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Am awake at 2am

10:07am JST Thursday 16 October 2008 (day 14085)

I woke up at like 2am this morning, with my eyes burning and itching. I had been scratching at them in my sleep. Upon awakening they were just screaming for gobs of anti-itch pudding or simply removal.

I decided to pour some saline solution in 'em, but that could involve having cold liquid drip on my face/neck/ears/chest, and I was already cold from having the window open while sleeping. So a brief internal discussion decided that the saline should join me in a hot shower, so any cold drips could be nullified with copious hot water.

Lazed in the water for a while until my eyes basically stopped hurting. Considered shaving my head at the same time, but didn't want to deal with cleaning up hair.

Back in my room, considered writing in my journal but sleep triumphed.

Am shaved

10:18am JST Thursday 16 October 2008 (day 14085)

I shaved my face today with the blue hair clippers Genkiman Dan left me, leaving just an astroturf of fuzz because I can't be bothered to shave all the way (don't want nicks nor irritation).

Eek Ami's mom in hospital

1:28pm JST Thursday 16 October 2008 (day 14085)

Just got a call from Ami crying. "My mom is...." and then she'd take a breath, during which I wondered the worst, "My mom is ...."

"Yes?"

"in the hospital."

Whew.

I told Ami to take care of herself and family and not worry about coming to The Pink Cow tonight.

1:40pm JST

Late notice, but I invited Kanae to fill in Ami's reservation.

3:59pm JST

Ami called, no longer crying. Her mom is apparently stable and had some tests done; they'll know what's what in a week or two. Must not be critical... but I wonder what precipitated her rush to le hospital.

Work

6:13pm JST Thursday 16 October 2008 (day 14085)

About to head out. Sho didn't come in today, but I got the invoices looking pretty sharp. Malek and Andrew have said they look good enough to go out. Assuming all the Japanese is correct (easy fix, if not), then we just need to populate some data and get them out. If Sho comes in tomorrow, it should be easy enough. If not, then I'll be showin' Malek / Andrew how to run this thing and they can sort it out during the weekend.

lovely vegan night reiki

11:40pm JST Thursday 16 October 2008 (day 14085)

Uncle Cow didn't meet anyone new at The Pink Cow vegan night tonight, but I did. First, I remet Callie and Dave, and then when I tried to sit next to Travis et. al., all seats were taken, so I tried next to Tamara, and found the same, so I found a new table (next to the low-rider couch) and met Doiyn (sp), Patrick and Wakana, Misato, and didn't get Mutsumi's name until after she left.

Kumi arrived and sat on my right on the low rider couch, and chatted with Mutsumi as I was chatting with Wakana. Wakana went to Berkeley for a year to do some studies in marketing and promotions, especially around the Bay Area. Patrick, wearing a sideways hat when I first met him, turned it forwards when I said, "your hat's on sideways," and came back later and asked me if I spoke English. I asked him if he spoke English, and he left with no answer.

Tamara sat at the very corner of the restaurant, chatting with Callie and Dave, and a bit with Doiyn (sp) and Wakana. I introduced her as Tamara, and she said she had changed her name, (to her angelic name,) Arial'a. She introduced herself as Arial'a to a few people, but when Travis came up later, she used Tamara because he e-knows her as Tamara from his hiking email list.

Michael came over to say bye to Arial'a, as they are fellow Kiwis, and we talked a bit about crazy sports by his friend Henry and AJ Hacket (sp) the man who popularized bungy in the western world. As much as I wanted to join him for a helicopter bungy jump, I equally wanted him to say bye so I caould chat with Arial'a, but I realized I needed to ask him about his work(shops), and I'm glad I did.

He's getting together people who do reiki, hypnotherapy, etc, and different modalities to help promote the facts of these "alternative" healing techniques. They work. I told him I would be doing reiki 3 this weekend, and he commented like I should check out his workshop. As we were talking a bit, I could literally feel my hands warm up, as they were each like, "reiki? did I hear reiki?"

Sweet. So I got his card and will likely join.

1:00am JST

(I'm at home and showered now, and have laundry in the washer.)

People started to head out, until just Mutsumi was speaking with Kumi and Arial'a about her mom and someone who did channelling; I didn't catch the details.

After that, everyone left 'cept the people in the bar, and lucky me with Arial'a and Kumi on each side. We were chatting about The Pink Cow and other good things, and I patted Arial'a on the back to thank her for coming, and she commented approvingly about my healing hands. Kumi was like, "really?" and I placed my right hand on Kumi's back as well. I felt the warm energy return, and Arial'a and Kumi both commented on the warmth.

Arial'a also noted that I became quiet; I had been all chattychatty, but when reiki energy started coursing through, the astral brain slowed down. Just reiki and etheric body.

Lucky lucky lucky me, receiving positive verbal and tactile blessings, surrounded by two of my favorite people, just for opening up to let the reiki through.

We eventually had to head out, so we walked to Shibuya, during which Kumi asked Arial'a what kind of daily work she did. Arial'a said basically that she stays true to herself by staying as aware and honest as she can. Her answer reminded me of Christina Branmart's answer that she evaluated each action in the moment: "will this lead me to or away from my goal?"

Arial'a said something like, "there may be times that I want to do things, because they'd be fun, but I ask if they will benefit me in the long run."

She added that she tries to maintain awareness of her footsteps and her connection to Mother Earth, while staying aware of her connection to her angelic energies above. I offered that Thich Nhat Hanh suggested we kiss the Earth with each step. (though I can't find proof of my claim now, I find on page 13 of The Long Road Turns to Joy, "... touch the Earth deeply with your feet.")

Kumi answered the same question with "meditation" and I answered with "almost daily meditation, but I often fall asleep, or is it a different state, not quite sleep?"

And now I'm wondering about using reiki during meditation to keep my focus.

Hugs to Tamara by Ginza line, then by to Kumi in Nakameguro.

Bye to my computer now and hello sleep.

(1:49am JST Friday 17 October 2008 (day 14086))

skype Madeline

1:54am JST Friday 17 October 2008 (day 14086)

Nevermind, bed. Sorry for the false alarm.

heyyyyyyyy roooooooob!

what up, g!  so, i have some questions, basically i want a low-down on teaching in japan...

    * what are the hours?
    * what is the pay?
    * is it better to go freelance or with a school?
    * what city is good/fun to live in?
    * what are the expenses of living in japan? how much could i potentially save a month?

OMG, it would be soooooooo helpful, dude, thankyouthankyou in advance!

<3
-m-

And I said

MADELINE!!!!!

I asked the same questions.

The answers are all of the above.

But more than that, the answers are "you can do *anything* in Japan. (*)"

(*) And by Japan, I mean Tokyo.  And you just have to enjoy a bit of culture shock.

Please come.

Just get any ol' job that will give you a visa.  Once you get here you can start to sort out what you really want to do.

http://www.metropolis.co.jp/default.asp
http://www.tokyoplayers.org/
http://vegan.meetup.com/389/

Then she goes,

ooo, can i call you on skype and ask q's??!

And I'm like,

I'm on as thunderrabbit

call me, baby

1:56am JST

But she ain't called yet. I gotta sleeeeeeeeep

2:18am JST Friday 17 October 2008 (day 14086)

Awesome.

Madeline is dabomb!!!

Only thing I forgot to tell her is sometimes I wish I had chosen a more difficult country: China (plus it's growing) or middle east or Africa.