Dare wa Nan desu Ka?

hoi. i have a little bit of homework now, things keep moving a little too fast, and some psychological turds are hitting some psychological fans, same turds i thought i'd managed to polish a little...

agh, enough.

i bought a cheap little children's guitar at the local mall on sunday. the clerk gave me a look like "that's a guitar for kids, you dolt", but i don't care, gaddammit, i like cheap little toy music makers, and i stand behind my purchase. the next day i bought a phone i'm not quite sure how to use. i don't have much time on the thing, and i'm not sure if i have international capabilities or whatever, so i'm still using calling cards for int'l calls. after the phone purchasing with the help of some of the taiwanese ladies who are fluent in japanese, i bought some pizza makin's at the mall grocery store, came back and put together a few small pizzas in the res hall kitchen. red pepper, mushroom and basil with a massive ammount of cheese. they was tasty as heck. i shared them with some folk and made pizza pals.

so, thems was the highlights of the week. i haven't written about the mountain trip yet... herm. it went by really fast and seemed too rushed. we made some extra stops and got going late, so we had to shuffle off the bus, snap a few shots and shuffle right back on at every location. we stopped at a big station right on the sea of japan that had elevated lookout platforms along the shoreline, a long covered marketplace area with street stalls selling vegetables and yakitori, and a big goofy novelty gift shop. we also stopped at a large temple area with several shrines and statues, a big room lined with urns and offerings, and dirt paths leading from gravestones to smaller srines and effigies. another stop was a museum dedicated to the first japanese explorer to go to antarctica, loaded with his journals and eqipment and a huge tank/truck thing. everything was written in japanese, though, so i couln't pick up too much info on him. it took over a half hour to wind up the side of chokai-san, and then we only had 20 minutes to get out and look around. it was pretty damn incredible up there. i could see the whole town against the ocean, and all the surrounding peaks and farms. we stopped at a well known local dairy farm, which is like a weird novelty in japan, and ate some ice cream while listening to john denver being piped out over the cows and sheep, and we visited a 100 year old sake brewery, padding around to the different production rooms in ill fitting rubber sandals. a lot of crap to cram into one day. it seems like a damn decade ago now. upcoming plans are nearly nil. maybe go into town to see senshu park if i can get someone to go with me, get my gnarled ass photographed for the mr. aiu contest, papers to write, pluck my shiddy little guitar, suchlike. i'll post some pictures now, and let you know what happens when something happens.