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Dream

7:47am Tuesday 26 August 2008

In my messy room, I got a call from Pat Lilja before we were about to leave for Osaka. He asked if I planned to keep my room or if I wanted to move my stuff out completely. I hadn't actually known moving out was an option, so as I looked around at my bookcase and all my stuff, compared to the amount of time we had left before leaving, I was like, "no; I'm going to stay," because it wouldn't bode well to panic pack and make a mess of things emotionally.

I went outside to help my dad get ready to leave, and he asked if I would help water some grass with fertilizer-water, so I sstared to do so, splashfully pouring out water from a can, and he was like, "no no no, not those plants, " and I was like, "aight, tellme clearly which plans," and he was vague again, and I was like, "no. what about this?" and I pointed with my foot at a particular plant. He wasn't listening, and was vague *again*, and finally I got a straight answer after some perseverance. I finished the watering job, and still had some water left in a drink bottle, but I didn't know if it was drinkable, so I went looking for some grass to pour it out.

Ended up outside a stadium where I heard a large number of people counting down the final seconds on the clock, from 1 to 10 (*), and then counting down/up again for the other team, even though the first team had already won the grand prize: a VCR. I climbed up the stands in search of some water on the back side, but saw nothing but concrete outside the stadium. On the way down, I barefootedly jumpingly navigated between people, and at one point went under a guy's leg, bumping his foot and his boot fell off. I caught it and placed it down on the seat below his foot (so he could easily reach it), and then he caught me with the crook of his knee. His foot was all stinky, so I squirted water from my bottle onto his jeans to get him to let me go. Ended up pouring all my water out on his legs (it was ice cold water) and then he laughed and let me go and I laughed and was like, "yeah, your foot was stinkin' so I had to escape somehow!" and he took (mock?) offense at that as his buddies laughed, and he came running after me wearing only one boot.

I ran out of the room, slamming doors closed behind me, but at the same time wondering what he could possibly do in this situation, wearing only one boot, and not having his friends with him to help. But still I felt some fear and didn't face him and thought it would be funny to vanish into like the fourth dimension. So I did, by waking up.

(*) not sure why there were counting *up*

Meditation distraction

10:08am JST Tuesday 26 August 2008 (day 14034)

After writing my dream (on my other computer (and forgot to upload it)), I meditated for 20 minutes, about 15 of which were consumed with brainwaves about how I could meet Will Smith, who was recently featured in the movie Hancock. (as opposed to Will Smith, my friend who lives in Houston)

Anyway, I imagined emailing him my phone number so he can call me next time he visits Japan.

cute ducks

4:45pm JST Tuesday 26 August 2008 (day 14034)

This picture is from months and months ago, but it's still cute!

cuter rabbit

Oh man, and I just found this pic of Francois before he was Francois:

shimpei

10:41pm JST Tuesday 26 August 2008 (day 14034)

Cool hangout with Shimpei today; we went to Shakey's Pizza for their buffet (tabehodai, but not a proper buffet) and chatted about all the shizzle that's happened in the last year that we haven't hung out.

His arch enemy at work quit/was sent back to Germany, so Shimpei was happy about that. He said that now that his company is opening stores in various countries, he's getting to go on more business trips, so the overall job is a lot more interesting. That's super cool because I remember when he was nervous about going overseas to sort out some business deals. Now he's enjoying it. Awesome.

11:03pm JST

tonight is the night I forgot my umbrella on the train, called Shimpei and had him leave it in Kikuna, where he transfers to Yokohama Line. I hopped on the supa express train to Kikuna and picked it up, just by giving my name. Doubly awesome.