Social weekend

Last weekend was rather unusual. On Friday I went to Matsumoto, originally intending to join a very large party of ALTs and a few of their friends, but the non-ALTs were the ones meeting me at the station. The crowd ended up being too large for several of the places we intended to go, so we wandered around Matsumoto for nearly an hour before settling at a place. The non-ALTs and I ended up sitting separately, but that was quite alright with me.

We drank expensive drinks and chatted. The girls (which mostly made up the group) kept saying I was cute and calling me “prince”. It was embarrassing and I didn’t know how to respond, but I can’t say that it was unpleasant. The prince part came from my trying to explain NC to them, showing them the Biltmore House. They then assumed that it was my house, hence “prince”.

The next day I went to Matsumoto to do karaoke with two of the girls from the previous night. It was fun, and the karaoke room was nice and relatively inexpensive, but the mics didn’t work very well. Anyway, after that we went to a pub and watched the rugby game of Japan against Samoa. It was a fun night.

However, it means that my social network has expanded, and with it the corresponding social expectations—meaning responding to messages, which I am terrible at. I am also concerned about stirring up romantic interest. I’d rather avoid that at this point, less than six months away from leaving.

I started playing a stupid idle game, and I’m spending a bit too much time on it despite the fact that it is supposed to be an idle game. Soon though I should either get to a point where I can make it more idle, or get tired of it.