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Dream Snow skiing

4:51am ICT Friday 23 July 2010 (day 14730)

Skiing up a slope I overheard a guy talking to another guy about their next plan, " hey you see that group over there; they are all talking to that guy I told you about; let's go join them and they do a four hour course that's really dense and by the end of it you will be an expert skiier. I did not have tie to join them, nor interst in joinging a group that bg, so just went past them to go around the circuit one more time.

Got to the top of the mountain and started zooming down next to Mike lender, and got going fast enough that I was able to fly down the mountain just above the surace of the slope. I simply lifted my feet up a bit and then I was flying like superman over the snow. The slope suddenly went steeply down and I stayed flying straight so was suddenly many hundreds of meters in the air.

I started going a bit too high to come back down properly, so I grabbed onto a chandelier to stoop myself, and then just let myself drop down into the soft snow, safely right beside Mike. I was like, "aight race to the bottom?" and started to pull myself with my hands to the top of each little mogul, and he ws sorta waiting for me to catch up cause he was already on his skiis. I tried to grab his leg but then finally got enough speed to sgart skiing again and made it to the bottom where Mike had beome a woman who "I found a fried potato wrtapper in the snow; you took it out of the register didn't you?" and I go "no, but at first I was going to say, 'well that proves I was there first so I won the race!' jokingly, but no it wasn't my wrapper."

Finished week eight

6:19pm ICT Friday 23 July 2010 (day 14730)

13 students finished two classes today. Natasha and I finished our Side Position class, and Anne, Cat David, Elle, Erin, Nadine, Nat, Natalie, Raquel, Shane, Shawn, Sita, and Tony Trayl's beginner course with Mint's help.

Now we're all going on a boat.

Grist

Hello Mr Michael John Grist

I am Dr Noboku Unobtanium Wafflehaus and would like to wire the SUM of 4 hundred billion quadrillion
Starbucks Franchises to your account.

Please keep this under great scrutiny and confidentiality, and I have no idea why I'm writing all
this, for I just wanted to say good job again on your writing about the motivations of Bad Guys.

As a Good Guy, I shall simply mention I saw two little typos in one phrase, and deemed them worthy
of your examination:

havign the people on the boat bow

- - -

I'm having fun in Thailand, and will be headed back to our island home soon... not sure if I'll have
work or otherwise the desire to stay there much longer, but we shall see.

    blessings
     - Rob!!

ps: it'll be hilarious if this message gets canned as SPAM.  I hope our previous correspondence keeps it in your inbox.

Mae Ping dinner cruise

8:57pm ICT Friday 23 July 2010 (day 14730)

Just finished the Mae Ping dinner cruise, featuring a one course meal and then dessert, so I guess that's two courses. I sat on the front port side of the boat, next to Elle, also from Texas. Austin, in her case. She knows unCommon Objects, so I may have her bring something back for janette.

After the cruise, I got to huggingly serenade Sita, to the tune of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart," with lyrics like

Turn Around, Sita

Turn Around
Every now and then I get to hang out with Sita and at the end give her a hug
Turn Around
Let me see your ass and then if I'm lucky I can can give it a squeeze or a rub
Turn Around
Take good care of Avery and I'm sure he'll treat you just fine
And when you see his tanlines and his package you can say it's all miine!
Turn Around, there's Avery
I wish you both a fun and happy life!

Or something like that; I've just re-written this while we're here at Rooftop Bar, kinda ignoring everyone else, so I'll get back to the group her now.

Bye Sita; bye Avery. Hopefully just for now.

Big fan of those two.

ZZzzz

3:19am ICT Saturday 24 July 2010 (day 14731)

Fun night tonight. I'm just now getting to bed. After chilling at Rooftop Bar, and by chilling I mean that Natalie (NL) and I were dancing to the often phat beats being spun while everyone else chilled (until I chilled next to Erin from Vancouver who knows Audrey from Vancouver, talking about her friend who does not yet know/admit that he's gay), we (Natalie, Raquel, David, Anne, and I), walked to Reggae bar (not far) which, to my dismay, just played reggae music.

I went in a bit begrugingly, and skipped out after 45 minutes and headed to the club that had been playing hip hop when we came in. It was dance music by the time I got there, but still quite yummy for my feet, and I had a good dancing time for about 30 minutes before walking home 30 minutes to Imm Eco on foot, and then 20 minutes to my apartment on Bouncy Black Bike.

Oh, at Rooftop Bar, the floor is some kind of bouncy / weak surface that seems to be sheets of split bamboo across periodic rails, and then plastic grass mats on top of the bamboo. I couldn't dance too bouncily on it, and Trayl confirmed later that some people had broken through the mat in the past.

That was when he was saying "bye" and heading out with Mint (yummmm I love mint), and included that he overheard me telling the waitstaff "I won't fall" when the guy was telling me I shouldn't dance on the wooden rail, which I had deemed much stronger and more stable than the bouncy bamboo mat.

Trayl goes, "he doesn't know you as well as I do," which I took as Trayl agreeing that I wouldn't fall. Nice.

To: Elle
Sb: herro

HI Elle!!

Thank you for lovely chats and songs tonight!

I realized the near-perfect gift for janette, who spells her name with a lowercase j, at Uncommon
Objects...  do you know of a place to buy silk fabrics here in Chiang Mai?

Whether or not you know that, please know that I wish you the best this weekend whether you fly to
Pai or fly through the sky with us.  AND I look forward to seeing you next week in Sunshine.

   blessings
   - Rob!