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my friend zach is traveling around japan and came to stay with me for a few days. this is fantastic, not only because it's fun to have someone come visit, but also because i get an excuse to visit some touristy things that i probably wouldn't make time to see since i live here. however, today we both slept in too late to go anywhere (too much drinking, arcading and karaokeing at round 1 last night... i was up late enough to see the sunrise, which was very beautiful... and to hear the rooster crow, which was irritating) so instead of going anywhere we just hung out around oita city and went to a lot of music, manga and pastry shops. however, this is japan, so this also happened:
me: ooh, let's go in there! maybe they have manga posters!
zach: sure.
*we walk in*
me: ... wow, that's a lot of yaoi. um... and that is definitely lesbian porn... and, um, i don't think that happens in bleach...
so, among the regular shops in the district, we just happened to walk into the gay porn manga place... but of course being very upright and american, we didn't buy anything, and certainly didn't place bets on how much clothing the cast of death note would remove before the end of the story... right? (in my defense, it was all zach's idea, and it wasn't from the 18+ only curtained off section, and only a few articles of clothing were removed... at a time... and this is japan so they can't legally show anything explicit anyway.)
lesson 1 from tonight was "japan is famous for it's creative porn for a reason."
lesson 2 from tonight was "don't trust emily when she says she knows where she's going, because she has absolutely no sense of direction."
but because lessons are only learned from direct experience, tonight morphed into "getting lost in oita at night part deux"
me: hmm, i haven't gone this way before, but i think it goes toward my apartment. is that okay?
zach: sure.
***5 minutes later***
me: ... wow, this looks sorta unfamiliar. um, and that is definitely the lawsons i saw last time i was lost... but it's okay if we don't retrace because last time i got lost going that way, so we'll go this way instead...
zach: okay...
***2 minutes later***
me: ... oh shit.
see, i can only navigate using landmarks. whenever i think something is in one direction, the chances that i'm right are pretty much the same as my chances of winning the lottery. nevertheless, i thought i had a vague idea where i was, and based on that speculation, had a vague idea of what direction to take.
several *carefully noted* wrong turns later, i admitted defeat and we retraced where we'd gone until i recognized a sign that said "kusuri," thus realizing that, although once again on familiar territory, we were not even close to where i thought we were... anyway, i got us back safely without outside assistance, but will be mocked about this incident for the rest of my life.
me: ooh, let's go in there! maybe they have manga posters!
zach: sure.
*we walk in*
me: ... wow, that's a lot of yaoi. um... and that is definitely lesbian porn... and, um, i don't think that happens in bleach...
so, among the regular shops in the district, we just happened to walk into the gay porn manga place... but of course being very upright and american, we didn't buy anything, and certainly didn't place bets on how much clothing the cast of death note would remove before the end of the story... right? (in my defense, it was all zach's idea, and it wasn't from the 18+ only curtained off section, and only a few articles of clothing were removed... at a time... and this is japan so they can't legally show anything explicit anyway.)
lesson 1 from tonight was "japan is famous for it's creative porn for a reason."
lesson 2 from tonight was "don't trust emily when she says she knows where she's going, because she has absolutely no sense of direction."
but because lessons are only learned from direct experience, tonight morphed into "getting lost in oita at night part deux"
me: hmm, i haven't gone this way before, but i think it goes toward my apartment. is that okay?
zach: sure.
***5 minutes later***
me: ... wow, this looks sorta unfamiliar. um, and that is definitely the lawsons i saw last time i was lost... but it's okay if we don't retrace because last time i got lost going that way, so we'll go this way instead...
zach: okay...
***2 minutes later***
me: ... oh shit.
see, i can only navigate using landmarks. whenever i think something is in one direction, the chances that i'm right are pretty much the same as my chances of winning the lottery. nevertheless, i thought i had a vague idea where i was, and based on that speculation, had a vague idea of what direction to take.
several *carefully noted* wrong turns later, i admitted defeat and we retraced where we'd gone until i recognized a sign that said "kusuri," thus realizing that, although once again on familiar territory, we were not even close to where i thought we were... anyway, i got us back safely without outside assistance, but will be mocked about this incident for the rest of my life.