Day 18 - Calendar
Today I lacked motivation for a bit. Still I read about 7 pages of 魔女の宅急便.
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April 18th 
・薬屋のひとりごと (31% → 33%)
Finished chapter 13. What happened? Very chapter, much boob. Maomao taking care of Li Hua after almost dying from poison. Also Maomao telling about this cool party trick Li Hua should try with the Emperor to spice up their fun times 
pls someone save me from my exams
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Day 18 
三毛猫ホームズの推理 ~74% to 79%, end of chapter 3
Things happened in this section (and some things didn’t 
), and I really wanted to keep reading, but it’s getting late.
I also started this week’s 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん, but did not get very far at all (why are days so short?). I’ll need to continue this tomorrow too.
words etc
家宅侵入罪 - (crime of) trespassing, housebreaking
洋服ダンス - wardrobe, esp. for Western clothes. (nothing to do with dancing, huh)
たくし上げる - to roll or pull up (sleeves, skirt, etc)
息を弾ませる - to be excited, to be short of breath, to pant
血祭りにあげる - to kill viciously, but also “to kill an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits”. Oddly (and hair-raisingly) specific…
へたり込む - to sink down to the floor, to sit down hard
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Response
Poor Katayama 
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Day 18
Didn’t read anything during the day so found and read a short story before going to bed. I found it funny and cute.
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Today I read another two episodes of コナの大ぼうけん, I’ve been a little under the weather but basically functional with paracetamol 
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Feels great to be reading Summer Pockets again. I capped out a little after 5000 characters again, but that’s decent. Feels like I’m really slow these days… perhaps eventually it would be beneficial to think a little more consciously about working on speed. Despite that, the content wasn’t too hard today. It seems I might be close to the end of Umi’s route, sometime in the next few days maybe? That’d put me at a super rough halfway, barring however long the final “true route” is. 2022 really will, in a large way, be the year of Summer Pockets in my life.
I remember hearing about this phrase before! バカは風邪ひかない . Guess that’s one reason to feel good about my propensity to get sick. Those of you in this thread with covid certainly don’t have a cold but I’m going to count it for you too.
It’s not often that I find a stray N3 grammar point anymore, so it was interesting to stumble across とは限らない (“not necessarily so”) today. I’ve seen various permutations on 限り (かぎり) of course by now, but somehow never this one. Also found さすが in its kanji form (流石) for the first time. Could do without that one!
The most interesting new word for me is just テロップ, Japan’s name for images or text superimposed on TV, because it’s another little rabbithole of knowledge for word origins. Had never heard of that previously.
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Day 17:
日本語: I read a fair amount of 冷たい密室と博士たち.
中国語: I read an intermediate entry on Mandarin Bean.
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April 18
I’m in between projects and about to start a virtual conference this week, so it was a quiet day at work.
Which means I read about 20 pages from chapter 2 of Spy x Family 
Need to focus on my essay this evening so probably no more reading today.
Progress on Tadoku graded readers
44 / 44 level-zeros
12 / 12 level-ones
2 /10 level-twos
x / 18 level-threes
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Are you skipping the whole month of June for some reason?
April 18 
Home Post
I finished up the ending I was on! ルナ… 
sad times, seeing her face like falling apart was pretty rough. Only one ending left now… I wanted to play more but I’m like super tired so maybe I’ll finish tomorrow? 
We shall see!
Ah yes I’ve definitely seen that in Zero Escape repeatedly, and definitely looked it up every time because it refuses to stay in my brain
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Day 18: April 18th
What did I read?: 異刻メモワール
How much did I read?: 29 pages
How long did it take me?: 19 min
Today was an off day. I was in kind of a restless mood when I got home from work and I didn’t really know what I wanted to read after finishing Zenitendou, so I kept procrastinating on reading anything, and then while I was doing that my laptop died so when I finally sat down to read I had to use my phone for lookups which I hate. Such a pain. Luckily this manga didn’t have that much text so there weren’t as many look-ups. I spent like 10 min trying to remember/read the dumb title though (it’s in a super-stylized font and has no furigana and my phone’s radical look up is even worse to use than Jisho’s so I couldn’t find it. Eventually I just gave up and decided I’d look it up in my Amazon Japan order history when I got back on my laptop later xD).
