Entries this day: Dream Hike

Dream

4:47am JST Sunday 28 September 2008 (day 14067)

I remember snippets from three dreams; I checked the clock after the first one, and it was about 2:30am:

Andrew's car was in the shop. It was a white sedan; perhaps a Ford Renault. It had just come out of the shop, but wasn't fixed properly, and he was driving it a bit, and we got back to our new office, but Malek was sick; we saw him throwing up into a bucket, but he wouldn't go home to take care of himself.

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I had had the option to go across the street to cheat on my current girlfriend by sleeping with Wende, at the same time that my house mate was going across the street to the same house to do the same thing, but involving different people. I had already done this once, and chose not to do it again, so I went back to bed, and hadn't moved, but already had my soup bowl in my hand, which couldn't otherwise be explained unless I had already gotten out of bed, so I hid it under the bed with the intention of putting it away in the morning.

Then I saw Wende in line at a carnival, and she said something like, "if you see me smoking, then you'll know I'm really gone," and I was like, "wha??" and took her in my arms and was looking down into her eyes and i go, "smoking? you? really?" or something, cause I knew she didn't smoke so I was quite surprised. She said "maybe!" in a cute way or something.. not sure

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Watching a man take notes in a lecture about NASA and stuff; he was a bit behind in taking notes so he, for a while, was writing words with both hands at the same time. He wrote slowly with big, connected capital letters, like one of NASA's logos, but it was still cool to see him do it. The lecture had actually been recorded and was being played for us from that tape. We were out in a vegetable field at the time. There was a problem with something, and the person in charge of the recording wanted to get the original speaker or something, but I woke up.

Hike

11:21am JST Sunday 28 September 2008 (day 14067)

Chillin' on a mountainside with Travis, Tomoko, and Helma. We're on a trail headed up to みょうじんたけ. I wonder if we are on schedule; we've been taking lots of breaks.

Started playing The Jackie Purdy Game for the first 20 minutes or so, and then Travis had a good idea of writing hiking 俳句.

登山して
お昼を食べて
下山しよ

秋山に
ハイキング時
赤葉飛ぶ

1:18pm JST Sunday 28 September 2008 (day 14067)

Top of the mountain. I was barefoot at first, scree sliding. Fog came in and it got cold. Talking about goats and Family Guy.

3:13pm JST Sunday 28 September 2008 (day 14067)

Now we're on a different hill, overlooking Gora station. Basically we are aligned with the cable lift, but on the facing mountain.

3:59pm JST Sunday 28 September 2008 (day 14067)

Now near the bottom of the hill, or near enough that I can hear traffic, and am currently sitting with my legs dangling off the edge of a little access road for maintenence guys to work on a tower. (I saw them.)

To get here, I zoomed down the mountain ahead of my three cohorts in climbing (and descending). I had been playing a game of closing my eyes and waiting for them to go down a ways, and then zipping down to the end of the line where I closed my eyes again to wait. I realized I needed to get in front so I could do some unbridled zooming, so I requested that and started to zoom.

I'm gonna guess it will take them until 4:20 to get down, because I'm guessing I went down for 5 minutes and guessing about 4 times faster than they were descending.

Got a couple of pictures overlooking Gora station: one with us in the way, and one without. I hope I can put them on my website in a way that shows where we were.

While I played my game, Helma and I were quiet, and Travis was helping Tomoko with questions about sendmail and a different program.

Travis and Tomoko arrived at 4:05, and Helma arrived at 4:09.

From here, we're planning to find an onsen in which we can bathe our muscles, and then head home, probably after some foodage.

5:05pm JST Sunday 28 September 2008 (day 14067)

I got some breast-shaped pudding cups for Ami, and a little onsen egg. Wow! I have wireless access up here at Gora station; I think I'll upload now.

I've got some なつかしい feelings being on this train from Gora down to Hakone-Yumoto. I came here alone way back in the day, got sick of the crowds and climbed directly up the hill. Good times.

7:44pm JST Sunday 28 September 2008 (day 14067)

Damn. I lost the little onsen egg. I had it on Tokaido Line in my pocket, but not on Nambu Line. It musta fallen out of my pocket while I was wigglin' around for a comfortable way to sleep.

I guess it's okay; Ami's iPhone doesn't have a way to attach little danglies to it anyway.

I hope someone finds it and enjoys it, instead of it being tossed out with the rest of the trash.

In other news, Ami said she was sick in bed and can't meet me tonight.