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Day after moving day

12:05pm JST Thursday 11 March 2004

The day after Moving Day is another moving day. I'm still at my old apartment, kinda stuck at the end of this project. Not actually at the end, but past the middle, and if I were to Just Do It, quite possibly I'd find myself finished in a short while.

I have, however, done some other productive things: I've mailed a letter to Maggie, a pile of flyers to Stephenae, and a box to ジャネト。

Dan and I are going to ride bikes to the shinkansen tunnel to make bets on which way each next train will travel.

Okay; I'm kinda inspired to pack my clothes. Go go go.

12:31pm

Almost go go go. I just put some pics up from my official byebye party and my secret byebye party.

New file boxes seem like they'll help a lot with organization. Thanks for working at The Container Store, Wende.

1:35pm JST Thursday 11 March 2004

Speaking of Wende, it is SO windy today!!!

Doh!

4:31pm JST Thursday 11 March 2004

Dan and I went riding our bikes on this glorious (ly windy) day and had tons of fun riding around and getting lost and finding a shop to fix my flat tire and rolling down a speedy hill and steps and everything. Fun fun stuff.

The d'oh part is that for some reason, I felt inspired to ride as close as possible to Dan when it was my turn to be the star of an action shot on my bike. Hit his arm and he dropped the camera. Expensive digital camera. That he has borrowed from a friend. Fuck. I encouraged Dan to call his friend and let him know what's up, but he's chosen not to do that. I am not really sure where's the "best" place to take it to get it fixed or replaced or what. I've emailed Yuuko to ask her.

Sidetracked as fuck

5:14pm JST Thursday 11 March 2004

Fuck. I'm getting sidetracked as fuck.

I've got two competing ideas now. Well 3:

1) keep cleaning and packing

2) find my calendar book thing (eeek!), which I think I need before work tomorrow.

3) Open a new domain for the sole purpose of running spam assassin and letting people set up email accounts and their own whitelists (always allow addresses) and blacklists (never allow) and maybe make some cash by helping people have spam-free email. Several of my friends have expressed disapproval at the amount of spam they receive.

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So this is part of cleaning: I've got a pile of papers that I've collected from Nova Kawasaki, many of which had quotes of the day written on them:

I have been studying Arabic since yesterday.

You should go to Czech Republic because no reason.

I have a pair of sore shoulders.

I like all sports.  Except winter sports.

"What instrument do you play?"
"Euphonium."
".. Phone?"

Where did my fin go?

I ate bambi's leg.

"When did you come to Japan?"
"...  I'm 13."

Some of them I can attribute to their speakers:

I feel like a little squirrel finding things that I left here and I
need later.

- Lyle

"Do you have a flying raccoon?  er vampire?  er do you have a dancing
ballerina?"

- Carla

6:38pm JST Thursday 11 March 2004

I don't want to fucking move. I'm scared. I'm sad.

I can't believe that fucking camera broke today. Fuck!

gray

7:23pm JST Thursday 11 March 2004

Things that could be contributing to my unease:

• I can't seem to find my little calendar thingie.

• I'm supposed to move by tomorrow at noon (or was it today?).

• I broke Dan's friend's camera (I imagine that will cost me some $$ to fix).

• Dan is gone for the evening (so I can't spend our last chance at quality time together, nor can I get his input on how to go about fixing the camera)

• I have Japanese class tomorrow before work (so i can't take the camera to Yodobashi Camera before work)

sit down

9:17pm JST Thursday 11 March 2004

MAN I JUST HAD A SIT
DOWN WITH STEVE ABT
UR BYEBYE PARTY.

Wooops! I wonder what happened!

zzzz packed

1:45am JST Friday 12 March 2004

I'm packed. The room is clean. Thanks to Dan for slowing me down and helping me consider that they might come and take all the shit out of the room *and* charge me for cleanup. So all of the stuff is out of the room and

piled up in the living room!

Well, it's not *that* bad, but close; I have properly packed my clothes and the paper files and scrapbook, but all the other piddly stuff has been stashed in the plastic sets of drawers and will be stashed in Dan's room tomorrow, along with the sidewalls of my nest, which I'm taking, and along with the mattress, which will stay in Dan's room.

Tonight, Dan and I are camping out in the living room. He's on the couch and I'm on my mattress and well worn futon pad for one last night. My pillows are packed, but that's cool cause I'm only going to sleep for one cycle. For my legs, I'll use a trashbag full of the packing material janette has sent me over the year.

Pictures of this night will likely be posted.

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The plan for tomorrow is to wake up at ohgod thirty, move my properly packed stuff to the new place, unpack-kinda, shower there, put on my work clothes (suit), and go to my Japanese lesson in Shibuya by 9:30.

Then I can dawdle a bit on my way to work, but (oh shit I'm glad I thought of this) I don't yet know *how* to get to that office. I won't dawdle too long because it's my first day of work and all that. Work ends at 10:40pm. I wonder if Yuuko will help me move my last load over at that time.