So, I watched the super-condensed version of the NHK Taiga Drama Shinsengumi! a few days ago (okay, so it was like last week, but whatever).  Yes, it was in Japanese.  No, there were no subtitles.  I'm apparently better than I think I am at picking up the basic gist of scenes in Japanese, but not so good at translating sentence by sentence.  Thank ( Read more... )

So here is a post in which I actually talk about my life.  Whoa, oh my god, right?  But anyway.

So I have a few days of not-so-busy before my parents visit and Super Komi happens and apparently all the people I know who are in Japan but not around here visit, which will be great but probably hectic.  I was looking forward to having a relaxing bit of ( Read more... )

So yesterday (yeah, I know, lag and stuff), I started working on our current project for Japanese class, which is to write a paper on the plot of a manga or a novel or a game or a movie or something and then present it to the class, preferably a work that we've experienced in Japanese in the first place. And I'm doing 逆転裁判/Phoenix Wright: Ace ( Read more... )

So I got pissed today at a Star Trek fic I was reading because they got Sulu's rank wrong--they called him an Ensign, and he's not an Ensign, he's a Lieutenant. GOD WHY DO I KNOW THAT. Sometimes my geekiness amazes even myself (extra geek points if you caught that reference and respond with the next line, I guess). (And actually, I do know why I ( Read more... )

So, I stayed up way too late tonight. Brushing my teeth after everyone else had gone to bed was an interesting experience. Where the hell is the light switch in my host family's bathroom? That'll teach me ( Read more... )

Or anyway, that's what the weekend is for. So I told myself that I'm not allowed to go to sleep until I post a review of L--Change the WorLd, which I saw for the second time today because lady_tigerfish missed it the first time, and seeing movies is much more fun with someone else, especially when that other person can help you translate and such ( Read more... )

First, in various news, I went to the public library with my host mom today after we ate breakfast at a pan-ya with free coffee and got books in English, including Yoshizawa Eiji's rather well-known historical novel Musashi in translation (you get five guesses as to what it's about). So far the Zen monk Takuan (the historical figure whom the ( Read more... )

*sings*

Happy Birthday to me! I'm legal! Except I was already legal in Japan, but who cares. :P

Anyway.

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So. I'm in Japan ( Read more... )