Hmmm, what do I do now? You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be happy to know that I am actually doing laundry as we speak. Yes, the journal writing during laundry sessions have commenced. It makes sense actually. You are a little trapped doing laundry, so if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just sitting at home I should do something to occupy my time. That is cleaning (next), writing, reading, studying, or surfing the web. <\/p>\n
My place is becoming more like my place every minute. Certainly it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t finished, but it has reached a livable condition. So now what do I do? Every minute up to now seems to have been consumed with either work (still really busy) or apartment stuff. I still have the apartment stuff but it is significantly less urgent than before.<\/p>\n
My couch arrives today \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so that means I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m done with the current big ticket items. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really have any near term plans for more. I still have more things to do like lights and trash cans. Trash cans? What is so complicated about trash? Nagoya is \u00e3\u201a\u00b4\u00e3\u0192\u0178\u00e3\u0081\u00b0\u00e3\u0081\u2039 or crazy about trash. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little link<\/a>. I have to separate everything and put it in a specially colored plastic bag. Then I put it in the special trash area of our building. In our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mail corner\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there are all sorts of notes about how everyone is doing their trash incorrectly. The foreigners will get blamed but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying my best. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten rid of most my packing material but I still have lots of cardboard!<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a bit paralyzed by light purchases. It is a commitment thing. Once they are in, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really change them. Somehow a light is more difficult than a couch!<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking forward to more days where I can just hang out and wonder, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hmmm, what should I do now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Clearly I still have life support activities (grocery store, laundry, cleaning) that require my time but that happens anywhere. It just seems that here it takes about 10 times longer because I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really read anything. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to go to the big supermarket near Nagoya Station today. At least that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the plan. Since I bought a monthly train pass that includes Nagoya Station on my route, I can go there using my pass. The pass was expensive (about $180 for one month between my apartment and work \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the equivalent of 19.2 days) and it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really that economical. But since I have been working Saturdays and since my route includes Nagoya Station it could pay off in the end.<\/p>\n Today I hope to get laundry done, get to the grocery store, maybe buy a trash can or two, ponder lights, get my couch delivered, organize, and finally get the pictures off of my new camera and in to my computer. Maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go to dinner with colleagues as well. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a full day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hmmm, what do I do now? You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be happy to know that I am actually doing laundry as we speak. Yes, the journal writing during laundry sessions have commenced. It makes sense actually. You are a little trapped doing laundry, so if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just sitting at home I should do something to occupy my time. … <\/p>\n