So today was Setsubun, but my day involved no hurling at ogres of legumes of any sort. Au contraire, I spent my day setting things up in my new apartment. The details are minor but numerous, and little things like getting pegs for my adjustable bookshelves, clips for running my phone cord along the wall, and the like ended up taking up most of my day. I moved my fridge, too, to let the morning sunlight into my kitchen.
In the evening, I went to a couple of parties. I got to see the French crew out in Aramoto (and their Nintendo Wii) for a brief hour before I headed back into Osaka to see the Native Tongues. Lots of friends there too, including Yui, whom I've only seen once since New York. It was nice to see human beings again after two weeks of pretty much just staring at screenfuls of code and setting up sensor hardware.
Anyway, today's T3A:
#3 - 11 hours of sleep! :D
I really needed it, too. It's been a rough two weeks, and sleeping in so late was wonderfully decadent, like swimming in a pool of chocolate.
#2 - My friend got married!
Walking home by myself on the dark streets of Osaka after taking the last train home... wouldn't you know it but I ran into my old friend Peter! We talked for a while about everything from music to life to Japanese culture to quantum physics, astronomy, and string theory... and in passing he casually mentioned, "Oh yeah... by the way, I got married two weeks ago."
!!!!!!!! That's really awesome! He and his gir^H^H^H wife are a really sweet couple, and they're both realistic, grounded, cool people. I'm really happy for them.
#1 - I got to be a rap star!
At the Native Tongues show tonight, Lito invited me up on stage to do the rap for "Now That We've Found Love". I don't think I've had an opportunity to sing with an actual instrumental band since ...1996? That was a lot of fun. The audience was going crazy too... this was right at the end of the show, and everyone was dancing. On top of that, it just so happened that the 9 people dancing right in the front all happened to be my good friends, which upped the energy even more. Thanks, guys!
Video is here: (6.8 MB, wmv file) (mom and dad... that means a 35-minute download for you)
http://urara-file20.up.seesaa.net/image/NowThat-1.wmv
It's pretty dark, but you can see about 18 seconds of my rap at the beginning. :)
Probably shoulda hurled some beans though, in retrospect. Guess I'll have to keep an eye out for ogres this year.
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