Anyway
This manga has a really cool art style! I’ll try to post some pics tomorrow. It’s very…surreal and fantasy-like in feeling. I don’t really know what’s going on, but I don’t think I’m supposed to yet
No words today because a) there were just not that many and b) it was a such a pain in the butt to look up the few that there were without my laptop that I just didn’t keep track 
I still haven’t finished this novel I am going to, I swearrr
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April 18th (Calendar Post)
The manga I am reading had some crazy story development at the start of volume 2…
もし、恋が見えたなら => 86 pages (94 minutes)
Some non-spoilery manga panels from today:
にぱっ part 2
それは私のセリフ…
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It really does! I added it to my list to check again later.
Aw, that’s too bad, I was going to ask you because it’s not clear to me at all from the sample. 
I love the art and all the creatures though, they’re giving me Spirited Away vibes. I’m looking forward to your next updates to see how it goes!
Edited to add: Happy birthday @Memoria ! 
(so many birthdays! I’m sure I’ve missed a few, in which case: Happy Birthday! to all concerned 
)
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Day 18 
Read:ジャックジャンヌー夏劇ー
Finished: 11 pages
Time: 38 minutes
Took a break from studying and got some reading done. After my exam tomorrow I think I’m gonna read a bunch to make up for the days I could only read a few minutes. A lot of terms related to kanzashi this time, and I occasionally struggled to tell who was talking when more characters were involved.
Story Thoughts
In Suzu’s short story 涙かんざし, while going for a run in the mountains to get his mind off of his worries about things with Yonaga, he runs into Kisa near the shrine there. There they both noticed something shining in the hollow of an old tree off of the path, which on closer investigation was a kanzashi. When they’re both standing there wondering about how it got there Neji-senpai shows up all of the sudden (this makes me really curious what he’s just doing in the mountains lol). When they showed him the kanzashi he seemed to figure out what was up with it but refused to tell them and told them it would be more interesting to figure it out themselves. So Suzu and Kisa set out into town to investigate by looking at a kanzashi shop and then an antique store.
So far they’ve figured out that the kanzashi they’ve found is specifically a 平打ち簪 with a house crest of a 拍子木 on it.
Something along the lines of these I think.
I’m really curious about the story behind the kanzashi, the title of this story makes it sound like it might be kind of tragic.
New Vocab
装飾 （そうしょく）ornament; decoration
家紋 （かもん）family crest
冠婚葬祭 （かんこんそうさい）important ceremonial occasions in family relationships
振り出し （ふりだし）starting point; beginning; outset
骨董品 （こっとうひん）curio; antique
横道 （よこみち）byway; side street; cross street
物騒 （ぶっそう）dangerous; unsettled; troubled; disturbed; insecure (never realized these were the kanji for this one)
和小物 （わこもの）Japanese trinket
奥行き （おくゆき）depth; length
がま口 （がまぐち）purse with a metal clasp; handbag (with clasp); pouch (with clasp); coin purse (with clasp)
櫛 （くし）comb
平打ち （ひらうち）type of flat ornamental hairpin made of silver and inscribed with a clan’s crest or patterns of birds and flowers
かざす to hold up over one’s head; to hold aloft
労る （いたわる）to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to treat with sympathy; to console; to be kind to; to appreciate
皆目 （かいもく）entirely; (not) at all
見当がつかない （けんとうがつかない）having not the slightest idea
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Started reading way too late yesterday so I only managed a small handful of Spy x Family chapter 2 pages before I ended up falling asleep 
Happy Birthday!
Oh interesting, I came across that one in 約束のネバーランド but didn’t know that was an actual expression and not just something the character made up
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19th of April
Day 19
Read pages 21-23 of かがみの孤城 today. I might read some later, but I doubt I’ll get around to it. I got stuck on a few sentences, and also spent some time reading a grammar point explanation, so each page took me a lot longer than usual today.
Another one! Happy birthday @Memoria! 
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Thank you, that was actually an oversight on my part.
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