Day 37: October 7
What did I read?: ハイ☆スピード!
How much did I read?: 7.5 pages
How long did it take me?: 1 hour 47 min
I did not intend to read this much, but I just wanted to finish the scene xD My brain is dead 
But some good food for thought in this little scene. You can really see how much thought Rin puts into swimming, from the way he analyzes the reason behind Nagisa’s slipping times to the way he thinks about his own swimming and tries to improve his own performance. He’s constantly thinking about his form and rhythm while he swims, trying to find the form/rhythm that fits him the best and makes him faster. And although Nagisa’s technically his teammate, he’s basically coaching Nagisa, in a way - he’s able to note Nagisa’s weak points even while he’s swimming alongside him, and he figures out how to bring out Nagisa’s best performance so that they can cultivate that and hopefully make him more consistently fast. Interestingly, Nagisa is basically his opposite when it comes to that, he doesn’t think about what he’s doing or how he’s doing it at all 
That feels…right xD I like the way the author juxtaposes them here. There are some more interesting things happening here, but I think I need to digest those a little more.
Good words
- 浮上 (ふじょう) - surfacing; rising to the surface
- 違和感 (いわかん) - uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
- 途切れ途切れ (とぎれとぎれ) - broken; intermittent; disconnected
- しゃがむ - to squat; to crouch
- 恥じる (はじる) - to feel ashamed
- 思い込み (おもいこみ) - wrong impression; subjective impression; assumption; prejudice
- 持論 (じろん) - one’s cherished opinion; pet theory
- 肩口 (かたぐち) - top of the shoulders; tip of the shoulder; collar (this word makes me laugh for some reason xD shoulder mouth)
- コンマ - decimal point (also means comma)
- 得体の知れない (えたいのしれない) - strange; unfamiliar; mysterious; suspicious; of an unknown nature
- 試行錯誤 (しこうさくご) - trial and error
Day 38
:: TANUKIDATE 20211008 :: 
gn
Day 28 (10月 6日) 
He’s not swimming like he’s trying to run away. The scary monster in the water’s suddenly not so scary anymore. He can see the sky 
And he can swim the way he was always meant to swim, feeling the water without fear <3 I’m so happy for him, this sweet baby angel
I feel like I actually knew this at one point but forgot…I did swim quite a bit as a kid, but I pretty much stopped some time in middle school
33 → 38
welcome!
(but had to confirm anyway)