A title of a blog post.

Last year around September, Rico, one of my best friends among my Swedish-friends-in-Japan group went back home to Sweden after 6 months here. About a month ago, he came back to Japan to visit, but he went to Nagoya instead of Kyoto, so we couldn’t really hang like we did “back in the days”, but he visited Kyoto occasionally so we did hang a few times. Yesterday, he went to Osaka where Kim, another good friend of mine, is now living, and I decided to go meet them up and hang.

Rico was going back to Nagoya early this morning (the bus left at 7.30 am) so he had decided to simply be up all night partying and then sleep on the bus home. Me and Kim decided that we’d simply tag along until we got too tired, and in the end, we simply ended up staying up until Rico left for the bus.

It started out with us going to Kim’s place together with his girlfriend, where we had dinner and played Wii Sports with punishment game (the loser out of the 4 of us downs whiskey/coke) for awhile until Kim’s girlfriend had to go home. After that we went to Namba and walked around looking for places to hang at, went into some bar here and some other place there, met two guys from Texas of all places. The Texans proclaimed “we know a good place down the road”, so in blind faith we followed them around for about an hour or so before we realized they had no idea what they were doing, so I said “you guys go into this bar. we’ll be there later tonight”, and moved on. We walked around for some more, then went into McD’s and grabbed food, before we moved on to a karaoke place where we spent the remanining 2 hours.

I was originally intending on staying at Kim’s place over the night, but at this point it was 5.20 am, and the trains to Kyoto were in traffic at that point, so I got on the train home instead. For the record, trying to stay awake for a near 1 hour train ride when you woke up 21 hours earlier is tricky business, but I managed to get off at my stop. So I got back home around 7 am, went to bed and woke up at 4 pm. Usually I get up at 7 am every morning, holidays included, summer vacations included, so this was very unusual, and frankly, I’ve felt like the world is kind of glitched throughout the day. I used to do this all the time, but now that I haven’t in a long while, it really does affect me in ways it didn’t use to. Could be that I’m too old for this kind of stuff now, I don’t know. Walking outside and seeing the darkness really shocked me. I woke up 4 hours ago! And it’s dark?

How long will it take before I get my sleeping pattern straightened out again I wonder….