Scary Future

This is a faux-speech on the topic, "Me, 20 Years from Now."

二十ねんごの私

Apologies for any formatting mistakes. I wanted to try out something new.

これが生活です。

生活は大変ですね。

 コロンビア大学はたった今あまりよくないです。
生活はこれから良いですか。
じゃ、終わりましょう。

すみません。ご聴取ありがとうございました。

For my English-speaking readers, I apologize for the content. Please comment, "thanks for sharing," and don't worry about reading any of this.

I Hate New York

"I Hate New York"

I was thinking about this as I walked back to my dorm after Japanese class. I hate New York City. I said these words in response to our thought exercise because, "my idea of showing someone around the city is to leave the city." We can be a little more precise, and a little less absolute, about this. I don't hate New York City in its entirety, I hate everything it's known for. I've never been a fan of touristy things, especially not of being a tourist.

In fact, the only things I like about New York are the things it has in common with other cities: board game shops, import shops, specialty stores, cat cafes, pubs, and a diverse selection of local restaurants. I've shown many people around the city at this point, and I've been to Central Park too many times to count. After all that, all I want to do is get a T-Swirl crepe and go to bed. Being excited about New York has gotten exhausting.

The Things I Do

はじめまして！ わたしのスケジュール。まいあさ７：３０ごろにおきます。まいばん２３：３０ごろにねます。まいしょうげつようびとすいようび９：００から１１：００までべんきょします。それから、１１：２０にあるいてコロンビアだいがくへいきます。クラスは１１：４０から１４：１５までです。１４：３０にあるいてかえります。それから、あるいてうちへかえります。１５：００にひるごはんをたべます。１７：００から２２：００までべんきょうします。まいしょうかようび９：３０にあるいてだいがくへいきます。クラスは１０：１０から１４：１５までと１８：１０から１９：２５までです。１５：００にうちでひるごはんをたべます。１５：３０から１８：００までと２０：００から２２：００までうちではたらきます。まいしょうもくようび９：３０にあるいてだいがくへいきます。クラスは１０：１０から１９：２５までです。わたしはいつもたべません。２０：００にでんしゃとくるまでニュージャージーへかえります。きんようびからにちようびまではたらきますとべんきょうします。それから、にちようびごご１８：００にくるまとでんしゃでうちへかえります。

I'm way too tired to try to figure out Blogger's CSS right now. It is fighting me at every turn.

How do you do! My name is Trey Staz, also known as Kit. Twenty-One years old and easily distracted, I'm an Oregonian by birth, a New Jersey resident, and I currently live in New York City. I'm studying Japanese because I am a masochist with an interest in fiscal policy. Japan represents an interesting case study for a nation with a plausible reason to oppose unilateral free trade as a matter of sovereignty, which I think is a very interesting concept. I'd love to discuss this with somebody, but I think I might be the only person who cares about stuff like that. I'm a bit of a geek, but not enough of a geek to learn Japanese because I like their media exports. I was waffling between Japanese and Ancient Greek or Linear B; Japanese seems a lot more marketable, in that regard.

Japanese vis-a-vis learning it has been a fun experience. I feel like my comprehension is still fairly low, but I try to practice a few hours a day and annoy my friends and loved ones with butchered Japanenglish slang. I guess it's working, but it's still very early in the four-semester process. If I'm lucky, I'll be passably conversational before 2022.

Thanks for your time, dear reader, and I'm excited to speak to you again soon.

P.S. If you know where my url comes from, you get ten bonus points.

This is a Blog Written by a First-Year Japanese Student

はじめまして。わたしはトレイ・スタスキャビッチです。 にじゅいっさいです。アメリカのオレゴンからきました。 わたしはコロンビアだいがくのさんねんせいです。 どうぞよろしくおねがいします。