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Sunday, January 9th, 2005 02:50 am
My hotel room in Shibuya-ku (Tokyo) also has free Internet access, if you know enough to go down to the front desk and snag a cable.

I have now slept on a futon in a room covered with tatami mats and enclosed by rice paper doors. I have eaten things I do not ever want to know the name of. I have probably walked ten cumulative miles inside train stations. I have learned where to go to purchase nonfunctional demo models of cellphones, the gazillion-knob toilet seats, a Walkman the size of a lipstick case, or a dishwasher the size of my purse. I have learned not to answer the phone "Moshi-moshi" unless I am completely prepared to continue the conversation in Japanese. (oops.)

No matter how yummy the picture in the advertisement looks, I am *not* ordering out for octopus and mayonnaise pizza. No. Even if it weren't thirty-six dollars.

Square dancing tomorrow.

(ps: it's 7:50pm.)
Sunday, January 9th, 2005 03:15 am (UTC)
Well, the size of a BIG purse. It held about four bowls and a pair of chopsticks.

Octopus is very popular here. I haven't gone a day without seeing a place to buy octopus balls -- doughy spheres with chunks of octopus baked in. I wish I could get them with nothing baked in, because the dough looks good!
Sunday, January 9th, 2005 04:05 am (UTC)
Cooool... I want one!

I love octopus sushi, actually. But pizza??? Ewwwww....
Sunday, January 9th, 2005 06:06 am (UTC)
I'd eat octopus pizza, especially if it were the thin crust, cheeseless variety. But the idea of mayonnaise on a pizza totally squicked me.
Monday, January 10th, 2005 01:33 am (UTC)
Yeah, that's just not right.

(That said, I have had a beautiful spinach pizza with white sauce instead of tomato sauce...)
Tuesday, January 11th, 2005 03:25 am (UTC)
Yeah, the mayo seems to be a selling point here. They draw a cute little picture of a flask and write MAYONAAZU in katakana on it, just in case you missed part of the description.
Sunday, January 9th, 2005 06:12 am (UTC)
octopus balls

I didn't realize that octopii had balls.....
Monday, January 10th, 2005 01:33 am (UTC)
Ewwwwwwww....
Tuesday, January 11th, 2005 03:23 am (UTC)
If the streetside vendors here are any indication, more octopi have given up their chances at progeny than actually exist.