Pipsy

I keep doing that thing where I open people's posts in tabs to look at and read and comment later, and then not having quite enough time to actually do the reading and commenting. And then I don't make any posts because I feel bad about posting instead of commenting. orz

I'll get there eventually. Meanwhile, update!

Two weeks ago was absolutely nuts in terms of work: I'd leave the house at 7:30am and go to two different places almost every day, getting home between 9:30pm and 10:30pm every day except Friday (when I got home at 5:30pm)... and then on Saturday morning I went to Tokyo by shinkansen to get a haircut, meet a friend for lunch, and then go see my actor friend's play, 家を出た (ie wo deta, "I left home"). After that, he and I went to have Mexican food for dinner with two other guys who had also gone to watch the play, and then I went to stay overnight at lunch friend's house. Lunch friend, despite having talked all through lunch, wanted to talk even more and we stayed up until about 1:30am. Then at 5:45am I got up to go shower and leave to catch an early shinkansen back to Kyoto to then meet my husband and go together with him to one friend's house to celebrate another friend's birthday. PHEW! So when I finally had a day off on Tuesday, unsurprisingly I crashed and slept really well, lol. Have some photos of some things:


Cupcakes with Lunch Friend


Kakigoori with Lunch Friend


家を出た programme

Also on the shinkansen back from Tokyo I happened to be in the same car as three sumo wrestlers who were going to Nagoya, probably for the sumo tournaments going on there right now. I took a creeper shot of one guy as they were disembarking at Nagoya because a) omg sumo wrestlers!! and b) holyshit these guys were seriously HUGE in every respect. Of course you see sumo wrestlers out and about sometimes in cities but I'd never sat in a shink with a sumo wrestler sitting across the way from me before, so that was pretty awesome.


Biiiiiiig. He had to stoop to avoid hitting his head on the doorframe.

THEN this weekend we were super busy yesterday: dentist in the morning (fun for me, less fun for husband as he needed a filling), laundry, disappointing tsukemen for lunch in Hirakata (Osaka can't do tsukemen but we optimistically keep trying all the same) before meeting a car dealer who drove us to his dealership to check out a Subaru we'd been looking at online, did the first stage of paperwork to get the car(!), came back home via the supermarket to get the shopping done because it's rainy season and the weather looks to be shitty next week, and THEN.

THEN.

( cut for story about flying buzzy things )

Also, unrelated but according to my first work visa, June 26th marks exactly 5 years since I moved to this country. I never planned to stay here this long...

I got stuff!! This arrived on Tuesday but work and busyness got in the way so I couldn't post about it until now. stardustdanceparty got together with wolfpurplemoon, greatcalico and tesselode and sent me some really lovely messages and things! AH, I forgot to include the lips, moustache, and spectacles on sticks that were also in the box, oops. But thank you so much guys!! My leg is still giving me trouble and pain every day so even though I'm out of hospital now this definitely goes toward my recovery <3 I was really happy about the Soul of an Octopus because I had THOUGHT about buying that and then ended up never getting round to it, which is lucky indeed because now I have a copy of my own anyway! So that will be my commute literature, oh yes.

Speaking of commutes, work has been picking up! Before my accident (new readers(?!): crashed, fell off my bicycle and smashed my tibia at the knee joint) I got a second part-time job and they've also given me a bunch of teaching contracts, some regular and some not. This second company is super disorganised, though! Like, even the interview was disorganised tbh but I/we need the money and the pay is decent and the work comes in often enough so meh.

Re: the title of this entry: When I cycle to and from the station, I always go past a few rice paddies. They're mostly underwater right now, and so at night when I'm coming home the noise of the frogs croaking away in the rice fields is noisy af but also kind of enjoyable to hear as I whir past. And speaking of seasonal nature, zhemao linked this earlier, which is pretty cool. I've been playing with the settings and having it run on my screen in lieu of actually getting on with work prep, oops.

Finally, isn't this adorable?