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Linguistic geekery for all!
I'm not sure exactly how I stumbled across Toki Pona. No, that's a lie: I think I started out at xkcd, checked out their forums, homed in on the linguistics section like a language-seeking missile, and found myself reading people's thoughts on conlangs. A day later, after a tangential foray into every writing system known to man, I went back to ( Read more... ) -
記憶の中に刻んだ空の色はあの日のように変わらぬように
Started another book; I'm not positive as I took off the advertising slip covers, but, if my KCJS nakama remember, I think it might have been the one with the "To make myself feel better, I picked up N boys" tagline, lololol. It's definitely very ~seishun ( Read more... ) -
夏が好きな君が好きだ
slkdfjsd GUYS, if I can totally wota out for a moment, this pretty much proves that Japan loves me and wants me to be happy:
But Emily, you say, it's just more over-excitable jailbait. Also, I think Kanjani8 has done this song before ( Read more... ) -
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I'm actually approaching the end of my book: no great feat since I've been reading on and off since February, but exciting nonetheless, particularly as I am going mad trying not to skip ahead to see whether any of my theories are right. It's a mystery by Higashi Keigo - you may know him as the author of Ryuusei no Kizuna, or the currently airing ( Read more... ) -
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Omg, y'all. So I've been reorganizing my room lately, putting school stuff into my closet where it will probably fall over and kill me when I'm least expecting it, that sort of thing. The biggest issue is that there are easily upwards of fifty books sitting in stacks around the floor, and some of them can go the attic, and some of them (my first- ( Read more... ) -
Lately
Just got off spring break last week; it was not necessarily the most restful, and it certainly did no favors for my internet access, but I did allow my spring-semester friend to convince me to go back to Tokyo; she had not yet been. Tokyo is expensive, we reasoned; we will minimize expense and maximize time there by taking the night bus. At the ( Read more... ) -
This is not an update.
For (very) occasional real-life updates, check my travel blog. Sometimes cynical ramblings on xenophobia, the Japanese education system, and the problem with Japanese bookstores at Lang-8 ( Read more... ) -
You could call this "fail at journaling"
Dorky, half-asleep realization of the night: I understand the grammar behind Naruto's "dattebayo" catchphrase, and "I'm telling you" would have been a better translation.
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So, uh, guys, I feel slightly terrible about dropping off the planet for a week and a half. My homestay internet is (blessedly) extant but requires me to steal my host mother's ethernet cable, and I feel slightly weird about this; we do have wireless access on some parts of campus, but that requires that I be on campus, and cannot really support ( Read more... ) -
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Guys, if there is anything more depressing* than looking at the clock (9:27!) and realizing that I need to be awake again in less than six hours, I'm not too sure what it is.
*in a not-too-life-changing-way
Which is to say:
brb, Japan!
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