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Dream

11:40am JST Saturday 29 November 2008 (day 14129)

Wrote my dreams directly into my wiki. I'm on Chuo Line now; can't give a URL easily, but look for nanowrimo 2008

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Great MT3 movie production

11:41am JST Saturday 29 November 2008 (day 14129)

Spent several minutes getting Rabby to act well in his cameo appearance in my Making of Marble Track Three movie. Last night I had had him propped up with pipe cleaners, but they were visible in the frames, so I deleted those and reshot the scene this morning. I think it's really funny, and when I watched it by fast forwarding the pictures in my camera, I just laughed and laughed.

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India

11:43am JST Saturday 29 November 2008 (day 14129)

In Eat, Pray, Love, at the end of Bead 44, when I read Richard from Texas' suggestion to Liz, something like, "give your ego pure love," I cried and cried.

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Mia

11:47am JST Saturday 29 November 2008 (day 14129)

Helping 美亜 (Mia) move today.

5:42pm JST Saturday 29 November 2008 (day 14129)

Nice time helping 美亜; the work was pretty easy, strictly speaking, and she bought lunch for me and Izumi, plus I got to chat with 美亜 and the bonus of hearing more of her story which I hadn't previously heard, made possible by crowds and traffic on the way to 吉祥寺 station.

美亜's new apartment is smaller than her previous one, which was smaller than her previous house from which she moved 9 months ago. She offered to have me and 亜美 over for dinner some time after she gets unpacked. (It may take a bit, because she'll be moving during this whole week; today was just the first five loads or so of boxes.)

Tenko arrived as I was finishing unloading the fifth load. She looked cute as always. Interesting to see them chatting together; 美亜 has known Tenko for 15 years, and Izumi for 13 years.

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State of My Life Address

5:50pm JST Saturday 29 November 2008 (day 14129)

State of My Life Address

  1. Haven't meditated in the past two days, but I intend to pick up the practice on Monday. Well, actually I sorta meditated on the train on Friday (or was it Thursday?) and today, but haven't really spent the time at home as "usual"

  2. Nor have I done neti in as many days.

  3. Nor reiki.

  4. But I have been reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, and am thoroughly enjoying the experience. I literally cried for some minutes after reading a section (I know I wrote a version of this this morning, but now I am sitting instead of crouching):

    "Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something
    better to play with.  Something healthier ... like pure divine love."
    

    Oh snap! I haven't been doing that.

  5. This book was given/loaned to me by Travis, after he loaned it to his friend whose name I know if I hear it, but don't know if I could spell it if I could remember it. I'd like to register it with bookcrossing, but want to give him the option of doing it since he read it before me.

  6. Fred is coming to town for something like three weeks, from 25th or 26th of December to 13th of January! I'm really looking forward to seeing him during the time that I don't have to work.

  7. I've started work on stop-action filming the making of Marble Track Three. So far, I've got the base in place, the first four sticks (those that literally are glued to the "studio" floor (made of the blue cloth tarp that Sara Farina (she'll always be Sara Farina to me) bought for me on a whim as the background, covering my (Sakura House's) chest of drawers and two walls) which will hold the base) (*) were magicked into place by a pipe cleaner guy, but then he was unable to move into place the base, so it was brought in by Rabby.

    (*) sorry for confusing parenthesis

  8. I'm "supposed" to be working on a video game for Tariq (and me?) which will hopefully get us started so we can hire some guys and all this stuff. I'm sorta just not seeing it happening.

  9. I have essentially been given notice at work. I'll be able to work there during December, but then it's time for me to look for a new job. The timing is quite lovely; I will be going to a drug trial in Kagoshima on 13 January, but even more importantly, it will mean I don't have to work while Fred is in town!

    Malek specifically said it's going against the plan he made with me, and is *not* because I'm a slow programmer, but they are putting on hold the first project I was working on until perhaps March (at the earliest). I'm pretty sure I can finish the billing project before the year is out. But it's only three weeks! If I work from home as well, I can likely do it, but so far, I don't have access to the server from my crib.

  10. I live in a Sakura House apartment, and there've been a few changes since I wrote about my co-residents. Fatima, who was in 101, just left today, after being with us a year. Over a month ago, Curry moved out after hardly living in Juergen's old room, and Ulrike has been in Natalia's room for three months now.

    Across the hall from me is Karen, who has lived there longer than I have live in my room (203).

  11. It would be really nice if I knew fo sho that I'd be getting the $9000; that way I could blow a bit of it with Fred, traveling around to different cities and the like. Man, having this bonus time with him is just fantastic; we can do anything!

  12. I've been a bit busy on Friends For Sale on Facebook, both as myself and as Francois. Francois's FFS persona has a thing for women with mega-sized breasts. The story goes that he likes to bounce on them, so writes "boing boing boing!" as the nicknames for those pets.

    Reality probably includes some not-so-repressed part of me playing the part for Francois, who's become quite popular on FFS, btw.

    His current favorites are Trang and Erin Cahill, both with normal sized breasts.

  13. Hmmm, speaking of my various personalities, I haven't really given much thought to them after toying with the idea a bit after one of my ISIS sessions with Helma.

  14. I recently got an email from Helma, basically saying that she wasn't coming back to Japan. I wonder if that means for the foreseeable future, or if it's more like さよなら.

  15. I admire her ability to live life freely, choosing spiritual pursuits over earthly matters, but I also have a belief that earth matters, as well as the people on it. I've got some relationships here in Japan now, and am loathe to abruptly cut them off.

  16. Most frequently dialed numbers recently (in order of when I called them, and then the number of calls "recently"):

    1. 亜美 (30)
    2. 美亜 (11)
    3. 鈴木桜ハウス (1)
    4. Natalia (8)
    5. 0334640418 (1)
    6. Awinter (5)
    7. Jesse (3)
    8. 指圧 (3)
    9. ひろしTanno (1)
    10. くみ瞑想 (20)
    11. Sakura House (5)
    12. 1416 (9)
    13. けいこ (5)
    14. Jen 56PB (6)
    15. Kevin MKP (3)
    16. Will Greenawalt (1)
    17. Michaelちゃん (3)
    18. Tariq (4)
    19. れいか (1)
    20. 0345701500 (2)
    21. 009120201713522... (1)
    22. 0120659534 (1)
    23. Fatima (1)
    24. Helma (15)
    25. Ami (video) (2)

    Hmm! That was interesting.

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