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January 22, 2007
ow
ok first and foremost. i read this from pg2 on espn, and it made me laugh pretty hard:
• I can't believe how many readers predicted the following ending of the Pats-Colts game: Vinatieri shanks the game-winning field goal, rips off his jersey to reveal a Pats jersey, then runs across to the Pats sideline and jumps into Belichick's arms as Jim Nantz screams "Noooooooooo! Noooooooooo!" and Peyton Manning breaks out the greatest Manning Face of all-time. Would I sacrifice three months of my life for this to happen? Yeah, probably.
hahahaha, just re-reading it now made me laugh haha.
anyways, as i said in the title. ow. what happened? well ryan, me, and nakamura sensei (one of the teachers at my school) went to run a half marathon yesterday (21km), or about 12-13 miles give or take.
and me formally starting my training about 3 days earlier.
good job me!
anyways, the race starts and i kept telling myself that `i am not going to walk, i am not going to walk, i am not going to walk.` and that my only other goal being `i will finish, i will finish, i will finish.` was shortly lived right around the time i saw the 8 km mark.
please keep in mind that the farthest i've ever gone, is 4.8 km.
so around 8 i started noticing this pain in my left foot, right under the ball of my big toe. i hobbled along, slowing my pace down a bit, and i round the halfway point of 10.5 and finally as i'm getting to 12, i just needed to walk it off.
or so i told myself.
i walked for a good few hundred meters when i decided to start picking it up again.
and that's when it was hurting quite a bit.
so i found the patrolling first aid guys and asked for a little help with what i believed to be a blister.
upon taking off my sock, it was revealed to be a blister about the size of a half dollar, thus capping my run at 14 km, but...
i have pictures!
Posted by Jeff at 03:54 PM | Comments (1)
January 16, 2007
fun times
so last night at the yamadas, ross, ryan, and i spent a few moments recollecting the nifty commercials we've seen... coincidentally we found two common themes.
1. all were about sports...
2. all were nike ads...
let's go fun first.
this is pretty funny.
now for the cooler ones:
the three of us agreed that this is awesome.
this too!
but i have to say that, me personally, these two neh!
Posted by Jeff at 09:23 AM | Comments (0)
January 12, 2007
june...july...
classes started wednesday as i got used to shaking of the ol teaching cobwebs and tried to find my groove again after three weeks of surfing the web.
and getting paid for it.
:D
but in addition to me feeling a little oog, i found that my students did as well:
me: what is the date today? <----- i see one student talking a lot
m: /pause
m: yoshimasa! <---- said talkative student
y: hai!
m: the date please?
y: um...
y: what's it called... that month with a j... j...
m: /waits
y: june!
m: ...try again.
y: JULY!
m: ...getting there... only one left...
y: AH! I GOT IT! JUCEMBER!
m: ...
we would have also accepted your never speaking english again...
Posted by Jeff at 09:50 AM | Comments (2)
January 08, 2007
stupidity
and boredom... when you go from 5 roommates to 0 in a day, it leaves your mind / conversations free to wander. hoonest.
me: lately i've caught myself saying 'lame duck sauce' ;P
mike: hahaha wut the heck
me: well
me: as in
me: 'wow that's pretty lame'
me: 'wow that's lame sauce'
me: 'wow that's lame duck sauce' ;P
mike: HAHAHAHA
mike: i dont understand
mike: where the duck came from
mike: maybe if u said
mike: wow....he's a lame duck
mike: wow.....thats some good duck sauce
mike: wow.....he's a lame duck sauce
mike: or
mike: wow.....thats some good lame duck sauce
me: well
mike: hahaha yea, that didnt make much sense
good job.
Posted by Jeff at 04:38 PM | Comments (0)
January 03, 2007
so... new year
that means new antics right?
right right.
so mike x 2 and i were sitting at sushi dai in tsukiji where we just finished our 'chef's recommendation' set and we finally get the chance to pick one of our choosing (part of the set).
mike t chooses the classis otoro (fattiest of tuna cuts).
mike w chooses blue shrimp.
me, i thought i'd be clever. i asked for what ara / fujida / satoshi (the three chefs) recommendation was.
needless to say some bantering goes on (i miss big chunks of this haha) and finally they prepare something and set it on my table. the best i can describe this is that it looks like the yellow buds of bean sprouts, except they're white, slightly larger, and there's a good number of them. all over rice, wrapped in seaweed with a slight garnish of green onion and some sweet mustard (just a dab). in the words of our three chefs: eat it in one bite! it's only in season now!
well alrighty.
one bite later, i'im pleasantly surprised. it was pretty good. if you know your sushi, it goes in with a texture of ikura, then dissolves into a kind of bbq'd eel texture, and finally slides down the back of your throat, warm, with the consistency of chutoro (second fattiest tuna).
not bad.
mike x 2 felt somewhat obligated to check the menu for something else they might want to try, and asked what i just had. they point to one entry that stands alone.
sperm sacks of cod.
fantastic.
Posted by Jeff at 12:45 PM | Comments (0)
January 01, 2007
happy new years!
i won't lie, december went by really really really slowly.
not that that's a bad thing.
mike and mike plus a wendy and i'll raise you a jenny with an albert on the side have come and gone, and once again i find myself on my own again.
not that that's a bad thing either.
but it was honestly a clash of two worlds that never ceased to blow my mind away. for the most part, i tried to show them around to what i've come to know and come to call home for the last 18 months, in addition they showed me a few things i never even dreamed of existed in the places i felt i knew like the back of my hand.
it was good to take them to the yamadas for christmas... and see teru the next night... as well as show them around my school. the small bakeries, the endless bowls of ramen, the shink... all left me with a fuzzy feeling that reminded me of what it was like to be back home, almost as if i never left in the first place.
my personal highlight of the trip was getting to get up to nagano again. unlike last year where brad, ryan, masaya and i went to ueda, we went to where they ran parts of the olympic games in 98.
and oh yeah, they'll never let you forget the olympics were held there... 8 YEARS AGO.
i mean seriously, it's around every freaking corner!
all in all, it was great to see them all again. tsukiji sushi twice, tokyo way too many times, and even some proper onsen-ing aka sausage fest.
great way to finish out 06.
Posted by Jeff at 09:55 AM | Comments (0)