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11:29am JST Tuesday 17 August 2004

Last night I was grumpy and took it out on Hitomi. Not like drastically mean to her, but I was a big whiney baby and not really willing to take the time to talk about it slowly in English. I was like, "I just feel like poo because I don't know what I want and I'm in this thing with you but I don't think it can last forever and I can't even really say why, but it's just the same thing that I've done before with Wende and to a lesser extent with janette and possibly soon to a lesser extent with you."

I can't see myself in a relationship where I can't express those types of feelings and not be understood. Do I just cancel everything now? Strive to learn/teach the other language so we can be understood? What about janetteSallyMadeline (in connection, aesthetic and pronunciation order)? What about my bicycle trip around the world?

I'm thinking I'll stay here until the 48th PB cruise. If I'm not on it, I'll ride my bicycle to Texas, by way of Europe. But why Texas? I have no love for Texas, except for some of its people.

Hey, yeah, now that I think about it more, it's awesome, because I'll be able to see Ryan in New York (if he's still there) my family, Elizabeth and Tammy in Virgina, maybe other peeps in other places.

Tour plans

12:04pm JST Tuesday 17 August 2004

Okay, I would like to have a record of my exact path via bike. So I imagine if I get a GPS thing and have some company record my location every hour, that would be sufficient. Probably every day would be sufficient, but it's only like, what, 8 bytes of data per check so it would be cool to have that data and ultimately draw a red line on a map with dates at the big cities. Just like in the movies.

Conceivably, I could take lots of pictures and video with my digital camera, and put the date on them (and maybe even encoded in the data visibly on the image) and then have pictures per location available. That would be pretty cool.

Need batteries; I have wondered before about a bicycle powered battery charger.

dan leaving Osaka

12:28pm JST Tuesday 17 August 2004

Wow.

Dan just called me.

"Mate. I'm on a ship. I've just left Osaka and I'm headed out to sea. It's mad."

And by mad he means it's just amazing to think about. The ship he is on is not actually angry about anything at all.

I couldn't talk to him very long because I'm at work and the wind noise was really loud so I couldn't hear him very well.

"I just wanted to call you to say Hello and say Goodbye and to thank you for being such a good friend in Japan."

I feel really honored to be Dan's friend.

work

3:13pm JST Tuesday 17 August 2004

Was just informed by Ezra that I got a really poor lesson evaluation from a student last Friday. She used a word that he said was very strong and translated it to "worst." I looked in my records and see that I judged her to have very little initiation, which is difficult for me to work with in a student who is in book 7. (our highest level book in the series)

I'm not allowed to teach her anymore, which is good and sad.

I wonder if all the bonus points (money) I've accumulated over this month will be withdrawn. That would be quite a small savings for Gaba and quite a huge personal blow to me.