Entries this day: Barefoot Satoko zzz_Gaba_byebye_party

Barefoot

12:40pm JST Monday 21 March 2005

Weather is beautiful today so Hitomi and I went to Tamagawa to play frisbee. She was terrible at first, but improved quite quickly and was making accurate tosses to me despite the blustery wind. It would change direction without notice, which made for some fun frisbee throwin'.

I didn't think at first to lose the shoes, but when I started to get hot from running around, I recognized I had been less sure-footed with my shoes on than I woulda been with them off. So they came off.

It's been several months since Mutsumi and I played frisbee out by the river; that was the last time I've run around barefootedly. The time before that I was in Texas. (basically 2 years ago!!!!!)

There were horizontal bars there (of various heights) and I wondered if I could do a sole circle.... I could not. My arms aren't strong enough right now. We'll work on that.

Satoko

6:03pm JST Monday 21 March 2005

Met Satoko so she could give me a new pocket calendar for 2005.2 - 2006.3. We chowed ramen and then sat by the small river where I rescued a tennis ball floating downstream. I tried to bounce it against the rocks across the river, but most times it ended up back in the water. I rescued it probably 8 times from the stream.

I also removed several other floating things; 3 bags and a ピルクル carton and a couple of other wrapper type things.

zzz Gaba byebye party

12:50am JST Tuesday 22 March 2005

Really enjoyed my Gaba byebye party; Michael was the definite star of the show; sometimes I want to be as popular as he seems to be. By the end of the night, the people at the next table knew his name.

Really surprised that I was asked to chip in for my own byebye party. I was told I didn't have to when I was first asked, but then Yoshiko asked Hitomi to cover my portion of it. I'm really no impressed with them not asking me directly. Totally inapproriate to ask Hitomi for my money.