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Professor for the Japanese class seems fairly technically competent, and the syllabus is very well written! I am of course having that thing where I get overwhelmed by looking at what I'm going to be expected to be able to do at the end of a class or &c because I feel like it wants me to already be able to do that, so I get anxious and insecure, but we power through. The teacher did include a 'what I expect you to already know from 401' list, though, so I can focus on that specifically in review!

• Greet people in various settings (morning, noon, at night, formal, informal).

• Introduce yourself (name, year of schooling, major, age, likes & dislikes, etc.)

• Ask people their names, phone numbers and what they do.

• Buy things at a store.

• Order food at a restaurant (〜おねがいします／〜ください).

• Ask and answer how much things cost (いくらですか).

• Talk about your daily life and vacations (Time expressions, verbs, adverbs of frequency, adjectives, etc.)

• Invite people, and accept and/or decline the invitation (〜しませんか／〜しましょう／〜しましょうか) .

• Ask and describe where things are (〜があります／〜がいます, location words.)

• Describe past events and habitual actions (past forms of verbs and adjectives).

• Count small items, date/time, age, money, ticket, stamp, & page.

• Recognize, read, and write hiragana ひらがな (46).

• Recognize, read, and write katakana カタカナ (46).

• Recognize, read, and write kanji 漢字 (43) characters (a total of 131 kanji in Japanese 401 and 402).

So I'll need to review those (and other grammar points), and make sure I'm all set and ready for the zoom stuff, before tuesday-after-next

Right now I'm doing my not-frequent-enough writing backups, so while computer is doing that I'll fire up Death Stranding and play for a bit

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Things I learned while at dad's:

My grandmother died of breast cancer in 1986

Dad's lawyer says he's going to need to spend four days in jail during his trial?? Unsure why, that's just what he said

He's continuing to do AA meetings, he was not told how often to go so he's just going every week (or 'almost every week'). I'm hopeful this enables him to have a social outlet that isn't a bar -- he said outright himself that it's not the drinking, it's that all his friends are at the bar. He also said he hasn't had a drink since December 14th

Among other interesting things found while digging through his parents' things, we found a stock certificate for PG&E shares?? I have no idea what to do with this, but I think it's worth about $1000 if it's valid. It doesn't have a void stamp or anything on it. Apparently to find out if it's worth anything and to get it transferred into the name of someone who isn't currently dead, I'd have to either hire someone to look into it for me, or call the PG&E transfer agent, and ugh. It's been forty years, it can wait a bit longer, but it would be nice to know if it's anything. $1000 ain't nothing, you know

Anyway, after coming home and hanging out with ash for a bit while he started dinner, I am horizontal for a while.

[Fetian]

I have also learned that Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox (famous youtubers) not only grew up in Sacramento but also went to the same high school I did, and would have been in the same graduating year as me, so I definitely went to high school with them.

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I feel like several ass

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assopodes

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assopoDEEZNUTS

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• Greet people in various settings (morning, noon, at night, formal, informal).

• Introduce yourself (name, year of schooling, major, age, likes & dislikes, etc.)

• Ask people their names, phone numbers and what they do.

• Buy things at a store.

• Order food at a restaurant (〜おねがいします／〜ください).

• Ask and answer how much things cost (いくらですか).

• Talk about your daily life and vacations (Time expressions, verbs, adverbs of frequency, adjectives, etc.)

• Invite people, and accept and/or decline the invitation (〜しませんか／〜しましょう／〜しましょうか) .

• Ask and describe where things are (〜があります／〜がいます, location words.)

• Describe past events and habitual actions (past forms of verbs and adjectives).

• Count small items, date/time, age, money, ticket, stamp, & page.

• Recognize, read, and write hiragana ひらがな (46).

• Recognize, read, and write katakana カタカナ (46).

• Recognize, read, and write kanji 漢字 (43) characters (a total of 131 kanji in Japanese 401 and 402).

Additionally, per email from the professor:

Make sure to review what you have learned in Japan 401 (particles from chapter 1 through 5; verb conjugation in chapter 3 and 4; adjective conjugation in chapter 5, and kanji in chapter 3, 4, and 5) before the class starts.

[Fetian]

Dave and I played stardew tonight for about four and a half hours! We got quite a bit done, naturally, including fixing up Willy's boat, so next week we should be able to go to the island, and that means we'll be able to make progress on the raccoon quest. We also found the Joja bundle, so we'll be able to work on those, though those are all very high level items so they'll take a while. We just hit winter and I've put all my beehives into storage, sold all my livestock, and started a patch of sunflowers in the greenhouse. My focus right now is aging all the cheese and alcohol I already have, and making wine out of greenhouse fruit, and since keeping all that running won't take up an entire day I'm also doing some mining, trying to get those levels up a bit. Dave just got married to Abigail and he's working on the skull caverns

I need to push myself into language brain, start getting into the right headspace for class to start. I also need to put ash's new keyboard together for him, though the slowdown on that is less brain willingness and more body. I am for now going to youtube and then bed, hopefully early enough that I don't sleep all through the day tomorrow

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I've got the anxieties

Not About anything in particular. Just The Anxieties

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Oops! All Anxiety!