.
Mapping the restaurant
Went over to Google Maps and Yahoo Japan Maps to add some links to the in-laws’ restaurant’s website. On the whole I’d say that Yahoo gives users more helpful gimmicks—mailing a map to your keitai so you can wander around town and see where you are later—but Google has a nicer presentation. So I linked them both.
Today’s the last day of our Golden Week vacation. Yesterday we headed up to Okutama and did a little bit of hiking. Nothing serious; just a long walk along the river. Pictures will get uploaded and linked tomorrow. Today it’s wet and windy . . . a nice way to mark the depression at going back to the office tomorrow.
ICU sakura
This weekend we went to ICU for a picnic on Saturday. Great weather (I got yet more sunburn) and delicious champagne and wine and food from Enchanté. Pretty crowded. On Sunday it was cloudy and cooler and there were fewer people carousing under the blossoms. Still a nice day for a walk though.
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