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The night after we got back from Korea, Octopus Lunchbox (this jazz quartet) had a concert. The sax player is amazing, but is moving to New York at the end of June. The drummer, Kobayashi-san, keeps telling me I'm going to be the "main" after he goes, so I have about 25 jazz standards to learn. I'm hoping we'll be able to adapt some of my songs into a more "jazzy" style, or else to write some new songs that might suit the group. The concert was fun. It was in a miniscule coffee shop (as are all coffee shops in Japan), however, and their wasn't much room to groove. I've got to learn how to do that...

I promise to write something more exciting soon. Blogger seems to be restricted now from my workplace (uh-oh, don't know what's going on there...I'm sure it's just some kind of parental control thing meant for the students), so I haven't been able to write from work lately (which I likely shouldn't have been doing in the first place...)

I feel slightly desperate for contact from home lately, so if you're reading this, please, please leave a small comment. I'm looking forward to my trip home in August- I should be around Saskatchewan for the first two weeks, and then around Vancouver/Mayne Island for another week. Let me know if you wanna hang out, yo! Oh, I'll also be in Taipei for a two day lay-over to visit the lovely Kerri on my way home (but I'm sorry, if you want to fly to Taipei, my social calendar's all booked with KERRI and JIAHAO!) So looking forward to reconnecting with everyone.