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Before work

2:22pm JST Tuesday 6 April 2004

Before work today I studied. This was quite an effective use of my time, so I'm quite happy I was able to get up and do it. I might be able to attribute it to my new emacs-powered todo-mode thing. Awesome. Quick easy way to stay focused.

I copied questions and wrote answers like

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And when Riki saw it, he crossed out the Âç of Â縤, and I was like, "oki inu!" and he's like. Â礭¤¤¸¤¡£

Oh. okay.

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I showed him chiwawaworld.com videos and we laughed. He started rapping in Japanese and I came in with the lines above (*). We laughed.

(*) Do you like dogs? Yes, I like big dogs.

Work

7:58am JST Wednesday 7 April 2004

At work yesterday, I just *happened* to look at my schedule for today (which I had specifically planned to be my day off) and was quite surprised to find classes scheduled. Fuck!

I was a bit freaked at first; I had made plans with Yuuko, but in the end, all the classes were moved to other teachers. (Save one; the student had chosen me specifically, so I'm going to go in for one student. It's kinda weak to have to go in for one lesson, but there's a positive feeling that the student chose me mixed in.)

It will all be good.

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After work, Shoko checked my Japanese sentences. She was really helpful; She didn't just check my sentences, but quizzed me on them as well. I'll likely ask her again and pay her (with white chocolate and/or dinner) for her efforts. Awesome.

She's a new staff member, so I don't know her very well yet, though we both seem to like each other. She says she wants to see Kill Bill vol 2 (but she hasn't seen number 1 yet), so I'll invite her when it comes out. She has her hair permed a bit (I'm making the brash assumption that because she's Japanese, she doesn't have naturally curly hair), which I usually don't like, but it doesn't bug me on her. maybe it's cause I've never known her hair otherwise.

(As a side-story to meeting her for sentence checking, I was like, "Shoko, can you check my sentences after you're finished [with work]?" and she goes "okay. Maybe ten minutes later." I thought she meant ten minutes after Gaba closed (which was in 40 minutes).

I went downstairs [to get some juice or a coke, flipped the TV off and then I almost choked](*) to call Yuuko and reschedule our meeting for today and grab some snackage while I waited for Shoko to get off work.

Came back upstairs and she (with help from Rene) was writing me a note because she was *leaving*! Oh crizzap; she had said "ten minutes later" which is Japanese English for "10 minutes from now"

I explained the very important difference to her, and she practiced the new sentences "in 10 minutes," & "10 minutes from now.")

(*) from DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's "Nightmare on My Street"