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AM with Rick and Daniel

2:29pm JST Monday 22 November 2004

I rushed to catch the 10:40am limited express train to Shibuya, making it with 3 minutes to spare. I woulda had time to get my hat and hoodie had I remembered them while I was close to the apartment. It's a super sunny day right now, but it will be cold tonight when I go home from work.

Daniel and Rick were late; they had taken a different line than Yamanote; it is parallel to Yamanote in Shibuya, but its platform is 100 meters farther away from the main part of Shibuya. So they got off and promptly found some interesting buildings that they wouldn't have seen otherwise, otherwise known as lost.

They arrived a bit later and we chowed at an Italian restaurant that was in the area of another restaurant that piqued Daniel's interest in his book, but we never found it, though I stopped for directions at two police boxes. This gave Daniel a sense of how wack it is to find something given its address in Tokyo. Rick didn't seem as phased; maybe he already knew.

The restaurant included a shrine (in the toilet room) to all things soccer, including a soccerball print toilet seat. and a Lego soccer goal next to the sink. Daniel got some pictures.

The meal was pretty great and filling, including delicious pumpkin soup and some pudding dessert custard thing. Daniel gave me half of his. Woo!!

We headed out with a plan in my head to walk to Harajuku station and then train to Yoyogi and then Ginza on on eof those lines that I think goes from Yoyogi to Ginza. They wanted to see something in Ginza, and I wanted to show Daniel the Apple Store. We ended up taking a taxi to save time, and he drove us to the Sony Building, which is one thing Daniel wanted to see, so we scoped it and their wares including a 2 megapixel camera the size of a a pakc of shoelaces, weighing 5 grams.. It was $4000. The guy was like, "though it's 2 megapixels, the optics make it worthy of a 4 megapixel camera." Wow. Or yeah right; I don't know which.

Rick was unimpressed with Aibo (or more unimpressed with the women cooing and petting it to see its (non) reaction.. Walked away, "I don't know why anyone would want one of those."

Reached the top, went to the bottom (should have gone one floor lower) and then down into the subway where we could be led by the exit signs to texit A13, which is next to the Apple Store. Walked by the Sony building on the way out, but we hadn't wasted more than 2 minutes waiting for the light and walking the wrong way across the tstreet to the train station entrance.

Apple Store didn't have any of my batteries in stock, but he showed me how I could buy it online, but said I couldn't do it from inside the store for some reason. Weird.

Rick and Daniel scoped the wares in Aple Store and then we headed back downstairs into Ginza station where I set them out toward Akihabara (where purchases will almost certainly be made) and I headed toward work.

Work

7:15pm JST Monday 22 November 2004

Got to work at 3pm and got caught up on email a bit and chatted with Louise. First lesson Mari chose me and we had fun checking her awesome homework after I answered her questions of "what does proelbmsw mean?" and "what does bno mean?" Oh my god how unhelpful some typists are. "It means some people don't take care to proofread their comments after they type them." Second was a new student (who had also chosen me) and we had equal fun. Third was Mita who didn't choose my lesson and who has made an amazing amount of progress for having had 155 lessons. I had her last lesson ever. To keep myself awake I acted as her waiter and took her order and brought her things to represent food. Pretty fun/funny-ish. Fourth was Makiko who chose my lesson and commented that she would choose my lessons more often if she could find them, so I gave her a code to more easily look up my schedule. We had a fun lesson and played with "after that," which I contrasted correct and incorrect usage. "I lived in Japan for two years. After that I ate at a restaurant." vs "I lived in Japan for two years, and after that I rode my bicycle to Hokkaido."

After that, I went to the convenience store. After that I lived in Japan.

Wow

8:09pm JST Monday 22 November 2004

Woah. I've just noticed that my comment sender seems to not be emailing the comments to me. I wonder how long that has been happening.

8:18pm

For some time now, it seems.

Wow; my student just showed up. I gots to work.

nihongo shigoto

2004年11月22日(月)19時48分

今日仕事は学生一人は来たなかった。彼女は９回来たなかった。私はお金 をくれます、けど教えあげません。かんたんが、つまらない。

20時18分

びっくり。只今、来た。

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仁美と勉強：

今日の仕事は学生が一人来なかった。彼女は９回も来なかったことがある。私はお金 をもらえます、だけど教えません。かんたんが、つまらない。

20時18分

びっくり。今、来た。