| Saturday, May 11th, 2002
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:32p - Lucky me Well I didn't dive today as previously planned...never hooked up with Mike. He never called me yesterday to set a time and I never saw him today. I knocked on his door this morning around 1000 but there was no answer. Knowing him he probably came by, knocked on my door while I asleep, and left without trying to call me instead. I'm sorry but the way these rooms are set up, it is virtually *impossible* to wake someone up without some SERIOUS pounding on the door...something no-one wants to do in the middle of the hallway with tons of other people in their rooms and all around. A ringing phone, on the other hand... We've had that discussion, and I've told him already that he needs to call me instead. Whatever. The man really tires me. This is not the first time we've set plans that haven't gone through. If he wasn't the only guy I can get a hold of easily enough during the week, and willing to go hit the water, I'd forget about trying to diving with him. What I ought to do is just take my chances with the people posting their number on the various okinawan forums and go diving with one of them. So today I've just been sitting around cruising the net and working on my photo albums. I have been able to get all the good pix into two albums with only my most recent pictures left out. I'll pick up another album some time next week, after payday. Went to see _Scorpion King_ with D'von last night. Last night was the first showing here on the island (we get movies later than the states do). Good action flick but there were some things that irked me...1) The Rock can't act his way out of a paper bag 2) the head nods (the "wassup" type) were just *retarded* 3) that part where the Rock and that big black guy were about to go at it...the camera work on their jumping forward/down (ala Conan) were probably the lamest bit of cinemotagraphy I've ever seen. The fight sequences overall though ...pretty good. I enjoyed myself at least. Tentatively planning to go see _Hart's War_ tonight. At some point I need to call D and see if he made any other plans...we talked about going but he indicated he might be doing something with Yoshko (his gf). Nick just stopped by wondering what I was up to tonight and he may want to go. Didn't make it to the office today so I upgraded my IE to 128 bit and configured my computer to download work email. Lucky me; there was only one email, and not from kim. Of course I have mixed feelings about that but it's better this way. D'von (who knows nothing about my girl troubles) has been telling me about this friend of Yoshko's they tried to hook Shook up with (with totally disasterous results) and tells me he'll try to arrange some sort of meeting. I'm not sure if she's Okinawan or Japanese but she is apparently an English teacher...so communication wouldn't be a problem (my japanese is virtually nonexistant...ichi, ni, san, shi...). I'll be happy to consent to a meeting...heavens knows I could use it. From what D'von tells me though, it'll have to be something on the sly side, as Yoshko's friends are now leary about meeting D'von's friends (really, the thing between Shook and her went that badly...i won't go into details except to say that it wasn't something illegal or anything like that). My only concern now is whether Kim is OK. I hope that she just hasn't been in the office or that she just doesn't want to write back...and not that she's lying up in the hospital (or worse). In hindsight I should have sent that last email delivery/read receipt requested. I'm not about to send out another message though. If I did scare her away, there's no need to make it worse. I mean...I feel horrible enough to think I might have freaked her out as it is. I don't think she's found the journal, because by now I figure she'd at least have sent me a message saying "stop it" or something...but then how can I say that for sure? After all I only got to know her for a week...probably not well enough to make judgements about her in that light. What worries me more though is Dan. He hasn't replied to my last email either. I don't even WANT to think about the reasons for that. Fuck me but being thousands of miles away and having friends scattered all over the world is so fucking hard. The military and the travel it requires is such a curse in that regard. Everywhere I've ever been, I've left behind people that I love. No matter how much I love going new places, these people I have to leave behind makes me wonder if it's really all that worth it. The internet is such a powerful tool to keep people connected...and yet all it seems to do is ostracize me sometimes. "We would have never marched so far...to be food...food for a crow" Sting, _Something the Boy Said_ current mood: worried
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