Entries this day: Dream Leaving Work kaerimasu

Dream

10:24am JST Friday 15 December 2006 (day 13414)

Walking in my new neighborhood to meet some friends at 20:00 at a certain cafe, I looked down at my phone to check the time: 14:22. I was like, "what??" wondering how I could be that early. Then I realized it was 14:23, 14:24, 14:25... the phone was counting the length of a call!

"Hello??"

"Rob?"

"Have you been waiting for 14 minutes?"

"Yes."

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry! I had no idea; I just looked down to check the time, and.."

"That's okay. Are you still in touch with Shama?"

"Not past that email she sent me."

"Oh, well, this is Miffy!"

"HI!" (who? I have no idea who this is.)

"I heard Shama emailed you, so I wanted to call you, and see how you are doing.."

"Thanks!"

"But it looks like we have to start over; press #"

"Okay" and I pressed the # key and the call was disconnected. Hmm. I guess she'll call back, given that she was willing to wait (pay for) 14 minutes of silence. Gotta remember that when she calls back. 14 minutes. I owe her that. Who is this girl? Think think think. What's the best way to tell her I have no idea who she is?

This dream is full of places my warrior did not show up.

Leaving

1:45pm JST Friday 15 December 2006 (day 13414)

As I left for work I wished good luck to Stephen in his first full day in Japan. I forgot to wish bon voyage to Michael, who I won't see for 2 months. Dammit. I was feeling late for work and could hardly detach from the slew of questions from Stephen about how to get around Tokyo も how I prepare before going in to each lesson も something else.

I just tried to call Michael, but his phone is disconnected (?) slash otherwise unavailable.

Work

1:49pm JST Friday 15 December 2006 (day 13414)

At work now. My schedule includes 7.6667 hours of lessons and .3333 hours of break.

10:55pm JST Friday 15 December 2006 (day 13414)

Yarg. That was tough. I did actually get a cancellation, but near the end of the day as I had a student reading, but not understanding and not wanting to understand (I asked her in Japanese), I didn't really want to babysit her reading monotonefully.

kaerimasu

11:37pm JST Friday 15 December 2006 (day 13414)

On my way home, the train got stuck for some unknown reason one station from my station. Prolly someone discarded themselves in front of a train, which mucks up the whole line. People started to escape the train, so I was just like, "fuckit I'll walk" and headed out as well.

Just happened to be at a bus stop as the bus came up, so I used Kellie's bus pass (that I won at her byebye party) to get the rest of the way home.

In a lovely turn of events, I found two train cards on the floor of the bus, with credit on them.

Yoink!