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Dream

7:59am JST Sunday 2 May 2004

Josephine asked me, "Hey Rob, do you like Ben?"

"Yeah. I love that one song that goes dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta dah ta (*)"

"Yeah, me too."

"Or were you talking about Ben Stiller?"

"Either one."

"Ah, you just ask the question and find out who you were talking about by the answer."

"yeah."

(*) Zak and Sara

Fucked up things

9:14am JST Sunday 2 May 2004

1) On the way back to get dressed after my shower, I saw the news about treatment of Iraqi prisoners. That is a fuckin' nightmare. Incredibly embarassing, disheartening, ghastly, fucked up behavior. It made me way not proud to be an American. What must those soldiers have gone through to do something so profoundly stupid?

2) I went to the convenience store to get a stamp. I showed the cat the letter and said "stamp" in English because I couldn't think of the word "きって" in Japanese. He proceeded to show me a map of the address to which the letter was intended. Dude. Just give me a stamp. I know where the shit's going.

Good things

11:59pm JST Sunday 2 May 2004

Today during my lunch break, I sought the same internet signal that Dan and I found a couple days ago, and that I found this morning before work, but it didn't seem to be there.

Wandered about, focusing my search toward apartment buildings and found a signal within about 20 minutes. Felt pretty conspicuous with my laptop out, but here in Japan no one reacts to any weird thing that anyone does, long as it's not directly detrimental to self or others.

During lunch I was able to tweak my code enough to get the add-a-note code working for my student reminder project. It didn't work perfectly because the reminders wouldn't show up on subsequent edits, but I verified they were being saved to the DB. Good enough to start.

I wrote little notes to myself for each student I've had recently, so I can remember a bit of our history, and hopefully remember their face so I can say HI [name] instead of just HI and duck away.