Entries this day: Dream Work

Dream

11:12am JST Friday 26 December 2003

I was masturbating in my room and realized that people outside behind me could see me so I stopped and turned around. They were peeking out their windows, and looked like they hadn't seen me, but then one guy does a jackoff motion question mark and I (in a cheerful way) gave them the finger. "haha fuck you for looking" kinda thing.

One of the guys came outside and was talking to me and then dreamshift and I was watching this bird slash friend eat seeds, but he couldn't pick up a certain seed with his beak so he cocked his head over to pick it up with his eye using adhesion from his tears (*)

I was like, "hey um, Mr bird, what name can we humans call you?"

He was like, "Poppyseed"

"Poppyseed, did you just pick up that seed with your eye??"

"Yeah blah blah blah..." some explanation he gave made perfect sense to us.

Wow; cool. We had a newfound respect for the nature of birds.

(*) not tears, but ambient eye moisture. Is there a word for that?

Dreamshift and then we were with Samuel L Jackson who was doing fung shi on his new house that was rather huge. I helped him walk around the perimeter and seal it with a symbolic fan of some sort.

Work

1:39am JST Saturday 27 December 2003

Morag and I worked at KQ today. Notable:

1. It was the last day before our New Year's vacation.

2. I did a level check over ginganet for Hiyoshi (the school where Jen works; the station where Cory lives; one station away from Tsunashima) today. This was my first ginganet anything. I rated the student a solid level 4. Definitely good enough to hold a conversation on any common topic. Definitely had natural pauses and, um, hesitation devices, and was a great fun student to chat with. Excellent comprehension at normal speed speech and good comprehension with high speed speech.

   I wondered about ways to get her digits, but chose against any such behavior at that moment; she could be a Hiyoshi staff member for all I know.

3. Morag had a class of three students; one of whom gave little or no input, the other two of whom gave little or no input cause they were so busy flirting with one another. She was really mad when she got out of that lesson. I had the same three students plus one more student; I was ready to not be ruffled by any antics.

   I got in there and (this story is going too slow for how tired I am right now) was "alright; you guys listen and then ask some questions." I read 5 lines of text and they couldn't ask any quetions. I read it again, and they still couldn't. I prompted them with questions about the five lines and then read and then had them ask the questions.

   They were able to get through this, and it took a long time.

   Then I was all, alright; here are your 4 new questions for the next section, and I read the section and had them listen to the next part. The first question: "how many times has Kay been here?" second: "how long has Doug been coming here?" third: "who believes in ghosts and why?" fourth: "what was Doug doing when he saw the ghost?"

   First question took nearly five minutes to ask and answer. One person asking (trying to repeat the question accurately) and the other three trying to get the correct answer. One knew the grammar, and the other knew the answer.

   Second question was answered, "Doug has been here for 2 hours," which is true, but not the correct answer for the question. "Good grammar; wrong answer."

   ((* I'm too tired to get a play by play written but *))

   "Okay, please ask your question again"

   "How long has Doug been coming here?"

   "Okay, please repeat: how long has Doug been here?"

   "Okay, please answer."

   It took several variants of the above conversation before I was like, "please listen: How long has Doug been coming here? How long has Doug been here? This is really important that you understand."

   Finally, somehow, they understood. Such a beautiful sight to see the lightbulbs in their minds. They were able to correctly ask and answer each question. But we still had two more questions to go.

   Slogged through the third question which they answered with some difficulty, and then to the fourth question.

   "What was Doug doing before he saw the ghost?"

   "He was sitting before he saw the ghost."

   "Correct grammar."

   "bicycle."

   "Yes. Please make a sentence."

   "He bicycle riding ghost the he saw before."

   "Please give your answer again."

   "He was sitting before he saw the ghost."

   "Okay, please change the answer to bicycle." (I noticed that this was not a trivial change, but oh well.)

   "He was bicycle riding before he saw the ghost."

   "Close. Please repeat. " (at this point the bell rang. School is out for the winter break. I can go home and sleep.)

   "Please repeat: He was riding his bicycle before he saw the ghost."

   I made all four students correctly repeat that phrase before they left.

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Relayed the story to Morag who felt quite vindicated. I was really happy cause though I may have been rough on them, they fucking learned something. Excellent.

Miki, oh Miki made me sad tonight. I invited her to Ginza with me and Jen and Orivia and Grace, but we are meeting at 5 while Miki gets off work at 6. Okay, just meet us, right? False.

"I can't read a map, so I can't meet you. I have never been to Ginza."

"Mate. You. can. do. it."

too late. done deal. she's not coming.

I practiced releasing. I felt sad. I can't date anyone who would give up that easily slash not believe in themselves enough to try.

I won't see her until next year.

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I've fallen asleep multiple times during this entry. I'm going to Odaiba with Carla, Clayton and Benny tomorrow. I wanna get a disposeable camera before we go.

sleepy time now.