went and joined like 10 anime/manga comms... of course most of them were completely dead but hey!! there's hope for the future!! honestly i'm just waiting for the "next big site" that'll be like LJ/DW, not like twitter/tumblr, and that'll have tons of people. like the good ol' days.

started on some new kimchi; also on making soy sauce, and fermented tomato paste/ketchup (some has garlic and some doesnt: the one with garlic isn't separating and i'm not sure if it SHOULD be separating or not). i'm not sure if the kimchi will taste okay this time, i only put in ginger and onion. my fish (for fish sauce) is fermenting nicely, probably - it was smelling when i opened it today so i think that's a good sign. and i'm trying to make nattou again, i just wish i had an incubator or good heating mat to ensure that it always turns out well...

googling for how to ferment stuff is one of the times where i really, really, REALLY hate english-speaking culture. you just can't find a lot of this stuff in english, and when you do it's usually "lol i'm so crazy that i'm eating anything fermented at all! here's my weird, overly-complicated way to do it i guess i have no clue!". and for example, they're not actually starting from scratch! i looked SO HARD to find out if this separating thing was normal, except i couldn't even find anyone who was beginning their fermentation with actual tomatoes. EVERYONE, even these "look we're so healthy and living off the grid!" people are using pre-bought tomato paste. what?! in this day and age, when everyone has a blender?! you've gotta be kidding. btw when you google in swedish it's often either "lol you already know what to do! just figure it out somehow from the pictures, just like i did" or "go ask your neighbour/grandma".

i finished learning all the N3 words for the JLPT and am only halfway through N2; even so, i took a vocabulary test for N2 and got 73%! and as usual, even though i'm a bit behind in completing my homework and stuff all the classmates i talk to are either the same or much more behind as me, so i shouldn't worry so much. i just need to stop getting behind.

lately i know so many words in japanese that i can actually just sit and "read" things. in the past 2-3 days i've read 1 full (adult - harada collection) manga volume, 3 oneshot doujinshi (more harada actually), 1 manga chapter (chibi maruko-chan for school) and 2 pages of a novel (which seems pretty boring so far). there's still words i don't know of course but it's few enough that i'm actually enjoying reading without thinking too much about it. i need to just finish the N2 and N1 words so that i can REALLY have an easy time!! i just want to be reading in japanese ALL DAY...