Okay, I give in, here's a blog - Kira Life Update

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.

To be honest, I know that fandom is taking up a lot of my life right now, apart from work and I know I won't shut up about it (and I'm sorry for that, I know it's a bad habit). But there is more to my life aside from fandom and I do want to talk about it and sometimes, I do just need to get things off my soul and putting it into words is the best way of doing that for me right now. I think.

Anyway, life.

Fandom related turning points aside, it's been... yeah I don't even know how to summarize it.

Some of you might know that I changed job positions last year, going from being at a single school to going to multiple school across basically the whole country. I was sent to the middle of nowhere in Ibaraki, where I was plagued by singing/loudly video calling/fighting Chinese neighbours, was then sent into the snowy exile of Hokkaido - made worse by the start of the pandemic, came back into 'work from home' life for a while and then got sent up to Sendai where I was received by pitchfork wielding villagers.

The latter is a slight understatement but yeah, going up to the northern part of Honshu was not fun at all. I won't go into detail here but the whole thing ended in me having a mental breakdown and subsequently getting physically ill as well, which resulted in a PCR test and isolation. The PCR test was negative and my company decided to call me back home and let me rest and recuperate for a bit. My bank account is unhappy but my mental health improved dramatically in that time. So, I guess it's okay. Between money and mental health, money is definitely the problem that is easier to solve.

Now that some time has passed I can look back on it as a learning experience but back when I was in the middle of it, it was a black hole that was threatening to swallow me up. I blame it all on the pandemic and the subsequent reactions to it by various people because I think that under normal circumstances, I would not have had the same problems (all the problems were related to the virus...) and really, it's a shame.

But. What can we do. We have no choice but to live in the here and now.

I still like my job and I signed on for another year or more recently. I think my company took great care of me in this whole thing and really, I do like what I do. And going back to work showed that it did indeed not have anything to do with work because I am still happy.

That doesn't mean that things are always easy but on the whole, I'm doing well. And I hope you, my friends, are doing well, too. ❤️