Obligatory Christmas haul report
This year Santa was especially good to me. I got a shiny new apartment (with a GIGANTENORMOUS living room, a full kitchen, a plus-sized main bedroom, and a wonderfully-traditional tatami room, in a nice quiet little neighborhood in Urawa); a lovely gift pack of pfeffernussen, chocolate, more chocolate, Christmas pudding, classical music, and a card with pictures both of and by my nieces from my sister; and my old fiancée back (I’m moving in with her in the new apartment). Also, I had a nice chat with my mom about just random stuff, including Italian drivers, region-locking (I told her how to make her DVD player region free—I deliberately bought her the one I’d gotten because it could be made region free), and Avatar.
Today, to celebrate The Day After Boxing Day, I saw Up (in 3-D!) in the Shinjuku Picadilly theater. It’s a theater that would be extremely nice-looking, if only it were completely depopulated at all times. Full of people waiting to see a movie, it resembles nothing so much as an American airport after the new extra-ridiculous security precautions have been put in place.
Life is going pretty well at the moment. I feel like I’ve finally woken up after a night full of bizarre nightmares.