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Gateway data

CD/track             Wave III / Freedom 1: Lift Off
body position        on back with knees bent
CD player            Panasonic SL-CT510
headphones           Audio-Technica ATH-T3
ambient temperature  27 C
clothing             underwear, sleeping bag
working nostril(s)   left
emotional state      fine
physical             fine
head                 fine
stomach              hungry
pain/soreness        none
phone/door	     off/closed
time allowed	     hour
ambient light	     daylight through curtains
ambient noise	     highway 246 through double pane window
date/time            8:29am JST Tuesday 19 September 2006 (day 13327)
location	     Sakurashinmachi apartment

8:58am JST Tuesday 19 September 2006 (day 13327)

Barely remained awake through that one, and on he third flaoting, I was able to visualize floating, but not feel like I was actually floating.

Egad I feel quite tired now and could hella sleep.

Grrrr

1:44pm JST Tuesday 19 September 2006 (day 13327)

Fucking boss called me today to make sure I fucking know what time I start work today. I know what time I fucking start work today. If I don't know I will come at the earliest time I *might* start work, so don't fucking call me. But the pissy thing about it is I was getting ready for work when he called me so I had to call him back and see what the fucking crisis was that he was calling me about, (i.e., I had to pay for the call.) Now it's only like 40 yen (I hope) to make the call, but I don't want to pay for a stupid phone call that's a waste of time and gives me no valuable information.

AND THEN he called me back again (while I was on the train, so I called him back) and he's like, "oh I forgot one thing, the passport sized photos you got are not the right size. They need to be bigger."

And I was like, "they are passport sized."

"Yes, they need to be passport sized; can you make them again?"

"THEY ARE PASSPORT SIZED!" (I probably shouldn't yell at my boss)

"They are supposed to be 3cm by 4cm"

I knew it was pointless to argue the size over the phone when I couldn't see the photos, and only know that I pressed the button that said PASSPORT PHOTO; "okay; I will make more."

The he started to tell me when he will be in to pick them up, and I was like, I don't fucking care when you will come pick them up; I'm going to make them right now, are you going to be there in less then 3 minutes? "okay; I'll make them now."

Fortunately, I did happen to be quite close to the machine where I had made them before.

Still pissed off, I imagined rending the machine to shreds, but knew that wouldn't be helpful.

I verified the passport sized photos were in fact 30 by 40 mm, and I'm guessing by "not big enough" it's a miscommunication that my mug doesn't take up enough of the photo.

Stepped inside, not ripping the curtain. 700 fucking yen; that's my daily food budget this month. Put in 1000 yen bill.

Oh, sorry, jack, we can't make change. Not even 3 coins worth.

I punched the machine, and it hurt a lot more than I expected. Remembered the time Dave Osborne broke his hand by punching something that didn't give as much as he had expected.

Alright, machine, you fucking win for now, but I'm going to get those photos made.

10:36pm JST Tuesday 19 September 2006 (day 13327)

Got them made. First time I did it the same as the first first time (in English, and was only able to select "Passport") and they turned out the same, 30 x 24mm. Fuck. The second time I did it in Japanese, and was able to choose the size in mm.

They came out the right size, but Francois didn't show up in the picture.

Fuckin' machine. So I took them *again*, and made sure Francois was high enough to show up in the pics. I hope he will show up in the picture on my alien registration card.

Work

10:39pm JST Tuesday 19 September 2006 (day 13327)

Work was great today; lots of cool students and even my not so cool students got a good lesson because I didn't bemoan their badness, but really tried to help. One girl was reading and not really understanding shit. So I was like "待って。これを分かった？"　and she was like, "全然" so I was like, "aight" and we went through it word by word to make sure she understood everything, and then each sentence in Japanese and then in English again, and then the whole thing again, and then I asked her questions about the paragraph, and then the whole paragraph again, and then back in the book to the grammar she missed.

The paragraph:

I'm writing from our hotel on Sludge Beach.  Ralph and I are here on vacation with the children for
a few days.  We are happy to be here, but to tell the truth, we are having a few problems.

The trickiest word was "our" which is the possessive of "we" and which I translated to Japanese so she could understand. Otherwise, basically impossible to explain without many minutes of practice.

- - - -

One student was late, and I forgot to keep track of the time in my brain, so we went 7 minutes over. I only noticed because Madoka (who covered for Reiko today) came to check on us. Ooops!!! I was showing her Metropolis magazine and the different groups she can contact in the back.

- - - -

I ran the next two lessons equally late and ate into my next break a bit. No worries.

Other things happened but I can't remember enough specifics.

Someone had arms of a tennis player. One woman had nail polish that was pink at times and blue at other times. One woman read Metropolis and mentioned interest in mixi.jp, but bemoaned the fact she didn't have any friends who could invite her. (except me, it turns out)

nihongo shigoto

2006年9月19日（火）22時51分 (13327日目)

今日仕事は面白かった。生徒たちは頑張ったし、面白いことをしゃべったし、大変英語時私も頑張っただから今日はよかった。

仕事の後30mmX40mmの写真撮らなければならなかった。新しい外人カードちょうだいから。新しいカードにフランスワも見られたい、だから一緒にフォトを撮った。

picture program

2:59am JST Wednesday 20 September 2006 (day 13328)

Just skyped with g, brainstorming ideas and existing code for an images program; he wants to do stuff similar to what my imagesadmin code is supposed to do, so we were discussing ways to make it work for what both of us want to do.

And, it's Dad's birthday this weekend. Kickin' around some ideas for that as well.