When bad Fridays go good

So the one thing about working here that really really sucks is that I can't go out on Friday nights. I love Friday night. It's the best part of the week. You're done working for at least the next 18 hours and can relax and take a real rest. Usually for me, this takes the form of going out with my friends. Especially in the summer in Madison...5pm hits and we're out of there.

[four hours later]

Ok, instead of whining about boring Friday nights, I actually did something about it. I went to go see Matsumoto-san (she's the head of all the secretaries here and she's very...um...very...well, I don't know how to describe her. Let's just say she has a very strong character. Read into that what you will, and it'll probably be at least partially correct.) I left here at about 5:45 to go see what she was doing for dinner, and just now returned at 10:00. I ended up spending two hours in her office watching how Japanese offices are run and correcting a little bit of English, but mostly talking and then she took me off to okonomiyaki which was delicious. And holy crap, she's hilarious. She's got all these wonderful stories, like how she learned English on a basketball team in America and only got taught bad words, which she unknowingly repeated to the head of the university, or how got fed up with her job one day during a meeting and threw all the papers and shouted 'I'm quitting!' but in less nice language, then stormed back in two minutes later to grab all the papers and refreshments that she'd prepared and leave again. Non-stop entertainment.

The upswing of this is that I really just meant to go to the cafeteria to eat with her for about thirty minutes and ended up spending four hours getting dinner. That's right, Friday night boredom, guess who kicked your ass? ME.

(ME is copywrited by Matsumoto Entertainment)