March 12, 2000 - Sunday
Today's weather was great. However I spent a lot of the day inside, either cleaning
or sleeping. I rousted myself around 11:30 and started to clean my house. I did
the quick and not very thorough routine, but it looks okay.
Around 3 I started to worry and I called Pamella because I hadn't heard from her.
She hadn't left yet. Argh. She said she would catch the next train, and would
be in Tsuruoka around 7:30. Ouch. The party was supposed to start at 6:30. Pamella
said that she would come to the izakaya, but if we didn't see her within 10 minutes of the
train's arrival, to call her again.
So, I waited at home for a while, watched an episode of The Pretender and showered
too. Then I headed out on my bike. I rode to GEOS, and parked. I walked slowly
to Benkei's, but still arrived too early. I waited until 6:30 and went in. In my
bad Japanese I tried to tell them that I was meeting between 6 and 8 people. They put me
at a small table in the corner and I ordered my oolong tea and opened up my book.
As I finished the first page, Tomoya arrived. Then in a few minutes, Kazuhiro joined
us and we were moved to another table. The party was going well and we were eating and
drinking away, when I noticed that it was past the time that Pamella said. So I
borrowed a cellular phone and called her. She was on a train from Akita...she'd missed
the train she was supposed to catch by 1 minute and wouldn't arrive until 9:37. Oy vey!
I told the others and they weren't angry at all. However, some of them did leave
at 9:00. So, at 9:30 ish, I left Kazuhiro, Fumihiko and Tomoya and went to the station
to meet Pamella. This time.... she was there! Yay. I took her back to the izakaya
and the five of us drank and ate some more. (BTW, not all of us were drinking alcohol!)
After a couple of hours there, Pamella, Tomoya and I decided to go to karaoke and
the others decided to go home. It was sad to see them go, but they had to work
the next day, and we didn't.
Tomoya hadn't been drinking so he drove us to Hiyoshi, the karaoke box and we rented
a room. We were really surprised because we were given the party room. There was
room for 20 people or more, but there was only 3 of us. Amazing. We sang and sang
and danced too. I sang old stuff, new stuff...you name it. Once again I sang a Bay City
Rollers song (okay 2 if you're really counting) and discovered that "Living La Vida
Loca" was now part of this Box's repertoire. Yay. I sang it...we all sang so much
we could hardly talk afterwards! We finally left around 2:30 and Tomoya graciously gave
us a ride to my apartment.
In my apartment, Pamella and I gabbed for a bit and then she went to sleep. I'm going
to do that in a couple of minutes too.
ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz.
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