If I go to Japan Day, I'm going to be there late.

Because, let's face it: it's four in the morning, and I'm only just about to get to bed. Part of that just-now-ness is because I was searching for a lost needle (usually, I just stick it in the spool, but it must have been loose). Thankfully, it wasn't in my bed at all, but I was terrified that it was. As I came into the room just a few minutes ago, resigning myself to the fact that I might be half-blind come morning, I noticed a piece of tinsel on the carpet.

WTF tinsel?! So I picked it up to throw it away and lo, the needle's right there near it. So good thing it wasn't in my bed, and good thing I didn't step on it. I did, however, step on a pin while I was searching for the needle. Surprisingly, it wasn't painful at all. It felt like, well, a pinprick. I was surprised to see it halfway embedded in my heel, though; I suppose I have thick heel-skin to thank for not feeling it.

If you're gonna be at Japan Day, send me a text. Maybe my body will wake me up at NINE AM like it's been doing for the past week (five hours of sleep and I'm awake as all hell, what?!). And save me some gyoza. :D

(HOW IS IT JUNE ALREADY?!)

Japan Day

Admittedly, I wasn't there very long. The lines for food were stupidly long, and even though I saw a few volunteers still carting bentos when I got there, I knew I wasn't going to get any. Sadfais.

I met up with Stefanie and Beep about 12:15. We caught up a bit, and then started wandering. We wanted to see fighting robots, and we found an android all purdied up in a kimono, who responded to questions said into a microphone (the mouthflaps didn't match, though, and when she blinked, her nose scrunched). She looked very real. Then we found the FIGHTING robots, lol, and watched a match.

We were set to wander some more when we heard some taiko drumming, so we sat out on the lawn to watch. It was an all-female group, Cobu, and they were amazing, combining taiko with crazy dance moves. It looked really high-energy and REALLY good. We stayed for the Kenichi Eniba performance (he was also really good, even if I wasn't paying much attention due to talking). I also learned how to make a whistle from a blade of grass (thanks, Beep!). I was so surprised when I made a sound that I jumped backwards. XD

After Eniba, we decided to walk around the park. We found ourselves in the North Woods, after crossing under a bridge. It was such a different atmosphere from the part of the park where we'd been not twenty seconds before that I couldn't help but exclaim, "We're in Narnia!" We took a path or two or seven, took some pictures of a cool-looking tree, and stumbled across at least one film shoot.

A bit hungry, we decided to head to a place on 73 and Columbus, Tenzan, for sushi. On the way out, we managed to get cans of tea from the event. I was tempted to run around to the other food carts and see if they still had bentos -- if there was still tea that late in the afternoon -- but the others pulled me away. After lunch, which was tasty, we headed over to the movie theatre. We wanted to see Speed Racer, but it's SO LONG, and couldn't settle on anything else, so we just headed home.

Stupid D train pretending to be ... not a D train. I almost got on the downtown E instead! I hate random weekend service. -_- But that's it. Pictures'll be up later when I get around to it. Also, next year, I'm wearing a yukata to this thing. So many people looked so nice (cosplayers kinda ruined it)! *_*