I sent Mum my flight details and when I spoke to her she said, 15 hours isn’t so bad. In what world is 15 hours on a plane not that bad? The only thing that could make it worse is if I have a bad back like last year or if I’m sat next to a man sexually harassing me like the year before. No thanks, I don’t want to share your earphones (that you cleaned last night) with you to watch Paddington on your iPad whilst your leg and arm are pressed firmly against me and I’m squashed up ...
07.11.26
I love wood pigeons. I like all pigeons but the wood pigeon is my absolute favourite kind of bird. I like watching them bop about and I like their little affronted-looking faces. I like how they like to run more than fly and how they have some bully tendencies. They look like a teacher that taught at my high school called Mr Dowd and so I refer to them as this and collectively as Mr Dowds. This week in the wildlife photos on The Guardian there was a photo of one yawning and it’s so cute!
日本語 notes・11月05日🎇
- 実は vs 実際に
- 実は – 相手が知らない事実や、意外な事実を打ち明けるとき
- 実際に – 一般的なイメージや予想とは異なる、現実の状況を説明するときに使います。
- They are a bit samey to me…actually…
- 絨毯・じゅうたん carpet
- 速攻・そっこう すぐに
- 他殺 vs 殺人
- 他殺 death caused by another person
- 殺人 murder
- この期に及んで・このごにおよんで = 物事がここまで進んでしまった今になって、まだ〜するのか、という非難やあきれた気持ちを表す表現です。
- お得意様 vs 常連客
- お得意様 valued customer (敬意を込める)
- 常連客 a regular
- I don’t want to ruin it for you = ネタバレしたくない
- 口論になり、弾みでひどいことを言ってしまった。(その場の勢いや偶然のきっかけで、思いがけない行動をしてしまうこと)
I’m on to the last two episodes of the programme now! It’s taking me forever because I don’t really watch TV. I wish they had a Japanese version of Question Time or Four in a Bed. ...
Invested + Curious
I feel like I solved the puzzle! Or parts of it. I also feel like I’m going a bit crazy but at the same time I don’t think so. I usually have quite decent intuition. I didn’t solve the main part of the puzzle for a long time, years actually, close to ten. Then eventually I realised. Adding to that a strange Instagram account, certain phrases, actions or words dropped here and there. Just enough crumbs if people were to look, and I am looking. My interest has been piqued and I’m invested. I love stuff like this. Did you ...
21.10.26
On RC’s Lore project, he has a post that he’d written sometime asking women if they have any idea of how proud their dad is of them and I read it and thought, yeah, I’m well aware, that’s the problem. ...