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Today

4:28pm CDT Thursday 2 May 2002

Today I have officially begun budgeting carefully toward having funds to visit Japan next year. I'm paying off some debt and will be monitoring my cashflow carefully for the next several months.

At work I haven't done as much today as an average day over the past two weeks. Hopefully tomorrow will feel more productive. Did help Minh get our DNS information updated for our work domains.

Tonight is investment club; it's a SSG training meeting, led by Kat Pat, one of our star members.

After that, I'll call Lee-eh and learn some more Japanese. :-) Might get to see her apartment since investment club meeting is near where she lives now.

nihongo

9:15pm Thursday 2 May 2002

After investment club, as I was about to dial Lee-eh, but then decided not to because I realized it would be a pain to talk to her while I was still packing my stuff, I clicked the button to lock my phone again *just* as it rang and I thereby answered it, not having had enough time to see the caller ID.

I presumed it was Lee-eh, but I was wrong, so I was all trying to figure out the voice and I thought it was Amy, but wondered why she would be calling me so late after we haven't IMed in a long time, and she's never called me before out of the blue.

Turns out it was Marta, who I met at Plano Rally, and who just recently emailed me saying her dad's friend is a recruiter for English teachers in Japan! But the more amazing thing about that is I hadn't told her this was a particular interest of mine, only that I was interested in traveling. Wow.

So I'm looking forward to making a connection with Marta's dad's friend and beginning the process of piecing this whole trip together.

2:36 am Friday 3 May 2002

Am just now home from Lee-eh's and Lauren's apartment, where I learned the days of the week in Japanese.

Let's see...

Getsulobi
Kalobi
Tsulobi
Thursday
Kinlobi
Kalobi
Nichilobi

I think that's right except for Thursday, which has ku in it.

The apartment is cool - new carpet, etc, two bedrooms. Lauren really wants to get a big dog, and Lee-eh is more wanting a little dog. Lauren wants a short nose dog, Lee-eh wants a long nose dog.

I learned the brief version of Lauren's interesting upbringing and current relationship situation. Then I was reciting the lyrics to Ludakris (sp) lyrics 'Roll out' (?) ('so much money.. you can't top that..') and she has it on CD, so we listened to that so I could get a better grip on the lyrics.

Something like, 'twin gloc fo'ties, cocked back/ me an' my homies, step the fuck back/ rollin' on twenties, with the top back/ so much money, you can't top that.'

Or some shit like that.

Lee-eh fell asleep on Lauren's bed as we traded music related stories - her meeting band members, me meeting DJs.