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Lately

4:28pm JST Friday 4 June 2004

Awesome:

IT'S A NO TIE SUMMER AT GABA!

Unless you are a First Meeting
instructor, forget the tie at
home!  Effective immediately.

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I bought two books and a cassette tape to learn Mandarin. It seems the grammar of Mandarin is trivial. It's the vocab and pronunciation that will be challenging.

[I'm chillin' with Louise in the break room. She's a cool aussie from Brisbane.]

Today in Japanese lesson, I found that I'm still being schnockered by the conjugations for "I wanted to," "I didn't want to," "s/he wanted to" and "s/he didn't want to."

riki

8:08am JST Saturday 5 June 2004

Last night I saw Riki on the train but he didn't see me. I kicked his shoe twice and I thought he looked around to see what was up but he later told me he didn't notice. I considered swiping his ticket out of his pocket (it was sticking out, but people seemed to be watching (Edgar Allen Poe "Telltale Heart")). As we got off at Motosumiyoshi, I looped my finger in his wallet chain. A guy looked down to see what I was up to. Riki felt the tug when he tried to walk and finally noticed me.

On the way home, when he went to get his bike, I ran ahead and then walked normal speed so he would think it took him that long to go unlock his bike.

At home, as he was getting ready to go out, he left his keys in his door (as he usually does). When I went to bed, I moved them to my door (across the hall). He never came and got them; this morning I put them back in his door. I don't know the end of this story yet.