http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/yakyu-otaku/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from yakyu otaku en-us Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:20:05 +0000 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:20:05 +0000 OK. So wersquove established that in order for me to get back to the place I wanted to be in life that I needed to grow up and get over myself and go to Europe to see what all the noise was about. So the lingering question for most people was who is Mai To put it strangely. Mai was half of the 1 14 girlfriends I had for a period of 8 days during the middle of college playoffs. Sound con http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-460280.html So anyways there I was drinking cappuccinos on my couch in Montana one August morning when Mai signs in on web messenger and says ldquohey letrsquos go to Francerdquo and that seemed like a good idea to me because I had fk all to do for the next five months or so lsquocept maybe find a job and take a night class or something. I was at last starting to feel the often spoken of but se http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Montana/Big-Sky/blog-454388.html A little shy of year later I was sitting in Montana drinking cappuccinos fighting off a nagging cough looking at Englishteaching schools and lamenting my lack of a lsquonext moversquo. Graduate school didnrsquot work out so well for me thanks in part that positively apocalyptic global recession that our childrenrsquos history textbooks are clearly going to read as the most trying ord http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Montana/Big-Sky/blog-453154.html 'I want you to find a girl that's better than me.' She said to me as we were walking down to the train station. It was about 830 am the weather was hot and the sky was pale grey. She wouldn't look at me for most of the way. 'I'm sorry I was unable to love you all this time. It was wrong of me...to take your feelings for granted like that. I thought all along I was just a temporary plaything http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-425795.html I was up the next morning early July 20th 2008 and on the train to Chiba. The Lions were at Chiba Marine Stadium for the last of a three game set on the coast and were closing in on a sweep. All that stood between them was the Chiba ace Shunsukue Watanabe who despite playing in a cellar team was having one of the best seasons of his life and had been already selected to represent Japan in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Chiba/blog-425192.html I rode that bus until I saw traintracks. I had little idea as to where I was only that heading back along the tracks would eventually bring me back to a station on the Seibu Kokubunjiline. The novelty of my jimbei and the extra confidence that it had brought me had worn off. It wad dark and it was quiet. I felt boxed in and alone between the privacy walls of the houses to my right and the c http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-424907.html First off I think I owe Larry Wayne Chipper Jones Jr. an apology. After arousing the sympathies of my ATL readership I've come to realize my remarks were uncalled for. I think as usual I just got emotional and Larry just got in the way. Todd's Right What did Larry ever do to me What has Larry ever done to anyone really I was trying to remember why it was that I hated Chipper jones http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/Kokubunji/blog-424326.html Curses and hellfire It seems every time I try and enact my malicious scheme to pollute the glorious journalism of Travelblog.org with uninteresting and uninformative blogs specifically not about travel some heroic pundit with a silver tongue for epithets places a UNworthy injunction on my iniquity. If by yogurtcock you mean to say that my phallus is white and full of bacteria...that may we http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/Kokubunji/blog-423984.html I'm just like the Mariners aren't I Every time I'm in a position to catch up or take the lead I just drop one. Right in front of the fans. At least I'm getting hatemail again. And rightly so. How embarrassing is that my last article was 2676 words about my stuff Literally the article is about nothing more than my stuff. How is it that I still manage to get over 600 unique hits last mo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/Kokubunji/blog-421563.html Predictably when Hirochan phoned me at 8am the following morning the combination of my hangover and all the necessary shame that comes with being knocked out by a 50 yearold man kept me in bed. I told him I would meet him at 11 at Hamamatsuch333 station and slept uneasily for another hour. After reluctantly opening my eyes I lay awake while the others were running around the park near http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-420572.html Since the summer of 2006 David Beckham Ethan Hawke Kevin Bacon and even Derek Jeter are all men who have made frequent appearances drinking in the watering holes of sleepy little west Tokyo municipality of Hinocity in the form of me. By far the person whom I look exactly like the most though according to whitepeople facialindentification experts in the Hinocity bars of Yasuu Sakura http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-419070.html The next day Friday July 18th 2008 was my last day of work probably forever with J.C. And that's about all there was too it. I had a goodbye party coming in two weeks so there was no ceremony. Bell rang I left. The show started at 5 so I decided to go straight from work and not change and by the time I got to Kokubunji I had probably already missed half of it so I hopped in a cab. Two http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/Kokubunji/blog-418627.html I was feeling really fking fired up from my own speech and had no intentions of slowing down on my Thursday. I walked Miss Takahashi to the train station and then sauntered off crossways back to my place. Jyun'ichi sempai had sent me a skymail earlier that evening and asked me if I wanted to join him for a drink in Hachiouji. I had three in me already I figured four or five would make sleep http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-418048.html Come Thursday morning July 17th 2008 I still had not opened the email from the bar skank and I intended to leave it that way for all time. The foreverbolded font would signify my discipline and my commitment to SoonMi and serve as a monument to my triumph over the lowly temptations of 516thsrated guttersluts. Or perhaps it was bound to be my downfall. Either way I was amused at it's p http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-416701.html I laid awake for a while and tried to think about everything she said that night but Irsquod forgotten most of it already. It seemed like we were just saying the same things like we were at opposite ends of a swimming pool treading water and blow bubbles trying to get the otherrsquos attention. Two hours ago I felt like I was drowning. Now with a clearer head from the sleep like a humid http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-414343.html To say the least the next day at work was not pleasant. The eight innings I played last night including 3 shutout innings thrown by whatshername left me with a DEFCON 1 hangover and a permanent scar on my conscious. Like all severe hangover days the sky was a shady blur of grey and I could not look into my computer screen for longer than three minutes without becoming nauseous I vomited my b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-409269.html Work. Nobody cares. Monday to Friday. Early mornings occasional late nights. I never make sales. Irsquom lucky. I donrsquot have to be on the ball I just have to push my reports past certain desks on or around certain dates and do something engendered by 21 years of life and 15 years of primary secondary and post secondary education Read understand process. Being unimportant is c http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-405742.html Irsquoll do anything you ask me toI must get back to basics. I must find a way to tell the story with the lyrical energy that I once had. Find a way to fall in love the way I used to to get goosebumps when a pretty girl talked to me to plot and scheme with the fabric of truth at my disposal and false heroics in the weave. To make love a game again. I have conspired against love. I seek t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/Kichijouji/blog-401503.html It was still July 13th 2008. JyunrsquoIchisempai and I were in Akihabara. He was comparing prices and plans for new cellphones and I comparing hourly rates and modelphotos in maid caf. He was having difficulty deciding between Softbank or going with a buying a nonbonded phone and going with a newer startup service provider. I was having difficulty deciding between wafu 6528821644 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/Akihabara/blog-393236.html lsquoSo let me get this straighthellipYoursquore exgirlfriend is the Korean one rightrsquoldquoMn.rdquoldquoSoomirdquoldquoSoonMi.rdquolsquoAnd Minami is one that Gen likes right And Gen is your best friend right And he doesnrsquot like SoonMi.rsquolsquoNo.rsquolsquoBut then he tried to fk herrsquolsquoNo that was the other one Yukimdashbut tha http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/Chiyoda/blog-392170.html