I woke up early, as if I had to go to work early, but then got to relax when it was clear the marathon hadn’t been cancelled. Granted, this is kind of complicated.

Despite Thursday being the only snowy day since last November, nothing stuck and nothing froze so my students got to enjoy a nice run in sunshine, whilst I got to enjoy hunting in Tokyo.

Unfortunately, on the school website, this is indicated by an announcement that nothing has changed. It doesn’t announce the marathon is a go, it just says that whatever the schedule is, nothing has changed. As a result, we, the foreign staff, exchange a lot of direct messages to confirm what is and is not going on.

I went down to Kingdom Note to pick up a bottle of ink for a customer and, oddly, not buy anything for myself. I did, however, look around a bit before running away as swiftly as possible.

That short adventure was followed by shoe hunting. (Note: I could have ordered the ink, and paid shipping, but since I needed shoes, I decided to make it Daddy’s Day (few hours) Out.

Because shoes my size are both rare and expensive here in Japan–my weight loss allows me to buy clothes, not shoes—there are only a few ways to for me to buy shoes: import, at a price, or trek down to Tokyo and hunt at a shoe store in Gotanda that specializes in non-Japanese sized shoes. At a price.

Of course, they didn’t have exactly what I was looking for, but I did find something and it cost less than a small car.