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The Demon Against Whom I Have No Defenses
There was an Aisho-san viewing last night. (Oh, and the accompanying sushi, of course.) Aisho-san. Yum. (Oh, and sushi, yum too.) Max went with me, and pointed out as we were leaving just how earnest the Aisho-san is. And when he said that, I was, like, �ARRGH!� because I have absolutely no defenses against earnestness. It�s sad really. I get around an earnest person and all my defenses�all my carefully cultivated cynicism, all my hyper-vigilant over-the-top-ness designed to keep people at bay�fall away. I�ve got nothing in the face of earnestness. And I want the Aisho-san. But I don�t know if I could do an earnest man. Dammit. So, the Aisho-san revealed that he�ll be 33 on the 19th of this month. He just bought a house. He told us about coming to America three months before his high school graduation, about returning to Japan to graduate with his class there and then running away from home so that he wouldn�t have to come back to America. He told us that he used to surf and when he first came here to our little desert state, he was sad because there was no water. He told us about his martial arts teacher in Japan and about teaching martial arts here in America. He told us how his parents met�in an information kiosk in Tokyo�and that his father is semi-retired from the air force. He told us that he had a younger brother (�born in 1976�) who he has, for the most part, lost touch with. He told us about teaching English in Japan to middle-school aged children. (�I don�t like children too much,� he said, his face scrunched up in distaste.) I asked him if he would ever go to college and he said he was too old. As I am the same age and only just graduated, I bypassed his answer and asked him what he would study if he did go to college. He replied, �Philosophy.� I asked what kind of philosophy, and he, of course, said Eastern or Asian philosophy. He told us that he is �a hard-working kind of guy.� Which was sweet. So, yeah. I�m still in raging crush mode. Aisho-san.
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