Glad you liked it! I heard from my colleagues that they liked Project Hail Mary too

I… am one of the only people I know who basically don’t watch movies at all. When I was younger I’d get a fever if I had to concentrate & watch a 2-3 hrs long movie (some weird Autism thing I think), so I didn’t watch movies… The habit stuck

I am a much bigger fan of nonfiction and don’t generally care that much for visuals, so whenever I want to watch something (mostly YouTube) it’s just on my laptop or phone lol

… do parents count?? I don’t have too many friends, if any at all

Otherwise I indirectly helped a coworker find a BF a few months ago. Yeah I guess that was it

For the most part yeah. I think that’s unironically how I “cheated” my old JLPT exams and got way higher grades than I should. And really high-level Japanese (such as political news, debates, legal matter) are mostly Kanji, and by that point you’d fully understand all the non-Kanji parts anyways so

But in real life you still have to actually say the words out loud…

Yes… Until when you’d have to pronounce it 😭 And then there’s a ridiculous amount of Japanese names that seem to follow no rules whatsoever for their pronunciations. And then there’s online JP users who would put the weirdest pronunciations for Kanjis, sometimes they are so weird that they have to annotate the pronunciation themselves

… Anyways, Japanese is difficult

Native Chinese speaker who is quite decent at Japanese and should in theory find Kanji quite easy, because of Chinese… YES

Not that the other parts of the language is easy, I find the keigo system quite complex so

Tough week at work. New major assignment came in on Tue, so I’ll have to deal with that for the next… 3-4 weeks I presume? So a lot of stress from that. Also bossman scheduled two interviews this week, and postdoc interviews are almost always a full-day commitment for the entire lab so… very excited for the weekend to come

Health-wise still feeling a bit unwell from last week. I’m really hoping I could get better over the weekend since I have a short trip scheduled next week