A lil update :)
Nov. 20th, 2025 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mudousetsunaWhat to talk about here, I never post 😅
I'm back in school. I decided to start working towards a degree even if I'm 20 years late to it. I was halfway there, might as well finish, and I've got a dream to work with Japanese for a living. I'm not happy with the state of my life right now. Having this concrete goal lets me work towards something, and honestly I feel like I'm becoming a stronger person because of it. I definitely have some struggles and ups and downs but I don't want to put that all over the internet.
I just think, if you really want something, don't let your fear hold you back. I'm kinda terrified, NGL, but it's also fun to push myself.
I'll try to write a little something in Japanese here every time I update. Maybe I should make it a goal to post once a week. Even if I have nothing to say in Japanese, I should translate a little of something. I know we have translate apps at our finger tips easily now, but if there's something you'd like translated, ask me, and I'll give it a shot!
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Coming up at the end of the month is Anime Frontier. I haven't blogged about cons in a long time and I tend to shoot myself in the foot talking about what I'll do, then not deliver. I've really gotta change that. We're doing some low-key easy cosplays this time, and I'm making the robes from Mashle. I really like doing applique on clothes, it's so satisfying. We got this nice gold vinyl that's gonna be just shiny enough, and a good texture. The robes themselves will be a nice poly twill with a lining added.
I think we still haveinsidious's Lavi wig that I can wear for Dot, if not, I have a wig I can style. But coming up this week with thanksgiving I've got TWO speeches to prepare for!
I kinda feel like Mashle with the pressure to get them done, and I'm not so great at homework... tho somehow I've managed to keep an A average, my stress is super high. ToT;; Why two speeches? Well, I'm in both Intermediate Japanese part 1, as well as Speech 1311 and the streams must have collided, because my Japanese final is a speech IN JAPANESE.
実は本当に大変になりましたよ。もっと時間があればいいなあ。OTL がんばります！
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ALso, I've been trying to deliberately use modern social media less, and go back to my roots. One of my speeches in class, for argumentative speech, was on the indie-web. Like, oldschool webpages on geocities and such and why we should use them more. I know that I am a hypocrite to say it, but the more we use these kind of services and manually connect ourselves to each other, the more deliberate we make our lives and take back control instead of letting algorithms decide for us. I REALLY need more of that in my life, but un-training myself has been hard. I still refresh reddit every day and just doomscroll.
I added an RSS feed addon to my browser in an attempt to focus more on the subscriptions I have that I don't read enough. I'll be checking here more as well.
Also I found a nice forum, those are still around! It's https://animeforums.net/ if you'd like to check it out. So far everyone's nice!
I'm back in school. I decided to start working towards a degree even if I'm 20 years late to it. I was halfway there, might as well finish, and I've got a dream to work with Japanese for a living. I'm not happy with the state of my life right now. Having this concrete goal lets me work towards something, and honestly I feel like I'm becoming a stronger person because of it. I definitely have some struggles and ups and downs but I don't want to put that all over the internet.
I just think, if you really want something, don't let your fear hold you back. I'm kinda terrified, NGL, but it's also fun to push myself.
I'll try to write a little something in Japanese here every time I update. Maybe I should make it a goal to post once a week. Even if I have nothing to say in Japanese, I should translate a little of something. I know we have translate apps at our finger tips easily now, but if there's something you'd like translated, ask me, and I'll give it a shot!
--
Coming up at the end of the month is Anime Frontier. I haven't blogged about cons in a long time and I tend to shoot myself in the foot talking about what I'll do, then not deliver. I've really gotta change that. We're doing some low-key easy cosplays this time, and I'm making the robes from Mashle. I really like doing applique on clothes, it's so satisfying. We got this nice gold vinyl that's gonna be just shiny enough, and a good texture. The robes themselves will be a nice poly twill with a lining added.
I think we still have
insidious's Lavi wig that I can wear for Dot, if not, I have a wig I can style. But coming up this week with thanksgiving I've got TWO speeches to prepare for!I kinda feel like Mashle with the pressure to get them done, and I'm not so great at homework... tho somehow I've managed to keep an A average, my stress is super high. ToT;; Why two speeches? Well, I'm in both Intermediate Japanese part 1, as well as Speech 1311 and the streams must have collided, because my Japanese final is a speech IN JAPANESE.
実は本当に大変になりましたよ。もっと時間があればいいなあ。OTL がんばります！
--
ALso, I've been trying to deliberately use modern social media less, and go back to my roots. One of my speeches in class, for argumentative speech, was on the indie-web. Like, oldschool webpages on geocities and such and why we should use them more. I know that I am a hypocrite to say it, but the more we use these kind of services and manually connect ourselves to each other, the more deliberate we make our lives and take back control instead of letting algorithms decide for us. I REALLY need more of that in my life, but un-training myself has been hard. I still refresh reddit every day and just doomscroll.
I added an RSS feed addon to my browser in an attempt to focus more on the subscriptions I have that I don't read enough. I'll be checking here more as well.
Also I found a nice forum, those are still around! It's https://animeforums.net/ if you'd like to check it out. So far everyone's nice!
