Monday, December 13, 2004
Notmuchery
Well, here I sit, metaphorically trudging my way through another Monday.
My weekend was acceptably relaxing, if lacking in entertainment (not that lounging around watching Indiana Jones DVDs isn't entertaining). I did manage to get out of the house on Saturday and caught up with Natsuyo in Shibuya. I was planning on hitting up Sonoma, because I had a hankering for some tasty (and authentic) western cuisine - but of course a party of 45 or so had booked the whole damn thing out.
Naturally, we did the next best thing - which consisted of tossing the original plan entirely out the window and going to an izakaya. One of the hard things about going out in Shibuya, is that unless you have set goals on where you want to go and what you want to do you inevitably end up swamped by choice. This is confounded by the fact that on a Saturday night, the entire place is packed with people. Anyway, after a bit of aimless wandering and "what do you think of that place?"-ing, we found a great little izakaya, which I will probably go back to - for both the great food and jazz music (ok, and possibly because the girl working there was a hottie). What?
Satisfactorily sated, we wandered down to Hub, which - due to the fact there was a soccer match on - was totally packed. Once again, another fine plan shot down. After futher wandering, we found a pretty acceptable bar (I remain unsure as to why there were mirrors on the ceiling) and hung out there for a bit.
A bit lacking in adventure and excitement, but a good night nonetheless.
I am looking forward to tomorrow, as I have managed to get myself invited to a couple of seminars (a morning seminar on Investing in Bulgaria, and an evening function to meet the new head of the Czech Republic Investment Agency) I don't think the events themselves will be overly stimulating, but they allow me to sleep in, get home early, spend only 1.5 hours at the office AND should have free food and drinks. I am particularly anticipating the sleep-in. Especially as I am hanging out in Yokohama with Ayaka tonight.
Lately I have been forcing myself to get up and go to work, it usually takes a few minutes of inner monologue after my alarm goes off in which I have to try and present a solid reason as to why I have to be at work on that given day. Thus far, I have always had something (albeit usually minor) that needs to be done. I can't imagine this trend continuing forever though.
My weekend was acceptably relaxing, if lacking in entertainment (not that lounging around watching Indiana Jones DVDs isn't entertaining). I did manage to get out of the house on Saturday and caught up with Natsuyo in Shibuya. I was planning on hitting up Sonoma, because I had a hankering for some tasty (and authentic) western cuisine - but of course a party of 45 or so had booked the whole damn thing out.
Naturally, we did the next best thing - which consisted of tossing the original plan entirely out the window and going to an izakaya. One of the hard things about going out in Shibuya, is that unless you have set goals on where you want to go and what you want to do you inevitably end up swamped by choice. This is confounded by the fact that on a Saturday night, the entire place is packed with people. Anyway, after a bit of aimless wandering and "what do you think of that place?"-ing, we found a great little izakaya, which I will probably go back to - for both the great food and jazz music (ok, and possibly because the girl working there was a hottie). What?
Satisfactorily sated, we wandered down to Hub, which - due to the fact there was a soccer match on - was totally packed. Once again, another fine plan shot down. After futher wandering, we found a pretty acceptable bar (I remain unsure as to why there were mirrors on the ceiling) and hung out there for a bit.
A bit lacking in adventure and excitement, but a good night nonetheless.
I am looking forward to tomorrow, as I have managed to get myself invited to a couple of seminars (a morning seminar on Investing in Bulgaria, and an evening function to meet the new head of the Czech Republic Investment Agency) I don't think the events themselves will be overly stimulating, but they allow me to sleep in, get home early, spend only 1.5 hours at the office AND should have free food and drinks. I am particularly anticipating the sleep-in. Especially as I am hanging out in Yokohama with Ayaka tonight.
Lately I have been forcing myself to get up and go to work, it usually takes a few minutes of inner monologue after my alarm goes off in which I have to try and present a solid reason as to why I have to be at work on that given day. Thus far, I have always had something (albeit usually minor) that needs to be done. I can't imagine this trend continuing forever though.
# posted by Nils @ 3:15 PM 
