thoughts and things.

i just woke up from a nap and have returned from 7/11 with a donut, soy bean flavored chips, and a coca cola. i have some thoughts i'd like to document:

tokyo is the combination of las vegas and new york city, only totally asian. 

because:

everything is 24 hours (vegas)

its a gigantic city, different neighborhoods (ny)

everything is new (vegas)

everything is expensive (ny)

pachinko parlors abounds (vegas)

train system (ny)

super duper expensive/lavish night clubs (vegas)

fashion models, camera crews, photoshooting (ny)

a trillion lights everywhere (vegas)

really small apartments for high rent (ny)

this is all surface, of course. but it may be able to give you an idea of the atmosphere here. who knows, i may retract this later. 

on another note, today i ate mexican food for the first time in six months. um...as "mexican" as you can get in japan, that is. it was around $9 for a small chicken taco, chips, guacamole, and a pepsi. yea, i probably won't bother with doing that again. but it did satisfy my craving for some spice. 

also, i found this used clothing chain called "kinji" afterwards. its a lot like buffalo exchange, only way more clean (of course! i cannot stress the cleanliness of tokyo enough.) there are a lot of used clothing/vintage stores in tokyo. if you ever want to be uber rich, you should invest in some used clothing exchange here. because all these stores really have to import from america (its all american vintage, etc.)

as far as work is concerned, the other foreign teacher (wil) is leaving soon. i've known about this since i got here, so its not really new news to me. although, i am pretty happy to be getting to work with someone new. the new guy is the same age as me and he's from australia. this also means that my contract renewal is coming up...i'm pretty sure it will be this wednesday. i would extend my contract for three more months if they offered me a renewal, but the biggest factor in deterring that for me is the summer (no way in HELL am i working in a suit everyday in almost 100% humidity. i'm not quite sure how i did that over this last summer. i think i was in a complete haze from just moving to japan.) or else i would. 

in america are there soup or bbq chicken flavored chips? these are very popular in japan.

that is all. 

on another note, living in japan has made me really hygenic.