Good Blizzard Day

Atsushi Shimizu
3 min readFeb 17, 2021

According to yesterday’s weather forecast, it was extremely cold today. It’s been a snowstorm since the beginning of the year, so it wasn’t a day to go out by bicycle, but I went out. I woke up in the morning and was vaguely free for a day today, so I thought I’d write a treatise to be submitted to the Architectural Institute of Japan, but by last week I could see the goal relatively well, so I wasn’t too impatient yet. In that situation, I decided to advance my share, which was decided at the Toyota Project meeting yesterday, for the time being in the morning. When I looked at SNS while thinking about that, I realized that the magazine I was thinking of buying was released yesterday.

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It hadn’t snowed yet, so I thought I could do something about it, so I went to school to return the book that was overdue, and recently bought it at my favorite bookstore. The bookstore has a bookstore on the first floor and a lounge space exclusively for members on the second and third floors. I’m not a member, but if I buy a book, I can use it for a limited number of hours depending on the amount of money, so I decided to work there until after noon today. The work went much smoother than staying at home, and I felt that it could be used as another workplace. However, if I want to become a member, it costs more than 10,000 yen a month, so my current income is not enough, so I will do my best at work. I was really surprised to see Mr. T from Fab Lab in front of me during the work. It seems that a free lounge ticket is sometimes included in the mailbox of the house, so it seems that it will come quite a bit. My house is probably a little far away so I’ve never been in the mailbox, but I’m so jealous that I can get a ticket that I can’t get without shopping for 3000 yen or more. I went to a Fab lab yesterday, and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so if I think it’s a mid-day break, I’ll meet Mr. T here as well and meet him for four days in a row.

While I was working, I got a reply from the company that requested the interview last week. The interviews are available online, so I’m relieved, and I’m glad I was able to do one more job. By the way, the reason why I went out to buy books today on a very cold day was because there was another interview this weekend and the partner company was a logistics company. The media in which the interview articles are posted is mainly about business succession, so the content of the interview is relatively short and I don’t think I can talk about logistics or distribution so much, but I thought I’d do my best to prepare.

When I got home and read the magazine, it was more interesting than I expected, or as expected, so I read it all night. I can’t read the whole thing because the content is so confusing, but I’ll try to read it as much as possible by the interview on Saturday.

By the way, I bought and ate lunch at a Chinese restaurant for takeout that was recently opened near my house. The receptionist was different from day to day, and today he was a cheerful auntie. Nowadays, he recommends beef soup that he likes and buys so much that he buys it with his own bottle, and he is always a good person. When I tried to put the laundry in the dryer while I was waiting for the lunch box, I didn’t have a 100-yen coin, and when I asked my aunt, she said, “It’s good because I’m a friend! Is it all right with a 100-yen coin?” He exchanged money immediately. A very nice person.

It was a good day except for the cold weather. It seems that the maximum temperature will be 2 degrees tomorrow, but I have to go out because it’s a Fab lab part-time job. Wow.

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