Had A Great Fall

I woke up this morning from a horrible dream that haunted me all day. It involved all the things you might it expect it to and more. Not a good start to the day.

My room is a mess of suitcases, clothes, and my own mental entanglements (dramatic but true) so I decided to get out and check out this one class that some kids suggested I try that is about Japanese linguistics. Well, it was incredibly boring so we won't be going back. But after class one of the Korean girls in class came up to me and asked me to hang out with her for a few hours to kill some time. She had asked me before but we didn't hang out, and she's kind of cute and nice enough so I said sure. Well as with many things like this, it wasn't what it was all cracked up to be. She of course asked me to teach her some English since that is her major, which is fine. But then she started turning (1) batshit crazy and (2) incredibly Christian on me. She basically strung together a bunch of things you don't tell someone the first time you hang out with them. At first she wouldn't stop talking about how this other korean girl who is also her sempai snubbed her because she has some English superiority complex and now she wants to take out revenge on her. And then she told me she cries everyday because she's not good enough at english. And that she cried yesterday thinking about this Russian guy who rejected her (huh?). And if that isn't crazy enough fun for you, I also had some suspicions she was the korean girl that keeps inviting people to church, but I wasn't sure. Then I became even more suspicious when I asked her what her hobbies are and she said she has none. And I asked her "Why? You have no interests in anything on the planet?" and she answered "You do? Why should I be interested in anything on this planet? We all die anyway. And that makes me sad. There is nothing in this world that matters." Hmm that phrasing is fishy sounding, right? (get it? fishy.. Jesus Fishy. ehhhhh moving on) ... Well now it has been confirmed. She invited me to this Bible Convention in Tokyo during Golden Week. Then she offered to pay for my ticket to go to Tokyo with her (keep in mind this is a girl who can't afford to pay for a cell phone). Then she told me the bible kept her from killing herself and that she doesn't having any power to do anything without the bible and cries all the time. I don't think I'll be hanging out with her alone anymore. I have enough problems.

I then grabbed dinner with Taiga quickly and he gave me a ride back home on the back of his scooter (fun and scary as hell at the same time) so I would make it home in time to get my FedEx packages from my firm. Enclosed? My paperwork and a check for [undisclosed amount]. Yay. Signed and done.

Tonight on Japanese TV I saw two weird things: (1) Sanma, huge comedic figure and host of a million shows, actually hosting two different quiz shows on two different channels at the same time. It was crazy. Granted, all celebrities in Japan appear on shows on every channel (one huge difference between Japanese TV and American TV) and occassionally appear on two shows at once, but this was definitely the first time I've seen someone hosting two shows at the same time. (2) And then there is this commercial for this hair implant company called Hair For Life that features these dramatic pictures of men against a blank background tugging and washing and cutting their implanted hair while this militaristic and triumphant music plays in the background and a voice over says over each man's segment of the commercial "Kore mo hair for life". Well I saw a political commercial tonight for the Minshutou (Democratic Party) that seemed strangely familiar: dramatic footage of men in similar poses with the same exact militaristic and triumphant march song playing while a voice says "Watashi mo minshuto". It is ridiculous and subconsciously associates the Democratic Party (the one that is NOT Koizumi's party) with questionable methods for hiding baldness. Not so flattering. Either the Minshutou hired the dude from Hair for Life to make this commercial and he only comes in one flavor or someone at the media relations dept. of the Democratic Party has been watching too much golden time TV and needs to be fired for falling asleep at the wheel of his own consciousness.