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lebateleur) wrote2004-10-26 11:29 am
lebateleur) wrote2004-10-26 11:29 am
What is hell?
Hell is:
Having to endure a 30,000 yen, seven+ hour-long train excursion back to one's place of residence with fifty pounds of doujinshi on one's back.
Which is what happened to me today, because the massive series of earthquakes occurring in Japan right now? Are occurring in the prefecture I need to go through to get back to my quaint little hamlet. (Let me tell you, the emotion I felt upon arriving on the platform to be greated by a 'Unreserved Seating Only on All Trains' notice is literally beyond my ability to put into words.)
Could be worse. I was originally told to take the shinkansen to Nagano. Of course, what I was supposed to do once I arrived in Nagano is anyone's guess. The second plan they concocted for me had me taking various shinkansen from Tokyo all the way down to Kyushu (PS: WTF?) and back up the western coast, at a nice price of 40,000 yen and duration of about eleven hours.
It was suggested that I take the bus. Of course, buses aren't exactly running to my city, due to the lack of roads in Niigata. The airplane was suggested, but that's booked straight through to the end of the week, probably due to the fact that the sky seems a whole lot safer than the ground right now.
My shoulders ache from bearing porn and my feet ache from standing. I'm sure I'll write about the porn tomorrow, as most of it's very nice, but at the moment I'm one step away from setting it ablaze and dancing in circles around it. If I never see another dj again, I'll live a happy life.
On a serious note, it could be much worse. After all, I'm not one of the 25 dead or 9,800 people in disaster shelters being airdropped food by the self defense force. These are the most up-to-date numbers, by the way. I know, because I had a lot of time to read the news tickers while aboard the three trains I just spent 1/4 a day aboard.
Ugh.
これで以上です。
Having to endure a 30,000 yen, seven+ hour-long train excursion back to one's place of residence with fifty pounds of doujinshi on one's back.
Which is what happened to me today, because the massive series of earthquakes occurring in Japan right now? Are occurring in the prefecture I need to go through to get back to my quaint little hamlet. (Let me tell you, the emotion I felt upon arriving on the platform to be greated by a 'Unreserved Seating Only on All Trains' notice is literally beyond my ability to put into words.)
Could be worse. I was originally told to take the shinkansen to Nagano. Of course, what I was supposed to do once I arrived in Nagano is anyone's guess. The second plan they concocted for me had me taking various shinkansen from Tokyo all the way down to Kyushu (PS: WTF?) and back up the western coast, at a nice price of 40,000 yen and duration of about eleven hours.
It was suggested that I take the bus. Of course, buses aren't exactly running to my city, due to the lack of roads in Niigata. The airplane was suggested, but that's booked straight through to the end of the week, probably due to the fact that the sky seems a whole lot safer than the ground right now.
My shoulders ache from bearing porn and my feet ache from standing. I'm sure I'll write about the porn tomorrow, as most of it's very nice, but at the moment I'm one step away from setting it ablaze and dancing in circles around it. If I never see another dj again, I'll live a happy life.
On a serious note, it could be much worse. After all, I'm not one of the 25 dead or 9,800 people in disaster shelters being airdropped food by the self defense force. These are the most up-to-date numbers, by the way. I know, because I had a lot of time to read the news tickers while aboard the three trains I just spent 1/4 a day aboard.
Ugh.
これで以上です。