Attack on my Feelings!!

Hey wonderful Internet peoples,

I'm noticing that my blog posts are starting to take on more of the format of a letter or diary entry, heh heh.  Well, I guess it's become easier to write if I imagine who I'm writing to.  (Harks back to what I learned back in graduate school about "Purpose and Audience" being the two pillars of writing...but that's a discussion for another time...but the short story is that you always need to consider purpose and audience to successfully write or understand writing.)

So yeah, the point of this post: Attack on Titan was more like an attack on my feelings!  This show was really really good. There's so much room for analysis and interpretation of the metaphors available aplenty to satisfy the English teacher in me, and the characters are so well-developed and interesting delighting the reader in me, and there's a ton of action and violence which touches my shounen (young boy) heart.  However, I think there may have been too much violence and gore.  My boyfriend and I basically marathoned almost the entire series yesterday and finished season one.  Then we started another bloody series called Tokyo Ghoul.  I think in the end, I got an action and death overload, and it disturbed my sleep and even this morning while I'm at work.  I'm tense!  I can't stop thinking about Attack on Titan, but I kind of wish I could because I might be slightly traumatized, lol.

Tales of Kyoto

Hello beautiful darlings,

So I need to explain a little bit about the positions in a public school in Japan.  It's pretty similar to most American schools, but I want to provide some different label names and some information on the hierarchy.

Okay, everyone who teaches at the school is called sensei.  Sensei means teacher.  So we got our Tanaka-sensei, Kimura-sensei, Hashimoto-sensei, A-sensei, B-sensei, C-sensei, etc. etc. etc.  And they basically equate to our Mr. Smith and Mrs. Gomez and Ms. Brown of American schools.  (I'm seriously just using any name that pops into my head.)  Anyways, so sensei is reserved for teachers in a school setting (and also doctors, Ph.D's, and other positions, but that's a different story for another time).

I suck at updating

Hi all you beautiful people on the Internet,

So as you can tell...I suck at updating.  I have a youtube, instagram, and this blog, and I continually pass up opportunities to update for XYZ reasons (and it's usually my addiction to Netflix, heh heh).  Thus, I just want to apologize for not updating as much as I would like to and should.

Sooo much has happened in the past few months since moving to Japan, and I've taken a bajillion pictures and videos and seen and been to so many things.  I'm also trying to do the novel thing for November, but you can guess as to how well I'm faring with that.  I've got like 2000 words only so far...but it's a start!  I've never seriously written a long piece of fiction since like elementary school, so I'm actually really excited to put one of my ideas down on digital Google doc paper.  I tend to create characters and settings and sometimes whole plots and timelines for a work of fiction, but they usually stay in my head or very roughly drafted on a series of post-it notes and scrap paper.  I need to get my shit together!  >____<

Anyways, I'm about to declare some things here on the Internet, and hopefully, making these promises concretely documented, I might follow through.