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About yesterday

11:47am JST Wednesday 16 July 2003

I did so much yesterday and wrote nothing.

Saw T3 with Cors and a Japanese cat named Ken. Movie exceeded my expectations of a Part III. When I saw T2, my expectations were HUGE cause of the hype, and I was not impressed. My experience this time was better. Plus I didn't predict the ending. Though I think I heard something interesting in the dialogue: At one point a character gives directions to a place and says "bearing point zero five degrees" but later another character incorrectly repeats the information as "point one five degrees."

Here's something funny: I wrote that all generically as to not give away the plot so I won't piss off any of my readers, who I imagine are all in the US, but now I realize if you haven't seen the movie by now, you ain't gonna care. T3 just came out in Japan.

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Went out with Andrew and Ben to Ginza to an expensive excellent buffet called Farm Grill. 3800 yen for ice cream, cakes, drinks, sliced fruits, mashed potatoes, veggie casseroles, shrimp, sushi, crab legs, roasted chicken halves, roasted beef.

We were stuffed by the end of the night. They moreso than I. "A place like this is just wasted on you, man," said Ben as we started our first plates. Theirs were based on beef and seafood. Mine was veggie casserole and some other sloppy yummy foods. I had 3 plates and 3 glasses of OJ. They had 4 plates, alcohol (Randy, the tall dark & handsome bartender from Chicago, made a Bunker Buster for Andrew: Tequila, vodka, rum, and gin), and lots of pain.

Take the Ginza line to Ginza and leave the station through exit 4. Find a clock on top of a building diagonally left across the street and a Nova straight across the street. Turn 180 degress around and walk directly away from Nova (and the clock). Go about 5 blocks and turn left just before you go under an overpass. (There will be a toy store on the right.) Go about one block and find farm grill signage. It's up on the second floor.

Idea

12:39pm JST Wednesday 16 July 2003

I can write a novel about a cat learning Japanese in Japan.

Tangent mode

1:24pm JST Wednesday 16 July 2003

Fuck. I'm again stuck in Tangent Mode, where I distract myself with everything and spend more time wondering what is the best thing to do than in actually doing something.

For example, right now I'm thinking I should define Tangent Mode on my WTF pages, cause they haven't seen any action for a while, but are given a headlining role on my site. But I've just finished my SF pages, and they don't even appear on my navigation. So is it better to fuck with putting SF on my navigation or add Tangent Mode to my WTF or to go teach Akisan whose lesson starts in 33 minutes?

Does everyone go through tangent mode? How does my tangent mode compare to others'? How can this be measured?

Shit I gotta go.

5:44pm

Wende knows me really well and I really feel blessed by her.

She happened to send me an email while I continued to be in Tangent Mode after my lesson with Aki in Tsunashima. Since she was awake I called her all HI at first and wondered if she knew what kinda of digital camera I should get to interview myself about my friend's friend whose birthday is coming up and in the back of my mind I knew I shouldn't be applying such effort and resources to such a tangential project, but I just want to be FAMOUS and produce the BEST, FUNNIEST, self-interview EVER, starring myself as the interviewer and myself as the interviewed, with different backgrounds and activities going on for each question. I basically wanted to put hundreds of hours of work into this project but I'm like fucking what the fuck is going on with that; I just want so much to be the Star of everyone's lives. I want to be the absolute best at everything I do. I want to thrill and amaze and encourage and inspire, and I want this to be enough for people to throw me the money I need to live and travel and do anything I want in the world. And I want to do all of this absolutely with no help from anyone else at all in the entire world. And I want people to adore me so thoroughly that they will research and write my biography for me.

Soon enough just cried cried cried cause I don't know what the fuck I'm doing in Japan and Wende just listened and listened.

She helped me release this maniacal idea of being the star of K's birthday party: I barely know this person and it's not appropriate to be the star of her show. Actually I realized that myself and Wende suggests that a year ago I wouldn't have recognized that.

Growth is happening.

But true to my adage, living life is slower than reading biographies and this growth is slow as fuck!

Release.

I feel better.

Whatever, dude

11:04pm JST Wednesday 16 July 2003

This is from an article in The New York Times titled White House Sees a $455 Billion Gap in '03 Budget, written by David E. Rosenbaum.

Representative Jim Nussle of Iowa, chairman of the Budget Committee
told reporters, "Tax cuts do not cause deficits. When you reduce
taxes, taxes stay in the pocket of people that earn it. We do not
have to borrow money in order to reduce taxes. You only borrow money
in Washington for spending."

comments

Name: Scout Seven

Subject: July 16th

Comment:
Dear Rob,

I did not get a chance to read more of your journal today, but that's okay because I'm enjoying the suspense. I am at the part where you asked Wende to marry you. At first, this came as quite a shock. I have thought about you off and on through the years, and, in a way, you always represented the "care-free, no-extraneous-responsibilites, live-off-the-land" kind of guy that I dreamed was the ideal mode of travel here on this earth. So, I was like "Woah, Dude!"

I know that you are in Japan as I type, so things between April 2000 and the present are a mystery. I am looking forward to discovering how everything has played out.

See you,
Gary

P.S. I am wondering how many frisbees you took to Japan.

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