Reporting from Sinjuku

Last night, decided to go without my pool cue. Mom will have to ship it later.

9:30am Meet at LA airport.
Checked in baggage. Lots of random small-talks turned into more interesting serendipitous repeat encounters. Talked to Ranier at the baggage line, who turned out to be my roommate at the Kaio Plaza. Talked to Jocylyn's dad in line, who's a doctor from Taiwan, whose daughter Jocylyn sat next to me on the flight. Maybe the small talk with Jennifer will turn out to be something special tomorrow? She has a way of looking sideways at me that reall tugs at my heartstrings. When I told her that my town was famous for broccoli, she said, "Do you like broccoli? I like broccoli." Damn, I guess it's just not the same transcribed, but the way she said it...

Sat through a boring, uneventful, under-ethnolyzed 12 hour flight, landed in Narita around 4pm local time. Went through custom and all the subsequent lines without much trouble (custom only cahrged me 400 yen for the 3 additional wine bottles). Another hour of uneventful bus ride and we're at the hotel.

Checked in, hauled luggage up, met Ranier, showered, walked through Sinjuku for a couple of hours. Will upload pictures tomorrow.