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Got a brace for my ankle; wrapping it up whenever it starts to ache helps keep it from hurting, and it's usually stopped pinging me by the time I start losing circulation, so. It's working out so far.
I had a gradeschool visit today. The kids were adorable, as always, and the older ones were pretty impressed by my stash of American money and (my coup de grace) the English Shounen Jump. One of my teachers even asked to copy one of the One Piece chapters to give to her son. Spreadin' American culture by ... giving Japanese people English versions of their own manga, whoo! Getting out to the school, however, was absolute hell. Riding a bike in a long skirt = hard. Riding against the crazy wind we get out here = harder. Riding a bike in a long skirt against the crazy wind we get out here? Nigh on fucking impossible. I had to get off the bike several times and start walking because I just could not keep pedaling.
And I lost the hair tie I'd been using to keep my skirt hiked up. The wind snagged sent it flying into a rice paddy when I stopped to readjust my skirt. ... one day, some poor rice farmer is gonna find a random hair tie in his field and not know how the hell it got there.
In other news, I ... kind of want to do some original writing again. I've been meaning to rewrite my serial novel project for a while; there were a lot of flaws with the first version, I think, and I have some different ideas for the direction I want to take it in this time. (It doesn't help that the character I killed off at the beginning of the first draft has insisted on resurrecting himself. And informing me that he has a family, thank you very much.) DW seems a good spot for it; I don't want to go back to Blogger if I can help it, and I'm not quite comfortable with spamming it up on LJ. ... but I don't know much I want to do with it. Full chapters would be too much work; tiny snippets probably won't end up being "real" enough for me to feel like I'm actually writing. Smaller pieces with a looser, overarching plot or theme? idk.
I had a gradeschool visit today. The kids were adorable, as always, and the older ones were pretty impressed by my stash of American money and (my coup de grace) the English Shounen Jump. One of my teachers even asked to copy one of the One Piece chapters to give to her son. Spreadin' American culture by ... giving Japanese people English versions of their own manga, whoo! Getting out to the school, however, was absolute hell. Riding a bike in a long skirt = hard. Riding against the crazy wind we get out here = harder. Riding a bike in a long skirt against the crazy wind we get out here? Nigh on fucking impossible. I had to get off the bike several times and start walking because I just could not keep pedaling.
And I lost the hair tie I'd been using to keep my skirt hiked up. The wind snagged sent it flying into a rice paddy when I stopped to readjust my skirt. ... one day, some poor rice farmer is gonna find a random hair tie in his field and not know how the hell it got there.
In other news, I ... kind of want to do some original writing again. I've been meaning to rewrite my serial novel project for a while; there were a lot of flaws with the first version, I think, and I have some different ideas for the direction I want to take it in this time. (It doesn't help that the character I killed off at the beginning of the first draft has insisted on resurrecting himself. And informing me that he has a family, thank you very much.) DW seems a good spot for it; I don't want to go back to Blogger if I can help it, and I'm not quite comfortable with spamming it up on LJ. ... but I don't know much I want to do with it. Full chapters would be too much work; tiny snippets probably won't end up being "real" enough for me to feel like I'm actually writing. Smaller pieces with a looser, overarching plot or theme? idk.