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Ultimate

10:18pm JST Monday 10 August 2009 (day 14383)

Played ultimate in the rain yesterday; it was great fun!! I walked all the way from Kuji, down past the baseball fields to the first bridge before finding the group. I wonder if I should walk the other direction by default. Hmmm.

Not a lotta players, but we had enough for five on five for a while, with a woman on each time. To join, I wore Miranda's black tanktop ("anti wife beater") because I hadn't brought a dark shirt. Had lots of fun slipping around on the wet grass, and I caught a really short kickoff pass by runnnnning forward and then sliding about 5 meters on my shins on the grass; zoooom!! Great fun. (hahah see? I told Soness I've slid plenty of times in my life (and didn't need to slide after NIN concert-induced rain storm.)

Good to see some old and new faces: JC was there after his 1.5 years in Sydney, and I hadn't seen Ellie nor Greg in a while, prolly because I hadn't been attending. Met Miranda, Alex, Yuko, Sam (again), and Max. Shag and Doug were also there, but I had seen them recently. I think that's everyone in attendance.

After the game, we headed to foodage near Futakoshinchi station. Got good Chinese eatin' up on the 2F of a ramen shop.

Perhaps the best thing about eating was hearing of Anki, a tool for memorizing things. JC is using it to memorize kanji, and says he's memorized the meaning of over 1800 now. Hmmm! So I've downloaded Anki and started memorizing kanji via an interesting technique: instead of trying to memorize the reading, writing, meaning, and pronunciation, this is just focusing on meaning ==> writing. So if I see "prosperous," I can think of a kanji with two suns. Done!

soness

10:34pm JST Monday 10 August 2009 (day 14383)

Soness didn't get home until like 11pm last night; she had met up with her friend Herschel and another friend whose name I've missplaced. They were helping Soness get back to basics in her religious beliefs, which, I must admit really spooked me out when I first heard her talking about it. All these oooky memories of my friends saying they'll pray for me and my family to make sure I find the light of Christianity and Accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and I'm like, "Jesus Christ, can you guys just get over it????" cause it just don't make no sense to me that we would be given free will but not allowed to use it freely.

(There's several other things that don't make sense to me about religions, but that's the first that comes to mind now.)

Anyway, I had been kinda oooked out and had a bit of a Talk with her to be like, "um, yeah, um, just don't tell me what to believe and we should be okay," and things were pretty great after I was able to get that off my proverbial chest. nice nice.