by audrey -

Decisions, decisions…

I have a problem.
Having moved to a new apartment, I find myself in need of curtains. Nice, light-blocking curtains.

Curtains in Japan get pretty expensive. I could easily spend $300 on the cheapest kind.

Craigslist, thankfully, presents a cheaper solution. It so happens that I’ve found some curtains precisely of the dimensions I need, for $20. A steal, right?

Only one little problem.

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What to do? 　I mean, I just need　to block the light, but that is some PINK right there. Oof.

Maybe I just take ’em, breathe slowly a few times, and spend the savings on a new gizmo. I think that’s what I need to do, and yet, something in me hurts, just a little.

Okay, maybe a lot. *rubs eyes.*
Man, oh man.

by audrey -

自殺

Aka suicide.
Aka the only thing that delays the trains in Tokyo.

Like the one I find myself waiting for now. Kinda paradoxical that those with the most meaningless existences end them in a way that impacts so many.

Pretty sad way to go.

by audrey -

On the move

I imagine most of you might not particularly care, but as of  a month ago, my address is a Daikanyama one, instead of Ebisu.

Why move for what amounts to five months time?
1. Boredom
2. Cheapness
3. Annoyance with less than intelligent customer service

Which is to say, my previous apt, in addition to exorbitant rent (being cleaned once a week and coming furnished) mysteriously stopped taking credit card payments. Emails with my designated rep would have an average five day turnaround. Very polite, thoughtful, but largely useless emails. It would seem that my previous realtor, “future life entry group” had succumbed to the ill economic times, to be supplanted by the equally impressively named “future revolution, inc.”

Right.

Despite their forward looking name, Future Revolution had not yet realized credit card technology and had either extremely slow email servers or unresponsive staff.   After being told (ever so politely) that only Japanese speakers could rent the apartments under the (cheaper) conditions I found in their online postings, I started looking to move.

Now I have a bigger place, better view, an excuse to buy stuff, and a new neighborhood to explore. For 1k less per month than before.

I´ll miss the freshly laundered towels, but I think I´ll manage somehow.