Scattered ideas I can't believe how lucky I am for having a job that makes me feel me both happy and exhausted at equal proportion. ________________ Within a couple of years, I may start losing this rare energy that propells me to hope that there's still something else to achieve. _______________ I guess the hardest part of speaking a new language fluently is managing to find that one expression that matches what we want to get across at an unrepeatable (and fleeting) moment. ___________ What an awful one this week has been __________ Today turned out not to be as harrowing as I was expecting it to be. __________ What I totally adore about learning Japanese is this subtle process of coming across a kanji and taking time to watch it, recognize it and write it over and over again; as if harvesting its meaning in one's mind. There's some sort of fullfillment brought about by being able to organically place a kanji in a sentence. _________ I'm just slurping down some coffee and sitting around in this cafe. It's been such a tough wait.