On the alternate walk home from my local train station, kenritsudaigaku (県立大学) or what I like to call “kenritz”, there is a street with a curry shop, a pet store, a steamed meat dumpling shop, and a ramen restaurant. In my time here I have gone to none of them but I think one day I should. I think I take this alternate route (a block away from the regular route) when I am in particularly pensive walking modes and it is easy for me to take the atmosphere in and spit it right back out. Today I stopped by the pet shop and enjoyed the blue glow of tanks and aquariums in the dusk.

I think I have quite the photos of creatures thing going on here. That’s not really intentional but it is making me realize that i must be quite taken by living things that are not humans or vegetation. But it is funny cause I don’t think I am an “animal lover”…I don’t own pets, I don’t awwww over everything, I don’t have much animal-related decor…well…I guess at work there is my moo cow eraser (from highschool but getting old I might have to order more), my red dinosaur from the udon shop, and my neko nyan bou. But that’s it. Hmm…I am going to have to reflect on my animal aesthetics for a bit.