The folks at AMC are really good at making ads for the movies they show. They're like modern trailers, very fast-paced with disconnected dialog, and
they make movies that are certainly tame by today's action standards look really exciting. Usually the movies are good anyway, so it's not deception,
just giving them the treatment they deserve.

Tonight while watching a documentary on papparazzi on said channel, someone from the adjacent building shone a laser pointer at me through the
window. I took evasive maneuvers, killing the lights and shutting the shades without stepping in front of the windows again. Before closing the last
one I tried to get a look at the perpetrator through the leaves of a plant, but no such luck. Funny timing though. Also funny that I reciprocated
this act several years ago during a birthday party, so I suppose it could be seen as karmic.

My study of Japanese has become increasingly intense, especially since I received (from Japan out of necessity) my chosen textbook, Genki. I think
it's very good. But that book is only the center of a solar system of resources I am making use of, from a linguistics book about Japanese phonology,
to Kanji web sites, to Japanese comic books, a book of loanwords from English to Japanese, and a book of Japanese street slang. I think this is a
good method, since no one source will ever give you the whole picture, and it helps memory to see the same information portrayed in two different
ways, especially when translations slightly disagree. I don't know why this is suddenly all I'm interested in, but it is, other than AI stuff for
work. So I'm merely trying to take advantage of the momentum in case I lose it. Meanwhile, parents are becoming worried at my increased
reclusiveness, but eh, sometimes things just get serious.