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For some reason the payment for my LJ didn't go through so LJ has reverted me back to an account with advertising. I some ways it's a relief as I now have the money to pay for a magazine subscription that needs renewing. However, it does mean that my blog will have adverts on it, which is not something I'm not too happy about. See, I keep looking at them - Cthulhu statues, Cthulhu Lives T-shirts, lose 9lbs fast, goth clothes...

Anyway, I didn't talk about what I got up to Sunday. After two days of dismal rain I awoke to find it gloriously sunny outside. Having anticipated a rainy day in bed, I joyfully leapt out from the covers (well, not quite) and hopped on my bike. I went over to Tsutaya to pick up horror films. The selection there is quite dreadful. For example, they have Halloween H2O, and the duff sequels, but they don't have the original. I got "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" and "Marie Antoinette", which is a horror of a different sort.

After that I pootled back through town and went along a road I've never been down in order to find a shop called "Avenue" which had very cool hats earlier this year, and which obviously weren't there now. I need a nice hat for winter as I've gone off my hat with the devil horns and my other tight knit cap which is functional but not good-looking.

On the way back I found a little path leading up through very tall bamboo. I decided to check it out and followed some steps up into what seems to be some hillside garden still under construction. I then took another path but was creeped out by these huge, yellow bellied spiders who'd contructed 3-D webs above the path with silk that was worryingly thick. I kept thinking of [livejournal.com profile] greygirlbeast's "Silk" and getting one of those buggers stuck to me to I turned back round and went home (via Watahan to get Taiyaki).

And that was my Sunday in the sunshine. I headed to Nagano yesterday, which was not as painful as before despite having to change trains twice in each direction. And then I came home and hung around in the bath for ages. Lovely.

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Nov. 23rd, 2006 05:56 pm
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I seem to have got the "Firefly" bug again. It's the only DVD I brought with me to Japan so I save it for lazy mornings and nights when I can't sleep (there have been a few).

Today is a national holiday in Japan so we got the day off. I went to Komagane with Yasuko and one of my students, Yuko, for lunch. We went to an Italian restaurant for spaghetti and then onto Mr Donut for coffee. I had three cups of the stuff so I'm now simultaneously tired and buzzing. To give my shaking limbs a rest I read the entire Firefly entry on Wikipedia, with associated offshoots and found out some rather interesting stuff. I know want to watch more episodes but I have to ration myself!

Komagane is, from the bit I saw, one huge retail park in the most dramatic setting you could hope for - out-of-town shopping with mountains. Not a big deal for those who live with them, bit for a small person, from a small country, with smallllll mountains (which one rarely sees), this kind of thing is quite shiny. I'll write some more about it at the weekend for the weekly report.

Have started putting together tentative travel plans for the coming month or two including trips to Tokyo, Matsumoto and Nagano amongst others. I want to get into my new apartment and feel a little more settled and at ease with things before I start venturing off for the weekend. The Japanese switch in my brain has finally turned on and all the random syllables are now starting to make sense a little more, so much so that I can now intuit the meanings of certain words according to context, and the rest I merely repeat and ask the meaning. This is a very slow process, however, so expect no bi-lingual-ism anytime soon.

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