Yay! Short week!
Maybe it's because it was a short week, but I really didn't manage to do anything very exciting this weekend. This is going to be a short post! Maybe also because it was a short week, but I feel like everyone (certainly including me) felt a bit sluggish this week. Most days, the lab was empty by 7 pm which is unheard-of any other week!
On Saturday I went on an adventure to find a yarn store. Now that it's becoming colder, I have re-caught the knitting bug. I couldn't find my stitch counter anywhere, and I only bought a small stash of yarn with me to Japan, so I was beginning to claw at the walls until I did some googling and found that there is a Kanariya (Canary Yarn) store super close to Sapporo Station. Well, after 30 minutes of wandering in circles downtown, I had no luck finding the store. I did eventually find the Kanariya section in a department store, which was still pretty impressive... I was able to get the stitch counter and ogle some nice yarn.
After I gave up on finding the yarn store, I went to the nearby giant 100¥ store to grab a few basic items. As I was heading back to the subway station, I passed a fabric store that I have passed a billion times.... and I'm sure you have already guessed, but this turned out to be Kanariya! Sigh. At that point I had a backpack full of soil and I already had a stitch counter, so I didn't check it out, but at least now I know where it is.
I had a backpack full of soil because my pepper plant (Mr. Spicy) has had some weird little white bugs for a little while now, and if I can't get the infestation under control I'm going to need to chuck him because I can't risk infecting the plants at school. I fought valiantly with chopped-up garlic and shower-blasting, but alas. My last resort was to switch out the soil and rinse the roots really well to take care of any larva or eggs. Now both plants are suspiciously droopy ;__; I hope they don't die!
On Sunday I spent most of the day at school, but when I was oot and aboot walking up the tree-lined road, four deer ran right in front of me!! I think it was an adult male and female and their teenage children. The deer here (Sika deer) are extra cute because even the adult males have white spots, like baby deer in Canada. One of the adults who was ahead of me on the path was sproinging with all four feet in the air. Very cute!
The deer ran up the path that I was going to take, so I followed them at a distance for a little while until just two crossed to the other side; at that point I turned around, because I didn't want to end up in between them. All I could think of was this story from a Neko Case concert and how I didn't want it to happen to me. Don't mess with members of the antelope family! (Warning for naughty language and a violent but HILARIOUS story).
The only other thing I did this week was work a little bit on my Japanese with my favourite 80's show! It's everything that you would imagine an 80's instructional video could be. But it is also actually helpful and I think this series in general has really helped with my vocabulary.
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