Craigslist, in Tokyo?

Well, looks like it just launched because there are few posts on it, but Craigslist now has a Tokyo branch. But, things don't exactly look promising, because it's already starting to fill up with mildly threatening job offers (for 'escorts' and 'modeling' for 'asian ladies'). And there's only one couch for sale. But hey, maybe in the future it'll be a good outlet for getting rid of all my furniture. . .

My days are starting to fill up, though I'm nowhere near productive yet. I went to a conference yesterday at Hosei Daigaku on the Overseas Chinese studies. It was expensive. They charged me 4000 yen for their in-house journal (the first issue! might be worth something someday). The previous day, I went to an informal coffee session with the other new fulbright grantees. Well, that was pretty perfunctory, but not that useful. I still don't feel like I have much direction.

Simply recounting the days events doesn't seem to be that meaningful. I guess I'm trying to figure out why nothing that happens here means that much to me. I wish I were young again, and living as irresponsibly as I was back in 1996. That was a different age, and a different me of course. But why is it so little fun to stay up all night now?