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Dream1

5:18am JST Monday 17 November 2008 (day 14117)

Climbing up a trail with janette's quilt as my only item, there are pine trees around, but a clearing in which the trail is climbing up the hill. The trail is drit while the grass around is nice and green. There are curious animals who watch e climbing. I walk up for a ways, wondering why I don't have any stuff. Have I left something down below? I don't want to go down and look for it

- - - -

I'm in a bunk bed inside a cabin, with a guy from KTRU zonked out next to me. Two female DJs come in and it's determined that he should sleep on top of me. I know we know we're all best buds and nothing we do will change that, so I say something like, "come here," with arms open wide, and he lies on top of me in my arms and we're careful not to have our faces close together, but I can feel his junk on my knee, so I'm a bit creeped out by that, and move my face a bit further away, making sure I can get fresh air, and not wanting to contaminate his air with mine.

Station manager Meg comes in as we are all four puppy piled on top of each other (with me on the bottom) and she comes in just as we've gotten ourselves arranged. She's just about to shout, "to attenTION!" and a couple of us open one eye as if to say, "you're not going to make us climb out of our comfy puppy pile, are you?"

- - - -

Watching a video starring the GET teachers from my voyage:

Kris faces Angie who asks "did you cut my hair?" and Kris goes, "and I dyed it purple."

Then Natalie faces Kris who is like, "did you cut my hair?" and Natalie is like, "and I died it purple," but in a different way than above.

This continues for a bit, and I wonder why I don't remember making this video until I notice some teachers who were *not* on my voyage. I realize this must be from their previous voyage (47th).

The video continues with a presentation from dancers right out of flying carpet Arabia. One scene of their dance featured a guy with a long curving sword, with a spiral end. He whirled it around his arms for a second and then ritually cut a broomstick into three pieces, but did it so quickly and precisely that the stick didn't fall even though it was only being held by the ends.

Dream2

7:23am JST Monday 17 November 2008 (day 14117)

My visa status was incorrect, so I stamped a new stamp in my passport to fix it, but realized it didn't have all the same markings as an official stamp, so I wondered if it would work, or get me into worse trouble. Then I decided to scribble it out, but thought that might make things even worse worse, so I did nothing.

Glasses

6:05am JST Monday 17 November 2008 (day 14117)

Last night and this morning I wrote to Izzy.

These glasses were pretty expensive (for me at the time I bought them); I had just been on vacation
for a month, and did not have a job when I came back to Japan.  But somehow I had lost my glasses on
vacation.  I am *sure* I know where I left them (at my dad's house), but they didn't come across
them, and I never found them.

I had one last pair of contacts that I had been wearing longer than they were supposed to be worn,
though I was sure to take them out every night.

Anyway, I bought these glasses because they have very light frames and hinges (I learned my lesson
from buy glasses that were flexible, with no hinges; the little tiny points by which they are held
didn't hold, and I ended up supergluing them repeatedly to keep them together (those were the ones I
lost in the US, so maybe it's better)

I bought these glasses, and they don't fit very well.  I'm in Japan and don't speak Japanese very
well, and have never gone back to the shop to get them fixed.  No time to go there while they are
open (I have a job now, so ironically I don't have time to go back).  So just by looking down at my
feet, or even more annoyingly down while doing something such as washing dishes, my glasses come off
the left temple, and then hang precariously by the right temple, touching my nose annoyingly need a
good push back into place, but my hands are busy washing dishes, thank you very much glasses.

very annoying.

But hopefully good for your stories!


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Izzy wrote:
> Hi Rob:
>
> Thanks for writing back.  When you said that your most interesting glasses
> experience was one that I wouldn't want to hear, I was expecting you to tell
> me that you had had lasik. 
>
> It is very interesting that you feel that your glasses are a barrier and
> that you feel more outgoing without them.  From what I have seen in the
> videos, you are pretty darned outgoing with those spectacles.  I always got
> the impression that there was nothing that a pair of glasses would stop you
> from doing.
>
> Sure, bungee jumping is probably easier with contacts but I was wondering if
> any of your other activities have caused your glasses to fall off or get
> damaged.
>
> As for you time lapse photography project, it sounds cool.  I love time
> lapse whether its the evolution of a flower or piece of architecture or the
> background in Madonna's "Ray of Light" video.  Best of luck.  I look forward
> to seeing the videos but hope it won't take until Halloween.
>
> Rob, take care of yourself.  Wear your glasses proudly, even if it's when
> you are alone in your room.
>
> SEE you!
> Izzy
>
> On 11/16/08, Rob wrote:
>>
>> Yo!
>>
>> What it is, Iz?
>>
>> My most interesting glasses experience will probably be one you'll hate to
>> hear, but ..  I've stopped wearing my glasses during the day when I interact
>> with the public at large, though I still wear them while chillin' in my
>> room, like right now writing to you.
>>
>> I feel more outgoing without glasses; they felt like a barrier between the
>> world and the real me.  Or something like that.  So anyway, I've started
>> wearing contacts again.
>>
>> In other news, I've started experimenting with doing time-lapse
>> photography for an art project that I plan to put on youtube.  It'll
>> probably take a while to finish...  Perhaps by next Halloween!
>>
>> What's up with you?
>>  
>>    - Rob!

Work

6:56pm JST Tuesday 18 November 2008 (day 14118)

Work work work. Stuck stuck stuck.

Finally printed out my code and rearranged some things (mostly in my brain) and realized what I need to do next.

ami

6:58pm JST Tuesday 18 November 2008 (day 14118)

Finally got to see Ami! (last night as I write this)

We had a Talk, cause I had gone out with Keiko, and gave her a peck at the end. Told Ami it woulda been much more than a peck (assuming Keiko was down) had I not had Ami.

Ami couldn't see how the idea of smooching another girl would have crossed my mind at all considering that Ami's mommy was dying, etc.

I was like, "well, we're different people."

Subsequently explained my belief that Ami does not *need* me, in particular. She, as all humans do, needs love, and sometimes having humans help us connect to love is nice. But doesn't have to be specific humans.