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Amy doesn't use the internet very often

11:23am JST Tuesday 29 August 2006

and her life seems outrageously amazing.

Because she's not online often, I am not going to post her wonderfully long email to me, but to summarize, Amy Leyenberger is doing wonderfully, traveling around the world, with plans to settle and create a farm after doing an independent research project on creativity and healing.

Her email blew me away with its maturity. Amy seems well-centered, well-focused, well-balanced, and right on her life path... It's utterly fantastical!

Wow wow wow.

Gateway data

CD/track             Wave I / Discovery 6: Free Flow 10
                     what small changes in my daily routine will help align my life with my higher purpose?
body position        upright against pillow
CD player            Panasonic SL-CT510
headphones           Audio-Technica ATH-T3
ambient temperature  29 C
clothing             underwear
working nostril(s)   left
emotional state      impressed by Amy's life
physical             fine
head                 sinus headachey
stomach              asleep
pain/soreness        none
phone/door	     outside/closed
time allowed	     30 minutes
ambient light	     daylight
ambient noise	     highway 246
date/time            11:47am JST Tuesday 29 August 2006
location	     Sakurashinmachi apartment

12:16pm JST Tuesday 29 August 2006

shift my wake/sleep schedule to earlier in the day

begin shopping for groceries more consistently
go to some of the smaller shops
begin talking to the shop owners of the smaller stores

contact meditation group I saw in metropolis

begin mindfully creating my schedule

set up a money budgeting system (cash in envelopes)

look for an art project

limit my time online

get serious about studying Japanese

clean my room and table

Nihongo kanji dump

2006年8月29日（火）17時08分

今日、書ける漢字を書きます。

一　いち
二　に
三　さん
四　し
五　ご
六　ろく
七　なな
八　はち
九　きゅう
十　じゅう
日　ひ／にち
月　げつ／つき
火　か
水　すい／みず
木　もく／き
金　きん
土　ど
本　ほん
立　た
新　しん
手　て
目　め
血　ち
皿　さら
耳　みみ
＊週　しゅう
年　ねん
時　じ
間　かん
門　もん
聞　き
子　こ
父　ちち
＊文　ぶん
分　ふん
体　からだ
小　お
川　かわ
河　かわ
山　やま
口　くち
出　で
入　い
人　ひと
私　わたし
持　も
＊待　ま
＊右　みぎ
＊左　ひだり
島　しま
鳥　とり
綱　つな
女　おんな
好　す
渋　しぶ
谷　や
崎　さき
品　しな
路　ろ
武　ぶ

まだ、おわりない。。

Work

5:05pm JST Tuesday 29 August 2006

Have had two students so far; the first was Kyoko, who will begin her training at Dotour coffee shop tomorrow. She'll be trained in 駒沢大学, which is the next station from my place, and then working on Nambu line somewhere.

I brought the SUDOKU game that Jesse handed down to me when he left the apartment; I've decided to start getting rid of shit that I don't need anymore. Oh, and I also decided to study some Japanese.

10:17pm JST

Met a cat who is the multi-hat man of nobel-label.net, so I wanna check it out and perhaps turn some aspiring musicians that direction.

- - - -

On the train briefly with Linda, who subbed for us in Shibuya (listen to me "subbed for us") but, embarassingly, I turned her loose at the wrong station; I thought she wanted Omote-sando, but actually she shoulda gotten off at Aoyama-i-chome. Oops. She's from NYC; she hadn't heard about WTC 7 until I mentioned it. I hope she'll look into it.

- - - -

I will have Ami on Thursday; I was telling Reiko that if Ami could speak English well, I would want to date her. (but actually she is probably too young)

- - - -

One of my students from today is 10082 days old; we just missed her 10,000th day. She was like, "I'm 27."

"woah," as the 10,000th day alarms went off in my head, "when is your birthday?"

"January... one."

And for a while I thought she was saying January 1st, even after I confirmed it with her, but it turns out she was just confirming the name/number of the month. January 22nd, actually.

It took a while to explain why I had asked her if people forgot her birthday amidst New Year's celebrations.

- - - -

I gave a woman named こころ the sudoku game. She seemed to appreciate it.

nihongo shigoto

2006年8月29日（火）22時21分

今日、仕事はよかったです。始まっての時玲子さんはおみやげの食べ物をくれて、おいしかったです。

も、何回見たお客様は私のレソンに来た。私のレソンが好きなるがうれしです。

昨日、玲子さんはお休みだった。病人に会ったから。新宿のまさこさんは渋谷でてすかった。