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Work

3:38pm JST Saturday 9 December 2006 (day 13408)

Fun lesson with Akiko today; she practiced listening while I bitched about US policies on immigration and toothpaste on airplanes. I pointed out that these new laws were enacted *after* the existing system worked to catch the bad guys who were allegedly going to blow up a plane with liquid explosives.

The system worked. Why force me to throw away my toothpaste? Fuckers.

A N Y W A Y

Mari and Chika after Akiko were a riot as usual. They hadn't studied and were bewildered about stuff we've done several times, but by the end of the lesson, they seemed to have gotten the hang of it: "Where is your book?" "It's on the table." and "Where is the table?" "It's on the floor." Heaven forbid adding a new preposition to allow the table to be in the room.

Enjoyed my first lesson with Rieko; she presented diary entry which I corrected, with some difficulty; it seems that the yahoo translator isn't all that good. She had a lazy day at work yesterday because both of her bosses had forgotten about her, so she used the time to plan a trip during her upcoming vacation, and to write the journal entry.

Tomoko, physical therapist, after that talking about recovery, and I told her how I 100% expect 100% recovery for any injury I sustain. My nose-disabling double concussion with blood squirting out the ear: no problem. My broken shoulder: definitely no problem.

Explained how I try every day to enjoy the gifts I receive. We simply need to wake up and notice the gifts of life. She asked when I had started this thinking: after reading _Way of the Peaceful Warrior_ and _Celestine Prophecy_.

Just now had Yuria, who had cancelled three of the four lessons we had before this week. And today she arrived 10 minutes late, gave pastries to everyone in the school (as in a box of pastries to each teacher and the receptionsit), had a 20 minute lesson with me and left 30 minutes early.

I bless her life to be more relaxed; she's certainly giving me time to do the same.

lisa's byebye party

1:38am JST Sunday 10 December 2006 (day 13409)

Tonight was Lisa G's byebye party at Insomnia in Shibuya. Good times talking mostly with Maruan and Kyoko to my right and Matt-o across the table, plus Laura and Lisa making funny faces for the cameras.

Maruan told me how he got to read Polish with a Japanese accent for auto ads in Poland, and his proposal to Kyoko. "she cried."

"You made a girl cry??"

big fun all around. I had the idea of organizing a "We're Still In Tokyo Party" for just after the new years, after everyone is sober, but before everyone has to go back to work.