Lucky Day

This was written 3-2-09 when I didn't have my computer.


Some days make me believe in God or some higher power that sends us signs and happy things when things are going badly.

These past couple days I've been mad at the universe for messing up my hard drive. I've had my mac for about a year and a half and all of a sudden I can't even log in.

My friend Matt who works at the American Museum of Natural History asked me if i wanted to submit a proposal for a textile to be included in the exhibition on the Silk Road. This is an awesome opportunity for me so I'd been researching heavily on the internet and making drafts on Illustrator. I saved one of the designs and then mac's rainbow "wheel of doom" (as my friend Joe calls it) appeared. The computer stopped responding. I restarted several times and logging in took like 10 minutes and the wheel of doom kept spinning. I've been quite depressed ever since, it's how I access the world outside Kochi using Skype, iTunes, English news, tv...

So, I was riding my bike, taking the computer to be reapired and wondering if I'll have to buy a whole new computer when something amazing happened! I found my favorite hat that I'd lost over a month ago just lying under a flowering magnolia tree! It wasn't wet or really dirty at all which is strange since it's been raining a lot lately. Then at the repair shop the guy said it would just cost around $200 which is better than I expected. He has to look at it and will let me know in a week.

While riding back home I ran into a small parade of Geisha, Maiko and little girls in yukata dancing and playing tambourine-like instruments. Leading the procession was a large Geisha wig (kotatsu) on a rolling pedastil being pushed by two men. I have no idea what this means but it was exciting! I caught up to them just as they were getting on a huge bus to go somewhere else.

Things equaled out a bit when I pulled up to the bank and was approached by an unmedicated psychotic who started blabbering something in Japanese. I don't know what he was talking about but he said "Michael Jackson" a few times. He started screaming "HELLO!" at me when I walked away from him.