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Yet again, another long absence, and nothing much to show for it, at least in terms of art, anyway... After getting my current job in March this year, I honestly thought I`d be in Sendai for much longer term, but I also wasn`t expecting to meet a cute guy from Tokyo either. After much consideration and dicussion over summer my boyfriend and I decided it would be better if I moved to Tokyo at the end of the current school year(March next year), rather than him moving to Sendai. The past three months or so I was crazily studying for the highest level of the Japanese language proficiency test(I did take it last year and failed, and I`m pretty

I posted in and said that Autumn was kind of messy...winter didn`t get better. It really didn`t get better. Breakup, stress from my job, getting sick, and being out stuck out in rural Tochigi and Fukushima during a really cold winter away from my friends did not make for a fun winter. But, still, life moves. By sheer dumb luck, I got a job offer from a good private school in Sendai, as an actual classroom teacher(rather than the assistant teaching I`ve done up until now) and started working there from April. Because of this, I also had to move apartments. I also got two adorable ferrets, and ended up in a long distance relationship with a gu

Hello...it's me...I drank too much tea and now I can't get to sleep... (and also my neighbour is chanting Buddhist sutras even though its like 1am?) ...and I remembered I have a deviantart account and decided to check up on it...and oops, almost another year since I updated? I've finally had a chance to think about arty things again! Since moving to Miyagi I became quite busy with my new job, and just the general settling in. Then I met a nice boy who also takes up time, and then the past few months basically any spare moment that wasn't work, sleep, or seeing my friends/boyfriend was studying for the N1 JLPT exam(advanced Japanese languag