今日の日本語の言葉: yasumu (休む) - to rest
Today's word was brought to you by the fact that I spent today resting. I either am sick or have really bad allergies (I think it's the latter, based on the feeling)
Today was quite a normal day, actually. I didn't go outside at all, which I'm actually glad for, because I would have been miserable. My nose was running all day in the way that forced you to sit by tissues all day. I went through at least half a box, and my nose is still running and stuffed up even as I write this. I hope it gets better by tomorrow.
Breakfast this morning was just some bread and jam. I'll never tire of Japanese bread. It's so much softer and squishier, and when you toast it well, it has a nice crispiness on the outside, but still remains so soft on the inside. And the taste! Oh the taste. I don't think I'll ever view American bread in the same way ever again.
After breakfast, I sat around on my computer finishing the epilogue to the longest fic I've ever written (I've only ever written two), coming in at a total of thirty chapters and 119,582 words. The first chapter was written on November 8, 2009, and today, November 11, 2012, I've put up the last. It's been three years. And my writing style has changed so much! I went back and reread it for nostalgia's sake, and I was surprised at myself. Have any of you ever read something very old and you wonder how the heck you ever thought of some of the things you have? I sometimes read my old, old homework and I wonder how my fourth grade self seems to be smarter than my current self at times. It just goes to show that some syntax will come once and once only, and then never be hit upon again. Such an adventure to reread old things!
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| Ayuka being one of those magical girls from TV. |
After lunch, I hung around a bit writing more (the last chapter, I find, is the toughest; it's the one that has the risk of disappointing readers the most, because nothing else will come afterward to fix it. It's the last impression!). Ryosuke was doing something where he was really just on the ground for at least fifteen minutes, right in front of the chair I usually sit in. I still don't know what he was doing.
Ayuka and Masahiro-san were playing some interesting game with cute little pieces that had animal pictures on it. I stuck around trying to understand the rules without asking, but in the end, still couldn't get it. So I gave up and took a nap instead, hoping that my sinuses would clear up a little while I was unconscious.
At four, I woke up after two hours of sleep and resumed writing. It was the weirdest feeling when I finished. I mean, this has been a part of my life for three years, and now it's... over. Of course, I have two other fics I plan on starting, but it's like a milestone moment, you know? It feels great! And a loss at the same time. Sort of like the time I put up the real last chapter of my fic, before the epilogue.
For dinner, we had some delicious roasted chicken with rice, accompanied by toasted renkon (lotus root) and kabu (turnip) miso soup. I am so blessed to have been put in a house with such good food all the time. And Yoshiko-san seems to think that I am always hungry. How is it that I'm losing weight?!
After dinner, I finished drawing Akihabara-kun, mostly because I haven't drawn anything at all today, having spent my creative time focused on writing instead. But I love Akihabara-kun so much that ideas about him kept spewing out of my mind. Tomorrow should see the creation of at least one of the two businessmen, if not both. I don't know how much time I'll have in class though, and I have a workshop beforehand (more on that tomorrow).
As I'm writing right now, I am also embarking on what I hope to be a weekly ritual: 9:00 watching Monsters every Sunday night until the season ends. Monsters is this hilarious show that—if you know me at all—you'll see why I like it when I explain it. It's about a detective (Hiratsuka) who has always worked alone beforehand, but now someone else has been assigned to be his partner (Saionji), mostly to protect him (because Hiratsuka has solved every case that has come his way, so the criminals hate him most out of the whole department, making him a strong target for something bad). Hiratsuka sucks at dealing with people in a socially acceptable way, has odd methods of working cases out (which people think border on magical ability sometimes), and works so fast sometimes that everyone else generally has to catch up. Sound familiar? The difference between him and Sherlock though is that Hiratsuka is always happy. He smiles all the time and greets everyone and everything with a grin, even things that are serious like mourning relatives—which throws people off quite a bit. But both he and Sherlock are obviously passionate about—and good at—their work.
Also, Saionji, like Watson, acts as the foil to Hiratsuka, asking questions of things he doesn't understand, playing out various crazy scenarios to help Hiratsuka think, and generally being more "normal" than Hiratsuka. He's very straight-laced, naive, and honest, which is very different than Hiratsuka (whom I suspect has a darker side that explains his constant happiness; hopefully that will be explained in future episodes. After all, this is only episode four of the first season).
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| Left: Hiratsuka; right: Saionji |
I'll see you on the morrow!
マギー
Oh man, u really r lucky to b in a family of good food! Haha
ReplyDeleteMakes me hungry looking at these sumptuous photos.
One other major difference btw this Hiratsuka n Sherlock is that he's such a youngster, eh.
Isn't Sherlock supposed to be on the younger side too? Like forty two or so? That's pretty young for a detective of his caliber. Though I guess Hiratsuka is in his thirties or something. Hmm...
DeleteEveryone always says they get hungry when they look at these photos. I get hungry too when I look back at them and I haven't eaten yet. xD