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Day two

7:18am CDT Wednesday 26 June 2002

I just woke up. My plan to move out still feels good. I'm going to Kinko's to place an ad in Houston Press or Greensheet today. I figure I can always turn everyone down if I decide this is a bad idea.

I just realized I need to call Maggie and have her write an Academic Referral for me to send to Nova. I called Dr Bao to have him write one, but when he called me back, he said he remembered who I was, but didn't remember anything else. It has been 9 years, and he is careful to learn the names of every student in every class he teaches. At some point yesterday I realized Maggie could write an academic referral, but I didn't think to call her right at that moment. Weird.

So now I just asked Maggie for another huge favor: write me an academic referral and have it done by noon when Diana and I come see her for lunch. I'm so thankful for Maggie's brilliance; I know she'll write an excellent referral.

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I have a big question mark in my brain on what will be Wende's reaction to all this. She's been out of town for the past 3 weeks in San Francisco (for work), so she doesn't know of my sudden shift in plans. My hope is that she is fully supportive; there is a part of me that would let her talk me out of this.

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Furnished Apartment $760/mo
in complex @ 59 & Greenbriar
Close to Rice Univ & Village
Take over my lease until Dec
713-303-4491 Rob

I called my dad who said I can probably get $1000 for the futon, so I placed my ad in Houston Press without saying FREE Furniture.

Maggie

1:30pm CDT Wednesday 26 June 2002

Maggie and I are at lunch, without Diana, and I feel a bit embarassed about that because I didn't confirm the exact time to meet Diana to come up and see Maggie.

It just seemed so simple; I thought Diana said she would be at home, and I called her at 11am (because she didn't reply to my email earlier in the morning) and she had already left to come to lunch with u.

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I wondered where she thought she was going to meet us. I went over to my apartment complex and talked a bit with Andrea who is moving down to another apartment, but no sign of Diana. I called her house again (and woke up whoever answered the phone again) and left my number.

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Maggie and I have been recalling college days stories, focusing on Danielle who Maggie gets to see in August!

3:57pm

I have just gotten new handwritten business cards made. I scanned them, but forgot to keep a copy of the scanned image, so I don't have an image for my site yet.

The top says 'Meet people. Get in adventures.' which is a quote from Pulp Fiction. Down one side (the T side below) it says 'The adventure begins with you.' and up the other side (the w side below) it says www.robnugen.com and rob@robnugen.com

I'm getting 500 copies made.

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4:03pm

I just found out that Diana forgot about our lunch engagement; she lost track of the date. Heehee cutie. It's nice not having to know what the date is.

ad

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japanese

6:05pm CDT Wednesday 26 June 2002

I'm chillin' outside Japan-America Society of Houston before my Japanese class starts at 6:30. This is the first class I will attend that's supposed to be on my level. Someone just walked up.

6:07pm

Now I'm inside the office. Nice.

6:08pm

Sooooo challenging. I have missed two classes, so this is the third class, *and* the other students are reading romanji. I feel really slow when I am stumbling through reading. Part of the challenge is to figure out what page we are on, and what exercise we are on; I have to use pictures from other people's books to figure out the page, and then listen to other's reading to see what exercise we are on and then when it comes to my turn, hopefully have figured out what to do. :-)

8:56pm

Aw dammit. After class I checked my phone messaages and realized I had missed a movie with Daniel. I'm really embarassed that I forgot about it. The date was not listed in my calendar; I don't know what I was thinking when I told him I'd meet him, but didn't write it down/check my calendar.

Class was quite challenging. I think a helpful thing would be for me to know the hiragana even better. I'll practice them during the week. Right now I'm going to work on Kim Sawyer's website.

Kristen is supposed to call me later tonight.

9:10pm

Now I'm at Kinko's. There's a guy beside me typing with two fingers. If he turns to a page of a large amount of prose, I will offer to help.

zzzz

10:11pm CDT Wednesday 26 June 2002

Just heard from Daniel; he razzed me a bit but was less concerned than I was. Ironic that Diana missed a date with me, and I missed a date with Daniel, all in one day.

11:25pm

Have just finished scoping out theWealthSource and spiritBlueEagle.com. I like the structure of the Spirit Blue Eagle site.

Going home now.