Day Off with a Few Surprises!

I was feeling pretty down last night but things seem to be picking up today. I HAD to get out of the house so I went to school and met up with some people for lunch in the lounge. I relaxed there until Daniel showed up and we played some good 'ol fashioned PSP Monster Hunter. Once we finished a mission we went to eat lunch then parted.

I figured before I went home I would pick up some of the last remaining books that I need for my collection. I hit up three book-offs in The Takadanobaba area looking for the last 2 volumes of Maison Ikkoku. I still cannot find them. I did make an awesome discovery though, there are novel remditions of many popular manga series. I was not looking for anything in particular, but I just happened to stumble upon the novel for Last Exile! The anime version was and still is one of my favorite of all time. I can't believe I had forgotten about it up until this point! After further investigation it seems that there is no manga. The TV show was produced in 2003 and I first saw it on Anime Unleashed on Tech TV. They brought over some of the strangest shows from Japan. Anyway I am glad I found it. I now have a feasable number of books that I still need to pick up. 2 - Mason Ikkoku, 3 - Evangelion, 2 - Tokyo 80's, 1 - Tenchi Muyo. This makes a grand total of 8 books before I am completely done with my collecting! I will most likely end up paying full price for many of these. I also finally asked about shipping this stuff back to the states. I want to get most of my stuff shipped by this weekend.

As I said I was planning on going home but some plans for dinner suddenly popped up. I usually email 5 or more people looking for something to do in the evening and am always rejected. Today was an unexpected exception. I met up with Tomomi at Waseda and we went to Baba for dinner. Tomomi went with us to Karuizawa and is going to Minnisota next year for school. She is a lot like me in that she likes to listen and not speak very much, so there were many akward moments when I was just staring at her. It was very good though. It was the first time I had eaten dinner out in quite some time.