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I made it to japan!! It was quite an adventure gettign here though. Once I got off the plane I took the bullet train into Tokyo station and called my buddy here so he could come and pick me up. Turned out that he had to stay at work for a while and couldn't come get me for another hour and a half. I was pretty tired but I thought hey, I' just get some food or something. So I did and it was really good food! I got clams and noodles in wine sauce for about 9$ (1000 yen). Then I read a book for a while. When it was about time to call him again I reached into my bag to get out his number and I found that the book it was in, i.e the phone number, i.e. my way out of the trainstation and to the rest of my trip, wasn't there at all. I was fucked, delerious from sleepiness and neon lights, I was fucked without that number. I tried to remember it and it came back pretty quickly I thought, but when I tryied it it didn' work . . . I must have left my book at the other pay phone . . . the one that I wasn't sure that I could get too anymore. It was so hard to think, I just sat on the floor for a moment and held my head in my hands - let it all out, shhhhh, let it all out, the tiredness the freak out - let it out before it builds up and I can't think at all. It might be lost forever but giving up was not an option. Igot up, slightly refreshed, and took the one route I haddn't tried before luckily it did infact take me to the place where the other pay phones were. I went to the one I used and thank the Universe, thank the Goddess, it was still there. When I looked up the number I was only 2 digits off when I had tryed to remember it from scratch, I had switched the 5 and the 6, I was proud that I had gotten it so close and now I remember it all off the top of my head.

when we met up and were leaving the train station, via another train - oh, so many trains, I saw a younger guy leaning in the corner casually vomit on the floor. I asked if that was normal and Jim replied that it was a social institution, Japan was the drunkest country second maybe to Russia.

That's all for now, but there is a shot that I can do a photoset with a photographer that Jim knows and claims is "amazing". I don"t disbelieve him at all - if it happens it will be amazing, then oh how lucky we"ll all be

more later - with pictures