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Monthly Archives: August 2002

Reasons for Asahi

22-Aug-02

So I gave in and bought one of those belts that everyone in Japan has. They are really cute and I will feel special because when I get back to the US I will have one, and I won’t be a “trendy” because they don’t exist in the US. Actually, I bought two, [...]

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Wheels go round and round

20-Aug-02

I was telling Kayoko last night about how this is really the beginning of the last moments of my summer. I said that after I leave Kochi I will have no more beginnings in my trip. All the new things will over. Right now I am standing at the top of a [...]

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So this is Japan…?

17-Aug-02

For some reason… (and I seriously cannot figure out why…) I am highly amused that Tomo’s dad just walked in the door (at 11:30pm) stumbled around for a while, found himself in the living room, looked at me sitting at the computer, produced this huge grin and giggled “I’m a little bit drunk”, turned [...]

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Bullet train -from- Osaka

15-Aug-02

I have decided that I don’t like those heated toilet seats. Something about having a power outlet and an electrical cord running so close to a device that holds mostly water just gives me the heebie jeebies. Not to mention the high resistance hot wires running just centimeters under your naked ass. Two [...]

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drumroll please…

08-Aug-02

Well… I guess this is it. I am leaving… Heading for the little purple area on the map… Kochi prefecture. So yeah. We will be taking a bus from Tokyo to Osaka and driving all night long. We arrive in Osaka tomorrow morning where we will cruise around and waste [...]

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but then I checked my email…

07-Aug-02

Ok. So I met this girl online. Well kinda. She emailed about a dozen people at random hoping to make a few new connections, and apparently I was the only one who wrote back. So we exchanged a few emails. She seemed neat. Clever in a kind of [...]

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I am a real person now…

03-Aug-02

I feel special. I have become a victim of credit card fraud. I shit you not.
My mom emailed me a few days ago saying that some odd charges had been made to one of the accounts she and I share in Hawaii. Two days, eight emails and much bank-investigation later, [...]

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I have many evil thoughts… when I am a sardine.

03-Aug-02

In the drunken press of bodies on the last sardine-style train home, I leaned my face against Tomo’s back and tried to read the people around me. The guy on my left, the one with the hat, I think had a dark and white splotchy cat. And maybe a girlfriend, with whom he [...]

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NOT!

02-Aug-02

The weather has been quite… confused. Or is it angry? I dunno… but somehow, it looks like the air itself is pulsing with flashes of lightening… and the thunder is rumbling kind of like ocean waves… almost constant. It isn’t frightening… yet.
Last night was possibly the most violent lightning storm [...]

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