Busy Saturday

Posted on 2006/03/05 12:55:01 (March 2006).

[Saturday 4th March]
Traditionally, the day after a long haul flight I do pretty much nothing but lazing about and sleeping. However, similar to when I arrived in Seattle, my first full day back in Tokyo was actually quite busy.

I thought I would try to trick jetlag (which always causes me to wake up 4AM the first morning after changing time zone) by going to bed early the previous night. So I woke up slightly later than the norm - around 4:30 perhaps. Still, I felt fairly OK, so at about 6 I proceeded to get up and get ready for the day.

I actually had to go to work, despite it being a Saturday. It wasn't in the office though - we had a "focus group" being conducted in an office elsewhere in Tokyo. It wasn't too straining I suppose, I basically just had to sit behind one of those two way mirrors, observe and take notes. I was all done by 4, and as it was quite near to where Chie works (who was also working on Saturday unusually), I decided to go and wait in a bar for her. Superbly there is a Hobgoblin pub in Roppongi, and although rather expensive, I enjoyed a very nice couple of pints of bitter and a packet of smokey bacon crisps in there whilst waiting for Chie to finish.

When Chie finished we went to a burger place called "Homework's" that, to my surprise, had a whole selection of vegetarian burgers. There were a staggering six to choose from if I recall correctly. I went for one that was nice, but perhaps a bit more lentilly than I usually like. It reminded me of what veggie burgers used to be like in the 80s, when they were made from a kind of dried powder stuff you bought in packets (sosmix, etc). I also had a very nice chocolate milkshake with it.

We basically just went home after this, again I was very tired, and was falling asleep on the train. Just like the previous evening I went pretty much straight to bed when I got back, and was asleep pretty soon after. Although I was woken up by a phone call from my manager a little later on, who presumably must have been in a karaoke place, as he was asking me the name of a song. Given that I was half asleep, it was a little bit surreal, and I wasn't entirely sure if it had actually happened or if I'd just dreamt it.

There was a young fellow called Bright
Who travelled much faster than light.
He set off one day
In this relative way,
Returning the previous night.

Posted by Mum at 2006/03/06 14:09:29.

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