Entries this day: Jack_test eminemasen first_earthquake!

Jack test

7:54am JST Sunday 11 May 2003

whiny, nihlist jack. you believe in nahtzing. pout.

which jack are you?
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eminemasen

8:36pm JST Sunday 11 May 2003

Welp, unless something quite surprising happens, I won't be attending either of the Eminem concerts in Japan this month. Just today two things happened:

(one) Jon offered to work any Friday for me.

(two) I was told I have training on the Friday of the first Eminem concert.

I don't know that I could get out of the training since I normally work on Fridays, but.... it sure seemed like an interesting cusp of possibilities.

I got to work early and Masahiro, Yuki, Sumika all helped me with my Japanese skillz. I helped Masahiro with a couple of English words.

Happy mother's day to all you mothers and your mothers.

first earthquake!

1:16am JST Tuesday 13 May 2003

Last night while at the internet cafe, I felt an earthquake! But the weird thing is that I didn't know at the time it was an earthquake and I'm kinda pissed about that. I mean shit how can I be mad at myself for that? Cause I didn't get up out of my chair to "confirm" it was an earthquake. I just thought it was some cat rocking the flimsy cubicles for some weird reason. I should gotten up and at least felt the floor moving, since I wasn't outside to feel the ground move directly beneath me.

So I didn't actually find out until today that it was an earthquake. They were talking about it at work and Olivia goes, "tell me you felt it last night!" cause, all emotions aside, it was a doozy of an earthquake. Frank said that people at his work were saying it was the largest they've felt in 5 years of being in Japan. And we had another earthquake the previous day and I'm like "cool! bring 'em on!" and Frank is like, "what? you're crazy man."

Olivia reports basically being worried about them, saying that "they" say we are due for a major earthquake soon. I'm excited about the idea. I don't want a bunch of people to die, but I like the idea of safely experiencing something that makes world headlines.