2008-04-09 - 1:56 p.m.
Problem: Need maps to get to the places I want to go to in Tokyo, but am too stuck up to carry around any manner of guidebook with me.
Solution: Photocopy maps from my dubiously inherited Lonely Planet guidebook and glue them into the little notebook my phone company sent me.
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Problem: Now have maps, but have decided that I don't much care for Cameron Diaz's face on the cover of said notebook.
Solution: Create my own cover. What I wind up with is a puppy's face on a smoking nurse with a rainbow of cheese in the background.
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Problem: My little notebook has turned out so nicely that I kind of want everyone in the world to see it. Seriously, unless you've tried it, you have no idea how hard it is to feel like a success when you have no one around to really witness it. Self-validating is exhausting.
Solution: Pack up a water bottle of wine and go feel sorry myself outdoors.
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Problem: Have wandered to the old driving school course, something I have been meaning to do for a long time, for the first time. It's a lot creepier than I'd been expecting. It looks like how I imagine the apocalypse will look like, except more old tires (most of which are painted white for some reason) and half-melted traffic pylons.
Solution: Unnecessary. I like apocalyptic landscapes.
