Golden Week

It's been a busy few weeks since I last posted here. Jane dropped by Tokyo for a couple weeks, on a visa run from Oz, surfing on my couch. Her visit coincided nicely with Golden Week in Japan, so we got to spend some quality time hanging out. We rarely managed to connect in San Francisco, so it's ironic that we both had to travel halfway across the world to make this happen. When it's time, it's time.

So, yeah, it was a pretty intense two weeks of going out too much, staying up too late, and eating and drinking filth. So, with help from Jane and Paulette (my support group of sorts), I'm now on day five of a two-week "detox" diet: fruits, veggies, grains, tofu, no oil and definitely no sugar.

Before Jane got here, I could have counted on one hand the number of times I had actually used my kitchen to prepare a home-cooked meal. Sad. On weekdays, I was always buying my lunches and dinners (and eating at my desk, sigh) and on weekends I would just eat out. The situation is a lot better now, especially now that I'm trying to detox for a bit.

This week I went for my first non-treadmill (i.e., outdoor) run since moving to Tokyo. 30 minutes, a light easy jog, and so very overdue.

Jane at the Yebisu Beer Museum. She had borrowed my camera all week, and left me with a collection of masterpieces.

Outside "Ever" in Aoyama. That's Niche, Matzz, Arnab and me.

When it's late and you're fiending for sugar, you invent stuff like Banana Japana.

I was too shy to look at the camera, for some reason.

Delicious. I don't even know what these are called.