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9:23am JST Saturday 24 April 2004

I was up a bit late last night so it was a bit of a trick to get up on time, but it's all good in the hood.

I'm able to understand a bit of what this 5-ish year old is saying next to me. Stuff like, "3 people wakawakawaka" and "[hey] that's cool!"

I was just thinking about Bryn and Kris Scott; I don't know which one first: Bryn because she did this year overseas thing before I did, and I now have an appreciation of how difficult it must have beAn for her. Scott because I was listening to one of his songs recently, "Bryn: See You Sunday"

PM

9:28pm JST Saturday 24 April 2004

At Gaba, during the first lesson (Jesse and I both had a free), I tried to show him my student reminder, but I couldn't get past the login screen. On my machine at home I just enter the password and hit enter and it submits the data. There's no actual submit button, and the machines at work don't submit the data with just a carriage return (or ctrl-cr or alt-cr or shift-cr or any other combination I thought might work). I'll fix that when I get home tonight.

Work today was pretty cool; 13 lessons with a break; money, dude. I didn't have many students overtly select my lessons online, but I had two students who I know pretty well.

One student was interested in getting a .xls file of all the comments teachers have written for her, but I don't know if that's possible.

During the last lesson, Jesse and I played a game of "talking" to each other during the lesson, which was not a conversation by any means, but just mimicry, though still really funny. A couple of times we had to work hard not to laugh.

After work we played hackeysack outside the entrance to Gaba, and came up with new names for ourselves. His name is far better than mine: my name is Doctor Kick, and he is Turbo Stall.

We've gotten noticeably better since we started playing regularly about a month ago.

Shoko and Robert came out while we played, and Shoko gave a few decent kicks, a couple of which we were able to work with. They didn't really want to play though so they left.

We continued playing, occassionally having to retrieve the footbag (unnamed, as yet) from behind a vertical grating thing, until Jesse's friends arrived. Junichi and Chisako. They were patient enough to watch for a bit, but didn't want to play.