Hola todos ... thought I`d drop a quick post from Tokyo before I head back west to Osaka, which I am doing in a couple of hours.
My little bike trip thing has been over for weeks .. needless to say I survived. A little skinnier (perfect, just what I need .. maybe I should have eaten something other than popsicles the whole time), arms much, much redder, knee a little more scraped up, but overall satisfied that it was not all for naught, as I was able to donate a little over $700 to the cause (the Niigata earthquake relief) and, unable to get rid of the bicycle in a way that I did not feel would be a total waste, brought home a beautiful black Trek hybrid which I now use in lieu of the subway whenever possible.
So that`s over. Now I have to head back and try to fix all the problems that my introduction to a group of friends has caused/contributed to in the past few weeks. Shamefully, I got swept up in a veritable tide of high-school-level drama/BS, and it`s breaking this group of formerly close friends apart, so I have to go back and do what I can to either remedy as much as possible, or accidentally break everything beyond repair. Hopefully the former, as I have also have 2 job interviews over there and will probably be moving there within the next couple of months.
Someone who matters very much gave me the suggestion that any group so easily turned against itself was not worth spending time with, and it might do to just distance myself from the whole crew permanently, though come to think of it that could become difficult logistically (for geographical reasons), plus these people felt like a surrogate family for me over here .. and you don`t just abandon, you sort things out, right? I`ll try to sort, and if that fails, abandon. Like a ship. As I told one of my last bosses exactly one year ago to this day, after he said "we hate to lose any crew members from our ship,"
"I can swim ..."
