2.15.2004

Howdy! Happy Valetine's Day to all the J-Cuties reading this...all four of you haha...I had a bad week, I've had worse, but this one was up there.

My PC at work is soo screwed up it takes a half hour to open a web page, so after weeks of stringing curses together in the 7 languages I am able to do so in I gave up. I was supposed to have it fixed friday, but it ended up not happening. So I moved my desk because I can no longer at the same time deal with sitting across from the Punjab and my shitty computer all at once. I was told to map out some banks in Tokyo and have it done by monday. I thought...this is a bit rediculous seeing as how i only have a few days to do it, but I can figure it out. I was at work till midnight thursday and by friday at about 2pm I had finished one of the banks...then my new pc crashed and I lost my day's work. Up until then life had been grand, motoring along getting all my work done without cursing and blowing up at my pc then it happened. That was the final straw. I sat there for the next two hours thinking...atleast I get to see Miho and a great movie tonight.

The movie was "Pulp Fiction." See, you might think...why is he watching that movie yet again???? Roppongi Hills Virgin Cinemas is in the middle of a classic film fest. Every Friday night they show a classic film for only 1,000 yen a person...usually its about 1,800 yen a ticket...so not such a bad deal...and they sell beer for only 500yen and the rest of the snacks are normal price...unlike america...So I was pumped...Pulp Fiction in a movie theater...then IT happened...

Miho had decided that we were going to a Valentine's Day concert at her old all-girl's high school...I was devastated. So I am dragged unwillingly to this thing and plop down and slouch in my chair at the idea of being 22, in a high school concert, on a friday night. It was the perfect cap to a horrible week which I spent sick, and frstrated with work. To top it all off the last song before the intermission was Fly Me to the Moon...the great ol' Sinatra toon....but what has happened was, they remixed it to fuse with a salsa song...the results had ol'blue eyes rolling in his grave...I wanted to cry at the prospect of there being an intermission then another hour of this undeserved punishment...so we goto starbucks and miho buys me a double latte...I graciously accept the peace offer. We go back and right before the show starts again I spill coffee on my italian silk shirt that when I bought it a year anf a half ago had been the most expensive shirt I ever bought. I was unhappy to say the least...

My unhappiness was over when the high school girls came out and started performing Chicago...I wasn't happy cuz they were performing, but because we were very close to it all and this gorgeous lil korean girl was lookin at me while she was dancing and as a result she was messing up her dancing routines...it was brilliant. Yes it is possible for a 17 yr old girl to be gorgeous...you had to see her...wow...so the whole time the show is on we are just kinda lookin at eachother while she is dancing and she would grin and wink at me then mess up her step and someone would dance into her...it was a great ego boost...one Miho had no idea was going on...and won't know unless she reads this hehe...

Then they had a 16 yr old girl singing about being a prostitute and making all these sexual references in her song....she was actually a really good singer, but I was more amused by a J-girl her age singing that type of song, dressed like a hooker, in front of her parents and all of the other parents...well done. I give her a 10 hahaha.

So then we walk out and goto a bar down the street and in walk all of Miho's old teachers. So we are sitting there talking and she makes some sexually-related remark fairly loud and a few of them heard it...she ran to the bathroom in embarassment as I cackled with amusement...then we decided to stop by my apt for a lil while and as I get to the entrance to the my bldg, I realize I left my keys on my desk...so I didnt't know what to do...

Without any other alternative I knock on my neighbor's door...a guy I have never even spoken to before...he goes out of his way to try to help me out and whn he realizes there is no solution invites Miho and I in for beers. he then realizes he has no beer so we goto a bar down the street and he buys a round of soujou...korean rice wine...not shots...he buys it on the rocks...we stand there talking and laughing about how much of an idiot I am and then Miho goes home for the night around 11:30 or so...so then I am left alone with my nutjob neighbor...

We decide to stay out all night...we go up to roppongi and Since I had no place to stay and his apt was messy so he was embarassed he stayed out all night with me until about 3am I realized something...i could break into my apt...I tell him how and he says "it might work." So we go back to his place....

I go to his door for his balcony and point out that while the sliding door is locked there is the top sliding windows that both he and I have...it is never locked cuz of the way the airconditioner is set up...So I say "Maybe I can crawl up into it, let's try it." So we climb over the railing on his balcony and hanging off of his balcony a few stories above the street we are able to somehow toss ourselves to my balcony. Then he gets up on the railing and opens my vent window thingy and crawls through and reaches down and unlocks the door so I can get in...I am very thankful at this point so I say...I owe ya a few drinks...but right now I goto sleep...Right before I goto sleep I realize I can't find my keitai (cell)...so I search for it all over to no avail...I then knock on his door and he gives it to me with me even asking and laughs saying "dude, you're a mess. good night" and goes back inside his apt...

I woke up at 9am to meet miho to look for apts cuz I will be moving very soon...I realize that the one I want I can't have cuz my company won't give me deposit money till I been working for them 6 months...company policy...so I continue looking, we go out somewhere I dont know and find nothing but ugly places....so I veto every one...then we goto this one random real estate agency and low and behold after we we there for a good hour this guy finished searching and handed me one sheet of paper...it had three more apartments in the same bldg I want to live in for 10,000 yen a month less than the other agent...I threw my arms in the air in joy...to find out that there are now 6 empty apts in this brand new bldg still...that means I have a much better chance of getting in in a few months...i mean how fast can one bldg in tokyo fill up??? There are thousands of other bldgs...and prolly several places just as nice or nicer...but for me it is perfect...thats the place I want!!

So then we goto Yoshinoya for lunch....no beefbowls, So I have Kimchi-don while Miho eats a Curry-don. The kimchi is nice I thought...I miss the gyoudon...but can live with the kimchi one...Then we goto shinjuku and miho gives me my valentine's day gift...tickets to the premier of Lord of the Rings 3...v-day was it's first day in Japan...I was so happy I cried...best present anyone ever gave me hahaha...in Japan girls pay for guys on v-day...but it comes back to kick us in the ass on March 14th (which is called White Day), it's the day guys buy girls things...so it all balances out I guess...plus miho's birthday is tuesday...So I better get crackin'...

We see Lord of the Rings: Return of the King...which by the way is the best movie ever made. If you disagree you deserve to get your eyes ripped like the poor little boy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...check it out on Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough...crazy shit. So after the three and a half hour epic Miho and I went to Dubliner's Shinjuku for a few pints...we are there and this guy is staring at Miho so she grabs me and gives me a huge kiss and the guy is thoroughly unhappy that I, and not him, will be leaving with Miho hahaha...so then I start talking to this crazy Irish guy behind us...he was pretty cool and ended up buying Miho and I a round of drinks...nice guy...Miho went home around 12 and was thoroughly lambasted by her parents...

Also, her sister called her on saturday to voice her and her husband's disapproval of my moving closer to Miho and living on the same train line as her...Miho shot back, do you think anyone, let alone Tsuyoshi (her husband), would approve of your affair if they knew about it?? Her sis shut up and moved on to other topics hahaha...pretty funny...

So now here I am on Sunday night sitting in my office relaxing and finishing up some work I should've done Friday but was too busy surfing the net to do...Here's a piece of randomness for you...48 people have accessed this website by searching for "yoyogi orgasm" on google...ponderous, f'ing ponderous (that phrase is an O&A reference, if ya don't know O&A look up Opie and Anthony on google news...)