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Or 'thank you' but idk I felt like saying it in German. Randomly. A short entry today but no less meaningful (not that the other entries have been meaningful... so maybe this might be the most meaningful entry out of all?) I'd like to use this entry to say thank you to all of you who have been reading this flaming hot mess. Thank you for being my friends. I love you! And I hope we'll be able to meet again in the not so distant future. As Blogtober is coming to an end, let me announce what's going to happen with this blog. I might not post daily anymore but I will try to post more or less regular updates or entries. Writing this blog made me realize how important it is for me to put things into words. The blog will stay the crazy mix of RL and fandom that it has been so far (reminiscent of my old LJ) - although Basement Boys fandom will go onto its own blog. Thank you again for reading and commenting and for being awesome. ❤️

Here comes the ultimate party pooper post. It came up in a conversation and so I went back down memory lane. My Journey through Johnny's... I'd like to say but I think this post will focus a bit more on why I left.

さようならよりありがとう。 It's something I feel a lot of the time when I leave a school to move on to the next one. Usually I don't bond THAT much with students because I'm not at a school long enough to really do so... or so I thought but sometimes it's amazing how fast you connect with someone else.

Pondering. Not to be mistaken with Pon-de-Ringu, which I do like to eat. Ahaha. Sorry, I've kinda flipped my weird switch at some point today. I blame it on work. And I guess work will be what I'll be talking about in this blog entry.

Another topic I thought of when I was talking to Toshi (we've been talking a lot these days because he's doing a streaming event, so he's streaming a lot). But it's also a topic I've talked about with various people in Japan. The "blood types = personality" thing that Japan loves so much. So... YOUたち何型？

Today's topic isn't really interesting because it's something we're all living with these days. Uncertainty. Yes, the future is uncertain and all that but now more than ever. And I didn't think it would take such a toll on me but it did. So here is another word vomit about work.

Or rather, conversations I never thought I'd have with the people I had them with. You know how people tell you about 'taboo topics' and all that, things better left unsaid or unmentioned in conversations in certain countries? Or certain people?

A fandom I didn't mention in my previous blog entry about fandoms were Thai dramas. Some might think that this is a more recent fandom for me but it in fact is not. I did however realize a few things about my attraction to and interest in Thai dramas recently, which I will talk about in this post.

This entry might be a bit heavy on some as I'll be talking about, well, death and dying. I was reminded of a beloved friend passing away after losing her battle with cancer.  I miss her but I know her suffering is over now - and she was suffering a lot in the last few years of her life. But despite that, she kept going and stayed positive. She is one of the reasons why I really decided to live my life differently, to have more fun in the here and now. To live and not have (too many) regrets. Watch over me from up there, Emi. I love you!

This entry was inspired by what Toshi and I talked about recently (aka earlier). Fashion As an artist, he's expected to be fashionable and all right? And I think he is. Although he doesn't really think of himself as fashionable. I usually think young Japanese people are really fashionable and very conscious of brands and all that. And well, appearances... make up, hair styling, etc. I do none of that and I... don't really care? lol

As the title says, I'm gonna be really whiny in this post. You can slap or kick me for it but I kind of just have to get it out of my system. A lot of this is hormone induced. My PMS induced hormonal mood swings (and other hormone induced shit that goes down) are really terrible and my GYN can't quite figure things out - my results don't look terrible, they're weird but not weird enough I guess.  So uh I'll be whining about PMS, hormones, my body... AND then work. So yeah, lots of whining. You have been warned.

Taking a break from strictly RL blog entries to talk about more fandom stuff. But it's in a more objective and meant as self-reflection and not as a flail post. People always tell me I have too many fandoms. So let me talk about what my fandom life looks like.

Another post inspired by a conversation I had with Pippa on her blog recently about how we tend to feel obliged to talk about positive and fun things only when we're with friends because "friends aren't therapists" and how that's kind of an unspoken rule for """social gatherings""" (remember those? yeah me neither). And thinking about those words got me, well, thinking lol (I can't English, forgive me)

Inspired by Pippa's post , I decided to talk about my language learning experiences as well. I won't be limiting this to just Japanese as people are usually super interested in picking my brain quite literally about how it's able to sponge up 6 languages (give or take) lol so here we go, lifelong language learning

Not the most pleasant topic today but yeah let's talk about our bodies. Or well, I'll talk about my body I guess and we'll see what happens in the comments. Also I'll let you know that just writing the word 'body' right now set off a song from work in my head and it's gonna be stuck there for this entire entry... (My body, my body, it's fun to move my body, my body, my body can you dance with me? - for those who know it, SORRY... not sorry.)

On my first day of university orientation, the professor laid out a schedule and during his presentation he said "as you can see sleep is for the weak...end [weekend]" and yoo.... uni. lol Really random and short entry for today but I'd be interested in hearing your stories about, well, sleep. I talk to my students a lot and especially in Japan, I always feel like people sleep way too little. Like, I can run on 4-5 hours of sleep. But I won't be very uh let's say functional. And I can't do it for an extended period of time or my health will just go down the drain. However it's the average amount of time most of my students here sleep. Do Japanese people sleep more deeply somehow? And is being able to fall asleep anywhere and anytime a genetic thing? lol  How long do you need to sleep? I personally like to get 6-8 hours. 6 hours are the bare minimum and as of late it's the longest time my body will LET me sleep without waking up. If I can I will go back...

I guess the topic for tonight's blog post will be work. So as to fit in with what Pippa , Tiff and Gabby talked about on their respective blogs (please go and check them out if you'd like, fantastic writers and even more fantastic and wonderful people). This will be a semi happy post, I guess? Might change in the process but we'll see.

People always say that life is easier when you have a goal to work towards. I don't think this is wrong but at the same time, I also don't think it is completely true. In a way. Like, I honestly can't say that I have a real goal in life right now. I have little stepping stones, milestones but the road that lies ahead leads into the unknown (okay sorry if you got the song stuck in your head now). None of the 'typical' goals really appeal or apply to me: getting married (muh), starting a family (meh), buying a house (mmh), having a lot of money (pfft), get a job you like (yaah)... On some days, it's hard to keep going, knowing that you're just...walking further and further into a sheer endless expanse of NOTHING and on other days, it feels like you're free. Weird, isn't it?

Some of you might be wondering why my blog title is what it is and to be honest, I don't remember who exactly gave me that nickname but it was before I got my teaching certificate at some point... People were telling me I was like Wikipedia, just in human form. I had a lot of knowledge, sometimes random or useless knowledge, sometimes useful. It's always been a thing for me, to accumulate knowledge, to try and keep myself informed. Some people saw it as showing off (aka "Klugscheisser" in German) and others appreciated it. (This post contains thoughts on mental health issues. If that's something you might not want to read, please do not continue beyond this point).

Okay, so Blogtober 2.0, if you will? Or if I'm allowed to do that lol I noticed that blogging about fandom related stuff only is hard and maybe not all that interesting for people, so I decided to make a more personal blog after all. And after interacting with Pippa on her blog, I found that THAT was what I do miss from LJ and so yeah, here goes. This first entry is an update on what's been happening in my life - in a nutshell. For the future, prepare for a bunch of random stuff, rants and what not. I will most likely be talking about: life and work fandom stuff stuff that is on my mind living in Japan food More specific fandom stuff will still be on the other blog but fandoms not covered by that (yeah yeah I have too many fandoms, I know) will be on this one.