01-16

01-16 – 11:45am

Yay! I made it to payday! I’m now 128,000yen richer. I stayed the night at Bryan’s last night; we got together after work for some station beers and a nice chat about what’s been going on in our lives. He’s had some girl trouble recently, and I was his solid ground for not doing anything silly like letting her dictate his emotions or decide when they work things out. I reminded him over and over that if she walked out on him it’s not up to her when and how they talk anymore. She gave up that right, and that he needs to re-evaluate what he thinks of their relationship prior to working towards getting it back. And so on and so forth, this isn’t my life.
My life, on the other hand, remains calm since the last violent upheaval. Which is nice. I literally felt ill waiting to get to the internet café today, but was relieved to find nothing waited for me but a couple of picture comments and a note from my buddy David B. from high school. I re-read what I wrote to Liesl the other day to see if it was still what I thought, and was pleased to find that outside the heat of the moment, what I said still makes sense, and is neither softer nor harsher than I intended to be. Yay for that. With that out of the way, and finances remaining the one and only thing I need to worry about in life, my mood has improved significantly.
Actually, even though I work today when I would normally have the day off, this has the potential to be a pretty good day. Bryan’s new roommates are sweet, one’s from Seattle, and the other from Wales (mom you’ll like that), and they’re both hilarious. We spent all last night sitting around playing guitar and reworking the words to one of my songs to make a slightly angrier, emotionally expressive version. I.e. lots of cursing and references to VD’s we hope they contract. It was something of a group vent session about the women in our lives. It was fantastic.

Yea, you know I’m going to renege on my previous mood and go for chipper instead.
Only 20 days until I move!!!! Woot. Only 20 days until internet!!!! WOOOT!