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AM Meditation

9:29am JST Wednesday 20 February 2008 (day 13846)

Last night in our small meditation group (Helma, Èþ°¡, me) I kept being overcome by sleep. Helma thought I said I *did* stay awake, and was happily like, "I knew it would happen!" but I was all, no, I said, how do I stay awake? She went on for a bit about something that I can summarize as, practice makes perfect, but it didn't seem inspiring at the time.

Then, when we did a 30 minute or so group meditation I felt all but nothing, and Helma was like, "wow; that was White Eagle at the end there."

"What? I didn't feel shit."

- - - -

This morning, I decided to try a new technique: drive adrenaline into my brain; force myself to stay awake. I don't know how I do it, but it's the same kind of technique that one should probably not use while driving a car (but should instead stop and sleep). Good thing I don't drive a car here in T-town (not Tomball, (nor) Texas, but Tokyo); anyway, I stayed awake.

AND

Afterward, while chowing choco flakes, I realized something: only as an adult (which I mean in the loosest sense of "someone with 'responsibilities',") have I sometimes not wanted to get out of bed in the morning. Now, this is quite a subtle distinction here, and it may turn out to be a buncha hooey, but basically I'm making the distinction of staying in bed for the goodness of the bed vs staying in bed for the "badness" of getting up and going to work or going to school or mowing the lawn or doing some something that I don't really want to do.

SO: some solutions come to mind:

1. Get back in touch with inner child wanting to embrace the day

2. Have something exciting to do to excite me out of bed

3. Enjoy whatever I have to do even if I don't want to do it

4. umm

So, anyway, I thought that was interesting.

AND

9:40am JST Wednesday 20 February 2008 (day 13846)

Afterward, while chowing choco flakes, I realized something: only as an adult (which I mean in the loosest sense of "someone with 'responsibilities',") have I sometimes not wanted to get out of bed in the morning. Now, this is quite a subtle distinction here, and it may turn out to be a buncha hooey, but basically I'm making the distinction of staying in bed for the goodness of the bed vs staying in bed for the "badness" of getting up and going to work or going to school or mowing the lawn or doing some something that I don't really want to do.

SO: some solutions come to mind:

1. Get back in touch with inner child wanting to embrace the day

2. Have something exciting to do to excite me out of bed

3. Enjoy whatever I have to do even if I don't want to do it

4. umm

So, anyway, I thought that was interesting.

CPC story email to Akiko

10:15am JST Wednesday 20 February 2008 (day 13846)

Got an email from Akiko:

Hi Rob, how are you doing?  Is everything all right after the clinical
trial?

Your name came up during the lesson with Preston today.  He was amazed to
know that you hope you'll create a home with a girl and more...   He sends
his regards to you and says you can get in touch with him at his e-mail
address

Ciao!

Akiko

And my reply:

Hey Akiko!

There is great news and not so great news regarding the clinical trial, though the not-so-great news
is not related to the trial per se...........

The great news: I had a lovely time and no effects from the drug; I am sure I was on placebo.  (6 of
36 people were on placebo).  The great news continues with me getting a stack of fifty 10,000 yen
notes at the end of the trial.



The not so great news began when I was unable to deposit the cash while in Kagoshima.  I guess I
could have found my bank somewhere in town, but Francois and I decided to join our friends on a trip
to »Ø½É (can you pronounce that?)...  with 500,000 cash yen in an envelope in my pocket.

The trip was great!  We visited a hot spring heated beach and basked in the sand.



Headed back to Kagoshima by train, back to Haneda by plane, back to Hammamatsucho by monorail, back
to Shibuya by train, and got off the Yamanote Line in Shibuya, and waved buh-bye to my friend with
Francois in my hand.

Went out of the station to meet Ami.  Reached down to check my 500,000 yen.  It was there.

Hugs to Ami and went home our separate ways.

Next morning, taking a picture of souvenirs from Kagoshima, I went to put Francois next to them.

¤¢¤ì¡© "Where's Francois?"

Masterpiece in progress

2:52pm JST Wednesday 20 February 2008 (day 13846)

Masterpiece in Progress maternity T

Slicing through inbox

5:18pm JST Wednesday 20 February 2008 (day 13846)

I've just gone from like 97 unread messages to 37, and from 390 message in my inbox to 220. Sumpin' like dat.

Work

5:18pm JST Wednesday 20 February 2008 (day 13846)

Work has included nice chats with Colleen, Gene, Ryan, and Dude. Also a little email volley with kT. I "finished" my F0 size canvas, figured out how to use Gimp well enough to white out the canvas, and put it on a maternity T shirt for sale at cafepress.

Work has not included anything that could really be considered "work"

Yurika

11:21pm JST Wednesday 20 February 2008 (day 13846)

Lesson with ¤æ¤ê¤« was lawfully good; we didn't finish going through her homework, but she chose to head home at 8pm.

atlantean secrets book III

11:22pm JST Wednesday 20 February 2008 (day 13846)

I've nearly finished Book III of Atlantean Secrets: The Gods are Wise. It's been *great*, just like the previous ones.