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PooB

7:16am JST Sunday 20 March 2005

Happy and genki this morning.

I've slept well and woken up naturally. Every conscious thought has visualized different scenes, all of which include me being chosen for P To Da B's global voyage.

4:39pm

My first time alone now; I've been in this group of 7 interviewees, 6 of whom are female. Chatted mostly with Nicole (from Brisbane) and Vivian (from LA). Nicole reminds me of someone whom I can't quite place. Maybe that's why she said she thinks she met me before here at the P_B office.

The first part of the interview was a demo lesson during which I had a great opening and middle, but my closing was unmoney. Hadn't really thought about it and hadn't thought to come up with anything for the ending. Oh well. The others had equally challenging situations, so it's all good I imagine.

We chowed curry after that and have been chatting as one by one applicants go back to where the interviews are held and come back to a chorus of cheers. Most everyone seems nervous. Except me. I'm going last cause I wasn't in a hurry to get out of here; Vivian is in there now. Nicole went before she did and said she was unable to answer "why do you want to go on P_B?" in Japanese.

I guess that's a good reason to go last, especially if they ask me that question.

- - - -

Vivian told me about a book _Catfish and Mandala_ about a cat who rode his bike the length of Vietnam. That gives me hope that after I ride around Japan, I'll have enough material for a book.

5:21pm

Interview was money. I'm really optimistic! They asked some questions in Japanese, but not that many. Where do you live?; how do you study? (which I answered "what do you study" oops) and when do you study?

From: me to Molly and Maggie

Aw crap I forgot yer birthday!!!

I hope you both have a lovely time this birthday week ^H^H^H^H^H^H
year and an even better one after that.  This is number 29 for you
right??  58 combined!

I'm going to watch _Six Characters In Search of Hamlet_ tonight; a
friend of mine is performing in the play.

Tomorrow is my interview with P To Da B!!

        With Love
            - Rob!

From: Molly

I'll keep my fingers crossed for your interview.  I don't think you missed
our birthday by very much.  Probably since you are almost a day ahead :)

		
From: Rob

Thanks, mate!
The interview went awesomely well!   I'm really optimistic!   :-)!!!!!

Yeah, basically I was like, "okay, today is the twin's birthday; I
need to remember to email them *tonight*" and I forgot.  Silly future!

But, I'm not far enough in the future to know the outcome of my
interview.  That will be Friday for me; Thursday for you.  That's the
day Sally is coming to town!!!!

zzzz Marble Blast

5:31am JST Monday 21 March 2005

Basically done with my second Marble Blast level. It's finished and I spent 12 minutes solving it (without using the editor to cheat) but then lost; I couldn't complete the last obstacle this time (but I've done it before a few times.) Maybe it's too hard, but I think I'm just tired.