Another weekend in 山形市

What inebriation looks like

Last weekend I was in Tokyo, and I plan to be there again next weekend, but this weekend was spent in good ole' Yamagata. This weekend was eventful. Of course I did the same stuff as usual went to Sandinista and J's, but I also went to a few new places as well. All day friday at work I was waiting to get off so I could go drinking and start the weekends festivities. I didn't know it was friday the 13th, so when I was asking one of my classes "What day is today?" and "What's the weather like?", when they said it's Friday the 13th I like thought about watching a scary movie later, and completely blanked out in class for a little bit. I came back to reality when I heard the teacher whispering ask them "How are they?". Then later on in that same class, when it was time for the listen to the CD part of class, the CD player went crazy, and it was skipping and speeding up randomly, I told the teacher today is a day of bad luck in America and the teacher said I know. So as I may or may not have mentioned before my school has a tradition called PSP which stands for Physical Strength P?? (I forgot what the last P is for), in this tradition the students run around the school, it's good exercise but I don't really like to run and get tired before going out friday night. But I ran anyway, figured I would be doing some heavy beer drinking so I might as well do one thing that is relatively healthy.

So after running a random dust storm blew in and got sand and crap all in my eyes, so I decided to hang around at the school for a bit until dust wasn't being blown all around. I watched the boys and girls volleyball teams practice for a little while. Some of my students have started saying "Fuck You!" but never when another teacher was around. So I was standing near the wall talking to another teacher when a student walked up and said "Fuck You!", and I was like ummm ok time to go see you! Hey I didn't want the other teachers thinking I taught the students those words.

So I got home and changed clothes and then went to JUSCO to get some beer nuts and Guinness, I walked around for a bit and went to Toy R Us thought about buying some Funyuns or some Doritos, but the bags are so freaking big that I just said screw it. I want to eat SOME Funyuns not a garbage bag full of Funyuns. Plus the costs of the Funyuns was the cost of a beer. Once again my economy runs on beer, I don't think in USD or YEN I think in beers. It's like opportunity cost, so remember don't ask "how many dollars that shirt cost?", ask "how many beers does it cost?". So I went back to buy the grocery section to buy beer nuts, I was pissed to find out that the big bag of mixed nuts where gone!! So I had to pay the same amount of money for less nuts. I usually get the big bag because it costs the same as other bags of nuts, but you get almost twice as many nuts!! So I settled for the regular nuts, and grabbed 7 Guinness then set about on my path home. On the way I passed 2 young ladies on bikes that were headed in my direction, one looked pretty cute and the other one just barely had the requirements to be consider a female. One day I am going to party in this area because I know that there has to be something to do close to my house.

Since it was Friday the 13th I watched a scary movie One Missed Call, it was okay I suppose. Then I called Yuta to see if he was up at his shop, but he was at a friends house at a party, (sounded like he was having a good time). I told him we should meet later he said okay. . .never saw him hahaha. So I meet up with Luke and we were going to go to Sandinista we drank a few beers in front of a 7 11 and I saw some of the regulars at Sandinista outside so I talked with them, and then headed over to Sandinista. Danced a bit there and then went to J's, actually now that I think about it I don't really remember too much of friday, so. . .let's just move on to Saturday.

Saturday I was woken up by an earthquake! I usually never lock my door and sometimes I have things in my door like shoes holding it open, so I thought that someone had came into my apartment and started shaking me. So naturally I woke up like WTF, who is this? But it was just an earthquake, so I just went back to sleep, wayyy too lazy to try and take shelter under a table. A bit later I headed up to town to meet up with my language partner. I was hoping she would be cute. So I got to Kajo and I saw a group of Japanese sitting at a table and they said something to me so I thought maybe one of the ladies in this group was my language partner. I knew one of the ladies worked in Kajo I had seen her before, the other lady looked unfamiliar so I thought she surely must be my partner. "What is that?" that was the first thing that popped into my mind, in reference to some scaring on her lip that looked like herpes, I was like ohh great I got the lady with herpes as my language partner! But she wasn't my language partner, SAVED! Collin was like your language partner isn't here yet and I was relieved.

I read an earthquake manual while I waited, then my real language partner showed up. She was decent, おきい　おっぱい (nice chest for a japanese woman), although I am an ass man, so I didn't really care. So we exchanged contact info and set a date for the future lesson. I was sleepy I was considering going back home to sleep, but I was too tired to make the trip back, so I called Yuta and we ate lunch. Then I took a nap on his couch for awhile. Then Collin called me and said "hey there is a new place that has nomi. . ." I interrupted at this point saying "SAY NO MORE LET'S DO IT!". Collin had just awoken a sleepy monster of beer drinking, and now this monster was ready to stalk it's prey. Collin showed up to Yuta's shop and then I told Yuta that we were going to go to nomihodai and he was kind of sad that he couldn't go, he said to bring him back a beer, and that we should join him and Max for sushi later. Then Collin said beer and sushi will make him through up on Yuta's pants. Yuta said in reply "Throw up on my head or face please, that way I can have something to eat." I started laughing at this absurd request, and said you can get a little drunk as well as get something to eat, we all agreed and had a good laugh.

So then Collin and I went to a beer garden, it was pretty nice, although it was a bit cold outside. They played this old hawaiian music that made it feel like me and Colin had been married for 40 years and were about to eat pudding. Definitely going to go back to the beer garden again, hopefully on a warmer day. After that me and Collin went to a convenience store and grabbed some pizza pockets and drank some beer, then a clerk was like sorry we don't do that here, referring to the beer, so we drank our beers outside. At some point I meet back up with Yuta, and we went to his friends bar near Rough Roll, it was a nice place, but there were like creepy dolls everywhere. Later on that night Yuta got mad, asking why we don't care about his friends bar? I guess because Max and Ian just got up and left with out saying anything. So Yuta didn't come with us when we went to J's bar. I had never seen Yuta mad before, I tried to tell him it was probably a misunderstanding. Hopefully everything will be okay.

As the night went on me and Collin kept drinking and were pretty wasted, Collin was about to leave when David showed up, so then he didn't leave and drank more, and then fell asleep on the couch at J's, I "rested" for a bit too, and then when I woke up figured I might as well make my way home since I am falling asleep here as well, so I snapped a picture of drunken Collin. Everytime me and Collin go out drinking he ends up passing out haha. Well I am going to watch Family Guy so I will end this here until next time.