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Half time

I finished my latest job early today. When I emailed it to the client, I mentioned that since I beat the deadline I would watch Japan vs. Brazil this afternoon.

Then I felt silly, because a client who's dumping tons of work onto me right now would probably want to hear that I was working.

But in her reply, she only said she was jealous that I got to watch the match live, and how she'd been losing sleep over the fate of the Japanese team (she's Japanese).

So it's half time now and Japan is holding up okay. They scored the first goal of the match 36 minutes into the first half, at which point the Brazilian play took on a distinct sense of urgency. The Japanese defense stayed strong enough to withstand them until the last 13 seconds of the period, when Brazil got their first goal. The French commentators cried, "Ah, the Japanese, they are too naive! They always watch the ball and never the players!"

And now the second half begins.

It's raining.