Mexican Radio

I am so sick of that song. It keeps coming up on my playlist. I used to like it, but come on. Enough is enough.

So, today I was supposed to go down to the post office. Like I've been meaning to do for the past two weeks. And I'm sure you're all expecting me to say that I slept in and I missed it and I just stayed on campus lounging around instead.

That'd be funnier, but for once it isn't true. Ha! I went to a different, CLOSER post office that apparently is open even later, but I still got there early enough to have gone to the other one, so I was on top of things this time. Was a nice change of pace.

So, I talked to the lady, and I had prepared some words for this. I had the word for "shipping by sea" and I asked if they were able to do that. Mel had told me that I'm probably being too cautious and that I could've probably just used ship and boat and been fine, but I wanted to do it right. So the woman looked at me confused for a moment and then I asked her if they could ship by boat, to which she went "Ah, Sea Mail!" Yeah... Sea Mail. So much for learning Japanese.

She gave me a chart for pricing for air, surface, and sea shipping. Shipping by sea is 3 times less than air mail. That is RIDICULOUS. Even so, 20 kilos is still a good 100 dollars. So I should probably try to keep it under that. Also, their predetermined box sizes are sort of small, so it'll probably cost an extra ten dollars to ship an irregular sized box. Even more reason to keep it lighter! But I need to get rid of all/most of my books/comics/toys/winter clothes and old luggage before I leave. Don't want all that crap hangin around when I need to get on the plane, no siree.

I also went to go to the hobby shop that I used to go to frequently but haven't made it to in months, at least since before the winter break. Turns out that they were closed today for inventory.

The odds....

Got me some KFC which has also been a while, and was going to get some ramen but I ended up going grocery shopping instead. Got some actual tasty looking pizza for once, we'll see how well that holds out, and some more hash browns. Also some instant ramen, Japanese style. It has a dip in it that you're supposed to cook an egg in? While the noodle block is boiling? We'll see how that works. The noodles are really thin though, and flat, and the flavour packet came pre-mixed so couldn't make them dry like I wanted to. Dang. Ah well, still tasty.

All in all, a good day. Although I did wake up late and I'm still finishing my homework. Yeah....