12.01.2003

well my thanksgiving sucked...I had Udon for dinner in my office....woo hoo!!!!!!!! Nobody ever sent me the turkey and gravy soda...thanks! My bowels are thankful...

In a sight that would be-still my father's Mac-loving heart there was a line the length of Ginza Dori (avenue) to get into the grand opening of the first-ever Mac Store opened outside the US. In the middle of a Typhoon people stood freezing cold, soaking wet, and determined to be one of the first 1000 people in the store hahaha....I think some of them just saw a line and jumped on it, Japanese people would do that...It's a cool looking place right across from Mitsukoshi Dept. Store. Right near Tiffany's...

This weekend was cool I guess...My co-workers girlfriend's birthday was friday so we all went out to this Thai resteraunt on top of the Roi Building in Roppongi...good food...then we went to Vanilla for the rest of the night....I paid for it teaching classes the next day...Saturday night I went out till about 3am with some friends....it was a good night, Sunday I was in rough shape and I go to teach again and in the break room it says "WE REACHED OUR SALES GOAL!!! EVERYONE DRINKS TONIGHT!!" I just moaned and whined "no more, no more alcohol."

So at about 830pm we all went out to an izakaya in ginza...two large mega beers and a bottle of wine later my manager and I are toasted haha. So we manage to walk outta there after handing out business cards to all the drunken salarymen in there and then we wander around ginza looking for an open bar (we being a group of about 20 people) we stumbled into a hostess bar by accident (it was named "Angel" how could Hirota not have known what kind of place it was??). THen we goto Hub (closed), TGIFridays (closed), another place (closed). We ended up at another izakaya and at about 2am I had enough and went home to a chorus of drunken boos for being the first one to leave...

I goto Immigration today to put in my visa paperwork...wish me luck!