A Relaxing Weekend

Sleeping 13 hours a day has done me well I believe. The past two days have sort of been lazy, in terms of going to bed and getting up late, reveling in the fact that I don't have anywhere I must be by a certain time, that I don't have any pressing assignments or things to do. Granted, that's what happens at the end of the quarter and at the beginning of summer vacation, but there is always this feeling of emptiness accompanied with it. I've always got to be busy somehow and it's strange if I'm not being productive in some fashion.

So yesterday I spent the majority of my time cleaning my room, which was in desperate need of it considering these last two weeks I've been literally in and out, living in a hurricane of my stuff. I put all my clothes away, organized my room, put away all my books since I no longer need them, took out my trash...yeah, my room is pretty awesome. And then I started to bling out my new headphones with rhinestone stickies I bought at the 100 yen store. Granted, these rhinestone sticky things are for cellphones etc. but I really want to make my new headphones shine. :D I promise they will be a fashion statement in themselves. Later though, I ventured down to the Shijo area, and in the evening met up with some people to just hang out and chill for the evening.

Today, after sleeping in once again, I got up, got ready, headed down to the Shijo area again to chill for a bit before I met up with Austen. We then proceeded to hang out for a bit, Starbucks hop, and decided to go see Sex and the City 2. Japanese movie theaters are a tad bit different from American movie theaters. First off, they don't have that many showings per day like American movie theaters do. At most they will have five or six showings of a movie (that would be the most popular movie; if it's been out for a long time, it will be 3-4). With foreign movies, depending on the movie, you can either see it in English or Japanese (with the opposite subtitles). You can go up to the theater the movie is showing in, but you can't go in until 10 minutes before where they check your ticket at the door. Previews literally last for 10 minutes. You have assigned seats, which you can pick when you purchase tickets. It's a very very interesting set up, one I would never expect to see adapted in the states. Anyway, all in all it was fun, ended up only being 1000 yen to see the movie (normal equivalent in the States), and while the movie was definitely a hot mess, it was still fun to chill out at a chick flick with a good friend.

On a final note, Happy Father's Day to my Dad, my Uncle, my Grandpa and my Opa! I hope you all have a fabulous day!!