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State of My Life Address

9:32am JST Saturday 12 May 2007 (day 13562)

State of My Life Address

1. Have recently watched Alex Collier interviewed by Rick K-something. The interview was quite quite cool, and has me reading a PDF (of transcripts) of lectures by Alex Collier, which are a bit more far-fetched, but still in line with the realm of possibility according to what I've personally seen of the world and the universe (which isn't actually much).

2. Have been working with Kim Sawyer on slightly adjusting my life to go where I'd like to go.

3. Have been meditating more frequently. Last night and this morning I got what I'll call positive feedback from meditation, in terms of being more in touch with time. I looked up just in time to catch last train last night (actually it turns out there was one more train, but it was still cutting it way closer than I thought). This morning I woke up gently 30 seconds before my alarm.

4. Arriving at work now. I'll leave the template below and see what happens.

11:33am JST Saturday 12 May 2007 (day 13562)

5. I'm currently working (teaching English) in Shibuya 5 days a week, and Kichijoji on Saturdays.

6. I've just sent 70,000 yen home to pay bills and save some cashola.

7. Working on a new website; it's unpublished as of yet, but we bought the domain.

8. Contacted my dad a couple days ago. They've made a lot of changes at the house where I grew up for high school and first year of college

9. Been enjoying ultimate frisbee most Sundays, but didn't go last Sunday (rain), and won't go tomorrow (GET Hiking), and won't go next week (day after NIN concert)

10. Have gone out with a couple of students recently.

11. Started a painting on canvas. 4 hours of work so far, and it's decently progressed. Carl suggested that I display it in a gallery in Harajuku. Actually paint a few pieces and put them in a dedicated room. Hmmmm.

12. Recently started thinking of my body as my animal. Like it's my pet. I'm me, the soul/spirit inside this animal. It's my job to take care of the animal, even if it wants to do crazy things, I tell it the right things to do.

11:21pm JST Monday 14 May 2007 (day 13564)

13. My shoulder is 100% lovely. I can do anything I would normally do with it, so that's allll good.

14. I've started carrying a little (little!) notebook in my pocket to jot down Japanese as I am given new vocabulary or see kanji that I'd like to learn.

15. My room is a hella mess. But I'd like to clean it up so I won't be quite embarrassed to have guests over.

16. I'm in the same living situation as 9 months ago. Private room in a 2LDK with laundry machine and internet. Living with Michael, Jesse's ex-roommate. For the 3 months before the most recent 9 months, I was sleepin' on their couch.

17. Haven't seen Jesse in a while, but I imagine he and Anna are a bit busy.

18. Currently working in Shibuya at English Village, as I have been for nearly a year.

19. My finances are getting better; I'm sneaking up on getting out of debt.

20. Have broken up with my girlfriend, but there are still some lingering moments. I've got eyes on Ami, but I told Reiko (receptionist) that I wouldn't date any students. What a pickle that's turned out to be.

21. My computer is dirty white MacBook with stickers: "Rediscover the web GetFirefox.jp" "NIN-Y2TXL" and a 'プリクラブ' pic featuring Jesse, Kellie, ?, me, Anna, Caroline, and Dan.

22. I-group is going well; as I am writing this (11:30pm Monday 14 May 2007), we've just had a good meeting tonight. My stretch for the week is to meditate 5+ minutes 10 times in the next 14 days. I'll check in with them in one week, and in two weeks.

23. Personal work with Kim is going well, I think. He's pointed out some places where I'm not maintaining proper boundaries, nor respecting the work I had done previously to cleanly break up with my girl.

24. I volunteered this past Sunday to go to Ogawamachi with GET. We made paper; it was super great, and I definitely want to go back and do more, this time with more colorful bits and bobs. Super thanks to Sachie for putting it together. Super thanks to Natalie for asking if I'd like to come. It was great to see/snuggle with her and see other GETs!

25. We've purchased our domain name: chatforest.com. I'm hopin' we'll be able to put together a supa awesome site.

26. No pets, but I believe Spot is doing well with Jennifer back in Houston. I need to email her.

27. I've been working on my marble track this month. Got the super-hard switch finished, and have been progressing steadily. I'm just about ready to declare it finished. (and then start another!)

28. Have some 7 gigs (roughly) of data (most of it music; the rest backups) stored online Amazon S3

29. If I lost my computer right now, I would lose a couple days of entries, and about 2 weeks of photos.

30. Sakurashinmachi station has its new escalators and fire doors installed. There are a couple of construction points that I don't understand yet.

31. I'd like to start to see some parts of Japan. Some of us ultimate peeps are planning a hike up Mt Fuji in July. Now I'm thinking after going to Ogawamachi and having such a great time, I should crack out a guidebook and start taking some day trips and weekend trips. Definitely.

