A baby and some break dancers

This is me at a restaurant where the bartenders let me have these glasses. There were only three pair and they got them in NY and they let ME have them! This has nothing to do with the post, but I'm sure it will make some of you all's day! :-D

So, unfortunately, I did not have my camera with me, so I didn't take any pictures. And the camera on my phone is not the best when there is no sunlight, even though it's a whopping 8.0 megapixels (for those of you that don't know, the higher the megapixels the better the image quality, my big nice awesome Sony camera is 10 megapixels. That's just a megapixel comparison, obviously my camera phone is nowhere near as capable as my awesome Sony camera, but anyway).

First, I'll start with some amazing news. My boss is pregnant!!! She has been trying to get pregnant for a while (with her HUSBAND all you judgementeralists!!!). From what I understand, she was always planning to leave Amity soon because she was trying to get pregnant. And just yesterday she found out she was pregnant. When one of my students wasn't showing up on time she was talking to me in the lobby and she said, "OH! Jeremy I have news!" I asked, "Good or bad?" and she said "Good! I'm pregnant!" I was floored by this, because I was expecting her to say something good about the company or something. One, it was refreshing to see her with a crazy happy genuine smile on her face (not a business "I have to be nice to you because you are my customer smile) because she is truly happy. I'm sure working around kids for two years and WANTING some of your own when you are married while you are trying can be tough on a person, but she's finally getting her wish and I wish her well. She told me she was nervous. I told her that my mom had me when she was 22 and I turned out GREAT so imagine how your kid will turn out (because she is older having her first child in comparison with my mom who had me very young, woah..realization..she had me at the age I am now...woah! anyway).

Yes, I just gave my mom a HUGE pat on the back, if you don't agree that she raised a great son (with the help of my dad of course) then why the heck are you even reading this blog to begin with, obviously I have something good to offer if you are reading about my life when you could be doing a BILLION other things! So thank you, from the bottom of my heart :-D.

So yes, my manager is pregnant. Secondly, I finally watched some break dancers today outside of the train station. I had been seeing them a lot, usually every weekend as I biked past the train station on the way somewhere or on the weeknights when I was biking home. Today I decided, what the heck, I'm going to stop. They were doing tricks on top of tricks on top of more tricks. If they were a car, they would have been tricked out *da da DING*. There were about six or seven of them and after about 15 minutes I asked them (in my LITTLE Japanese that I knew) if I could put my iPod in and let them jam to some of MY tunes. They let me (because Japanese people are AWESOME like that!) and they danced to one of my DJ Sega mixes (I'm not DJ Sega, but I had one of his mixes on my iPod) for about 20 minutes or so. And the best part is, I got in there are started dancing myself (not break dancing obviously) and they clapped for me. So yeah, imagine this tall black guy in his suit after work dancing with a bunch of b-boy Japanese break dancers out in front of a train station at 9:30 PM. It was awesome! One of the guys asked me where I was from, I told him I was Americajin and that I worked for Amity. I asked him how often they come out to practice and he told me every night at 9. So maybe one day I'll take my b-boy clothes to work with me, change afterwards and try to learn some of their break dancing moves. Here's hoping me and the pavement don't have another nasty encounter. :)

-Jeremy aka the future break dancer?