64/365: Sept 14. A deep sense of foreboding fell upon me this day.... look at all those yellow leaves in the water and all around. And I got invited to my first "fall" BBQ. Crap. The end of summer. NOOOOO

64/365: Sept 15. Met with Lisa & Tomo to hand over their wedding photos, and it happened to be Tomo's birthday so we went to Peppa Forest for a delightful dinner and surprise birthday cake & song for Tomo. They were so happy with my work that they gave me a massive bonus on top of the initial payment. I think I like wedding photography. I'm shooting another one next weekend for my friends Jane and Daisuke, really looking forward to it.

65/365: Sept 16. Oh joy of joys, look who I ran into down at my local station at lunch time. Widdle Jakey-Taiga and his poppa dawg.

66/365: Sept 17. Tony's Pizza. A tiny little hole on the wall under the train tracks away from Kichijoji Station. I ride past here at night a lot and it smells divine. One day I'll stop and go in. I hear from the locals that he's been there for years and the pizza is awesome.

This day was particularly special as I had a job interview for the dream adventure job of a lifetime. I find out at the end of the month. Keep everything crossed!

67/ 365: Sept 18. Most days I get home after a crazy day of crowds and people, and I just wanna settle in to my beautiful room and look at all the pretty things and listen to great music and drink a glass of wine and stare off into space.

68/365: Sept 19. The toilets at the Mainichi newspaper building are identical on every floor. They are all curved, like the elevator bay, and extremely sci-fi. After our meeting there finished (late, around 8 pm) Jon and I went downstairs and found a cheap restaurant and drank a bunch of celebratory beers (the meeting went really well and it had been a good week), then went into Golden Gai to meet Tommy Oshima, my photo hero. He's agreed to do a presentation at Photo Nite next week (what a great line-up it's shaping up to be!) and I couldn't be more chuffed. He has an exhibition on now at Golden Gai. Go check it out, the man is going to be a legend.

69/365: Sept 20. Mt Takao. My good mate Sarah had her birthday celebration up at the Mt Takao Beer Garden. To get there, we hiked almost 2 hours. A wonderful day. I swear, it only takes a day out in nature to feel fully recharged again. Afterwards we came back into to Shinjuku and I found myself at Golden Gai a second night in a row, spending a couple of beers with Tommy Oshima again before returning to the birthday party madness around the corner. More pics at Sarah's Flickr Bday Album. I took this pic above at the mountain top shrine, it's so pretty up there - it's been a while since I've visited, it was nice to say hi.

70/365: Sept 21. I had my Sunday morning cuppa skype with my brother, sister in law and niece this morning. Here they are watching a slideshow on the computer of the kids party from yesterday - they completely forgot I was watching them and they were so happily lost in the pictures on their screen that I just had to pull my camera out to shoot a pic. My brother has launched his new real estate business in North Queensland called Port Douglas Real Estate. He already has 20 properties listed and he is SOOO happy and inspired. And would you check out the fancy website? Lordy. Impressive.

And that was my week in pictures.

Tomorrow night I'm off to see the magical IDA play at Shibuya's DUO MUSIC EXCHANGE with Christian and Yuiko. So excited, we have all loved this band for many years - when I saw their name pop up at Tokyo Gig Guide, I did a little dance.

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