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Lazyish day

11:31pm JST Friday 27 August 2010 (day 14765)

Slept late (to 10am) after being up late (to 5am) and then was writing some notes in prepartion for giving a lecture on self-massage techniques. Then pulled my boxes out of the shed and went through them to toss stuff and pulled some books out that I don't want anymore. Gave Monstrous Regiment to Joel, and registered a couple more books to give away at The Pink Cow.

The Pink Cow

11:35pm JST Friday 27 August 2010 (day 14765)

At Ye Olde Pinke Cowe, I met Kaoru, Rie, Tetsu, and Yoshiya, four people who work in the same company. Kanako came in after that and we hit it off well; her English is quite good, and we both wanna go sky diving. What more does one need?

I gave a hand massage to Yoshiya, and then a shoulder massage to Rie. A bit later, in the bar, I gave a shoulder massage to David, then Kanako. Kanako was funny because when I first started, with a moment of meditative centering, she kept looking back at me like, "when's the massage going to start??" again and again even after David was like, "he does reiki, too," and explained what he meant.

Emiko came a bit later than everyone else, and Makoto came some time after that. Emiko talked to Makoto a bit about Cow-Go, which definitely helped me because the band was pretty loud and hard for me to commmunicate with him in Japanese.

YK

11:40pm JST Friday 27 August 2010 (day 14765)

YK saw me in Shibuya station; he and I had each planned to take the 23:03 Shonan-Shinjuku Line. He welcomed me back to Tokyo and told me he's about to start up a bit of a hiking group. Then he told me about an awesome hiking place called Sea of Trees in English, or 青木ヶ原, a place which apparently strikes fear into the hearts of most Japanese for all the suicides that have happened there since the idea was popularized by a book in the 1970s.

YK said the place is 35 sqare kilometers of rocky undulating tree covered magnetic rock, so magnetic compases don't work properly inside. Off the trail, people get quickly lost, and many (try to) get so lost that they can't get back out.

He says it's his favorite place in Japan because it's so quiet inside the forest. No animal noises, and no noises at all save for wind in the trees.