Today Kuniko had to get up and go to work, but I had Sunday off. I was out of bed and fully functioning when I felt an earthquake around 9:45. It was fairly mild, but enough to be felt and big enough to shake the table, computer and TV in the living room. I looked outside and the stop lights were shaking a little, too. The employees of the gas station across the street were checking all the pumps for safety.
The quake actually happened to the northeast of us, and there was a fair amount of damage near the epicenter. Luckily nothing bad here, and all is well.
After the excitement of the earthquake I didn’t have much else to do. I went shopping and bought a whole bunch of food to keep me in meals this week. Kuniko is on a special diet so she is eating strange and unusual foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner. So that leaves me to fend for myself. I’ve got to get used to cooking for myself over the next two weeks.
While I was shopping at the supermarket there was a cute girl in a miniskirt working there giving away free beer. That’s right – read that last sentence again. That’s a situation you don’t see often in America. I just walked up and she handed me a cold can of beer with a big smile and asked me to try it sometime. Thanks – I will.
Not much else to report today. In the afternoon I studied, watched a downloaded movie (A Good Year, with Russell Crowe) and looked through the textbooks that I’ll be using at my new job.
After Kuniko got home I cooked up my dinner and she had some special diet soup. Then we drove over to Kuniko’s parents house to pick up some things and say hello. They were doing really well. We finally bought the plane tickets for our summer trip to Hawaii, and so it really started to sink in with them that we’re going. It turned out to be a little expensive, but summertime is the most expensive time to fly out of Japan. They had a couple of questions and I think they are getting excited about the trip.
We’re back home now with armloads of fresh vegetables. Too bad I went shopping today – there’s enough fresh veggies to feed me for two weeks. I’m going to have to work hard to eat them before they go bad.
Tomorrow Kuniko is working, and then she’s got a farewell party for some teachers in the evening. That will give her a break from her diet, and a break from her work. She’s in the middle of a three-weeks-no-day-off run. As for me, I don’t have any work tomorrow, so it’ll just be me at home with all these vegetables. And free beer.
