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state of my life

11:58pm CST Sunday 12 January 2003

State of My Life Address

• ~ I've been living at Bibby's house in Dallas for the past some months.
• ! I've driven on my eastern state trek, as far east as western West Virginia, and as far north as southern Michigan.
• @ I've driven on my western state trek, as far west as western California (Santa Monica, LA, Newport Beach) and as far north as Eugene Oregon to see Dude and Veronica.
• # I wasn't allowed to attend San Antonio Rally since I'm not an official advisor at a church. This reason seems fishy, and I feel like I've been individually targetted, but I'm pretty much over it. Shit that was back in October so I oughta be over it.
• $ My final planned Rally is Houston, which will be over in less than one week!!!! Holy shit that is amazing, exciting, scary, tragic. YRUUers are still in my dreams every night; I'm going to miss advising a lot.
• % I've been "invited" to the last half of Houston Rally. I'm thankful for this; I'm glad I was able to negotiate my way into attending the best part of the rally (Saturday night to closing circle) which will certainly include hella Silent Football!
• ^ But the wizack thing is that it's like there's a big deal being made about when I get to attend the rally. The rally is for the youth, and to only allow me to attend 1/2 of it kinda puts a limelight on me that shouldn't be there. Just let me attend the whole operation and allow the youth to just be themselves and do whatever they do.
• & I've officially been offered a job to teach in Japan! I called Brian at the San Francisco office a couple days ago and he confirmed it. They had sent an acceptance thing to my old address on 9 December. It apparently was not forwarded to my dad; ohhhhh.. is it only a 90 day forwarding thing? 180 days? It's close to that now. Anyway, whatever. They are sending it to me here in Dallas and I should get it this coming week and I plan to send it back before Houston Rally.
• * Because of the delay, I won't be able to go in February; March is the earliest I can make.
• ( Janette and i are tossing around ideas of traveling in February; maybe a quick jaunt to Hawaii!!!!! but I'm not 100% sure on finances. A big part of me is like fuckit and just go and pay it all back when I start bling blingin' again from Japan.
• ) I also wanna go see family in West Virgina again, specifically to see Sarah (I've felt bad for never coming back to play with Shane between when I saw him at like 9 years old and then bam he's suddenly 17 or some shit.) Sarah is little, and she's still little, and I'd love to go for walks with her again. Plus get to see Barbie and her cute friend Elizabeth and go for longer walks with her.
• - Maggie has been planning my 12000th day party. I've sent emails to some people to tell them to clear their calendar, but we don't know where the party will be yet. Looks like Jillian's will be it.
• ~= I'm basically inviting all my friends and all YRUUers who have graduated. If you wanna be on the invite list, email me 12000@robnugen.com
• ~! I've almost finished typing up the rules to Silent Football.
• ~@ I looked into ways of using CSS to create an ol.jackie class, but this will have to do.
• ~# I haven't worked for money since before my western state trek. I've talked with Johnny to see if he has work for me. He said he may have some at his house, which I assume is not his farm way out near Crawford, though that might be cool in a way to see what kind of hick town the President came from.
• ~$ I don't know where I'll be in Japan; I don't know what my life will be like in two months. How wiggidy wack to think how different it may be than right now, where everything is comfortable. Where I know the language, where the street addresses are in numerical instead of chronilogical order, where my old friends are close. What marvelous marvels will I encounter? Will I be placed in Tokyo? Will I be able to easily connect my computer to hi-bandwidth internet, free of charge? Will I have an international cell phone? (I do know I plan to have a cell phone only and not a landline, even if a landline is the only way to have internet access close by) (I also know that Japanese cell phones are miles ahead of ours in coolness and technology, at least according to lots of stuff I've read)
• ~% I still have Scott and plan to give him to Janette as a thank you for letting me sponge in her house for so long.
• ~^ I need to get Scott's oil changed.
• ~& I haven't heard from Kim Sawyer in a while, not since I finished his website, except for an email he sent out to a bunch of cats inviting them to attend one of his coaching classes. I can see therefore he's been busy, which explains why he hasn't really checked out the site updater.
• ~* I need to start thinking about what I'm going to take to Japan. I wanna take my bike, but I might have it sent over after I'm settled. I apparently need to have some suits (!) to wear. I've got two pair of fly shoes, and two suits (though I can only think of where one of my suits is). Not really enough white shirts, and I think I have a cache of ties somewhere. Maybe my suits are at Ma's in Austin. That would make sense. I think I gave them to Fred to take to her house just before SWUUSI
• ~( I'm not sure if I'll be able (allowed) to go to SWUUSI next year. I'll request the time off and apply; but overall I release this to my higher power.
• ~) I've been keeping up with YRUUers Live Journals for some time now. Also with world news via Google. I wonder how that might change when I'm overseas.
• ~- I wonder who (from my current life) will visit me while I'm in Japan. (This makes me wonder if I'm going to Japan to see some of my peeps from past lives; it makes sense that I am, but by "current life" above I meant the people that I've hung out with in the past five years.)
• != I wonder if I will or will not write a lot of letters out of lonliness or excitement at so much great stuff.
• !~ I can rap the lyrics to Eminem's "Rabbit Run" with or without the music playing. Without the music I can rap through it almost perfectly faster than he does on the album.
• !! I wonder if I'll be able to watch current movies in English overseas.
• !@ I wonder how many women I'll get crushes on. I'm not attracted to Japanese women per se, but I may just possibly find some other cool world travelers there.
• !# I wonder how easily I'll be able to learn Japanese: reading, writing, speaking, listening.
• !$ I have a goal of becoming fluent in three more languages (starting with Japanese) within 10 years.
• !% I look forward to coming back to US culture and having the experience of not being able to remember the English word for something. Not an unrecoverable memory failure, but just that a different language is on top of my brain for once.
• !^
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