Day 10-14 - Jan 15-19

Well, nothing really exciting has happened in these past several days.  Interesting though, definitely that.

So Friday night I went and finally got my cell phone.  My several day quest was finally over.  Unfortunately, the Softbank store in Shinjuku only had one prepaid model, which was the non-flip one.  *sad*  I selected the black one and then wandered around Shinjuku for an hour while they got it ready or whatever they do during that time.  Of course, since I didn't have a watch or a phone I had no idea how long I'd been wandering, which was rather annoying.  But I have a phone now!  Which means I can tell time again! :P

I had heard Li was going to Akihabara on Saturday, so I got in touch with him and we both went over there around noon.  So many maid cafes lol.  I felt really bad for the (tons of) maids out on the street handing out fliers since it was mildly cold but there was a rather cold breeze almost constantly, so they must have been freezing their aprons off.  One of the first things I was greeted with (besides maids) was a gigantic billboard advertising the Unlimited Blade Works movie that comes out on the 23rd of this month.  Holy crap everything comes out this month @_@  Li showed me around Akiba and we wandered through some stores.  I really need to come back to the Club Sega arcade and try that Gundam POD.  The stores were really cool and I managed to make it out of Akiba after ~5 hours having only spent $50 or so (almost all of it on Fate stuff of course), but oh man were my feet hurting after all that walking/standing.  I think I'm going to hit up Harajuku next Sunday, though, with the UBW movie coming out on Saturday....

Sunday I pretty much sat around and did nothing while trying to get work done, though I did actually manage to do some...

Monday I had a meeting with Ichimura-sensei at 3pm so that I could buy my textbook from her.  Well, I was going to be getting to her office right on time, until the train stopped at Harajuku for about 10 minutes.  I thought, hmm, thats rather odd, but eventually the train started going again.  Not for long though, because we spent about 40 minutes at the next stop (Shibuya).  By the time I finally got to TUJ it was 4:30pm, which left me with 20 minutes to grab some food and walk 10 minutes to the other TUJ building for my 4:50pm class x_x

As of today though, my life is over forever until next Thursday.  I have an interview in my Conversational Japanese class tomorrow which I need to start preparing for; I need to write a 1-2 page paper in Japanese for Thursday, which will then become a ~5 minute speech that I will do next Thursday; I need to write the paper for a case study in my marketing class due Friday; I also need to write a 5-7 page paper for my business ethics class which is due next Tuesday; and finally I need to do research and write up an outline using said research for Japanese corporate structure due next Tuesday.  Oh, and on top of that I need to be applying to grad schools, internships, and jobs, just about all of which have deadlines at the beginning of February (2 weeks away).  I'magonna die @_@