February 13, 2026

I was on campus but I somehow couldn’t find any of the classrooms. I sat down at a folding table in the hallway and sent my dad some photos from the day before. It was freshman orientation and I had taken a picture of the cherry blossoms atop a hill blowing in the wind. My dad sent a text saying that he wanted to learn directing and I encouraged him to keep working at his projects. I thought about what it would be like to crawl in the wet rice fields.

My friend asked if I knew what yomigana was. I suggested it was the kana that they used in books as a reading guide - then corrected myself saying it was for the idiomatic pronunciations invented by the author. Like when they write a phrase in kanji but it’s read out as English.