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Night n’ day. My friend Brendan built me a floor desk! :)

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2017.12.29 studyblr, I’ve been neglecting you terribly! My film program in LA called for very little in the way of “studying,” but on the right, at least, are some character diagrams from the script I wrote that was produced into a short film. I’ll have lots more time to spend with ya in January! Till then, happy new year!

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hey friends, It's been so long! I've been in LA working on a short film and studying screenplay writing for a semester and I DIG it. Any film majors/grad students out there?

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２０１７年９月１０日 >>>>Greetings from the LA Film Studies Center in West Hollywood! Updates: - Classes and all are going so well! Challenging classes, great professors, classmates are a blast (only 23 of us; crazy right?) - My first screenplay EVER was voted in as one of two projects to go into production this fall! It'll be a 10-minute, bilingual short film about a Japanese-American man trying to fill his deceased father's shoes. This project, and the one my crew is working on (cool spy film!) are starting pre-production this week! - I have a professional screenplay writing concentration this semester, for which I have to complete a feature length spec script. Above is the outlining work I did yesterday ♡

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２０１７年７月３日

I keep a journal because words are my lifeline. They are the things that connect me to all other things. My mind is full of feathers and clouds until I put my pen to the page and commit my senses to the shapes and paths of sentences. Alfred Hitchcock once called his happiness “a clear horizon,” and that’s what these pages have always been to me.

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j u n e . s t u d y . c h a l l e n g e

2017.6.3>>>What keeps you motivated at the end of the school?

1. Supportive friends. A caring, encouraging community has been so key to my success. Whether it’s emergency coffee, or a hug, or a few kind words.

2. My professors and academic advisors. They treat me like a human, and push me to see value in my work when I lose sight of my ambitions. And they remind me of how much I love what I do.

3. Coffee. Good god, coffee.

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２０１７年８月１０日 >>>>Accidentally bought another pen at a Japanese stationery/bookstore yesterday. Uni Style Fit. 0.28, can I get an amen???? And that CLEAR BODY. Excuse my 外人 handwriting but I love this pen way too much. LOL. also!!! My homiiiieeeeees! I have one week left of summer vacation. </3 While this means I won't have as much time to translate manga for you (trying to have 2 more out before I leave), I'll have cool stories to tell you from the heart of Hollywood!

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MANGA VOCAB/GRAMMAR

ハイキュー!! Haikyuu!! Vol. 1

影山：いいか、打ち抜けないなら躱すぞ。お前のありったけの運動能力と反射神経で俺のトスを打て Listen. If you can’t spike it, then avoid it. Use all the power and reflexes you’ve got to hit my tosses.

田中：ハァ！？ソレ速攻の説明かよ！？ What?! That’s how you explain a fast attack?!

日向：？わかった！！！ Got it!

田中：うそつけ分かってねえだろ！！ Liar! You have no idea what he’s talking about!

影山、日向：とりあえずやってみます！！ We’re gonna try it anyway!

田中：なんだお前、さっきまでガチ凹みしてたくせに What’s up with you (Kageyama)? You were all butthurt a second ago!

影山：？凹んでません。 No I wasn’t

田中：うそつけ！！ Liar!

VOCABULARY

打ち抜く(うちぬく)・ To punch; strike; stamp out (e.g. volleyball spike) (v.)

躱す(かわす)・ to dodge; evade (v.)

ありったけ・all that one has; all that there is; fully (adv., n.)

打つ(うつ)・to hit; strike; knock; beat (v.)

速攻(そっこう)・quick attack; fast break (n., adv. (colloquially)

説明(せつめい)・explanation (n., suru-v.)

うそつき・liar (often said without seriousness) (n.)

とりあえず・ for now; for the time being (adv.)

やって見る・to take a shot/take a chance; to try and do (lit. do it and see) (v., expression)

凹む(へこむ)・ to be overwhelmed; to feel down; to be daunted (to be dented; to sink/collapse/cave in (v.)

GRAMMAR

〜えないなら・ negative potential form + nara = “if you can’t〜”　e.g. “行けないなら = “If you can’t go” or “If it doesn’t work”

先まで〜・さっき/先 + まで = “until a moment ago”

〜くせに・ similar to のに (even though; despite; although) except more forceful/indicating contempt or dissatisfaction