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divided stairways
May. 26th, 2021 04:15 pm・In general I love the weird high school where I volunteer for its determined stance of “everyone here is a little weird and that’s okay,” which makes it a refreshing change from, well, most schools in general. The 11th-graders in particular are adorable. (Whether it’s a result of Japan’s particular school system or worldwide I can’t say, but I have noticed at multiple schools and classes a huge jump in maturity from 10th to 11th grades, or roughly ages 15+ to 16+. Rebellious wild kids calm down and get responsible, tense shy kids relax and get comfortable, the class as a whole is suddenly a bunch of reasonable semi-grownups instead of large kids.)
・I mentioned Chinese dramas in passing and two of the girls got !!! eyes all of a sudden, so after class I went over to chat with Saki and Chieri—they confessed to being fans of “Chinjorei,” which I was able to parse after a moment as 陳情令, CQL/Untamed. Curious to hear if they also use Japanese readings for the character names—the story of Gi Musen (the wifi joke works in Japanese too) and Ran Boki? (Fortunately for him it’s not Ran Bokki...). (While I would be glad to introduce the baby cdrama fans to Guardian as well, I feel like somehow it’s not really for...it hits harder if you’re older? I don’t know.)
・I got the not!lime thing I’d ordered online, a cute little tree, and managed to repot it without pricking my fingers on any of its numerous thorns (hopefully Y would have been able to awaken me from enchanted sleep when he got home from work that day, but why take the risk). I did end up spilling soil and fertilizer all over the tatami, though, making me glad I don’t live in a DWJ novel, in which I would probably have found a little bamboo forest growing by the next day.
・Liu Chang, who has no shame (and why should he), recorded himself singing a very silly Japanese pop tune, and I realized that the chorus invariably transmutes into this in my head. Well, we all know Bach was ahead of his time.
・Looking for some staircase vocabulary, I found a site describing staircase styles with reference to various New York buildings, including a sentence I particularly liked: “The divided stairway shown above is at Carnegie Hall in New York City. People bend the stairway path rules for various reasons including oblivion, patience, and the presence of obstructions.”
Photos: Some atmospheric buildings of various kinds, a very predatory flower and a more maidenly one, and my best (failed) attempt to photograph the sparklingly colorful raindrops on the wires during 狐の嫁入り, a sunshower.
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Be safe and well.
・I mentioned Chinese dramas in passing and two of the girls got !!! eyes all of a sudden, so after class I went over to chat with Saki and Chieri—they confessed to being fans of “Chinjorei,” which I was able to parse after a moment as 陳情令, CQL/Untamed. Curious to hear if they also use Japanese readings for the character names—the story of Gi Musen (the wifi joke works in Japanese too) and Ran Boki? (Fortunately for him it’s not Ran Bokki...). (While I would be glad to introduce the baby cdrama fans to Guardian as well, I feel like somehow it’s not really for...it hits harder if you’re older? I don’t know.)
・I got the not!lime thing I’d ordered online, a cute little tree, and managed to repot it without pricking my fingers on any of its numerous thorns (hopefully Y would have been able to awaken me from enchanted sleep when he got home from work that day, but why take the risk). I did end up spilling soil and fertilizer all over the tatami, though, making me glad I don’t live in a DWJ novel, in which I would probably have found a little bamboo forest growing by the next day.
・Liu Chang, who has no shame (and why should he), recorded himself singing a very silly Japanese pop tune, and I realized that the chorus invariably transmutes into this in my head. Well, we all know Bach was ahead of his time.
・Looking for some staircase vocabulary, I found a site describing staircase styles with reference to various New York buildings, including a sentence I particularly liked: “The divided stairway shown above is at Carnegie Hall in New York City. People bend the stairway path rules for various reasons including oblivion, patience, and the presence of obstructions.”
Photos: Some atmospheric buildings of various kinds, a very predatory flower and a more maidenly one, and my best (failed) attempt to photograph the sparklingly colorful raindrops on the wires during 狐の嫁入り, a sunshower.
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Be safe and well.
