But, I had pretty high expectations of being here. I thought every day I’d be hanging out with friends drinking beer, drinking coffee, having brunch etc etc etc… For the most part that’s pretty much what I’ve been doing, but I really do get exhausted by people and organizing meeting them. I need to be able to take it for granted that they’ll be there for another day we can hang out. If only everything could just be done on a whim.

I feel like having a midnight picnic on a warm night, but I just know it’ll be only me if I try to round people up at the last minute. Ah well, I refuse to plan it in advance or even think about it. I will whimsically buy wine and drink myself to sleep in a park on my own if I have to.

In some ways it’s great to be working from home now for the last of my stay here. It gives me a something to do other then mope about time and everyones busy schedules. I do like moping though.

It’ll be a good next week and a half.

I think I’m still getting over the jet lag. Today I walked around Shinjuku all day. It made me want to play The World is not Enough again. Unfortunately I left my DS in london.

The first thing I did was go to a mega book store next to Takashimaya Times Square. They have half a floor for foreign language books. Weirdly they’ve pretty good mathematics text book section. I bought an Atlas of Tokyo.

I spent the rest of the day wandering around various record shops (as well as an anarchist book shop) recommended by Tokyo Damage Report. Also found a couple of Punk clubs. I nearly went to one but was tired and too cheap to pay the 1700 yen door charge.