I’m currently consuming a pizza. Pepperoni.

See, Wednesday night is always pizza night, because on Wednesdays, Dominoes sells a one-topping medium pizza for $3.99. And if I eat sparingly, it lasts more than one day. Score.

I’ve been playing a lot of Earthbound recently. I should be playing it in Japanese, since I really should be studying it at every possible opportunity, but I have two reasons I don’t feel too bad.

The first is that in Japanese, it’s all in kana. For people unfamiliar with how the Japanese writing system works, let me assure you that all kana is obnoxious. The Japanese language only has 48 syllables, so that means that there a whole heck of a lot of words that are absolutely identically pronounced. That’s not necessarily bad for people who are completely fluent, but as for me, it takes a lot of time to figure out what each sentence means.

Secondly, and more importantly, I have a different game I’m currently working through to study my Japanese. I’m not sure very many people are familiar with it since it was never released in the United States, but it’s the very first Star Ocean game, for SNES. Its sequel was released in the U.S., for Playstation, but the original never was.

Star Ocean is quickly becoming my favorite RPG of all time. It’s a bit Star Trek-ish, but it’s still a lot of fun. It combines technological aspects of science fiction with the awesome storyline stuff of fantasy.

It takes me a while to look up each kanji that I find. Well, the ones that are unfamiliar at least. Which for the time being is pretty much all of them. Sometimes I’ll find ones that I know what they mean, but forget their readings (for example, in the screenshot I included, the 地球 means “Earth” but I totally forgot how it’s pronounced; for the record it’s “chikyuu”).

In any case, video games are a lot of fun and I think everyone should play them because they’re both amusing and educational!

Now I’m going to do my project that is due tonight before midnight and then possibly practice trumpet. Or maybe the other way around, I don’t know.