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Etiquette on the train

10:07am JST Monday 26 November 2007 (day 13760)

Move over.

Getting visa sorted

10:08am JST Monday 26 November 2007 (day 13760)

Headed now to get my visa so I can work in IT instead of teaching. Part of the deal is creating a job description that would be hard for a Japanese worker to do. I wrote "bilingual programming; translating Japanese documentation to English; writing English documentation."

11:05am JST

D'oeth!

I need five (5) more documents for this little adventure.

Work

6:01pm JST Monday 26 November 2007 (day 13760)

Did very little at work; I'm so so tired. Got some stuff done, perhaps about 90 minutes worth of work with a non-tired brain.

Headed to I-group now.

i group

9:31pm JST Monday 26 November 2007 (day 13760)

Feelin' much more awake after I-group than I was before, but I'm sure this will pas by the time I get home. On the train now in Shibuya and about to leave in a few minutes.

My work tonight was regarding

((We interrupt this normally scheduled babble to say holy shit a girl who I saw last night is sitting across from me tonight! Wow. I recognize her fingernails, complexion and nose. I think she also got off in Motosumiyoshi.. wow. (welp, she got off in Jiygaoka)))

Tonight on the way to I-group i got angry at a woman who was standing in front of me on the moving sidewalk, while I was wanting to walk forward with great speed; she was blocking the way. I didn't understand why I felt angry at her, so I talked about that in I-group tonight. D was saying that he accepted me and my anger, and invited me to accept myself and my own anger. M was more in tune with what I was trying to do: somehoe arrange myself so that the anger doesn't even come up.

After talking about the situation, I felt relaxed; I knew I could come up behind someone in my way and not feel angry. This morning I felt equally relaxed. So what happened today that switched my brain cells around such that I responded with anger when wanting to go past someone?

I came up with the sense that because I had pushed myself to stay awake when I was crazy sleepy may have had something to do with it. Perhaps next time I can take a power nap in the loo or go out to a nearby outdoor "quiet" area that I found some weeks ago.

At one point I said basically, "I don't want to be an old man getting mad at people who are in my way. I can't accept that version of me, so I wanna fix it now [before I grow up to be a crotchety old man]."