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Beach

7:00am JST Tuesday 4 August 2009 (day 14377)

I woke up early, rode barefoot to the beach and ran on the rocks; can't really call it rock-hoppin' cause I was kinda dragging, but really did pretty well for being so early in the morning I think. Ran on the beach, seeking the rocks for some extra challenge in the feet.

Got tired and did a 15 minute meditation practice on the stairs near where I met Soness (where she holds the BBQ each year).

Second day of work

8:49pm JST Tuesday 4 August 2009 (day 14377)

Today was day two at work; I neeaarrrly finished the first project I was given yesterday; I know there's a little teensy tweak that Alfonz will be able to fix in two seconds.

Tomomi lesson

8:51pm JST Tuesday 4 August 2009 (day 14377)

From 7:30 to 8:30 was my first lesson with Tomomi since March, she said, but I can hardly believe it was this year... she brought some English emails she had written, and I brought my brain for corrections and we had a good time. I asked if she wanted to pay a bit extra to lock down our lesson time each week. She does. Nice.

state of my life address

9:14pm JST Tuesday 4 August 2009 (day 14377)

State of My Life Address:

A few big changes recently:

1. I moved to Soness's living room in Chigasaki. Not sure how long I'll be there, but at least another month to house sit her house and Nibbles-kitty. Soness and I are fast becoming best friends, supporting each other in our respective challenges.

2. I got a job! Working for the company of my dreams, in that I had a dream about living in a house with a balcony above the Tokyu Toyoko Line, and now my desk window overlooks that line. Amazing! Soness and I said, "wow" over and over after she noticed that connection. (I had had the dream a few weeks ago.)

3. I've officially sworn off the use of pornography. No more 4chan for me.

4. After reading just the first 50 pages or so of _No More Mr Nice Guy_, I'm making some changes in my lifestyle. One of which is taking better care of myself, spending money and time on myself. Therefore,

   1. This morning I went for a run on the beach before work
   2. I'm riding the Shonan-Liner back home (faster, comfier, 500 yen more)
   3. I did *not* wait around an hour for Soness to get off work
   4. I asked Tomomi for 4000 yen per lesson instead of my normal 3000 per lesson, in exchange for making it at a fixed time each week.

   Another of which is not using porn, so that ties in well with the above.

Okay, and here's some normal stuff for somla

1. Went to The Pink Cow with Akiko on Saturday. We chowed buffet and she encouraged me to write her a postcard in Japanese. She nearly had me convinced; maybe I'll do it.

2. Been working on Cow-Go, and had the distinct realization that if I think of my job as be the Englihs coordinator and grow the school to its full potential, I can't do it. But if I just focus on setting up one meeting with each new person, I can do it.

3. Haven't really talked to my mom or dad in a bit; been basically in touch with Fred, and recently sent him a letter (written on semi-shredded paper hahaha) and helped him get started on Facebook. Not teaching him how to use it, but setting up his account and giving him the password once people started to contact him about his profile.

4. I sent 200,000 yen to Mark at ELF so he can trade with it in FOREX. That's kinda his hobby and hopefully his future big moneymaker. I trust his system enough to let him play with my money, too. But yes, I know it might never come back.

5. I've been seeing a lot of articles on UFO sightings and disclosure, etc. I hope hope hope disclosure is at hand, not that I think it will quickly bring about a lovely new world, but so I can say "see!! I told you so!!" hahaha

6. I recently got a 500 GB hard drive for my computer, and, to transfer my data from old 70GB to this one, I bought a 1 TB external drive to act as a backup.

7. Rode Soness's blue bicycle to Enoshima this past weekend to hang with Natalie et. al. for picnic and salsa. Good times despite the rain.

8. I've not gotten TJ Bike back from my old house. Need to do that soon, but there's not really a place to put him at Chez Soness. We are thinking about a way to put a bike rack out by the front door.

9. I've been doing morning meditations for two days in a row now. I expect to do it daily for a while, hopefully from here on out, as suggested by every true spiritual tradition I've acknowleged. (For the record, Christianity is not one. Stanislav Grof mentioned that one guy described Christianity as an innoculation against true spiritual experience. hahaha sounds reasonably true)

10. I didn't do Night Practice last night nor the night before. Need to set up a bit better way to do those (basically bring my phone charger home from work (forgot again today), get another charger, or listen via my computer).

11. Soness and I have tickets to NIN, er, Summer Sonic (featuring NIN) on Friday. Woooohooo! I told work I couldn't be there, and she'll do the same.