It’s Saturday, so that means it’s raining.<\/p>\n
Like hell.<\/p>\n
I wanted to go to Nagoya today, but I don’t want to drown on the way there. So instead I decided to wait out a break in the rain and bike to the other mall in Okazaki, which is south of where I live. It’s called Wingtown. It’s a couple of stories, but it’s a bit smaller than Aeon.<\/p>\n
What it does have, though, is Imagine<\/strong>. And Imagine is a big book store and stationery\/music\/video\/game store as well.<\/p>\n My kind of store!<\/p>\n Imagine is pretty handy if you’re a student at Yamasa, because it has a bunch of different stores all bunched into one.<\/p>\n One of my problems right now is dealing with the massive influx of printouts I get every day at Yamasa. The pages aren’t just A4 sized, they’re more like A3 or B2-sized. Imagine something you’d use as a paper place mat for a really messy kid. Now make it just a tad bigger.<\/p>\n Now what do you do with a pile of 50 of these that you need to keep organized so you can study?!?<\/p>\n For now, I’m going to try the “clear file” solution, which entails getting some A4-sized book-like things that have 20-40 clear pockets in them, and stuffing the sheets in the pockets, folded over. We’ll see how it works.<\/p>\n I also bought a new memory card for my PSP, so I can keep my JP and EN gaming separate. And of course I bought some books to read.<\/p>\n I’ve said it before, I know, but I’ll say it again, anyway. I love Japanese book stores.<\/strong><\/p>\n When I was ready to head back, a frog-strangler of a thunderstorm popped out of nowhere. Real lightning and thunder, even! It was my first thunderstorm in Japan. With it raining so hard, it was impossible to go back home, so I hung out and waited for it to pass. It took a while, but eventually it cleared up enough so I could go home.<\/p>\n Now I’m going to do some reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s Saturday, and it’s raining like hell. I can’t go to Nagoya, but I can<\/i> go to Wingtown!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[23,894,828,556,100,542,310,555,106],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-japanese-language-study","category-travel","tag-books","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2011","tag-malls","tag-okazaki","tag-shopping","tag-stationery-stores","tag-wingtown","tag-yamasa","category-3-id","category-4-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}