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Work

12:59pm JST Sunday 6 June 2004

I've had four awesome students today! Even though I'm working on only 3.5ish hours of sleep (Tom was so loud (and drunk) when he came back. I came out in my underwear, "Tom, I have to be at work in 4 hours."

"Oh no; I've seen Rob's underwears.") I'm really genki and pumped.

Anyway, the first two students were Junko (same woman for two lessons), who looks up words in English unlike most students and who really really tries to learn the stuff; awesome.

Next student *also* looks up words in English (I assure you it's a rarity) and we had a great chatola.

Next student is super beginner level, but really genki and really tries and really just.. wow. Awesome.

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Whooohoo! Junko gave me a 5-5!

My last student was Yuki. First time to meet her and she chewed through a pile of conjugations past, present, future, present continuous, past perfect... and seemed to understand them all. She's seen them all before, but presented in a pile, relating each one to the others seemed to help.

Wow Shibuya

5:02pm JST Sunday 6 June 2004

Weird. Something is going on at Shibuya... the street is being blocked so people can't walk across to Starbucks; like peple are facing the crowd holding hands..

miki

10:20pm JST Sunday 6 June 2004

Miki tapped on the back of my leg as I stood up on a wall to see what the fuss was about. I never could see anything worthy of shutting down the street for 10 minutes, but that seems to be exactly what happened.

Miki and I found the venue before doors opened, so we chowed at a cafe and looked at some guitars and stuff in a nearby music shop. Such a foreign world to me: musical instruments.

I fell asleep (sitting on a stool) during the first performer, and then I watched and rather enjoyed Shoko's performance, though I must say it appeared that she was not super comfortable on stage; I wonder what her emotional state was like.. not for any particular reason except she didn't look super relaxed.

Her singing was good though, all in English, which surprised me, but yeah. I lip synced (Madonna's ?) "Fever" while Shoko sang. It was great.

The headliner was some loud woman that reminded me of a 1980s country-rock crossover artist. I pretty much flat did not enjoy it one bit; plus she was loud, so we headed out after the first few songs. Hugged Shoko, "I came to see *you*, not her," and left.

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Wandered around Shibuya a bit (Miki doesn't get out that way very often) and saw three yamamba girls. Saw more than three girls (plus a way-larger-than-life-size poster) of a new Japanese style for girls. I don't have a name for it, but it epitomizes cute/bizarre:

Headwear: pigtails or white chantilly french maid looking hat (or both). Dress = white with tiny flower speckle pattern frilly dress that reminds me of a doll dress. legs: long stockings (white or tiny flowers) and shoes: white flats, white heels, or BLACK PLATFORM shoes.

Anyone know the name for this style?

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Said bye to her at the split for yamanote / tokyu lines, and headed home.

Figured out a work-around for using the name Thunder Rabbit for profit without stepping on other trademarks. Only use Thunder as his name and classify him as Rabbit for his species. Just never say, "HI, I'm Thunder Rabbit."