Anime!

We think buying the manga might have made this a very good day.

I’ve had a perfectly normal day today, not done anything out of the ordinary – woke late, took my bike downtown, bought a manga volume I’d been waiting for, decided it was too cold to wander around aimlessly, and went back home. I’ve struggled with the lousy connection (10 minutes just to get the connection stable enough to access the proxy!), wondered what I should get for supper, and discovered I forgot my Japanese book in my desk after last class. But I’ve also shared the leftovers of my supper with a very hungry friend, gotten a Japanese book in exchange, and chatted with a whole bunch of people, just in passing, as I was sitting with my computer in the hallway, trying to get a signal. And those things are enough to make this a very, very good day – just like most days here are for me. Even if I don’t understand how it happened, really, that I’ve found myself halfway across the world, and loving it so much…