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It's been forever since I posted, mostly because I've been busy every single day of the week and when I'm not doing something, I'm packing for my move to Wisconsin. So, a quick update so everyone knows what I'm up to.
On Thursday I headed into the city to do some last time shopping, mostly in Japanese stores. I hit up Kinnokuniya, Book Off, Uniqlo (where the One Piece t-shirts were on sale for $6!), Toy Tokyo and a few other furnishing stores around China town looking for stuff for my apartment. I picked up a manga recommended to me called Termae Romae about a Roman architect who gets transported forward in time to Japan to see the hot springs and bases his Roman bath designs on them. It's a comedy and looks like fun. I was exhausted and my foot hurt since I'd sliced into it with a shell on Weds... Ah, right, Kirk had an introduction to massage class which I tagged along with on Weds afternoon which left me near where I train for Buyu for several hours since there was no point in driving home then back, so I went to the beach and read my kindle for several hours which was beautiful and relaxing, and then much to my amusement, I went to training and Jack took us right back to the beach where he had us walk the boardwalk then took us swimming. It was delightful other than the cut foot.
In the evening in NYC, I met up with some Japanese friends I'd met at animenext and otakon and we had yakiniku and a million other Japanese foods (it was like, an all in one Japanese restaurant). I consquently got home very late and tired. I slept in the next day and then picked up my bro and my friend, A. and we headed to Sandy Hook for the afternoon. The water wasn't quite as good as on Weds but we swam for hours, then hung out for hours before heading home. Mom fed us artichokes and steak fajitas before I headed home to once again collapse in exhaustion.
Saturday was the bujinkan seminar. Luckily, it wasn't all that labour intensive since Jack did a flash to the past and taught us what he'd learnt in the summer of 1983 while he was in Japan. This turned out to be a way of focusing your power and movement so you weren't wasting energy and charging anything you did with more strength. I thought it was using a lot of muscles I didn't normally use so I'd be really sore but it turns out, I use those muscles in my legs a lot so no soreness there, but in my arms and shoulders was a different matter. I laughed when I discovered my armpits were sore yesterday. Armpits! *L* It was a somewhat boring seminar but very useful for training. I'm trying to internalize it.
Yesterday was mostly a day of rest in which I watched tv with my mom, then with my dad and bro. We saw the latest Ghibli movie, watched the very silly and historically anachronistic Leonardo and White Collar and Burn Notice.
Today being my birthday, my brother's class on Weds netted me a free massage today which we are about to head off to, and then I'm going to ask to eat at our local fantastic Indian restaurant. Ja ne!
On Thursday I headed into the city to do some last time shopping, mostly in Japanese stores. I hit up Kinnokuniya, Book Off, Uniqlo (where the One Piece t-shirts were on sale for $6!), Toy Tokyo and a few other furnishing stores around China town looking for stuff for my apartment. I picked up a manga recommended to me called Termae Romae about a Roman architect who gets transported forward in time to Japan to see the hot springs and bases his Roman bath designs on them. It's a comedy and looks like fun. I was exhausted and my foot hurt since I'd sliced into it with a shell on Weds... Ah, right, Kirk had an introduction to massage class which I tagged along with on Weds afternoon which left me near where I train for Buyu for several hours since there was no point in driving home then back, so I went to the beach and read my kindle for several hours which was beautiful and relaxing, and then much to my amusement, I went to training and Jack took us right back to the beach where he had us walk the boardwalk then took us swimming. It was delightful other than the cut foot.
In the evening in NYC, I met up with some Japanese friends I'd met at animenext and otakon and we had yakiniku and a million other Japanese foods (it was like, an all in one Japanese restaurant). I consquently got home very late and tired. I slept in the next day and then picked up my bro and my friend, A. and we headed to Sandy Hook for the afternoon. The water wasn't quite as good as on Weds but we swam for hours, then hung out for hours before heading home. Mom fed us artichokes and steak fajitas before I headed home to once again collapse in exhaustion.
Saturday was the bujinkan seminar. Luckily, it wasn't all that labour intensive since Jack did a flash to the past and taught us what he'd learnt in the summer of 1983 while he was in Japan. This turned out to be a way of focusing your power and movement so you weren't wasting energy and charging anything you did with more strength. I thought it was using a lot of muscles I didn't normally use so I'd be really sore but it turns out, I use those muscles in my legs a lot so no soreness there, but in my arms and shoulders was a different matter. I laughed when I discovered my armpits were sore yesterday. Armpits! *L* It was a somewhat boring seminar but very useful for training. I'm trying to internalize it.
Yesterday was mostly a day of rest in which I watched tv with my mom, then with my dad and bro. We saw the latest Ghibli movie, watched the very silly and historically anachronistic Leonardo and White Collar and Burn Notice.
Today being my birthday, my brother's class on Weds netted me a free massage today which we are about to head off to, and then I'm going to ask to eat at our local fantastic Indian restaurant. Ja ne!
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