Flight to Japan.

Dear diary,

I'm on a plane. I think technically the dates are all wrong now because in my time zone it's the 14th right now. I slept through the 13th. Well, tried to. My seat barely reclines which sucks on a 12 hours flight. Also it took me a very long while to figure that I can shove the pillow into my hood and that way I can lean against whatever. But yeah, I'm on the plane now. We land in an hour. I'm excited. I also would like to take a shower but I don't think that's in the cards for me.

So, situation first. I'm sitting by the window. There's no one sitting next to me. There's a guy on the other side of the empty seat. He's not friendly. Bria is sitting right behind me in the exact same configuration. We had an idea of sitting together but since we all just slept I think this worked out better. I definitely took the extra space. That's where my bag is. :P The flight went by very fast. I mean all that tossing and turning happened, but I don't remember much of it. Yay.

I only managed to watch one movie. The Revenant! What does that word even mean? I remember when I saw the trailer for it and I wanted to see that in the movies. Then as time went I kept not seeing it and not seeing it and then it came out on DVDs, I had it at home.. but never watched it. Yeah. Glad I didn't. I'm sorry to say it, but it was boring. The acting was amazing. Camera work was phenomenal. The score was very appropriate. It would have made a great short.

I was going to go to Tempest last night, but Chris did the math and said that I should be heading to the airport instead. He was right. I went to a movie screening last night with my flatmates and Peter (Chris's friend). A movie by Luc Besson. I like going to screeners. In the right company, the wait becomes fun and then there's the movie that can be good or bad or just... different. The best part of the whole experience was that they got me falafel like I asked. I skipped dinner at work and was happy to come to line and enjoy a meal. Then I realized SubWay was right there and I had one of those as well. I knew a had flight coming and allowed myself to gorge. Maybe I should stop eating so much. Maybe I should stop putting myself into situations where eating so much is the right thing to do.

I haven't run the OkCupid messenging thing in a while. I don't have time to go on dates... while in Japan, so there's no purpose. My friend Jake runs Tinder at his destinations if he's flying somewhere. Sounds appropriate. But I'm not going alone so I don't think that would have been a good use of my time. Also instead of preparing for the trip to Japan I went to Tahoe, so I made my bed and now I'm going to lay in it. That being said I do have one meet and greet scheduled for the 26th. I don't even remember with who anymore. I'll have to look it up when it gets close to that date. I guess that's enough security to know that I don't have to seek out a date like right-now-right-now.

I feel like I need to start worrying about what I'll be doing in Japan. I need to visit Olesya since she's giving birth any day now. She was supposed to be our host in Sendai but she's in the hospital... for the forementioned reasons. As far as what we want to do in Sendai: there's a cherry blossoms festival. I want to see that and visit my friend. Then I think the group wants to head back to Tokyo early on Friday. So that should be interesting.

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