The problem with updating infrequently - at least for me - is the ferocious desire to fill my updates with mundane detail that would be acceptable in daily entries, but turns soporific in quantity. So, I will try to distill the last few weeks down to the LJ equivalent of grain neutral spirits, and for me the good stuff starts with food ( Read more... )

Overwork mandated that a large portion of this weekend would be spent on sleep. In the remaining hours, we did a lot of eating. Mako woke up yesterday wanting to eat beef, so that is what we did. I made burgers from kuroge wagyu - the cow of Kobe beef fame - for lunch. We added sauteed onions and some locally-made bacon that won a prize at a big ( Read more... )

So here I am again ( Read more... )

Ugh. I make myself myself crazy sometimes, like today. I lolled around my room for a while, which was okay though wasteful. Eventually I did make it out to Hexagon Cafe in Ebisu and read the promised Kawabata. I also enjoyed a really great cappucino and peanut butter cookies. At 6:45, I met Evan and Nori, and Yusuke and Yukie at the west exit of ( Read more... )

Yesterday started off very well. The weather was lovely and work was leisurely. With everyone else out of the office on a presentation, Evan, Yusuke, Hideyo and I took a long lunch at a nice place none of us had even been to. It was in the middle of a row of restaurants we always manage to miss. We couldn't resist a bit of wine with with our pasta ( Read more... )

Today I had surgery. I was a one-hour local anesthesia-only procedure to remove the lump under my arm. I do not like needles, so I was squirmy about being stuck in the armpit, but I was okay in the end. I talked to the doctor while he picked at fibres and sliced and sewed. He says the lump was a lipoma - a fatty growth, kind of a benign tumor. It's ( Read more... )

So after my boxed dinner, I e-mailed Yumi. We were both bored, and she suggested a drink. We met in Roppongi at 10:20 to check out one of the bars I've been reading about. It's a little place (16 seats) in a basement, but it feels bigger. I was expected a crowd, but it was empty. I suppose it was a Tuesday, but it's Roppongi. Still, the bartender ( Read more... )

I am eating department store take-out sushi on the floor of my room. It is surprsingly fresh and tasty. The toro was very nice, the uni and ikura quite savory. Haha. I have a bento for when I finish, undoubtedly hungry. But it was all cheap ( Read more... )

May I repeat how great it is to live in Naka-Meguro? Saturday night Takako and I met up in Shibuya, had a burger, and walked down to Air in Daikanyama. It was empty at 12 but packed by 1. It was progressive/tech house as advertised, dark and heavy. Dave would have approved...the first couple of hours were a giant build-up and everything was set for ( Read more... )

I went to do my paperwork for foreigner registration at the ward office on Thursday morning. I thought I had to register for national health insurance too. But I misterstood (or rather was never told); we're already registered through work, so I had to go back and cancel. I got to office around 1, and no one was doing much. The presentation team ( Read more... )