star_swan: (Yuzuru Timeout)
I've got so many plates in the air that my head is about to pop off and roll away.πŸ˜…
But I am grateful for the bounty! I just need to get focused. I had an article I was translating for practice and for fandom and a few pages of a manga someone wants me to translate if I can, a study schedule to keep, listening skills to continue to work on, books books and more books, and now I have someone offering me Cantonese cds! (cause I need another language lol)

It's cool though. It's all cool. I just need to Get It Together. Phew.
And I still have not written back to Emiko who wanted to send me a newsletter...

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.


Doing a little better with concentration, but evidently not with posting regularly. I might have to start making lists again and regimenting my activities. I seem to have been swallowed down the black hole of FS Twitter.

The person who was offering me Cantonese cds has sort of vanished with no followup?? Oh well. But I still have resources and would like to do a little again on the along with like daily Lingodeer Mandarin. Also, I need to start(!)/continue writing and write a viola piece sometime. (I'll have to go into that in more detail later. Suffice to say, I am back on my Prokofiev et al bullshit and want to delve into music theory again.)

In other news, we went into the City for the first time in months and no, I did not get any manga this time! One of the few times ever. They did not have Yuzuru's two part bio that I wanted but I did do this:



So that place in town still has not contacted me but their sign is up on the window.

???????????

Yeah, I know, but it is bugging me. Is it not in their budget to hire someone at 30ish hrs/week? Fine by me. I will gladly work for 15-20. I honestly do not want to make this my main job. I just want something small and reliable and local to bring in a little extra money and provide an occasional change of scene.

And if you noticed this post suddenly appear it is because I actually drafted it two weeks ago...
This is the state of my March.
star_swan: (Hanyuu Yuzuru)
Time to get Serious.
I remembered that I have this app on my phone, Japan Radio. So I'm going to listen to this little NHK broadcast every day. They were talking about snowfall totals, the Olympics and stocks.

The following morning...

Now wondering whether I ought to have changed my layout after all. I can always go back and forth.
I am despairing a wee bit. I could not find the NHK broadcast from yesterday. They seem to only load ones from the past 24 hours! I searched the menus and found one that was 叀い, but it was only for ordering the current list by most to least recent, for today. I needed more practice and I was understanding that one. XD;; The current lineup for today (of which there are several!) includes some unknown vocabulary and I am just sitting here like, how am I supposed to improve lol. Yuzuru, help me. I have been looking at his skating videos and the copious gif and photo sets on Tumblr for moral support, just for life in general.

So I was Committed and ordering books and taking this Seriously, which I still am and fully accepting that I might not get an outside job for a bit or that rather I should not focus on it so much as get the translation up and running. I know all too well that necessity is the mother of invention etc etc. So of course, last night as I was pondering bed, I see an e-mail in my inbox! Alison at the cafΓ© in town that I applied to back in December(!) wants to interview me for the asst mngr position! I have until Wednesday (thank fuck) to get my appearance et al together. I have not exactly been dressing up these past few months what with COVID. It is not like an Office but at the same time...
It is not as if I am not dressed nicely, albeit casually. Pretty much living in a bizarre combo of addidas track pants and button-ups cause I cannot bring myself to be too casual. *sigh*
I am not at all complaining! At the very least, it is ego-boosting and gratifying to know that someone actually values my experience and appreciated my cover letter enough to contact me! I am grateful, though I am wary of its interfering with my studies and my main purpose(s) which are to start a translation business, do translating work and to write. I am pretty sure that it is not FT from what I read on the advertisement weeks ago.

This is just hilariously typical. Like Ralph says, when you don't feel like you want or need something or you are not begging, you get what you want(ed). XD I, of course, do not know how it will turn out. Perhaps she will not even like me? We shall see. I have plenty of time to prepare at least which is a relief and in the meantime, I can study my arse off, secure in the knowledge that I am covering all of my bases! I was just making a vlog yesterday where I was speaking my intentions for this year and where I hope to be in a few months time and this is pretty cool. The energies seem to be all aligning into a discernible pattern at last. <333 Thank you!!!

Oh, and I filed my taxes, at last.πŸ‘ŒπŸ»πŸ‘ŒπŸ»πŸ‘ŒπŸ»

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Alex

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I work at a grocery store and write and read in my spare time. My deepest loves are studying languages, music, lore and fairytales from various cultures, maths and babbling about Star Wars and Doctor Who.

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