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Great day Jenny with a Jee Party 5th of Julee

1:49am JST Sunday 6 July 2008 (day 13983)

Have just arrived home after another great party at the Foote's, as conceived by Jenny with a Jee (sp).

This was the day I got sent back to get my passport with proper visa date cause my alien card is expired. (According to one of the soldiers, the Japanese guy wanted to arrest me (which part of me wanted cause it woulda been a new experience for me), but) I just went (pissed off) home, got my passport, and headed (pissed off) back, but in a rush I stabbed the crap out of my left big toe while running up the stairs from Nambu Line to Odakyu Line, after leaping like a gazelle four steps at a time for the entire staircase save the top.

(it still hurts)

On my first trip out there, Hitomi (from Ultimate) found me on the train, and I enjoyed talking with her a bit. Closer to the station, Kumi found us, and we saw Jason and his girl Aya in same carriage.

I have the hots for Hitomi but can't quite explain why. Maybe the careful way she seems to listen to me.

Several of us collected at Genny's station and then I led a group to the army base where her parentals live. That was when I was disallowed entry due to expired gaijin card. Gah.

But even worse: Once I got back, I heard that Geoff had the same problem, but got an even worse bawling by the Japanese guy, being the second to have an expired card. Just the timing put me first and him second. Geoff decided not to come back.

I came back, and though I was pissy, I was happy that Jay, Juri, and Rob Adams waited a few minutes for me at the station, and we all went in together. I showed my expired card again without explanation, just to see if I could get the guy in trouble for letting me in on an expired card, but he noticed the date and asked if I had my passport. I gave it to him, but didn't help him find the visa until he couldn't find it and finally asked me. Page E: visa good through 2010.

I was, however, able to use my expired card in exchange for the visitor pass. I doubt that is allowed, but I had no proof so I didn't make a big deal of it. Especially since by that time Mrs Foote had arrived to sign us in.

POOL

First, the pool! Mrs Foote dropped us off at the pool and we watched the others playing volleyball, but then started our own game of practicing layouts into the pool. Jay did quite well; Kerry did quite well. Genny did quite worse than she could have; she kept saying the frisbee seemed further away than it really was. I guess due to strange depth perception looking into the pool (no pun intended).

I threw pretty crappy throws most of the time, but a couple times they were right on. I enjoyed seeing the others making such good catches.

Layout practice in the pool was more tiring than I expected! After only like 10 layouts (or maybe even less), I could clearly detect some shakiness in my arms as I climbed out of the pool.

Joined a volleyball game of 4 on 4. Had good serves when it was my turn, getting our score up like 4 or 5 to 0, but then kinda bad on the returns. I could bump well enough, but they would go to the moon and out of bounds. Not sure yet how to temper those.

I slapped a serve onto their side for a side out and then Jason pulled the pole to tighten up the net a bit, but instead the whole thing collapsed. The game collapsed as well before we were able to sort out how to get it taught again. (The lifeguard had to help, and it even took him a while.)

Then it was swim-race time, with Genny racing anyone who cared to try. First she destroyed Luke, and then I was like, "I'll go," after no one else would, but I was sure she would destroy me, so when they said, "GO!" I jumped out of the pool and started to run along the edge. hahaha

We raced again, but fo' realz, and I was pleased with how well I did; I thought I'd be as fast as a dog-paddling jellyfish, but actually Genny said I was faster than Luke.

Genny raced a woman whose name I've forgotten, and then Jason (who cheated or something weird cause Genny suddenly stopped). Then she raced Jay, but by that time she was getting tired and didn't actually try, though she did finish the race.

Basically 6pm by then, so we headed to the house for outdoor food under a canopy and a huge spread of veggies with sour cream dip, fruit with yogurt dip, salad, potato salad, baked beans, hot dogs, hamburgers, veggie burgers, all with the comments ("there's more where that came from," and "you can't leave until it's all gone," etc)

It was so good.

State of My Life

1:42pm JST Thursday 3 July 2008 (day 13980)

State of My Life Address

1. I'm no longer working in Shibuya at AClass.

2. Now I'm working in Shibuya at 77hz.

3. I've been pretty busy at the new job, seeing how an entire day has passed since I wrote the previous item.

4. 77hz is a startup of sorts, so I'm not tooooo worried about the little detail that I haven't signed a contract or anything with them, or specifically sorted out pay. Prolly need to do that pretty soon, though.

5. In other working news, I may be working 4 hours per week at 4000 yen per hour plus train tix for some company, teaching a guy who has some sort of learnin' plan, but is pretty low English.. Haven't met him yet, but we'll see how it goes.

6. Haven't really talked to Dad recently, but have been vaguely in touch with Ma in that we both missed our recently planned call. Fred and I have been a bit better in touch than me-n-Ma, but lower than the past 2 months' rolling average of contact with Fred.

7. Ami and I had a bit of a fight a couple days ago. Basically I want her to make time for my activities, but I don't want to make time for her activities.

8. However, I've quite come to rely on Ami for makin' lunches for me and printing things for me at work. (*)

9. Haven't played ultimate frisbee in some months. We basically stopped when the weather got cold, and never started again.

10. However, I'm going to Genny with a G's party with some cheese tomorrow. It's bleu cheese, part of the red white and blue theme to be all patriotic toward the US.

11. Tonight, Ami and I are going to meet Jennie J, Aiks, Orribia, and whoever else they can call up for some antics in Kawasaki or Yokohama. (This is an example of her coming to play with my friends, BUT it's an example of friends drinking... what I really want is for Ami to join my meditation group.)

12. My ATE class (Awakening the Third Eye) has continued meeting each week for meditation practice. We actually are not meeting this coming Tuesday (3 of 6 members will be out, including the one whose home we've been using), but we'll prolly meet again after that.

13. As Kevin has to move "soon," he let me carry away any of a sampling of books for cheap. Currently I'm reading The Way Back to Paradise by Joseph M Felser. I think I'll be writing a letter to Dr Felser soon.

    and by letter I probably mean email.

14. One of the main points of the book seems to suggest traditional science won't work on subtle energies cause science wants the magic / synchronicities of life to "prove themselves" by being replicatable in the lab.

    ( winner: wonky sentence contest )

15. He suggests we wake up and notice synchronicities in our lives. To that end, I think I'm gonna write some down.

    now later

(*) I imagine that's going to seem really weird when read some years from now.

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