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Today

3:33pm ANAT Sunday 19 March 2006 (day 13143)

Busy busy busy busy, but some good shit so far today. Got the video imported from my camera to Mutsumi's computer; we were having a crap of a time getting it without a cable; tried going to Carl's computer and then exporting, but it was simply not working; for some reason the initial export failed, and basically the files were too big. But we were able to borrow a cable and got it onto her computer.

Amazingly (?), after we imported it, she was trying to figure out how to add a text frame (it's going to be a silent movie), Movie Maker crashed and left NO TRACE of the movie.

Granted, she hadn't saved the project, but, I mean come on, not even an auto-saved file? Not even a record of having a project in progress? She had to name the project to do the import. What happened to that? Microsoft Windows Sucks.

Met with Akane with the intention of working on my speech, but we didn't get a private table in Topaz, so we ended up talking to others at the table. I met another 玲, which is surprising that she has the same kanji as 玲 who I favored early in the voyage. (I still like the idea of 玲, but all hopes have been abandoned.)

Funny how three of the four women I've fancied on the boat are named Rei, Rie, and Eri.

I've been running around with shoes on (instead of sandals) because my right sandal is being repaired by the carpenters on the boat. I wonder if that means they'll add a big piece of wood to fix it..... pretty funny visual there.

Also did a bit of laundry by hand. My shorts are hanging in the bathroom, so I put on my other shorts and ripped the shit out of them, so I tossed them. I'm wearing my snow pants now.

Been working on speech contest preparations (I'm the tanto for the contest, not just a participant); by tomorrow we are supposed to have all the titles. Actually by the 15th we were supposed to have collected all the titles, but I don't know what happened to the days. It was the 8th, and then suddenly it was the 19th, and I was like, "oh shit!!! what happened to the days in between??"

At 5pm-ish, I am supposed to read my letter to self in 10 years. I wrote it in Japanese; I assume I'll put it in here.

Unfunny the 2nd time around

4:56pm ANAT Sunday 19 March 2006 (day 13143)

My Fantastic Rabbits and Fighting Goats made board games, and I got Kiichi to laminate them. He's my Staff GET student and has an A4 sized laminator in room 6002.

Lisa had her classes make some similar games and wanted to get them laminated, so she goes, "hey Rob, where did you get laminated? (man, where is my English??)"

"Haha I got laminated in um... room 6002...."

"Really? What's in there?"

"That's where you can, get.."

she chimed in ".. get laid in there...."

"laminated... OH!! Haha, I thought you said laminated!"

Zzzzz

1:20am ANAT Monday 20 March 2006 (day 13144)

Eeek. I'm up way too late for my own good, but I've at least been doing productive things: worked on some small titles for the newspaper for a bit over an hour, then smurfed all the names for the speech contest by teacher so each teacher can collect their students' speech titles, then aggregated all the vocabulary words for Fighting Goats and printed them (2 pages). I forgot to print them double-sided, so I was bummed about that, but not tooo much.

Didn't see Eri at all today. Nor Saki for that matter. But I saw Rie for about 2 seconds. Hung out with Akane for study purposes, Rei talked to me a tiny bit while hooking up pictures for Chieko and Kentaro.

Oh shit!! We get an hour back tonight! WHooohooooo!!!

It's only 12:24am!!

12:24am MAGT Monday 20 March 2006