Poking my head back in

[ljwrites]

Hello again, Dreamwidth!

It's been a while. Lately I've been hankering to keep an online journal for everyday, chatty stuff that's less serious than my author website (yes, I have one now!) but also archived in a more orderly and discoverable way than my fediverse social media accounts. This DW account was the obvious choice for it and I've always been meaning to do something with the account again, so might as well run with it! I'm hoping to stick around for longer this time.

So what have I been up to? I've been getting busy with work again after a five-month dry spell since a little coup attempt in Korea you might have heard about. A lot of the long, anxious winter and spring months were spent following the political news and going to protests, doing independent research, working on ttrpg translation, and lots of home cooking because we had more time than money.

The political situation is finally starting to stabilize with the Presidential election, and so is the economic situation. Literally work started rolling in the week of the election early June, so that's been a win on more than one front lol. I'm getting back to normal-year levels of work and income which is a huge relief, though it also means I'm busy and stressed again. I guess life is a choice between problems and this is better than the alternative!

So it's going to be a busy weekend crunching for a work deadline, monsoon season is here and it's raining again, I have a bunch of things going on and more I'd like to get into but I'll get to that post by post. Like I've been mildly obsessed with Kpop Demon Hunters, did some small coding projects, been working on side translation projects, ran some tabletop games at events... keeping busy, I guess, in addition to the default family, work, and home stuff.

And I continue to work on my writing, of course! More about that, too, as things come up.

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

Hi! Were we friends on Livejournal or am I mixing you up with somebody else? Anyway, I added you here on DW some time ago. I've been learning Korean for almost 4 years now and I saw in the directory that you were in Korea.

[loopy777]

Hey, welcome back! I'm glad you got through all that messiness with the president and your family is doing well.

[ljwrites]

Hello hi! If we've interacted before you'll have to forgive my crappy memory, I'm afraid xD It takes a lot of commitment to study a language for so long, 존경스러워요! My personal white whale is Mandarin, and improvement feels impossible at times but I keep trying lol.

[ljwrites]

Oh it's so good to see you! 💚 Yeah it was an anxious time but I'm finally starting to relax and don't check my phone in a panic first thing in the morning. Thank you for the warm welcome :D

[rose_griffes]

Nice to see you here again! Glad things are generally improving for you in South Korea.

I was just wondering about you the other day, funnily enough. Probably something from Star Wars made me think of you, if I were to guess at the thought chain.

[loopy777]

Sadly, my mother is picking up the phone-checking habit with everything Trump is doing. I tell her she can have her coffee before seeing what new travesty is happening here.

[profiterole_reads]

중국어보다 훨씬 더 쉬워요. I also have basics in Japanese and Chinese, and opted to learn Korean because it has an alphabet. Also, I have no ear for tones.