32. Haven't had any good earthquakes recently.

11:28am JST Tuesday 15 May 2007 (day 13565)

Adding my .emacs file after just adding image-insert:

(setq custom-file "~/.emacs-custom.el")
(load custom-file)

(tool-bar-mode)  
(menu-bar-mode)  

(add-hook 'perl-mode-hook 
	  (lambda ()
	    (set (make-local-variable 'compile-command)
		 (concat "perl -wc " (buffer-file-name)))))

(add-hook 'java-mode-hook 
	  (lambda ()
	    (set (make-local-variable 'compile-command)
		 (concat "javac " (buffer-file-name)))))

(set 'display-time-day-and-date "True")
(display-time)
(auto-fill-mode)
(global-font-lock-mode)
(set 'time-stamp-format "%:I:%02M%#p %Z %:a %:d %:b %:y")
(set 'time-stamp-timezone "America/Chicago")
(set 'mail-yank-prefix ">")
(set 'rmail-dont-reply-to-names "thunderrabbit")
(set 'mail-default-reply-to "rob <rob@robnugen.com>")
(set 'max-lisp-eval-depth 2000)
(put 'upcase-region 'disabled nil)
(put 'downcase-region 'disabled nil)

(prefer-coding-system 'euc-jp)

(setq image-diet "ppppm!mogrify -geometry 100%\C-munnnng")

(setq journal-start "\C-xb*scratch*\C-m\M-<Time-stamp:
<>\C-m\C-[xtime-stamp\C-m\C-[<\C-k\C-k\C-y\C-y\C-[<\C-s<\C-m\C-
\C-e\C-b\C-w\C-n\C-sday \C-m0\C-s
\C-m\C-b\C-b\C-b\M-d\C-x\C-f/journal/\C-y\C-xq\C-m\M-xauto-fill-mode\C-m\C-xi/journal/journal_header.txt\C-m\C-x\C-x\C-cT\C-cJ")

(setq watermark-images "!mogrify -gravity southeast -fill white -draw 'text 10,20 \"robnugen.com\"'")
(setq p-dream "<p class=\"dream\"></p>\C-m\C-b\C-b\C-b\C-b\C-b")

(setq p-note "<p class=note></p>\C-m\C-b\C-b\C-b\C-b\C-b")
(setq p-bar "<p>- - - -</p>\C-m\C-m\C-cp")

(fset 'view-journal-directory
   "\C-xbHTML\C-i\C-mg%m[0123][0123456789].*html$\C-mM600\C-m\C-[<\C-?")



(global-set-key "\C-cm" image-diet)
(global-set-key "\C-cv" 'view-journal-directory)
(global-set-key "\C-cs" journal-start)
(global-set-key "\C-cl" 'load-file)
(global-set-key "\C-cn" p-note)
(global-set-key "\C-cb" p-bar)
(global-set-key "\C-cw" watermark-images)

(dired "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes/sgml*")
(rename-buffer "SGML")

(dired "/journal/*.html")
(rename-buffer "HTML-journal-files")

(fset 'gimme-digits [?\C-x ?b ?* ?d ?i ?g ?i ?t ?s ?* ?\C-m ?\C-x ?k ?\C-m ?\C-x ?b ?* ?d ?i ?g ?i
   ?t ?s ?* ?\C-m ?\C- ?0 ?\C-m ?1 ?\C-m ?2 ?\C-m ?3 ?\C-m ?4 ?\C-m ?5 ?\C-m ?6 ?\C-m ?7 ?\C-m ?8
   ?\C-m ?9 ?\C-x ?r ?k ?\C-x ?\C-x ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?0 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y
   ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?1 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?2 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x
   ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?3 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?4 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m
   ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?5 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?6 ?\C-m ?\C-e
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   ?\C-b ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?0 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?1 ?\C-m ?\C-e
   ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?2 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r
   ?t ?3 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?4 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y
   ?\C-b ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?5 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?6 ?\C-m ?\C-e
   ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?7 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r
   ?t ?8 ?\C-m ?\C-e ?\C-m ?\C-x ?r ?y ?\C-b ?\C-b ?\C-x ?r ?t ?9 ?\C-m])

(fset 'replace-<->-with-lt-gt-codes [escape ?x ?r ?e ?p ?l ?a ?c ?e ?- ?s ?t ?r ?i ?n ?g
   return ?< return ?& ?l ?t ?\; return ?\C-x ?\C-x escape ?x ?r ?e ?p ?l ?a ?c ?e ?- ?s ?t ?r ?i
   ?n ?g return ?> return ?& ?g ?t ?\; return ?\C-x ?\C-x])


(fset 'image-insert [?\C-x ?b ?* ?S return ?\C-y return ?\C-y return return ?\C-p ?\C-p ?\C-p ?\C-s
   ?t ?h ?u ?m ?b ?s ?/ ?\C-m backspace backspace backspace backspace backspace backspace backspace
   ?\C-a escape ?x ?r ?e ?p ?l ?a ?c ?e ?- ?s ?t ?r ?i ?n ?g return ?h ?t ?t ?p ?: ?/ ?/ ?r ?o ?b ?n
   ?u ?g ?e ?n ?. ?c ?o ?m return return ?\C-k ?\C-p return ?\C-k ?\C-x ?k return ?\C-c ?h ?\C-y
   return ?\C-c ?i ?\C-y escape ?y return])