Osaka

Where stuff is boring.

I have done no sightseeing in Osaka and do not plan to before I leave tomorrow to head to Hiroshima. Partly, this is due to timing. I got in later yesterday then I expected, I woke up late today and it has also rained all day and tomorrow I am leaving at 11 am. The second reason is that there isn't much to see here. Nothing significant at all, really. I asked some natives I met here yesterday what I have to see, then eventually suggested a castle that is 1.5 hours away from here, Himeji. Looks quite nice, but its forever away.

I am also starting to loathe weekends here. Typically, on saturdays and sundays, I wake up late and then lounge around for awhile before scaring up food somehow. But I can not do that here. Well, not in my boxers as I usually do. Most coffee shops demand pants. So I am having this weird inversion of what portion of the week I like. I now like the 'work week' portion more then the weekend.

I ended up in a bar called Murphy's last night and drank Guiness, green-dyed Sapporo and I think Jager. I am not entirely certain what the shot was, I was entirely too busy flirting. There may be a trend there. I tend to drink Jager accidentaly, or unintentionally is the better word there, when flirting. I wonder why. Maybe the black licorice taste makes me think I am more attractive? Possibly that the same black licorice taste will make kissing more enjoyable then, say, tasting like an ashtray? I am not sure, but I will investigate this more later.

And of course I went home alone. I have only vague ideas of what to say to people in attempts to endear my self as a friend and someone who's company should be tolerated for a few hours in a bar, to say nothing of how to convice a girl that yes, I am an attractive option for makeouts. I thought my isolation and lack of social skills was bad in Chicago, hah, nothing to make you self concious and unable to form cogent thoughts like not speaking for days at a time. And then when you do, having other native english speakers congratulate you on your 'Engrish.' Really, quite fun.

I think I am going to get a coffee, some food and then go to bed. I have bought a spy novel because that feels like the proper thing to read when staying in a capsule hotel. Yes, I am sleeping in a very spacious coffin that has a tv. Its awesome.