you can all act as witnesses to the following statement: upon return to the city, i pledge to never laugh, roll my eyes, or be generally annoyed with tourists. i will embrace their confused ways, their photographs, and will celebrate their slow pace. i will find charm in their "standing" in "walking" side of the escalator, and in their extraordinary volume on the subway. i will smile when i see 4- 5 woman, walking next to each other, slowly, blocking the entire 5th avenue sidewalk, and will no longer find it strange when they mysteriously place their giant day-pack-back-pack in their front of their bodies. "to each his own," you will hear me say. you want your boyfriend to take picture in front of trump tower!? "go for it!" tiffany's?! "charming!!" these are the memories, and that is a wonderful idea. (ok, so it is true, these pictures are still a little stupid). but i'm not judging. no more!
i took 45 pictures of dead fish in one day.
we sat at the shibuya intersection, drank bottled water, and turned my fully unfolded map upside down- all in hopes of gaining a better understanding. i have shamelessly, and countlessly, whipped out my guide book for maps, facts, and advice. i've been honked at, almost hit by bikes, motorcycles, and other nameless vehicles. i've blocked the sidewalk, slowed down the pace, and gone out of my way to take pictures of nothing. so as you see, it is ME who is messing with the system here, and i have no intention of stopping.
it is all so karmic.
I've never seen T-shirts like the ones in your photo that advertise your blood type (A, B, O). I hope you got one. Japanese are really big on blood types, which one person told me is more "scientific" than zodiac signs.
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