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AM

9:12am JST Wednesday 25 February 2004

On the bus to work now. It came later than I thought it might, but I think I'll still be well on time for work.

This morning I woke up gently from a dream. Looked at my alarm and it said 2 minutes to wake up time. I was like, "aww yeah" and thanking my angels when it went off what seemed like only a minute later. I wonder how much that was a sleepy-time-contraction effect.

I have a google news alert set up to tell me if it sees any news articles on UFOs. It sent me an article from the Arizona Daily Wildcat, which is not much more interesting than any other "I saw aliens" story, but it does tell me that we're making steps toward revealing the truth.

Dan and I sang this morning. He wanted to wake up and clean up before some cat named Steve from England moves in today. I was like,

Thank you for cleaning up the house
I feel like such a louse
because I can't help youuuuuu

He replied

Do not worry Rob, 
it's all my mess

me:

But I'm still a slob
I must confess

etcetera. Fun stuff.

Work

5:54pm JST Wednesday 25 February 2004

Work went pretty quickly today. My first two lessons included 朋子, who was quite surprised to see me. (And I her, but somehow I was less surprised; I guess cause she knows I don't usually work in the AM (or at all on Wednesdays).

I gave her LU2 to level 3 in the first lesson, and in the second lesson practiced some of the role plays that she'll have to do to get to level 3.

Neil commented on my having found an apartment in Motosumiyoshi. I assume that means he actively reads my journal, since I hadn't told many peeps at work.

Did my fun lesson 13 in level 4: "where are they?" in where the students have to determine that a plane is on the ground on the east coast of the US given what the pilot said on intercom about London and LA and such.

Tomoko did quite well with this, and the other three students did quite poorly with it. I don't know if I ought to revamp the way I present it. Not much time for that kinda thing. I may never teach it again.

Saw 裕子 in a room today and was all HI to her and "see you [tonight]."

In voice, I played MindTrap with the three students in there. They got two of the questions correct. Takuya was really tired today though he was wearing a super fly outfit. That cat is like the epitome of Tokyo fashion. He had on a snug purple T-shirt, a looser orange/tan T-shirt, an unbuttoned white shirt with colorful spots, crushed velvet purple pants, VANS style white slip on shoes with purple paisleys, a red and orange flannel bathrobe ("now it's my coat"), and a black top hat with chain around the top. I shoulda gotten a picture of him.

My last lesson was with a girl who works in a suit shop. She had trouble with a long number so I was like "for today's lesson, we're going to read numbers," and taught her how to quickly read numbers like 48,503,232,324,233 and more common numbers such as 54,000 and 12,400.

By the end of it, she was like, "it's easy!" Hell yeah.

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I was in the voice room talking to Koji (only student in there) after my last lesson. He was expressing how he doesn't want to be left behind if Takuya zips along to level 4. I was like "get outta here; go to Australia" and Morag came in and concurred (but with Canada), and he was like, "but I like Japan," and I was like, "aight stay in Japan and come to Nova." At the very end I was like, "がんばって" and gave him five.

"Sorry Morag, for interrupting your well-planned voice topic," I teased her.

funny pic

1:53am JST Thursday 26 February 2004