Oh, Romeo, yeah, I used to have a scene with him...
So the thing about typhoons is, they're wet. I mean, you really don't understand. As Chris said, "It doesn't feel like rain. It's too wet." It's rather more like being hit by a bucket of water. The water goes mostly sideways, occasionally up, but rarely straight down. Classes were canceled, and we spent much of the day hiding in Dotonburi, an okonomiyaki place by my house, watching oceans pour down on us and waiting for the whales to fall out of the sky. It's supposed to peak about midnight, and it'll probably still be pouring when I get on the train, but hopefully it won't be too bad in Mishima. If I go all the way to Mishima and classes are canceled I'll be pretty pissed. I wonder how our trip to the beach is looking.
she lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe..."i thought you'd never say hello," she said..."You look like the silent type..."
Terribly worried about Fuji. Just a week away now, and we'll have to bail if there's rain in the forecast. Summer to autumn apparently happens over night here. Pretty much exactly September 1st. One day you can't stand the heat and humidity, the next the heat is gone, but the humidity has gone up to "underwater." Coming from a land with two seasons and no such thing as "weather," this is rather strange. In any event, Fuji is going to be quite an ordeal. I didn't really plan on the cold. It's even cold in winter. Though August 16th was apparently the hottest day ever recorded on the top of Fuji, a month later it's going to be freezing. Hiking gear beyond the very basics is rather hard to come by in Gotenba as well.
then she opened up a book of poems...and handed it to me...written by an italian poet...from the thirteenth century...
Furthermore. Went to play pool last night, the greatest social event I've organized to date (though Fuji, if successful, will surpass it...eleven people confirmed, and quite a trip involved for many). A turn out of ten people, I think. Risa and Missy, the hallmarks of the Gotenba scene until shortly after I arrived, seem to be back in force, now that Risa is moving back to Gotenba next month. Like most small towns, it's impossible for natives to escape, with a kind of gravitational pull that always reminds me of the kid in In the Mouth of Madness..."He won't let me out...He won't let me out..."
and every one of them words rang true...and glowed like burnin' coal...pourin' off of every page...like it was written in my soul from me to you...tangled up in blue.
Kaori came, and she's up for Salsa Saturday night as well, though she's opting out of the beach trip. She can't swim, and she's got to help with some festival or other. Anyhow, turns out she's a pool shark. She's played only "a few times," but after a couple strokes she was murdering the balls. I managed a lucky streak of four balls the first game, Kaori took out the other three in a turn, and then I flubbed the game by scratching the eight ball but good. The rest of the night continued with games at our table basically hinging on who could scratch on the eight ball first. Kaori played on my team the whole night. At some point, Yuki and Kaori planned their own escape route, since apparently Yuki lives fairly close to her, and ruined my setup with Tejal with their underhanded incomprehensible dealings. In the end, it worked out, since Tejal didn't have to go out of her way, but after working to set things up so she could come, I'd have liked it if the change in plans had been mentioned chotto before we were piling into cars (in the rain). Anyway, wherever things are going in that direction, they seem good. Filled with dangerous potentialities, though...Anyway, it's going to take a bold step either from her direction (unlikely) or a matchmaking type to catalyze things. No way I'm making any first steps with a student, even were I capable of such social feats. Yuki's the most likely, she's the bold one. We'll see. I'd say Emi at Mishima, since they're apparently best friends at Uni, but they're out of school until October, so I think not.
If only Sho-chan weren't in Miyazaki. If only you could import people into your life, swap people around like cards in Hearts, until everyone is in the right place at the right time. Maybe that's why I'm so obsessed with this song right now. Re-obsessed, actually. As of this morning I'm obsessed with Bob Dylan ("Tangled Up In Blue"!), and re-obsessed with Dire Straits' "Romeo and Juliet."
juliet...the dice was loaded from the start
and i bet, and you exploded into my heart
and i forget, i forget, the movie song
when you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong...juliet?
come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame
both dirty, both mean, yes, and the dream was just the same
and i dream your dream for you, and now your dream is real
how can you look at me as if i was just another one of your deals?
well you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold
you can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
you promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin
now you just say oh romeo yeah, you know i used to have a scene with him
juliet...when we made love, you used to cry
said i love you like the stars above, i'll love you till i die
there's a place for us you...know the movie song
when you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong?
she lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe..."i thought you'd never say hello," she said..."You look like the silent type..."
