Day 42 (Osaka) : Hoka Hoka awesome

A whole lot of nothing to report today. I didn't feel like cooking lunch so we went out to Hoka Hoka Te, this sweet fast food place that basically makes boxed lunches on the go. It's pretty reasonably priced but it still doesn't beat shopping for your own stuff. Thinking about it, I never really noticed just how expensive eating in Japan was until I started shopping at the grocery store everyday. I would drop almost twenty bucks on curry or forty bucks on pizza without really thinking about it when I had a job. That's one of the big differences between being a full time student and actually having a steady income.

Speaking of steady incomes, at the advice of the GI Bill guy I completed the enrollment package for the old Chapter 30 GI Bill so that I can exhaust the remaining 17 months that I have on it before firing up the new one for my Master's Degree. Now the two big obstacles to overcome are the language barrier and actually being accepted to a university for graduate studies. I guess I have two years to sort that all out.

On a side note I watched Poseidon which was pretty lame. I guess the sinking cruise liner has been done to death so that flick didn't really have a fair chance. It was strange to be that the one guy I didn't expect to survive through the whole film actually made it, despite having no character development. He is basically introduced breaking up with his gay lover and that's it. The rest of the film he is just following people around until the exit.



On yet another side note, I found more pictures of the hiking trip. Apparently my camera formats the card with new folders randomly. I had suspected that a new folder was created after a certain amount of time had passed and all my new pictures would be in the third and most recent folder. When I went back to format the card and pull of pictures of my Alien Registration card I found new pictures in the older folders. So I've added them to my collection. I was wondering why I took so many pictures and only had seven in the folder. Live and learn I guess.