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Puerto Rican in Japan, fan of stuff, writer, and all-around shy woman. pixiv / AO3 / Twitter / ko-fi

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Super uneventful day.

Worked in the morning. Gym after lunch. “Sushi” for early dinner. (Ate at a Hama Sushi. Didn’t eat any fish….) And then some cleaning at home.

I’m working all day tomorrow (followed by gym), but Saturday is all mine to do with as I wish (followed by gym).

I’ll probably go to the mall to stay cool and to watch the Chiikawa movie. …Followed by gym.

📣 Good news, me. Hagi is a flat town, so bicycling around is easy (according to their tourism website).

Still wanna rent a car, though. Cruise along the coast, stare at volcanic rocks and hornfels, maybe see the torii gates in next-door Nagato… get to the Shinkansen station without trouble…

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Focusing on my exercise routine extra hard now for my trip. Like, properly.

It’s two months away, and I want to be fast enough to rush to the station after work to catch the train in order to catch the Hagi express bus in time.

And strong enough to walk around the town without tiring out 10 minutes in.

I wonder if Hagi is hilly. I’m weak against inclines at the moment…

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Booked a better, albeit more expensive, hotel room by the beach.

Once I booked the hotel, this trip to Hagi suddenly turned from 'I kinda wanna' to ‘I'm fucking gonna'. It's funny how hard that flipped the switch in my brain.

I bought fucking travel guide books this afternoon.

Currently planning out my travel schedule while I sit in my hot house, sweating like crazy.

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I, uh, impulsively booked a hotel in Haki for October.

Barely looked.

Might cancel later.

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Finally heading home after catching the late night screening of Obsession.

My one complaint: when it was loud, it was loud.

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Had the misfortune of sitting next to a shithead who had the audacity to suck his teeth and give me the stink eye as he got off the train.

I would curse him, but people like him are already pathetic and miserable and nothing good ever go their way.

All the same, I hope he trips and fall on his face on his miserable-shithead way home.

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Lost 400 yen at the races.

That was my gacha toy money. 😭

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Hi! I read your fanfic A Series of Events. I liked it a lot! <3

I’m really happy to hear that! That really makes my day.

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At the race track. So far, I’ve lost more at the stores than on the bets.

I visited the merch store, mostly to see what’s there, and I found a Just a Way badge! Of course I bought it.

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Managed to remember to watch the World Cup final. I made it in time for overtime.

I’m still so confused by the game stats. Argentina’s made no shots? Created no chances? They had possession of the ball only 30% of the time? Do they even want to be here??

Not that I care. I’m cheering for Spain.

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Ah, I finally have a day off tomorrow!

…for reasons, I’m going to the horse races.

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... I can't remember the last time I wrote fanfic.

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Me, looking at the dumb things I put up on youtube for my own amusement, because someone left a comment on a Gintama edit I did.

My 'best' video with 50k views, and it's basically "no. it's poop."

Anyway, this is a terrible edit, using a source with terrible quality, a video only 200 views. And watching it made me laugh. Because, apparently, I made it for an audience of one (me).

And then I watched it again. So now it has 202 views.

(It's a party scene from the movie "Village of the Giants" by way of MST3K, set to Nelly's "Shake Ya Tailfeather". You're welcome.)

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Yamaguchi Pref.'s Hagi City is having a Gintama collab event this fall.

Gintama Goyomi 〜Sometimes Looking Back at the Past is a Good Thing〜 (銀魂暦 〜たまには昔を振り返ってみるのも吉〜)

"Kichi", which was translated to me as "good thing", means "good fortune"/"auspicious", or, maybe more importantly, is the character for 'yoshi' in Yoshida Shouyou (吉田 松陽).

Anyway, I've wanted to go to Hagi for a while now. I now have the perfect excuse.

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Teach You a Lesson, episode 7:

This show really has a habit of spouting... I want to say talking points?... a lot of facts and statistics about the problem of the week. It's kinda shoehorned in, too, just shoved in to give the audience facts or to get up on a soapbox to tell the viewer the moral viewpoint on the thing.

Am I making sense?

Also: the gambling episode featured a lot of shots of a webtoons site (I'm assuming it's the same one that hosted the webtoon the show is based on)... and the site is stuffed with gambling site ads. Gross. I can only shake my head at all that advertising.

I can only vomit in my mouth and look away as they advertise the latest Apple phone near the end of the episode.

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I’m not at top form today. I feel disconnected. Tired.

Fortunately, the only thing i have to do today is attend a zoom meeting.

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There's another thing I want to say about Teach You a Lesson (Netflix) that I feel I should apologize to the show for.

I saw the tag 'Fight the System' on its listing, and I thought, how can that be? The protag is part of the system. He works in the government.

Only for the show's first episode to have a rich politician as one of the antagonists, and for the fourth episode to involve taking down a whole group of elite people using their money to do the most evil, the most vile of corrupt schemes: cheating on exams.

... I don't know, some time back, I saw one two, maybe three, videos about South Korea, Confucianism, meritocracy, and all the ways their 'meritocratic' education system is depended on how much money you have (for tutors and cram schools that taught you the real tricks to the impartial exam), and how some of the biggest scandals involved rich kids getting their families to open the back door of the top colleges for them... and it's ingrained into my brain, influencing how I'm watching this show. What can I say.

The videos in question: "Gacha Drama and the Korean Gender War" by Moon Channel and "South Korea is Broken." by Gattsu.