Terribly worried about Fuji. Just a week away now, and we'll have to bail if there's rain in the forecast. Summer to autumn apparently happens over night here. Pretty much exactly September 1st. One day you can't stand the heat and humidity, the next the heat is gone, but the humidity has gone up to "underwater." Coming from a land with two seasons and no such thing as "weather," this is rather strange. In any event, Fuji is going to be quite an ordeal. I didn't really plan on the cold. It's even cold in winter. Though August 16th was apparently the hottest day ever recorded on the top of Fuji, a month later it's going to be freezing. Hiking gear beyond the very basics is rather hard to come by in Gotenba as well.
then she opened up a book of poems...and handed it to me...written by an italian poet...from the thirteenth century...
Furthermore. Went to play pool last night, the greatest social event I've organized to date (though Fuji, if successful, will surpass it...eleven people confirmed, and quite a trip involved for many). A turn out of ten people, I think. Risa and Missy, the hallmarks of the Gotenba scene until shortly after I arrived, seem to be back in force, now that Risa is moving back to Gotenba next month. Like most small towns, it's impossible for natives to escape, with a kind of gravitational pull that always reminds me of the kid in In the Mouth of Madness..."He won't let me out...He won't let me out..."
and every one of them words rang true...and glowed like burnin' coal...pourin' off of every page...like it was written in my soul from me to you...tangled up in blue.
Kaori came, and she's up for Salsa Saturday night as well, though she's opting out of the beach trip. She can't swim, and she's got to help with some festival or other. Anyhow, turns out she's a pool shark. She's played only "a few times," but after a couple strokes she was murdering the balls. I managed a lucky streak of four balls the first game, Kaori took out the other three in a turn, and then I flubbed the game by scratching the eight ball but good. The rest of the night continued with games at our table basically hinging on who could scratch on the eight ball first. Kaori played on my team the whole night. At some point, Yuki and Kaori planned their own escape route, since apparently Yuki lives fairly close to her, and ruined my setup with Tejal with their underhanded incomprehensible dealings. In the end, it worked out, since Tejal didn't have to go out of her way, but after working to set things up so she could come, I'd have liked it if the change in plans had been mentioned chotto before we were piling into cars (in the rain). Anyway, wherever things are going in that direction, they seem good. Filled with dangerous potentialities, though...Anyway, it's going to take a bold step either from her direction (unlikely) or a matchmaking type to catalyze things. No way I'm making any first steps with a student, even were I capable of such social feats. Yuki's the most likely, she's the bold one. We'll see. I'd say Emi at Mishima, since they're apparently best friends at Uni, but they're out of school until October, so I think not.
If only Sho-chan weren't in Miyazaki. If only you could import people into your life, swap people around like cards in Hearts, until everyone is in the right place at the right time. Maybe that's why I'm so obsessed with this song right now. Re-obsessed, actually. As of this morning I'm obsessed with Bob Dylan ("Tangled Up In Blue"!), and re-obsessed with Dire Straits' "Romeo and Juliet."
juliet...the dice was loaded from the start
and i bet, and you exploded into my heart
and i forget, i forget, the movie song
when you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong...juliet?
come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame
both dirty, both mean, yes, and the dream was just the same
and i dream your dream for you, and now your dream is real
how can you look at me as if i was just another one of your deals?
well you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold
you can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
you promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin
now you just say oh romeo yeah, you know i used to have a scene with him
juliet...when we made love, you used to cry
said i love you like the stars above, i'll love you till i die
there's a place for us you...know the movie song
when you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong?