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Dream

6:19am JST Friday 13 February 2004

Jennifer Nunnally was driving; we had just been driving through the countryside roads of Tomball area and for some reason had to turn around, but she looped around instead of turned directly around and was driving really slowly to find her way back to the road we had been on. I hadn't been paying attention and was more interested in trying to rewind the LP on the dashboard to find the spot where the woman's voice had been a piercing loud high note, but each (both) times I tried to spin the record backwards, it distracted Jennifer's ability to see where she was going and that was dangerous cause it had been raining. I suddenly noticed a two or three inch puddle across the street in front of us and warned her and she slowed right down; she hadn't seen it until I pointed it out to her. As we turned right around a corner, I noticed a zebra beside the road and an old man with a BB gun came angrily out of his house, pumped the BB gun and shot near and shouted at the zebra, who didn't move. Then we drove by and he apparently hit the zebra who ran past us and I leaned out of the way to let it go by, then the zebra was out of sight and I heard the man shoot again and I imagined I felt a hit in the leg and I whirled around in anger, "you do *not* shoot while someone is standing there; that zebra was long gone before you shot" and the old man denied my claim, "no man shoots another man in the ass! are you calling me gay?" kinda thing and there was lots of guys taking pictures our there; a bunch of his men apparently for after one of them said, "hey you are bleeding," "really?" and I confirmed it for myself; he had hit me in the back of the thigh; one of the guys like was, "hey hey, listen here's what we'll do," trying to pacify the situation, and I was like, "hmm" thinking how much money I could get to shut up, and I remembered Mr Bandecca's story and I was like, 5000 dollars, but the dream was already fading...

- - - - previous dream

In Hawaii treading water with big big waves coming due to a storm, there was the safety of some sharp lava rocks to my right as the waves were dumping over them and it was all I could do to stay on top of each successive wave; I couldn't get back toward the rocks, as the waves were dumping over those rocks from the other side of them, and I just trusted I would be able to tread water long enough to find something solid again, and I was also holding something above my head (out of the water) though I was using two hands to tread water. I eventually did find something solid on which to stand; a walkway over a city street and the water all drained away and I was walking, but not too sure where I was now, though there were some other cats from Nova (Mike (who also quit Kawasaki branch recently)) and I was walking back over the walkway to find my home and I had to get ready for work at the same time; I had my work clothes on..

Plans

7:52am JST Friday 13 February 2004

D'oh; I just realized I have double booked myself for tonight. I have a standing study date with Morag (and Kathy) on Friday nights, but last night when I called Yuuko to tell her that I couldn't meet her on Monday, she was like, "how about tomorrow?" and I'm like, "err, um, okay" and didn't remember I had plans to study with Kathy. (Morag has friends coming over from Canada)

My choice is to tell Yuuko I already have plans; I want to more often treat her like a friend than a girlfriend.

Today's lesson

11:16am JST Friday 13 February 2004

Today's lesson was pretty cool; あやな had me read some of the conversations from the text. She says I'm the first student she's had who tried actively to learn reading and writing kanji. Cool beans.

I know the kanji for beans, but I don't know the hiragana for beans; I was going to write cool beans but beans in kanji. Maybe next time.

Now I'm going to Daikaiyama to meet the cats at Gaba.

day

12:16am JST Saturday 14 February 2004

Things at Gaba went smoothly; I briefly met with Christine and then Marvin and got all the papers signed and shit. I found some inaccuracies or otherwise weirdness in the contracts and shit and told Marvin and he basically agreed and said they (Gaba) would not fuck with me. Fair enough.

I'll see him on Monday for training.

I will probably work at Jiyogaoka. Which is cool because the limited express train stops there.

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Blah blah. Oh

I had a 7B lesson and was kinda taken by this young woman who just smiiilled and smiled at me and tried really hard to speak, and smiled and smiled and though it was our first lesson and she is 7B, and there were two other students in the lesson, I gave her my email address. Here's a funny thing: the other two students didn't notice me giving her my address. I had written down what they said wrong and then corrected it and they were reading what I had written while I was writing my address for this girl and gave it to her. Wow.

study

12:34am JST Saturday 14 February 2004

Kathy and I studied at Starbucks. She studied Japanese and I read the training packet given to me by Marvin. I found approximately (estimating here) four errors per page. The shit is as poorly composed as a rough draft ought to be. I'm going to give it to him and tell him to take my ass out to lunch or something for having corrected it. Jesus. A ton of errors.

zzz computers

12:36am JST Saturday 14 February 2004

Dan got a computer today. Powerbook G4 12 inch screen with airport card and speakers and extra memory. We're both nerding it up right now.

Actually, I'm going to bed now. Long days coming up. Hopefully I can sleep on Sunday after work.