I am the Lizard Queen!

I don't have the patience to deal with you, Otoya Trading Website. I don't understand what I did wrong, and it's really pissing me off. All I want to do is order some durned cardio fitness music, and I have to go through you since the American website refuses to deal with me because I am not in the US.

And I have to go to Shibuya tomorrow to try to get someone at the Apple Store to figure out what's wrong with my iPod (dead battery from exposure to torrential rains near the summit of Fuji is my educated guess) and how much it will cost to resuscitate my sweet baby nano. If the price is more than ichi-man (approximately $100), it's probably just as efficient to buy a new one.

And Sean stuffed me full of lasagna, even though I asked him to please cut the serving in half. And if you are thinking about saying I could have just eaten half and left the rest, please feel free to self-administer the throat punch I am too far away to deliver in person. If I were able to leave food on my plate, I would. I consider my restraint in not eating the revoltingly sugary Frozen Mudslide Pie an accomplishment, though it was really really much too sweet.

Unfortunately, the little bit that I did eat has left me as hyperactive as a coked-up poodle and I don't think I'm going to be able to sleep for a few hours.

Don't Panic

At the great risk of losing my geek-cred, I must sadly announce that my sci-fi/fantasy novel background has been...lacking a few of the classics. And by a few, I mean a bunch.

Today, after wandering around Shibuya for an hour looking for the Apple Store (which was exactly where it was supposed to be after the 14th time I walked by the same stretch of street), being told it would cost me the price of new 4GB Nano to get Nano 1.0 repaired, and then buying a new 8GB Nano (Akapod, for it's awesome red hue) for only $60 more, I took all the Tosho-cards Anju's family had given me and went to the Kinokuniya in Shinjuku.

The selection of English books is pretty pitiful, I must say. I know, I know, it's heaps better than the corresponding selection of Japanese books in your average Chapters, but it depresses me to go into a bookstore with hopes high and have them dashed on a rocky shoal of Dan Brown, John Grisham and Danielle Steele. The sci-fi/fantasy shelf (of which there is one) is extremely limited. I ended up browsing the young adult section as well, with some success.

So, to fill in the gaps of my classical education, I picked up The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, A Wizard of Earthsea, and Stardust (admittedly, not as old and venerated as the other two, but definitely new to me). Oh, and a copy of Eldest, since I bought Eragon not long after I arrived on these shores, and it seemed fitting I should do so.

I devoured most of Earthsea on the train, and finished it over pizza. I got a quarter of the way though HGTG (is that the acceptable short form, I don't know *sound of geek-cred further disintigrating*) before I stopped myself. I need to pace myself.

All in all, a pretty busy Sunday. Luckily for me, tomorrow is a holiday!!! Wheee!