Weekend

It's saturday night and not much going on. My roommate had indicated I wait around until he was ready to go out and then bailed and was like "you should go out, it's YOUR day off tomorrow". He won't stop bitching about the fact that I got sunday as one of my days off and he has to work in the late morning/afternoon, so I'm wondering if he made me wait just to fuck up my night. Either way, not a biggie, but no big plans. I could go bar hopping alone, but I'm not so down at the moment

I called my new friend(whom I've only met once) Kazuma and he's picking up cursive tickets, so I'm very excited about that. That's happening next sunday.

Quite a busy day today at Machida school. Two of the staff members had taken my picture to put on the wall at the school and told me that in the picture I looked like the guy from the show "bewitched". I wasn't sure how to take that.
I had one class where a guy said he liked "hot" movies. He really meant exciting. Although I acknowledged he was correct if hip to American teenage slang(which he wasn't) I told him that if he were talking to a business colleague, that person might be a bit confused(or offended) about what "hot" movies are.
Another class had two middle aged men and a young woman, who also works at ecc doing kids stuff. One exercise had the prompt "do you have any?" and they were supposed to make up a question using that. And I said "pretend I run a grocery store". Ask me something. The woman said "do you have any...." and one of the men interrupted and said "BOYFRIEND(sic)"? and they both started laughing. Woman didn't think it was funny and I had to calm the dudes down. In the meantime, unbenownst(spelling?) to me, my face had turned bright red, and so then the men started laughing at me. I was embarrassed, but the rest of the lesson actually went pretty well. Stupid moments.

tomorrow I think I am going to go to the park near Shibuya and read and perhaps get some pics. I am addicted to this Murakami book(which I feel like a total tourist for buying and reading - like, 'Hey everybody, I am down with your books!' even though I would have bought and read the book before coming had it not been so fucking expensive in hardcover). regardless, I'm going to take the damn thing and read it in the park! eh, that didn't really work punctuation wise, but I'll leave it.

I've also started beyond good and evil. Reading Nietzsche only reminds me of how little I know about Greek Philosophy/history. new project.

I've found that the museum of Contemporary art in Tokyo has kind of a shitty permanent exhibition(I went on Thursday), but an excellent(and free!) reading library. I've been meaning to do my art history auto-education(autodidactic endeavor?? is that a real phrase or pretentious nonsense, or both?), and now seems like a good time. I read a bit of a book about Murakami Takeshi and started one on Francis Bacon. ALthough I like Murakami's art, I am more excited about getting back to the Bacon book. it's about 10 dollars round trip, but those damn art books are about 60-100 bucks a pop, so I say it's worth it. if anyone knows of any good primer art history or architecture books, please post in the comments section. Amazon delivers to Japan!

ok, I'm gonna go eat a banana


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