happier news
my wife and i have almost finished making a mini text adventure game, she's even made pictures for it. we're going to put it up on "itch" i think it's called, some site where people can name their price and thus donate money if they want.
i'm meeting more and more japanese people all the time via twitter (none have turned into true friendships yet but we'll see), and in general doing a lot of stuff to improve my japanese. i think i've gotten over my fear of writing in japanese to japanese people (thinking that i'm actually very possibly GOING TO JAPAN to live is a big motivator in everything now), i just have to really improve my understanding and speaking. i'm making my own pop-up dictionary by adding in words as i find them in context, because the existing one is crap - having wrong, reaaaally obscure or missing meanings. the wordlist is all saved to XML so i can hire someone to make me a better tool later when i have money, and i can publish it as a mini dictionary later as well.
my final exam (which is in about 2 weeks) is going to be a lot easier than i thought, they're not even testing us on hand-writing kanji which is my weakest point. but i'm still really behind on my homework, i'm trying to do recording tasks and keep messing up and get really frustrated (same thing when i try to record in english or swedish or esperanto ---- that's why i can't be a youtube star). my plan is to do ALL those recording tasks tomorrow.... some require my groupwork partner.
also i watched some random unsubbed anime i'd already seen years ago ("planet of the beast king" aka. jyuu ou sei) and i didn't get much of the first ep, but i understood like 90% of the second ep and 70% of the third ep! it's mostly just a bunch of cliché lines so that's why it was so easy, but i'm really excited. also i'm going to start up a blog on ipernity (=place where you can easily insert photo albums into blog posts) in preparation for the exchange. i'll just make an intro post about me and explain how i'm studying japanese in preparation / show examples from the japanese classes i've taken so far, then let the blog sit until i've actually applied and gotten info back. the plan during the exchange would be to just write short entries in english, swedish, japanese and esperanto and have mostly photos.... but we'll see.
on the fandom/fiction front: i haven't been writing any real things but i've been doing super-mini drabbles on twitter or for other stuff on the fly. so something's going at least... i just keep doing random stuff until i'm so tired i HAVE to sleep and that's why i don't write much fiction anymore.