one of those rare days
i have quite a bit of work to catch up on, and a stack of scores waiting to be learnt up, but feel about as motivated as… well… a cat learning to swim, perhaps. it must be the summer air, the cicadas, the sound of fireworks outside… everything is so intensely summer, i feel as if i must just run to the beach and spend a whole day staring at the blue, blue skies.
i went down to kichijyoji to catch up with a friend today. having heard my endless entreaties and desperate whines about how you can’t get affordable eggs benedict in tokyo, he had gone out of his way to look for (and found!) a lovely little place packed away in a side alley in this suburban town, which bore the proud proclamation on its menu – HOLYDAY SPECIAL, eggs benedict. it did feel like a holy-day of sorts, being sunday and all… and my eggs benedict prayers answered at long last.
it was such a lovely, cosy place. quiet chatter, friendly (and rather good-looking) waiters, good food at reasonable prices. sunday and eggs. i felt like i was back home for a moment.
i was given a quick tour of the area, including inokashira park, which is one of the more famous parks in tokyo. it teems with activity over the weekends – boaters on the lake, people selling knick-knacks on mats on the ground, street performers. one old man in particular caught my fancy with his english country music and guitar-harmonica-dancing-around-randomly act, all of which was fun and rather well-done. but most importantly, he had the best bod i had ever seen on a man his age (not that i have seen many…). and he apparently zoomed to and fro from the park on a motorbike. i would love to age as energetically as that.
and then, i happened to glance out from my window in the evening and discovered a glorious rainbow arching over tokyo. the odds of that happening!!
bliss, in small doses.
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