November 2007

27 posts

Geisai – Saturday

Stayed over on campus downed yesterday (technically Saturday morning) in one of the tents, went back home around 1 or 2 and picked up whatever I needed for the coming few days. Including meatballs, lingonberry-jam and a modest Swedish tracksuit. All top notch. That’s when I wrote/uploaded the previous entry, btw.

Back to campus…

(Ego Wrappin came by)
(A Samba passed by…)

Noted some new scars, torn up skin and dried reds. It’s said it’s a sign of a proper geisai. I think it was from Gyama piggybackriding me. Had a smoke on the ground after falling down, all tangled up and faces down in the payment glancing upwards to a steady moon. Seemed so quiet for a minute even though thousands of messed up artsy people were just a halfemptybeercan-throw away.

(So did Yasu, Naopi, Shinpei…)

From here things took a turn for the worse: my ex showed up with her buddies. Mood went down, ruined a big part of the remaining evening. Before today I’d told myself it would be ok if she came – I reasoned that we’d be even since I wrecked your graduation-thing this spring. But screw that: I only dropped in my face for 15 minutes speaking to friends graduating. Screw her.

(Back at the home base (the tent) people were doing Geisaiy things)

Back to the fun parts. Later that evening some good old friends came by, students who graduated years ago. Yes, I’ve dropped by Geisai years before I were in at Tamabi.
Anyhow, we talked about things like dirty hearts and how they’d (we’d) never get cleaned no matter how much you’d shower. It was the greatest. Hell even just seeing them is the greatest – I only get to do that about once for 30 minutes every year. Tension rise and hugs are absolutes. Regret I didn’t get to snap a picture. It’ll be a good excuse to come to Geisai again next year.

(Actually everywhere people were doing Geisaiy things)

(Wish I had a less feminine pose/shot of my make. Sadly, no)
(Cold. So cold…)

Down around…5?

Geisai – Friday

Home to pick up meatballs and take a shower.
Little update:

(There are about…40(?) or so small shops like this around campus. We, the kids, make them)

(I got there a bit late after work. They’ve just started the ‘Miss Tamabi’ contest. And…)

(…our favorite, Yoshiko, just had her…performance. Those edible undies were a present for me. Glad they came to use)
(I think she won. She were doing it for real)

(Remember Heidi? From the alps? She swung by…)

(Lights out on campus at 8. And…)

(…debauchery began)

Excuse me, I’ll head back to Campus now.

Schnapps

( 2.0h? )

I started this blog about a year ago after I bought a handy little pocket camera. I said stuff like this about that camera: “[it] will serve me for years to come“.

I broke that camera early this spring and ‘ve mostly been snapping with my keitai as a poor substitute since.

Got a new, somewhat shiny camera today. Ixy digital 10. Will I still be here next summer to brake it? Hope so. Sincerely.

With that said, happy anniversary (on the 14th, actually). I go to Geisai from now. Report back after. Expect pictures.