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Need me some plans!

Well, work is done and what have I done with my last few days? NOTHING! It's actually really weird and I'm all restless and uncomfortable. I just feel very unmotivated, and I'm not sleeping well. I need to get myself doign something productive, even if it's just dishes and laundry. I think it's just a bit of world-weariness left over from work, some dread at going home, and just...a certain sense of uncertainty. And not in the adventurey way.

Anyway, today was the After Event at Volks. Aimee and I went to see the new Robot Fighting Stadium. It was smaller than I had expected, but still really cool. I also drooled over the new dolls I love but cannot even remotely afford. Such is life, yeah?

On the way back to the station, we stopped at a Denny's for lunch. We thought that we might as well see what it was like so we could compare. Well...apart from the name, it was nothing like a Denny's back home. The meals were all special types of ramen and oyster pasta, bizarrely arranged Caesar salads and 5 dollar drinks...like orange juice! We got some unsatisfying sandwiches (which we paid much too much for) and headed out. Give me a normal Denny's any day! Where was my Moon Over My Hammies? Huh? Huh??

So...today was sort of disappointing in many ways. The last few days have been. It's a really good thing that we do have some plans. Monday we're heading to Tokyo for a few days. We even have our hotel booking. And then Friday we're going to Kyoto. Again, we already have a booking there. So we MUST go.

For some pics, here is a famous site in Nagoya. One of the foods the city is known for is miso katsu, a deep fried pork cutlet with miso sauce. This restaurant, identifiable by the huge sumo pig mascot, is one of the most popular places to sample this dish. I haven't eaten there (this one is in Sakae, the downtown district), but today at around noon there was a line around the building of people waiting to get in for lunch.

This last batch is from the closest subway station to my apartment, Kamejima. It's a very small station, but it works for me. The pictures below are the platform, the sign on the side that I need to stand on to head to work, and finally, the sign on the floor that tells you where to board if you're a woman, before 9 am, who doesn't want to get her rear pinched. *shakes head*

Stay tuned for a more...upbeat entry. :)

Posted by Mandy at September 17, 2005 10:05 PM