First Forty

Sting tickets arrive, now I just need to invite Beth; ride after work; go to sleep at 3 a.m.

We went to the Magic Kingdom for the last time and reviewed the rides. I got some pictures with my camera. Little Oscar game me a Oscar ring.

Call Japanese embassy regarding my JET application; Yumi comes to Cabrillo, asks Ted if I’d contacted the embassy; she gets the impression that I’d been accepted, tells all her friends.

Go running; see Andy twice and avoid him both times; feel homesick; think about alternatives for the future; read the paper, Frederick Douglass, Bukowski; it’s so quiet here; perfect place to work; still standoffish with the boys; they must think I’m some weird hermit.

Messages from The Machine.

Grant comes over to pester me; we watch TV; translate Lamartine at the library; feels like spring outside; no good Blackhawks tickets left; work is dead boring; catch re-run of the “Warner” episode we attended last year; too much to do.

Work on French paper all night; slip it in the overnight-paper slot before anyone shows up for work; skip class to go home and sleep; Grant buys ‘66 Mustang for $750; takes it to AAMCO for new transmission.

Today we went biking around the campground on rented bikes. Me and Todd went swimming at the Polynesian. We would go to the deep end and try to touch bottom.

Decide to not go in to Kuumbwa; inventory at Baytree gets off on the wrong foot; Yumi attends “Feel Good About Sex” presentation at the Women’s Center, learns a thing or two; she’s funny.

Bonus material!: some television commercials (and bumpers) from KTSF in San Francisco, circa late 1999 - early 2000. (Granted, these may only be of interest to viewers of KTSF at that time, but they figure prominently in this story: the sounds of another week coming to an end.)