NJ

I cannot emphasise just how much I miss renting with other people.

My New Years Resolution for 2025 was to introduce fish into my diet, by trying to eat fish at least once a month. I think I may narrow that for a while to just Basa while I try increase the frequency. I've had Basa a few times now and if I can normalise it, that might help me with others long term.

I somehow did not know about Against the Current's Bonus Tracks release... IS CHRISSY CONSTANZA SINGING THE CHORUS OF NIJI IN JAPANESE!? I may be a little in love with her (I am being hyperbolic, but I am gonna sit and fangirl for a few hours...)
Excuse me while I go learn all of the lyrics.

A sample sentence from Bunpro regarding the grammar point みたいに. The sentence reads サンドイッチみたいに、パンに挟んだ。where the みたいに is highlighted in blue. A button underneath reads "Show Translation"

I cannot take the verb 挟む seriously. I just remember my friend flapping his arms in a weird way at a language exchange event when he taught me that word after teaching me the word for scissors...

I've been rewatching Kaguya-Sama... Season 2 Episode 7 has more second-hand embarrassment in it than annything else on the planet. I had to keep pausing it to get through it.
Still possibly my favourite Romance Anime (though I'll admit the catalogue of shows I've seen in that genre is sparse).

My entire TikTok feed has become Japanese people explaining in Japanese things to do Nagoya...

You search for Legoland reviews one time!

Oh... my music suggestions are finally playing Against the Current and PVRIS again.
Excuse me while I scream the lyrics of Good Guy at the top of my lungs.
I love ATC.

YouTube video by Taku Iwasaki - Topic Recollection

music.youtube.com/watch?v=nGpL...

The Noragami OST has basically been a "cry on command" button for my ears since 2018.

見て！見て！八重桜だ！先週、この写真を撮った！

まだあまり花が咲かないけど花芽いっぱいよね！

咲き始めてるよ！🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

The drilling in the ceiling in work happening the same week I'm on-call and therefore sleep deprived has been has been uniquely painful.

I'd literally rather be programming in Assembly.

If anyone knows of a way to change every instance of variable's name in one go in MS VBA, would be much appreciated. Imma go cry because no one told me a specific naming convention had to be used... 😭😭😭

I am always anxious, so me saying I'm anxious Is not particularly out of the ordinary, but wow am I anxious today.

Blue text message reading "I don't know what I said wrong... I'm too Autistic and not bilingual enough to know where the miscommunication was... I've now accidentally planned a group dinner.". The message has been reacted to with a laughing crying emoji.

I meant "On Sunday, let's organise a group ramen trip" not "Let's organise a ramen trip for Sunday". I meant to say the former of those things in Japanese to my Japanese friend, but by the sounds of things I said the latter.

Eat dinner or hyperfocus on new Lego set?

Oh no, he's played another word ending ば...

I'm going to lose my mind tomorrow over VBA. I have to go in and change the names of every variable in every function for compliance with the naming convention and everything is going to break in the process...

...I am not a programmer. I have never claimed to be one. Why is this happening?

Bad start to the work day today. Had a very Autistic reaction to something, that annoyed someone else. Right now, I really want a hug, because I'm going to be thinking about it for the rest of the day.

I feel like I have to commit to a bit now though 😅

I just responded to a game of Shiritori with バナナ for the second game in a row, with the same person providing the previous word. Either I don't know many words beginning with ば or I associate this person with Bananas.

Given I associate one of my best friends with pineapples, either is possible...

I'm using Bunpro and Genki II currently, and I'm trying to message my Japanese friends more frequently outside of our language exchange group.
Aiming to retake N4 in December.

I feel like I should maybe post on here about my (failed) attempts at constructing sentence in Japanese, what I learn from them.

I do pretty well with Kanji and Vocab (could possibly improve of verb selection), but my biggest downfall is Grammar - so I'm trying make more of an effort.

Losing my pencil case on the train 2 months ago remains one of my biggest regrets in life. I cannot stand Casio's newest models... I miss my fx-991EX. The CW model awful.

Fellow Ace Tokusatsu fan (who despite being Ace occasionally gets very invested in ships)... the mere existance of half the KR books is traumatising.

I feel like I need to create a list of all the Gavv theories I've had so far (some are for funsies, and some are things I think will happen in the show).