Wednesday was a really unproductive day for me. It’s a little tough coming to grips with having so much free time. I guess it would be a lot more difficult if I didn’t have a job waiting for me in April.
It reminds me of the time (beware of sentences starting like this) I was living in Scripps Ranch, San Diego with Haven in a tiny one bedroom apartment. For one reason or another, working at an internet real estate company didn’t work out, so one day I quit and came home. I spent about half of every day looking for work and doing interviews, and the other half climbing mountains with Haven. My grandfather even gave us the nickname “The Dudes Of Leisure”. Climbing mountains ended up being my therapy to get my mind off the reality of unemployment (and it was free!). In the end I was offered a job just as Haven was ready to drive across the country to Pittsburgh. I picked the trip across country over the job, and that turned out to be one of the best decisions in my life. I should write about that trip someday…
Anyway, in the here and now I’ve got small errands to run every day, and I study Japanese and cook myself lunch and dinner. Other than that, things are really quiet. I guess I should just enjoy it for the next few weeks.
The highlight of Wednesday absolutely was the phone call from Kuniko. She called from her hotel around 4:30 in the afternoon my time, which is about 8:30 in the evening her time. Her voice strange over the landline, and she seemed just a little tired. We talked a little about what she has been doing (a lot) and what I’ve been doing (see above), and she told me in a little more detail about all the exploits of her students. It sounds like overall it is a fun trip.
Before dinner (stir fried tofu and sprouts with momijioroshi) I took a long hot bath, and even sipped a cocktail while I was in there. If you are going to do the life of leisure, do it right.
Not much planned for tomorrow. I want to do some Japanese reading online, and I also want to do a city hike across Okubo to explore an area I haven’t really seen much of yet. We’ll see how it pans out…
