Hair exchange neighbors ver.

Holy crap this took way too long.......and as a result I'm now so tired of seeing this that I can't even complete the simple act of drag&drop layers to complete the shipping version as originally intended. Working...slowly...on a max of three more pairs.

Earning language

I remember when English was a foreign string of words, a list of vocabulary on strips of paper, a table of verb tenses to be studied and memorized. I remember when I obediently wrote jumbled-nonsense diary entries in those long summer days when they were at work and I was left home alone, pre-internet days, bored. I remember first picking up the fourth volume of Harry Potter despite missing about a fourth of the plot, eyes sweeping across words but not understanding, and my subsequent surprise at the amount I missed upon rereading, a month(? Can't be more than a year) later.

And the immediate next thing I recall, I was fluent. Not 'became fluent', but 'was fluent'. Somehow I hold no recollection of when or how the jump occurred; it was zero to fluency with the x amount of time in between a seemingly complete blank. 

How I earned Spanish was a similar mystery, but I can associate that in-between stage's missing memory with general time-based erosion. The case with English...that excuse simply doesn't float as well.

Part of me realizes that the magical ingredient, in both cases, was forced-submersion in daily interaction with native speakers. Can twatter be an effective emulation of that? I wonder.

Passion holds me now.　

そして茨様、私が待ってください。

Something NOT Saint Seiya? WTF

I surprise even myself. Hello, PaintBBS. Long time no fucking see, default colors. And how can I possibly forget you, animations?

But if anything, I feel one thing I've definitely improved upon since those years is a certain taste for value. Therefore, thanks to easy adjustments:

These are how I like things now.