today

today was a national holiday, so I went to chiba(about an hour away on the other side of tokyo) to go to a shopping mall with my friend/fellow ecc employee carrie and her roommate/fellow ecc employee to a giant shopping mall. I was going to go to the art museum and read books, but I figured getting a little social time in might be a good idea, as I didn't really do anything aside from the ecc "party" in shibuya this weekend. The mall was absolutely massive - almost sublime(well, that's a huge exaggeration), of course without whatever pleasure comes from trying to grasp the sublime(does that make sense?). The pet store there had monkeys and an owl - That made me feel a little uneasy.
I took some pictures of some of the funnier signs and shirts I saw at the mall - I'll post them shortly on the photo blog. There was a decorated tree outside the mall with all of thse slogans on the outside of it like "no matter what, I love you" and "today is a brand new day", and "we've got a planet to save". One had me especially stumped: "are you from the spaceship?"
I haven't read anything recently b/c books are so expensive, and I think I'm going to have to place my order at amazon, as the entire English section at the library is apparently 3 bookcases and consists largely of children's books.