Awesome Times

I went down to Beppu again today cause I needed me some shoppin times. So I ran into a kid from the floor who speaks damn good English, and he told me where to go and showed me how to get there. So I wound up at a place called You On town or something akin to that.

First thing I saw was a KFC. Haha...yeah, like I'd eat there. I know their tricks.

After that was a....As seen on TV! store. I'm serious. They had the infomercials playing on tv's behind the products. It was crazy and I was almost tricked into buying a vegetable peeler. Which, granted, I have potatoes, but I'm not paying 14 dollars for something when I already have a knife.

I wound up mostly wandering around and getting a feel for the place. Mostly women's clothing stores, but there was a "Kid's Zone" where they had a sort of teen culture place? I dunno. It was like a mix bitween Spencer's and Toys r Us. REALLY strange. And the Big n Tall store didn't have any slippers, so no luck there. They don't sell anything even close to my size on campus. Internationality my tuckus.

I also wound up in a gashapon and collectibles store. Felt dirty :(. I shouldn't be buying anime stuff while I'm in Japan, I didn't come here for that. Then again, EVERYTHING IS SO MUCH CHEAPER HERE. Maybe, I dunno. Some of the stuff is, but then again some isn't. I should check out some of the older FF7 figures in american stores to see if it's actually cheaper here. Anyone who reads this, if you know offhand if a Master Figures Yuffie Kisaragi is more than 40 bucks in America, lemmme know.

After not buying anything from there, I got lost in the parking garage somehow. Dunno how I wound up there but I bought a drink, drank it, and then bought a little rubber band gun from a gashapon machine. Step one in my war on Japan.

Then I went down to the grocery store and promptly began wandering around like the white guy I am. What is that, fish? I can't cook fish. Can people actually cook fish? I thought it only came in stick form! And what's with all this seaweed everywhere? That bread looks good but it's filled with cream cheese (which, due to my lack of bothering to read crap before I buy it, I didn't find out til my first bite).

I escaped with some apple juice, some butter (which is what I came for dammit), some cornflakes and some microwaveable deals.

Oh. AND MY LIFE.

On the way out I looked at more things I'd buy if I felt like wasting money today, and at at KFC. Dear God is it good here. Absolutely nothing like KFC in America. The chicken is so real and cooked! And the spices are even better. And they have FRENCH FRIES. I want this KFC in America, rather than that crap near NT run by all the stoners that always runs out of chicken. You know, the one with the C health rating? Yeah, that one.

So I ate my churro on the way home (man, I need to stop forgetting to mention when I buy things) and wound up downloading a whole bunch of music when I got looped into the connection. First the Ting Tings cd, then some Flyleaf (I have no idea why I've been into them lately. You tell me), and then some Vanessa Carlton.

ALL of Vanessa Carlton.

For anybody who's not aware, I have some sort of homosexual fantasy about marrying her or something. I'm not sure exactly. I might be in love with her, or I'm in love with her music. What I do know is I pretty much get music induced orgasms when I listen to her and that's probably the sole most disturbing and gay thing you've read all day.

Anyways, I was rocking out to my music when Fanxing bothered me on Facebook and told me to come over for tea.

So I did.

Was pretty good tea from China, and he had PRINGLES. Dear God taste of America. Anyways, he had a bunch of questions about English and how I'm enjoying Japan and if I'd be willing to help him learn English, the answer to all the questions being yes (Especially the ones that needed explanation. DEFINITE yes). So we bonded over some food and family stories, I shared my philosophy on life and friendship (friends are more important to family. You heard it here folks) and we watched an episode of Friends, and I helped him with some of the culture stuff. Though surprisingly he had a book detailing American cultural aspects in Friends. Craziness. Also, an episode of Desperate Housewives. I should totally watch that show. BABES, my friend. BABES.

Anyways, we hung out til almost 4 and he gave me a rice cooker cause he's awesome like that. AWESOME I SAY. So that's why the blog is extra late and I'm double tired, so I'm not putting up the pictures right now. On this crappy campus connection I actually have to upload the pictures one by one to photobucket and link to them on blogger, so it's a lot of extra work. And I gotta resize them and crap. You people don't even know the amount of effort I put into this thing, do you? I slave all day over a hot keyboard, surviving on nothing but moldy water and stagnant bread, uphill both ways through 4 feet of snow.

EVERY.

DING.

DONG.

DAY.

I'll upload the pictures tomorrow or maybe just put them in the next blog.

Dracula do what Dracula wants.