Tokyo Update and Picts

Ok, there are some new picts.
MADRID
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1st Japan Picts

Sorry I've not posted anything in a while. Lack of steady internet access has me not too much in a typing mood, that an lethargy. It has been 4 months since I actually worked and man am I feeling it. Since I don't have a penny of my own to my name, I'm trying to lie low. This means reading and re-reading the few books that I have with me, cooking most or all of my meals, finding the cheapest place to buy ingredients, basically a ho-hum life at this point.

I am reading a bit. I sat at a bookstore last week and read "Snakes and Earrings" by Hitomi Kanehara and most of "Rashomon" and started "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk (if there was ever a writer in need of a pen name...). I've finally finished Marquez's "Autumn of the Patriarch" after devouring "Love in the Time of Cholera" for the second time. That being said, I'm in need of some recommendations although my selection here is somewhat limited. I have pinpointed most of the used book stores in a reasonable distance and figured out which stores have a good English selection (and chairs).

But, I do have a job, or I have a job but it doesn't start for a couple more weeks. It was supposed to start this past week but things didn't work out. The guy whose shift I would have been covering dropped his travel plans last minute. That definitely bummed me out but rather than re-enter the job search I just decided to hold out since this is a good job, convenient location, etc.

So really that is it. I start work on June 29th. The paperwork for the visa is going through processing but I will have to jump out of the country fast to do a visa run, probably Seoul. Domestic life in our small cube is going well even if I don't get to see Keiko but for a couple hours every night. Actually this and last weekend she has been out of town for work, limiting our time together even further. On top of her 9-10 hour days she also only has one day off a week, Wednesday. I need to get out and meet some people but it just isn't happening yet. I think part of that is they way traveling around here can ad up so quickly which discourages me quite a bit, that and the beginning of rainy season, not knowing really where to go, etc. `