Entries this day: Lawyer Student overtime second_student

Lawyer

1:22pm JST Wednesday 21 May 2003

My dear friend Kristen is now a lawyer in the Houston area! If you need legal defense, call her up and be like, "yo, Rob gave me your info, so hook me up pronto, dontcha know." or some such.

Law Office of Kristen K. Sheils
First Capital Bank Building
5433 Westheimer Road, Suite 825
Houston, Texas 77056
Phone/fax: (281)500-4099
kristen@midtownlaw.com

Student

1:13pm JST Wednesday 21 May 2003

A possible student sent me their phone number, but when I called it, the call wouldn't go through. According to the employee here at the cafe, it's either a wrong number or maybe the person has used the equivalent of a spam blocker on the phone.

Gotta give me the correct number or turn off spam block before I can call you, jack.

overtime

2:13pm JST Wednesday 21 May 2003

I'm working overtime today; I got called while I was in the internet cafe. I coulda turned it down; we never *have* to work overtime, but I felt like I didn't really have anything better to do except maybe study Japanese, so I said yes.

I'll be paid 1.5 times my normal rate. 5 classes * 1.5 = 7.5 classes so it's like working almost a full extra day. I got 1.25 times my rate yesterday (first day of overtime per week) so that's like working more than a day, though I only really worked 1/2 a day cause it was so unbusy.

What is the best use of my time? Why am I here? For this incredible experience

Whoah I think I just saw the bicycle rack at ‚«‚­‚È, so there *is* one here. I wonder if it's secure. Today I parked twice in the secure dollar per day lot under the um.. wait a minute. When did I do that? Um, oh er, oh I'm *going* to park there twice; I parked there once after class to hit the internet for a bit, got called to do overtime and I'll park there again on the same 24-hour ticket later tonight or maybe tomorrow morning depending on my level of tiredness. We shall see.

Back to the real question... wtf am I doing here? Do I make my priority working overtime? Meeting people and engaging the culture. I'm looking for some hard-and-fast rule on whether or not I "should" have said yes to the offer of overtime. As I write "offer" that suggests it was a good thing, so Yes is appropro (correct usage?).

It's silly that I look for hard and fast rules. Silly that I am saying I do something as if it's true.

Bryn once suggested that life is not as black and white as I seemed to view it during one of our conversations. I wonder how ol' Bryn is doing? I hope she's well and happy in London.

I am here for the experience. I'm here for the same reason that I believe we are here on earth. For the experience. Whatever I do is the right thing to do. I just suggest that I pay attention to what I'm doing - that I experience my life fully, even if I sometimes feel like I'm not wrestling from life every possible experience I *could* experience.

Just be; just live in the moment, moment to moment. Supa zen like.

heehee the cat across the train from me is making typing motions and talking to his wife. A moment ago I sat when someone got up and then an older woman stood near me so I conceded my seat to her. I practiced standing in tadasana, not using the oh shit handle for balance. When the seat beside her came available, someone across the aisle pointed it out to me. My seat. Nice.

I don't know how many more stops to go. Maybe 2 or 3 I think. Never been to this station before. Oops I forgot the name. I hope I'll know it when I see it.

Ah. ‚©‚Ý‚¨‚¤‚©

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9:31pm

Done. Basically fun. One class was like pulling teeth, another like pulling taffy. Laffy taffy.

I might go to ‚Í‚±‚Ë tomorrow. Might not.

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Wait. I *did* park my bike twice in the same lot already. Once when I went to the cafe the first time, and then again after I went to my apartment to change to work clothes. I rode back to ‚‚Ȃµ‚Ü so I could internet again tonight when I get back. Soon.

second student

11:35pm JST Wednesday 21 May 2003

Wheee

A second potential student has nearly contacted me. This one gave email address and phone number. I emailed tonight and will call tomorrow unless I hear back tonight.