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head over feets, thirteen
Lucky. All good things begin with the number thirteen, right? The race kinda wrapped our season, however you look at it, and as an autumn overseas vacation looms I’ve been contemplating things besides long distance training. That said, I’ve been trying to get in some physical activity amid dealing with a minor health issue this
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japanese, part four
Sayonara, but not forever. My class is done. My flash cards have just one more flash or so left in them. And I’ve definitely got Google Translate loaded up on my phone. As it is looking, forty-eight hours or so after writing this I’ll be sound asleep in Tokyo… y’know with the math on time
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urban sketch, four
I’m nearly three-quarters of the way through my October sketching challenge as I write this and I have yet to miss a day. Two things have emerged from that effort: First, I think my drawing has legitimately improved. Doing anything daily is inevitably going to contribute to the effort of general practice and growth, but
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japanese, part three
I am approaching fifty, but attending an introductory language class kinda makes me feel like I’m in kindergarten again. We count in unison, ask each other our names and ages, play games identifying colours, and get stickers for good work. I also have the least interesting origin story of the bunch, I’ve concluded. Everyone else
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japanese, part one-ish
I have written here previously about a couple of my self-study efforts to start learning Japanese, in part for our upcoming trip to Tokyo, but also just as—well—something interesting to pursue. Skills, languages, all that stuff—it broadens the mind, right? I figured I would make my updates a bit more formal because as of last