¡Sarah!

"I don't know if anyone is still around, but here is an update" seems to be a common theme in my friends list these days, so - I don't know if anyone is still around, but here is an update.

The last time I posted (in December 2015!), I was working at an eikaiwa in Tokyo. In April 2016, I moved to a different department within the eikaiwa and taught for a year at a university in Tokyo. I returned to Canada in April 2017 and since September 2017 I have been working on my Master's degree in Teaching English as a Second Language. The readings and the discussions have been very interesting, but most of it has felt pretty distant from actual classroom situations, and I am pretty eager to get back there! I somehow managed to finish my coursework in three semesters, and now I am taking a semester to write my final project. Sad to say I have just as much internal motivation to write this essay as I usually do, which is to say that I have none. :) But I will do my best!

Earlier this year I started lifting weights (!!), last month I started trying to get back into sewing, and as always a large portion of my free time is spent studying Japanese, but honestly the main thing that's been occupying my thoughts these past few weeks is old movies! The combination of TCM, YouTube, the public library, and my university library's web site has provided me with an endless free supply. As usual I have been watching a lot of movies from the '30s, '40s, and '50s, but after I discovered Buster Keaton in 2016 I started watching a LOT more silent movies than I ever did previously and I am loving it! The most recently silent movie I watched was 1921's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse which was really interesting and also made me cry. So clearly I am getting pretty into these things!

For various reasons I have greatly reduced my online presence over the past couple years, but I continue to update my Trojan War blog infrequently. The current top post is ALL MY THOUGHTS on this spring's Troy: Fall of a City miniseries, which was flawed but I LOVED it. I think that kind of super long post is not really sustainable now that I am turning into someone who doesn't want to spend all her free time on the computer, so I'm trying to figure out how I might change the way I've been writing my posts there, but rest assured I still enjoy exploring the world of Trojan War adaptations!

Also, today is Morning Musume's 21st anniversary, and I still love them too. <3

I hope all my LJ friends are doing well! Feel free to let me know if you read this. :)

I seem to have immersed myself in fandom-y goodness this winter break. Which I do enjoy, but at the same time it does have a tendency to throw me off-balance and make me all OCD and frustrated with regards to my future. (Besides the montage, the part of Treasure Planet that hit me the most when I first watched it on DVD was when Jim's mother tells him to think of his future and he says, "What future?" I may not be on my way to juvenile hall, but still I feel like that sometimes, too.) So perhaps for this entry I shall talk about things that neither H!P nor fictional. XD;

Well, allow me one thing. ^^; ( watching the 'Treasure Planet' audio commentary + writing )

( being productive )

( watching anime )

( cutting up T-shirts )

( writing a novel )

Anyway. I had no intention of making this entry so long, but at least I only wasted an hour writing it. My today was not so proudly productive (besides the beating of KH2, if that counts, hahahaha!!), but that's okay, I guess I can live with it. ;) Now I shall leave you with a link to my current favourite H!P performance: Morning Musume's "Yah! Ai Shitai!" from their fall 2006 concert. ( being a fangirl )

Ahaha, sorry that my plan for this entry failed and I still ended up talking about H!P and fiction. XD!!!

( being excited for disneyland!!!!!! )

I should stop staying up all late. I always end up either getting way too depressed or way too excited about something. I still have to go spend some time learning keigo, waaaaaaaugh~!

I went to work today. My feelings about work have been all over the place lately, but today was good. And I work on Monday, which I'm kind of glad of, just because it means I can get out of the house for my least favourite holiday ever. _-_;; And then on Friday! Which means I don't have to close on any school nights, which is brilliant!!

I've called in sick twice in the past two weeks, though, and attempted to call in sick a third time ... and I've actually been missing quite a bit of school ... augh, see? Now I'm going to get way depressed about this!! >_>

So I guess I should go do my keigo worksheet and then go to bed. How exciting. I still haven't finished my friend's birthday present and her birthday was on Sunday. I'm amazing. XD;;;;;;

Sewing classes start in two weeks yaaaaaaay~! XD!

Got some marks back today. I feel like I am doing fantastically well in my Japanese class, and awful awful awful in everything else. ;_;

I don't really want to go to school tomorrow. ~_~;;

But after school! SEWING CLASS!!!!!!!!! <33333