November 03. 2004 23:34

Drinking night...

Tuesday morning I didn't feel at all like going to the festival again. Or rather, I felt like staying at home. I love the festival, but somehow I felt more like staying at home and writing or doing Internet stuff. So, as there was no hurry to be there at a certain time, I worked a bit on the Finnmanga website, which has been waiting for an update for way too long. Around three I then left for the festival again, feeling very happy that I had done something that'd needed to be done for a while.

I thought about putting on that yukata (light kimono) again, but I realized I wouldn't be able to ride my bike with it or have my normal bag, so I abandoned the idea. I put on my geta, though (those wooden sandals). Even though my hands got cold at times, there was never a point when my feet got even cool, even though I had no socks. Those geta are really nice to wear, I'd like to wear them to school a few times, too.

Today I didn't shop that much, though I went through most of the stuff on sale. I only got a hair accessory to go with my red obi and a wooden mebile phone hanger with a picture of Buddha on it. I was supposed to get one more set of manga, but I never got to the booth before I met Tim, Laura and Janeva and started hanging out with them. We got some random egg food at a little restaurant some people had built along the road and listened to some of the musicians at the main stage. There was this black guy playing drums there that was really good. I think they were called Night Jungle. He was just amazing, I loved it so much. Then at night there was some sort of a "drunk show", where they had a few very drunk students try and do some tasks and generally fool around. It wasn't a very pretty sight, there was one guy who was naked and was very keen on getting in to the crowd, and a poor girl who was so drunk she just laid there on the ground without moving. The other people, who were not that drunk, were kinda funny, but I just felt so sorry for those who would clearly be in a bad condition (in multiple ways) afterwards.

It's amazing how much effort some of the people arranging the festival put to what they did. Many of the flee marketers stayed there for the whole 3 days straight, so they had made lodging for themselves, but what was really stunning were the restaurants and bars people had built. There were actual rooms where you could walk in, with a bar and tables and chairs and lightning. There was one bar built on the stairs to one of the school buildings and it had a stage inside. It was called Negro, actually, and we spent a lot of time there both with Heidi and with the other exchange students. Then later at night we went to another club that could've been any small club downtown.

Well this day, as I was with the exchange students, was a day to party. So I got drunk. I got some Chu-hi, the Japanese version of cider, from one of the booths and then we went to see the bars. I had a couple of random drinks at Negro, then some tequila at that other club. I really liked that other club, it had some disco/techno music and I got to dance, which I've wanted to do on random occasions for a while. A while there and I was really drunk.

It's quite funny how you don't really know what you're doing when you're drunk and how you're fully aware of only short periods of time. Laura and Tim left the bar, so for some reason I decided to go with them. I realized at that time how drunk I really was, but I didn't mind that much. Every now and then it's nice to lay it off, but I should've stopped right there instead of getting a couple more chu-hi... Anyway, we didn't really have a plan after that, but I just followed the other guys. Laura went home at that point, so I was left with Tim, and he went to get something to eat. I somehow got two free tastings of yakitori during the evening, and it was really good (I would've wanted to go get some today). But that time Tim got some random soup thing that wasn't so great.

In a while Janeva and this other guy we had met that day came in to the same restaurant. Shortly after that I hit my limit and got sick. I'm embarrassed now, I bet nobody of the Japanese gets sick in public, and I really wish I would've stopped a couple of drinks earlier. I hope most of them and the exchange students were drunk enough themselves to forget my disgrace... Though somehow, embarrassing as it is, I'm not that worried, at least for now.

After that the night was clearly over, though. The new guy was apparently a teacher and he had to get to Osaka or something for the next morning to teach (I have no idea how he'd do that...), so the girls at the restaurant fixed him a taxi to the subway station and Janeva went with him. I left together with Tim, parted when he went to the boys' dorm, and managed to get home with my bike quite well, even though I was totally pissed. I made sure I drank some water before going to bed, then just kicked off my clothes and fell down on the bed and was asleep right away.

I was still supposed to go to the festival the next day, but when I woke up that proved out to be impossible. My head wasn't hurting, no, but I felt very dizzy. In fact, it felt quite a lot like I was still drunk, after sleeping 12 hours, just without the nice relaxing feeling and my toughts mostly clear. It was really weird, I've never had a hangover like that. I tried to get something to eat, but I had nothing but mandarins and stuff that needed cooking, and I wasn't up to making something yet. I really wanted to get more of that yakitori and those few manga, but in this condition I wasn't able to go out even to get food. I subdued to my lonesome fate and slept for the whole day. At eight at night I woke up feeling good enough to get up. I didn't really want to, though, I wanted to sleep until morning and wake up with the sun, but after a whole day of sleeping I wasn't sleepy at all anymore... I laid in the bed for a few hours, but couldn't sleep, so I thought I might as well write this.

Sigh. Doing something for a moment didn't make me feel as nice as I hoped it would... Though I think working on my manga scripts instead of this would've been more successful in that. I feel like getting back to bed now, though, so I think they'll have to wait 'till tomorrow.