So, last night a big typhoon hit Tokyo. I battened down the hatches (not before getting rain in my kitchen, though) and settled in to hear it howl around outside as I went to sleep. And when I woke up. There was a hell of a lot of rain and some very strong winds and I was glad to not be out in it. My bike outside blew over, which I had to pick back up later.

Today I did not go to school. My class for the morning was cancelled due to the professor’s absence, which meant that I didn’t actually need to go to university. I did a bit of university stuff from home today (enrolled for my classes, went over some Japanese stuff, that kind of thing) and otherwise stayed in my pyjamas. I also elected not to go to basketball, despite the weather having calmed down by the evening. I ended up spending a fair bit of time talking to both Ian and Nik, about various things involving games and the making thereof. For me I’ve been trying to recognise to myself that making games is where I want to go, and trying to allocate at least a bit of time each week towards that. Lately it’s just been site building stuff, which is good, but not as instructive as I’d like (particularly when overall progress is slow). I think I’ll try to make a more concerted effort to read some of the game development books I bought.

I made a (somewhat) significant decision today – I’m going to participate in this year’s NaNoWriMo. I’m not going to be following their rules strictly as such, as I’ll be trying to extend a story idea that Anastasia and I have been playing with for the last year and some change. That said, I’d like to really rough out some of the ‘chapters’ and do some more writing. Over the last few months I haven’t really had a lot of creative outlets, and when I’ve sat down to write it has been quite enjoyable and I’d like to really push that out. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep it up despite what I’m sure is going to be a pretty heavy workload this semester (which has officially started now). I’ve added a badge to my .Leith front page, and a word count widget that doesn’t appear to be working right now, but when it does you’ll be able to keep tabs on my progress.

Last but not least, I went back to the bento place for dinner again tonight. This time, the little old lady gave me a spinach and sesame salad and told me (in that way that only little old ladies can) that it’s good for my body. Yesterday potato salad from the old man, today another kind of salad from the old lady. Yeah, I guess they know who I am at this point.