Oh my, but it must have been a bit worrying, a post like this one followed by several days of no writing. Worry not, here I am again, to bore you with my incessant whining.

In the middle of the storm of work, exams, and the one that is literally right outside my window, I have missed this time of calm and reflection. As it always happen whenever I leave my writing behind, I find returning to it like returning home after a long adventure. Sure, adventures are amazing, and you learn so many new things and experience so much more than you could have previously imagined, but sometimes the best things in the world are the most familiar.

It’s been a crazy week, but I’d not say it has been bad, even without the writing. Quite the contrary, it has been a week of exploring new limits, of trying new things with familiar people and familiar things with new people. There’s been quite the stress about several things, mainly about a big report me and some friends had to turn in today (I even managed to do it before lunch today, quite the feat), but as it happens with many things, stress gets the best out of myself.

I am starting to reap the benefits of my constant study of Japanese, sometimes that I did not think would come this fast. I am increasingly understanding everything instinctively, which was from the beginning my main goal. After all, a language is fluid as water, and not made to be held in strict grammar rules or ranked frequency lists. Still, it is but one incentive more to continue forward in this great quest. Also, learning Japanese by just watching anime is certainly more fun than grammar.

I did not come with something specific to talk about today, nor did something occur to me while writing, but that’s OK. After all, this place was always meant to capture whatever. I refuse to gatekeep myself on this, even if today I do not write anything profound or interesting, that is one sure way to repeat these non-writing weeks. I’ll just make sure to show up tomorrow. And maybe the day after that. We’ll see.