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Week 26: 22-28 June 2020

June 28, 2020 by Leave a Comment

An editing week, sort of. S watched the third version of my rough cut and we discussed it for hours. I’m becoming a filmmaker. It’s a process, in which I make cuts which divert in various directions. You roll back one thing, strengthen another, and not least, find a story, a red thread. But it’s also like a puzzle: You change one thing and then other things stop working. I felt overwhelmed.

On Thursday I met with a classmate in a park to discuss our projects, which intersect a bit. It was only my second social meeting since we got back from Japan. He seemed surprised when I dodged his goodbye hug.

I biked to FU on Friday to validate my student card in the one machine they have opened for that. Unfortunately I forgot my face mask but was let in by the guard at the entrance anyway. It was completely empty.

I impressed myself by building a simple (but still!) kanji quiz in Javascript and Jquery. I put in all the 3,000 Heisig kanji in the arrays but limited the test to the first 2,200, which are my friends. Then I managed to add a box for a custom number instead. And yes, this was procrastination (since I was feeling overwhelmed), although I had wanted to create a super simple kanji randomiser for some time. Check it out!

Another way I procrastinated was by closing all 240 tabs in Firefox. I signed up for Pocket to deal with the separation anxiety. Again, browser tabs are the piles of paper you have on your physical desk, and closing them equals clearing the desk in one satisfying blow. Pocketing maybe equals taking a phone photo of some of the most important-looking papers. In both cases I will probably never return to them.

Dream Girls was an amazing film that we watched as part of the Fringe! x RAI Queer Eyes festival.

Japanese

  • Flashcards Deluxe: 39 min per day
  • Anki: Ca 80 min per day
    • MIA: More Low-key Anki tutorial

Anime

  • 2017: Boku no Hero Academia, S2 E1–5

Fringe! x RAI: Queer Eyes

  • Dream Girls (Kim Longinotto, 1994, 50 min)

Articles

  • ABC News:
    • 1 dead, 1 injured after shooting in Seattle autonomous zone
    • Seattle will de-escalate and dismantle ‘CHOP’ autonomous zone: Mayor

Video

  • Apple WWDC keynote, Marques Brownlee’s summary, some Matt vs Japan, and my new favourite Japanese channel while falling asleep.

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