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Fighting Goats final party

3:51pm ChST Wednesday 29 March 2006 (day 13153)

Chillin' in Anko's room right now with Erika, Hitomi, Naoko, Anko, Chie, and Aya (Anko's roommate).. copying pictures and wanting to chew on someone, but not going to do it. Need to go pack!

State of my Life

10:54am ChST Wednesday 29 March 2006 (day 13153)

State of My Life Address

1. Today is the last full day of the 52nd PB voyage around the world; we'll be in Yokohama tomorrow.

2. The weather started getting rough yesterday; this big ship is being tossed gently by the swells. If not for the experience of three months, I bet people would be hurling their lunches.

   I'm enjoying it, of course. I went and jumped on top of Yacht Club, getting some pretty good air at times. The swells are rather large and often spray flies up to the top deck. But the swells themselves don't reach the top deck.

3. In free space there is a "store" set up, where I just chatted with Slavena and Kremena, the beautiful Bulgarian sisters who I could suddenly uniquely identify as of about a month ago. During the whole 49th voyage I couldn't identify each one individually. During the first half of this voyage I couldn't either. But now, bang. Slavena, Kremena.

4. Also in free space, just talked with Love, from Su-something Philippines. Should have written down the city name. She joined the ship in July 2005, during the 49th voyage and remembers my face from that time. Just asked my name today.

5. There's a picture of Eri at that store, from the first day onboard the ship. If I were spending money on this voyage, I would buy it.

6. I didn't wake up in time for breakfast; I was up late on GET Street last night. Until basically 5am.

7. I have now kissed one woman on the ship. A GET student, but not one of my students.

8. I don't know if Jesse has made a reservation for me to get out of the country; I need to hook up some internet time to check that. I wonder if it's faster than molasses right now.

9. I have officially spent zero dollars ($0) and zero yen ($円) onboard during this voyage.

   In actuality, I have bought two (2) brownies by giving cash to Carl and putting them on his card. One brownie was for Rei's 9500th day. The other was for Akane's 8000th day, and for being my great Japanese teacher during the voyage.

10. I haven't packed shit, but have to be packed within 12 hours.

11. I don't know where I'm going to stay when I reach Japan. I'd like to ride TJ Bike to Kyoto, but it's fricking COLD in Japan: 12 degrees C. That's maybe 40 F. Or, if I remember the formula, it's about 53.6 F.

12. Lunch (breakfast) time now.

Super rocking!!

12:41pm ChST Wednesday 29 March 2006 (day 13153)

Wow! During lunch today up in Yacht Club, I wish I coulda gotten it on video, but I couldn't even get my camera out of my shorts pocket before the staff started cleaning it up, but we had some huge rocking and an awesomely cool spill:

Picasso was in front of the drink area, where they have three large plastic dispensers set up for coffee, tea, and water, respectively. He had just gotten his drink when the boat just went whooooo up like this and plates started to slide; I lifted our table so it would remain level; our cups didn't spill. But the three large drink containers just came forward, fell off the counter and then when they hit the floor, the lids popped off and the second stage of the mess gushed out onto the floor as Picasso danced backwards out of the way, unscathed.

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pm ChST Wednesday 29 March 2006 (day 13153)

(written in Jesse's house 6:50am JST Friday 31 March 2006 (day 13155))

Funny quote from Carl as we were panic-packing: "You know why I bought this piece of marble? Because it was five dollars."