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State of My Life Address

9:08am JST Thursday 18 March 2004

State of My Life Address

1. Today is Maggie and Molly's birthday, and I've gotten them nothing.

2. I've been to Fujikyu Highland three times. Once with Nami (in August 2003), once with janette (in January 2004), and once with Yuuko (yesterday). It was best with janette in January because there were so few people crowding the place up.

3. I've got a pile of storage space on my site; I've been moving more pics and even two movies of Tony's merry-go-round to my site. I really appreciate Fred's comment a long time ago, "bits are cheap," which has allowed me to keep pouring stuff into my site.

4. It's super windy here in Tokyo again today. Fujiyama didn't run consistently yesterday because of the wind.

5. I have recently moved to my new apartment in Motosumiyoshi. I can nearly write the kanji for my address. I've not met everyone as dynamically as I once imagined I might, but I have met some people. Mostly it's cause I'm still not feeling perfectly settled here, and I've been out of the apartment frequently.

6. I now work at Jiyugaoka Gaba. I like it a *lot* more than working at Nova. There's like zero stress at Gaba. I just roll in there, check each client's info a few minutes before the lesson, teach and write about it on the laptop in my cube. No stress looking for files (that someone else might have, that might have a different number than what I'm looking for, that might be filed in the wrong place, that might be missing altogether), trying to plan lessons, etc. Bang easy. Done.

7. My computer has been stable for a while and has even properly been reading data from my camera's memory card as it should. yay for that.

8. I recently hung out with Sachiko and Satoko (frequent flyer AM pair at Nova) and might go to a party with Sachiko next Friday or next next Friday.

9. I don't have any pets.

10. I don't have a girlfriend. I've begun to temper my kissing on Yuuko, even. I've just been less hornified; I wonder if it's because I'm under less stress with new living/job situation.

11. I learned the word "さいしょ" which means first. I think; I kinda forgot since last night. (yes; it's correct) I've recently learned あさって and おととい (day after tomorrow and day before yesterday), which are pretty good words to know.

12. Oooh. おととし means the year before last.

10:01am

I've gotten stuck here; I'm going to send some snail mails.

modeling

11:58am JST Thursday 18 March 2004

Went downstairs and Ricky was watching TV. On TV was a guy who looked a lot like Ricky. "Is that you?"

"ya," but his voice was kinda squeaky-hoarse, and I kinda didn't believe it could be true.

"Is that you on TV?"

"ya," same squeak.

"That's amazing," and I continued my trek to hang up my laundry.

That does it; I'm going to call those modeling agency numbers that Clayton gave me months ago.

And that's just what I did.

ps: internet is up in my room now. :-)

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Ricky is a bit loud and possibly obnoxious. I've been a bit tentative around the place here, wondering what's appropriate attire for going down to the shower area from my room. Ricky goes down in a towel. I'm going to go down in a towel.

stuff

5:26pm JST Thursday 18 March 2004

I got some editing done on my videos from Fujikyu. The most difficult was figuring out how to synchronize the video and audio of a clip that was taken from a different vantage point of a different run of Dodonpa. I got it pretty well done though in the end I think.

Halfway done with visa stuff. Tomorrow I will go to a visa place in Kawasaki and show them all my proof that Gaba will sponsor my visa. Will have to submit proof of Nova's releasing me from duty later.

work

10:57pm JST Thursday 18 March 2004

Worked four lessons today. I might see about working in their IT department as well. I'll consult runes before I rock back into programming again though.