What to say....
So much time has passed and yet I feel like I'm sitting still.
Tokyo is.... interesting.
I've been in BIG cities all over the U.S. and Europe and I never felt as out of place and down right lonely as I do here.
I've found a few favorite places, but I've been working so much that on my day off a week (if I'm lucky) it's all about catching up with sleep and doing laundry and just trying to recoup that it feels like I've wasted my free time. Hopefully next week after we open, things will get better..... just in time for fall....my summer has been a wash it seems like.
I did make it home to actually relax with monimina and try to ground myself...but so much of that trip home was doing "damage control" on other fronts that it just wasn't long enough....don't get me wrong...it was GREAT in so many ways, but it just made me even more homesick.
I go to the airport to pick up my friend Jennifer in 9 hours....she's here for a week. That will be fun.
Wednesday the show opens...thus Jennifer's visit as monimina couldn't get away from her show to come for my Premiere....thus the toil and tribulations of being in show business.
And then last week, FINALLY, I met someone here that helps quash the loneliness...it's rather funny....we fight, bicker and clash so much... although she appears gaijin, she was raised in Japan. Smart, funny, smart, beautiful, smart....did I mention she's smart? I am scared about when she and monimina meet....I'll be mince meat...they will have a heyday ganging up on me....but it's worth if, if only to finally find a friend here that helps me gain understanding to this land...and to gain another good friend that makes me wake up looking forward to a new day in this non-home.
Seriously...I thought I had a basic enough understanding of Japan that when I came here, it would just be a language thing....but no....the cultures is soooo bass acwards from what I've dealt with before that it makes work a challenge....not the work itself but the work environment.
Anyway....I'm almost starting to rant when I should be sleeping, so with that, I'm off....
I have so much I want/need to do before I'm outa here in Jan...
ciao
So much time has passed and yet I feel like I'm sitting still.
Tokyo is.... interesting.
I've been in BIG cities all over the U.S. and Europe and I never felt as out of place and down right lonely as I do here.
I've found a few favorite places, but I've been working so much that on my day off a week (if I'm lucky) it's all about catching up with sleep and doing laundry and just trying to recoup that it feels like I've wasted my free time. Hopefully next week after we open, things will get better..... just in time for fall....my summer has been a wash it seems like.
I did make it home to actually relax with monimina and try to ground myself...but so much of that trip home was doing "damage control" on other fronts that it just wasn't long enough....don't get me wrong...it was GREAT in so many ways, but it just made me even more homesick.
I go to the airport to pick up my friend Jennifer in 9 hours....she's here for a week. That will be fun.
Wednesday the show opens...thus Jennifer's visit as monimina couldn't get away from her show to come for my Premiere....thus the toil and tribulations of being in show business.
And then last week, FINALLY, I met someone here that helps quash the loneliness...it's rather funny....we fight, bicker and clash so much... although she appears gaijin, she was raised in Japan. Smart, funny, smart, beautiful, smart....did I mention she's smart? I am scared about when she and monimina meet....I'll be mince meat...they will have a heyday ganging up on me....but it's worth if, if only to finally find a friend here that helps me gain understanding to this land...and to gain another good friend that makes me wake up looking forward to a new day in this non-home.
Seriously...I thought I had a basic enough understanding of Japan that when I came here, it would just be a language thing....but no....the cultures is soooo bass acwards from what I've dealt with before that it makes work a challenge....not the work itself but the work environment.
Anyway....I'm almost starting to rant when I should be sleeping, so with that, I'm off....
I have so much I want/need to do before I'm outa here in Jan...
ciao
charlie:
Yup! The armory. Nice fucking bmw! I obviously need to start rigging truss so I can trade out my photo-assisting nude modeling yamaha in for a ducati or something.