Life is now easier.

I just made two purchases recently; both of these purchases completely warrant the praise that I have been heaping upon myself (when there’s not another soul that is better than you you have to praise yourself for being so great). The first was a watch, which I bought on Wednesday.

Checking time in class is quite an annoying thing to do on a cell phone and the annoyance evolved, like the whale, into me wanting to buy a watch, like the whale. So I went to Nara (the capital of Japan before Tokyo and Kyoto. Japan likes to play the musical capital game!) to get a watch. I really have no more to say about this. My watch looks like a watch and the band is a leather band. Too much about watches. Now, purchase number two.

So, on Thursday, I had to do a help shift at Shin-Tanabe (the location is pretty much immaterial). Being the wonder that I am, I mess up and think that I was supposed to start at 10; this was not even close to true. I ended up going to a cafe to order a chai tea and, forgetting that such a thing as a chai coffee existed, I ordered a chai latte. That’s always lots of fun, expecting something that you love and getting the warm rich taste of something that you’ve never enjoyed, ever. Anyway, since I had plenty of time to spare, I went to the shopping center. Being 1/4 Otaku (on my mother’s side), I head to the electronics section. There isn’t anything interesting to look at in the games section so I continue down to general electronics section.

I had been looking for one of these for a while. In Den Den, I found some for about 6000 yen, but I was holding out for cheaper. Lo and behold, I find two models in front of me; one is 5000 and it’s younger brother, Nathaniel the extraordinaire, was 4000. What was this machine of momentous importance to my well being? A rice cooker. I’ve barely had it, but I already love it to death. I had been making rice in a pot, which works as well as trying to deal with a whale carcass by blowing it up. Using this method left me with rice that was sometimes not completely cooked (mmmm!) and the pot was not nonstick. I now have a machine that freaking cooks the rice for me and the bowl is nonstick. Huzzah.

Also! Any questions about an issue I have brought up or an issue you would like to hear discussion on, tell me. If you do not tell me, I will continue unimpeded.