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Abbey Tennis

7:16pm JST Thursday 19 February 2009 (day 14211)

Thank you Facebook! I got back in touch with Abbey Tennis, and I'm quite happy for it.

I had been wanting to apologize to her for a while, but hadn't gotten the chance. She said no worries.

The Mark of an interesting day

6:22pm JST Thursday 19 February 2009 (day 14211)

At 4pm, went to my first "modeling gig" via Junes, where they wanted a buncha foreigners to have their photos taken as practice data for facial recognition software. Easy 4000 yen, plus gave my Freestyle Art Freestyle Healing cards to a woman named きく, who seemed quite enthused to give them to her two bosses, who, like most salarymen, need a good relaxation now and again.

A man named Mark said his name when asked, and I was like, "Mark???" in my mind because he sounded like my friend Mark Leonard in Macau, and even looked like him too! Well, from the side he looked like Mark a bit, but taller, etc.

7:02pm JST Thursday 19 February 2009 (day 14211)

Anyway, I determined this Mark was not my Mark, so I left without saying anything, but realized I had forgotten my backpack, so went back and, ま, said HI to Mark. He thought I said I knew him from back in the day when I said he looked like my friend from back in the day, but since he didn't know me, his brain was like, "from where do you know me?" and said "hang on a sec" while he got his picture taken multiple times and got paid and we headed out.

Interesting connection, though: he lives in Tachikawa, which is on the same train line as me (Nambu) (albeit at the other end), has interest in physics cause of his former engineering degree/work, and *now* is working partially as a currency trader, and currency trader trainer, which is something in which I have had some interest for some time.

I tagged along with him as he essentially interviewed with his friend who's starting up a new currency trading business, and during the process was all but sold on becoming Mark's first client with this company. Hmmmm!

If I had a clearer idea about how much money I can afford to toss into the loo, I may very well have signed up right on the spot.

But, had to meet Yurika for our lesson at 7pm, and therefore skipped going to the next place with Mark, getting paid to chat with peeps in a cafe 1500 yen per hour.. Oh snap, now there's a good way to make some money, chillin' out in a cafe, either surfing like I've been doing at home, or getting paid a bit, or both!

Said bye to that, though, and hopped on the train, got to Shibuya and got a message from Yurika which she had sent at 4:42pm. She can't meet me today. Gah. Welp; I coulda checked my email sooner and found out, but as it is, I'm heading home and will get connected with this other thing laters.