Apartments

Ok, so I have spent a few nights in the new apartment. The air-bed is working ok, although not as comfortable as a real bed.

The supermarket downstairs has turned out to be a very good one. Of course most of the stuff is Japanese, and I cannot read the labels. But it is a bigger supermarket than I have seen around here, and has a good range. And the prices are more reasonable than the one I used to go to in Azabu-juban.

At the moment I still have no furniture or cooking utensils (or eating utensils for that matter). This means that breakfast is tending to be Tullys (a Starbucks equivalent) with coffee and a bagel sandwich (which has meat and cheese). Lunch is usually sushi or some equivalent from the supermarket close to the office. And dinner is a range of ready-made snack meals (salads, sushi, etc) from the supermarket downstairs.

I have the phone going now, and the Internet - both as of yesterday. The laptop is sitting on the floor in the corner of the empty living area (as am I while writing this). It has turned out to be a very sunny apartment - very warm, despite snowing twice in the past week. It faces south-east, so it gets sun from first thing in the morning until early evening when the sun disappears behind neighbouring tower blocks.

We have one of the toilet seats with jets - to "wash up" when you're finished. All the instructions are in Japanese, so I will have to take a photo and ask someone at work to explain what button does what. Imagine that conversation, remembering that mostly these are people I have just met.

We got an email from the moving company saying that our stuff will arrive "soon" and asking for some paperwork. Not sure what "soon" means exactly, but hopefully we should have everything delivered in the next week.