Entries this day: Dream OM cool_kanji_book

Dream

6:53am JST Saturday 05 March 2005

I was at Northwoods church for some dinner thing and I saw Jesse from *my* YRUU days. I went up to her and was like, "HI" and gave her a hug. We were never the best of friends during that time, but she was happy to see me and answered all my questions happily enough. I gave her a bit of a massage while she was sitting / lying on a table and a random youth asked what we were doing and I said playing silent massageball. He looked perplexed, but chose not to ask anything else and wandered off.

I asked Jesse about her current situation and she said she was in college and had a mathematics major that she sorta chose by default. She didn't really like it, but / because it was a self guided curriculum, and I tried to show her the bright side; that she could take anything from pure statistics (which by the way, I confided, I hate) and in fact I bet she could take pure staticstics in a subset like, "the statistics of sets that are ony populated with data points in a certain type of variable distribution." She agreed, but still didn't seem too impressed with her choice. Or, I continued, she could take something as broad as topology, describing curves and shapes.

I looked at some pictures and they had a Nathan Staples look-a-like contest (I gues that's one of the first proofs that one is famous: having a look-a-like contest in your likeness) and I couldn't tell immediately which one was the real Nathan Staples. Duncan was in the background of the picture, not trying to look like Nathan Staples more than he already does, but implying that he was part of the competition, and losing.

Jesse turned into kT as she told me a bit more about her college days.

I can't seem to recall the next bit of dream I had.

OM

5:18pm JST Saturday 05 March 2005

Exciting times at the OM today. I told Jen she should be excited; "it's like living through an earthquake." After it, we can be all, "whooo what a ride!"

Due to a problem with the quintark supply company, OM may have to suspend operations until he gets another supplier. There was a problem with the one company.

Jen seems a bit worried about having to leave Japan due to lack of a job. I can understand this; she has more to stay for in Japan than I do; plus I'm planning to leave soonishly anyway. But, I don't think she'll have to leave.

cool kanji book

10:31pm JST Saturday 05 March 2005

Awesome.

Jeff gave me a set of cool kanji-learnin' books, which describe the origins of the meanings of the kanji, and their stroke order, which could be quite a boon given the way my brain memorizes things.

Jeff is giving them away cause he is heading out soon. Outta Japan, back to Texas.