Very warm, very humid. Flat and grey. I woke at 7:00 and felt I couldn’t sleep any more at the moment, so I started scrubbing the linoleum in the common area of the floor, which hasn’t been cleaned since we moved in. Tanawat heard me and emerged with a scrub brush of his own to help me finish the job. Periodically I’d duck back into my apartment to get clean water. Stepping into the air conditioning always felt like magic.
My dad phoned to chat: a rare treat. Sean got up eventually and we went to the post office and the dōgu shop with Anita. (Too poor to buy anything exciting, I just replenished my supply of kaishi paper.)
Later, Sean and Tanawat and I visited the dōgu storage area in the women’s dorm to get a sense of what all is there. Though we’d visited the room several times, we’d never really taken a thorough look around the place. We’re planning a farewell chakai for our senpai, and need to choose dōgu. And when our senpai leave, it’ll be up to us to know what resources we have available.
Szymon brought home four big chicken katsu bentō from the 250-yen place, and I bought curry roux from the grocery store. We microwaved the rice, reheated the katsu in the toaster oven, and put it all together in bowls with curry sauce for a cheap, easy, delicious meal. Meanwhile, Tanawat, who’d gotten inspired when we’d hatched the homemade katsu curry plan, made green Thai curry with chicken and coconut milk, which we ate with reheated rice from disassembled leftover onigiri. So we all ate two kinds of curry and then felt too full to breathe properly.
Later, Sean, Szymon, and I wandered around Video in America but didn’t find anything we felt like renting, so we returned home to watch the kooky show Sean and I had discovered on a previous Saturday, about the Japanese chess game called shōgi. I felt wiped out, though, and I had an ominously sore throat, so I checked out (relatively) early.