April 7th
会社と私生活-オンとオフ- 1
Yes! Not sure I’ll catch up with you. But I’m enjoying it. I am going a bit slower now and looking up certain kanji and vocab. There’s a balance. I don’t want to look up too much, to keep the flow of reading, but also there’s no point reading if I have low comprehension and have no clue what’s going on! How’s your comprehension level now you’re up to volume 5?
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April 7
| Book | Content | Pages |
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| 葬送のフリーレン7 | Chapters 62, 63 | 36 |
| ルリドラゴン 1 | Chapters 1, 2 | 87 |
| 薬屋のひとりごと 1 | Chapter 11 | 8 |
I’ve started Ruri Dragon which has been pretty fun so far 
It all starts when Ruri, a regular high school girl, wakes up one day with horns on her head. As she then finds out during breakfast, her mother, well, kinda had a thing with a dragon in a world that’s otherwise void of any fantasy elements 
Posted about it in the POLL thread yesterday and heard some good opinions on the series, as well as in the WK book club that I was made aware of. The first two chapters have been fun already!
OH and I totally forgot to fulfill my promise to @pocketcalamity in one of my previous posts. I had promised to deliver some photos of my Easter baking where I made panettone 
For anyone who wants to see more of the process (it's extremely detailed lol)
It’s my own vegan recipe for panettone that, while not using eggs or dairy products, still follows traditional ways of building the dough. Most notably, this means we don’t use commercial yeast but a lievito madre which is a very mild sourdough that has a lot less water in it than the sourdough starters you may have seen online in the covid days. Building it from the ground up using only flour and water takes a week or two
This is my lievito madre directly after refreshing it with new flour + water and then after it had some time to grow
Panettone is a very enriched dough, meaning the dough has to take in a lot of butter, sugar (and eggs in the regular version). This only works when you have the right flour! Luckily, my flour came in just in time on Saturday. Of course, I could have just ordered it a bit sooner and not at the last possible moment, but where would be the fun in that
Manitoba flour is the name for the strongest wheat flours, i.e. they can bind the most moisture.
On Saturday, my lievito madre was refreshed three times before making the primo impasto / first dough of the panettone
At this point, it was a barely enriched dough. It was just the lievito madre, flour and soy milk—so no butter and no sugar yet. Those would only get added during the secondo impasto on Sunday morning
The secondo impasto is where making a traditional panettone dough becomes practically impossible without the right machine and right ingredients. It takes a lot of kneading to make the dough come together because of the high fat and sugar content. For the longest time, you have a dough that just seems to melt in all directions when you stop the kneading. My machine here kneaded for a total duration of around 40 minutes this time with much of the time spent at the highest speed. The dough temperature also becomes a concern as kneading it so intensely will increase the temperature over time and might damage the structure of the dough if it gets too hot; some people will even freeze the mixing bowl or some ingredients beforehand to keep the temperature lower
Eventually though, a nice dough forms
Still pretty tricky to work with for someone who is inexperienced with high hydration doughs, but if you know how to handle it, it feels so nice, very wobbly and pillowy
Handling the dough and taking a photo of it at the same time would have been a bit difficult though This was enough dough for five 500g panettoni. I’ve made four with candied citron and orange peels and one panettone with a chocolate filling
Ready for the oven:
I probably should have left them uncovered for a bit so I could better score them (that’s what you call cutting into the dough right before baking so the dough springs up around these cuts), but it is what it is
After baking they have to hang upside down while completely cooling down, otherwise they may collapse. Here’s my patented professional patate panettone cooling station
And yeah, here are the final panettoni
It was delicious, let me tell you
Day 8
4月8日（水）
Only read one page today. There was a surprising amount of words I didn’t know, didn’t see together or wasn’t sure I understood well so I’ve added them to Anki.
| Title | Type | Progress | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| ボッコちゃん | Short-stories | 47-47 | Started 月の光 |
April 5
I played more arrived in Nibelheim but that part was rather short. The next goal is to climb the mountain.
4月7日
読み終わった本： 1巻
home post || natively
| status | name | natively lvl |
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徒然日和 2 | 18 | manga | 1 –> 11 | 0hr20min |
Very short read tonight; a lot of prep for a trip next week as well as work on a presentation on 洋食 for my friend group’s quarterly Presentation Night on Thursday. I’ve got a very busy week leading up to my trip next week, so I may not have a ton of reading time. I am hoping to get some good reading in next week during my travels, though!
Happy to return to 徒然日和. Reading felt comfy for a minute and then I think I started to fade and had some trouble, so I just called it quits.
WOW this is so cool and looks so good!!! What a fascinating and complex process!! You seem to be quite the experienced baker. Thank you so much for sharing.
Baking seems like one of those things I’d enjoy but have never gotten into. I like very methodical and exact forms of cooking, so baking should be up my alley. The only thing I’ve ever made was chai-spiced snickerdoodles for a cookie swap event last year, but it was pretty fun and they turned out well!
Also, let me know how you like Ruri Dragon! I’ve thought about reading that a few times but haven’t gotten around to it.
2026/04/07
One chapter of ウマ娘 シンデレラグレイ
２０２６年４月８日(水)
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Book | Natively lvl | Pages |
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からかい上手の高木さん ６ | 16 | 19 - 34 |
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ギャルと恐竜 ２ | 16 | 43 - 52 |
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可愛いだけじゃない式守さん ５ | 18 | 31 - 44 |
8/4/26 WK L:22 
8 
: Tadoku
10 minutes reading done
Up to L2
April 6
I was busy again and just read manga magazines.
Day 7 - wait, 8! I got my days mixed up somehow!
とんがり帽子のアトリエ - 12 pages read up to page 137 of vol. 1! I got to the end of another chapter, so technically a couple of those are blank pages. Happy with my progress though!
I don’t think I’ll get to read Witch Hat tomorrow due to being out for work all day, so hopefully I’ll just have to get some Satori Reader done on my phone or something!
Interestingly enough, today’s chapter of ケロロ軍曹 is actually a middle chapter 30.5 that I should have read after chapter 30.
However, if you look at the table of contents
You would see that it’s listed at the end – right before chapter 37.5. You can also see that it starts at page 27. So, why haven’t I noticed it till now?
That would be because once I finish a chapter, I close the book and when I open it next day – I search for the next chapter in the table of contents.
So, after reading chapter 30, next day I went straight to chapter 31 without even realizing there was a whole chapter between them 
I see angol mois!
Home post // April 8 
・言の葉の庭 (5% → 9%) Page 19 → 35/396
Nice nice, more than the past few days. I’m definitely doing more lookups with this book than the L33 kujira book. I think it was ranked too high, my gradings pushed it down to L32. Maybe it’s the kyuushuu dialect people find difficult, I can’t really think of anything else.
