Season ONE: Dazai Osamu, Daffodil

Day 33

May 23, 2025

In an effort to put more time into my studying and get to bed at a more reasonable hour, I’ve decided to put the brakes on the more lengthy blog posts. The idea in writing them was twofold: get my butt into a pattern by journaling for 30 days straight without a break (that worked!), and second, to illustrate to those landing on this bit of writing what’s like to go through the course as a self-paced learner. That goal too, was met, and will continue…, but with a new style.

What I’ll do from here on out is simply tell you what I’ve worked on without the background info and the struggles and/or achievement bits. With some of my other posts, I said I was writing down things in my notepad much in the way I would keep track of a workout… that’s what I’m going to do moving forward.

The plan is still to post every day until I am at least done with the Maplopo self-paced program. Andy will continue to get my check-ins and toss support at me from the sidelines as my Japanese coach/mentor/tutor. I’ll also keep posting pictures. If not every day, regularly. You’ll see me doing a lot more flashcards and Airtable drilling to beef up on my listening skills.

And that is all… keep at it folks!

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Time spent: @ 40 minutes
Completed Anki deck: Yep.
Completed Kanji deck: Yep. Yep (15 mins)
Completed JLPT 5 Word deck: Yep (15 mins)
Daffodil program start time: no program learning today.
Daffodil progam end time: no program learning today.
Disturbance-meter: None.
Busy-meter: Light load.