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Hitomi

11:18am JST Tuesday 9 November 2004

Argh

Last time I hung out with Hitomi, I was like, [I can't hang out with you as often anymore], and she was like, [can we talk about it in your room?] and I'm like, [no], and she's like, [why?] and I'm like, good grief Charlie Brown, because I just said no, and then I relented and was like, [will you let me sleep? I have to be up early.] "Of course" she said.

In English "Of course," and in Japanese "もちろん" she said. Both langugaes.

Subsequently she stayed overnight. Gad.

The next night Fifty One minute Phone Call occurred, and in the end I'm like, "I'll see you on the 20th," and she was like, "okay."

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The next morning (yesterday) she texted me to apologize. I didn't respond.

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This morning she texted me to ask if we could meet tomorrow after I go to a movie with Satako.

I'm like, [no].

And she called me to plead her case. "After tomorrow, I won't meet you often."

"Noooooooooooooooooo."

How can I explain that if I saw her two days ago, and I see her again tomorrow, that counts as "often."

"Not often," in a way, has started. But texting me and calling me every day does not feel like "not often" to me. Stoppit!

Super close

1:13pm JST Tuesday 9 November 2004

I'm super close to having slices of my journal available. Note that by default, type=daily shows up in the URL. Other options are ultimate, YRUU, KTRU, dreams, SoML, sleepy, .. and others I can't remember. Next I just need to fix my navigation to show links to those types. I can type them by hand for now.

Going to go get foodage for chowage today.

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Oh, the one thing I know doesn't work is the Cancel link on the comment page.

Super done

2:10pm JST Tuesday 9 November 2004

Done. Now I can view my journal in slices.

state of my life

3:10pm JST Tuesday 9 November 2004

State of My Life

1. I've gotten my navigation to allow slices of my journal to be viewed. Just finished that today after having been working on it indirectly and directly for a few weeks, causing me to easily forget about studying Japanese.

   I still want to clean up the directory structure behind the scenes and write a auto-navigation generator thing that will make all the indices be automagical.

   That's actually what I was working on when I realized the basic logic I was using was more suited for my journal slices, which I had planned to do afterward.

2. I live in Millenium House near Motosumiyoshi in Tokyo Japan. Jen from Perth, cute Shoko, Ikumi, Katrina, Riki are my most frequent buds here.

3. I have TJ Bike, and Mimi Bike now, which I got from Louise de Brisbane from Gaba work. Mimi Bike is a little green road bike with knobby tires and no suspension. Hitomi named it.

4. Hitomi and I rode Mimi Bike and TJ Bike to Yomiuriland last Wednesday. I got to ride White Canyon for the first and second times. First in the last car and second in the first car, from where I got a video of the whole ride, though my camera was low on battery power.

5. My camera is Canon IXY 30 (3.2 Megapixels) with 128Meg SD memory card.

6. My computer is still my PowerBook G4 with 30 Gig HD, 512 Meg ram. Recently I went to the Apple Store in Ginza and they replaced a screw that was apparently causing the mouse to be locked on wake from sleep, and reset the motherboard, which was supposed to fix the battery. The battery still doesn't last long, though it's not super old. They also fixed the spacebar, which I had seated incorrectly when I cleaned the keyboard a couple months ago.

7. I have recently broken up with Hitomi (again). She's been calling me each day even so. We are supposed to meet on the 20th, and she wants to meet more often than that. If she keeps calling me, we will meet less often than that.

8. I still work at Gaba in Jiyugaoka and OM near Yokohama. Gaba schedule is 月、木、金 from 4pm to 7, then 7:45 to 10:45. Sometimes there are no-bookings during those times.

   At OM I work with Jen 9am to 4:30 on Saturday and Sunday.

9. I haven't studied Japanese in a while; I'm kinda losing interest and was really sidetracked by my journal slicer, and Hitomi. I haven't studied Chinese hardly at all.

10. I've been riding TJ Bike to Gaba most days if it's warmish and not raininig. I haven't ridden him to OM.

11. At Gaba I don't really hang out with Jesse anymore; I barely see him, it seems. I more often just chat a bit with Roscoe or Andrew. Haven't seen Simon in a while; I think he must be on vacation. Louise has been working days instead of evenings, so I haven't really seen her recently.

12. I've been somewhat in email dialogue with a guy who rode bikes with his wife along a big trail that spans North America. I'd like for him to make a travelogue website for me like he did. Turns out his sister made his site, so I'll talk to her.

13. I haven't really seen Jimmy da Magnet a lot recently, but one time: he came over to pick up his Saturday Night Live video and we chowed dinner recently.

14. I've been in email touch with Fred a lot and Sara Farina from UH and ColleenieBeanie from YRUU.

15. I don't have any pets, except Spot with Jennifer in Houston.

16. I haven't heard from Wende in a pretty long time. Especially not since I snailed her and her parents letters around her wedding.

17. I gotta jet to work.

    And by jet, I mean ride TJ Bike.

    4:36pm

    According to my most recent experience, I can ride to work on TJ Bike in 30 minutes without breaking a sweat. I get a little bit sweaty under my backpack, but I'm not counting that.

18. I've been asked to copy GTS 6 CD for Gaba. A student lost her copy. I'm not getting any renumeration for it, but oh well.

19. I don't have my keyboard for my Handspring Visor. janette said she found it and would send it to me once she got back from Austin. I think she's gotten sidetracked. I may remember to remind her soon.

    I haven't been in touch with janette in a while.

20. I use gmail as my main email account thing. Still robnugen.com, but that sends it all straight to gmail.

21. I've learned about a9.com and clusty.com, but they still haven't taken my interest away from google, the #1 search engine on the planet.

22. I'm finding myself with very short temper for students who don't try hard. Yet I am such a student. Or at least I see myself that way. Interesting.

23. When people ask me if I'm "still on track" for my planned bicycle adventure, I tell them yes because it still seems so far away. But I gotta get crackin' on getting camping gear and a GPS and a reliable way to keep its batteries charged. And I'd like to have a video camera on my helmet.. plenty of work to be done.

24. I've got 400,000 yen in my local bank account, and $1500 in the US. Since Bush "won" again, and will likely continue to spend the US into the biggest deficit ever, I am not sure that US currency is what I want to have. I'll keep my yen here.

25. I haven't been out of Japan since I came in March 2003. Wow.

26. I have basically given up on the idea of writing lots of letters to my homies at home.

27. Recently (basically this month) I have been on a really tight budget. 500 yen per day for food. I've been cooking eggs, rice, mushrooms, spinach, and sausage / gyoza. Good stuff.

28. I have never been drunk nor done illegal drugs.

29. I have not done anything artsy in a while; my most recent painting is still in Bell Wistaria in Tsunashima. I never got the key back after I loaned it to Dan; I dunno if I'll see that painting again. It was never officially finished; I just put it up on the wall for storage while I didn't work on it.

    I don't really have room in my room / life for it. I could give it to Hitomi I guess.

30. I haven't really exercised my arms recently. I stopped doing pushups (when?) and haven't really played frisbee since I've been here. Except once with Mutsumi, who I've not really been in touch with since we hung out in Denny's.