Hahahaha: no-sword.jp/blog/2005/10/…

(How long has Matt been doing this sort of thing...?)

Looks like the first post on his blog is in Jan 2005 and he's already talking about some hardcore poetry then, so "a long time" it seems.

I wonder what I'll be doing in 10 years.

I am thinking about people who stay at the same company for decades and am kind of taken aback at how that's even possible.

I guess, looking back, I'm never intensely interested in a single thing for more than say 2 or 3 years.

Perhaps. Lately I've been very interested in Judo, though I haven't been doing it at all, so it's kind of a strange interest.

I'm kind of just hoping it will pass, because it doesn't make much sense to invest time in Judo.

I suppose you could watch it, like a sport

I don't actually get to play Go very much anymore (sadly), but I do watch the tournament games on sunday morning

Just watching it and reading about it.

I've also been spending a lot of time getting in better shape, which would be necessary if I want to do 柔道, and totally a good idea even if I'm not going to anyways, hehe.

@DariusJahandarie how long have you been interested in japanese?

i like to learn about lots of different things too

i could see myself settling in a job though, if i have enough hobbies to keep myself busy

where "keep myself busy" means... keep my mind stimulated

that would be ideal, if i could get a job like that

i'm not counting on it though. maybe someday :)

@ogicu8abruok Hmm, I've had a passive interest for 4 or 5 years (read: watching anime), but only a serious interest for 2 years or so.

I couldn't write a single grammatical sentence 2 years ago, anyways. Except maybe some really simple crap.

Well, your kanji knowledge surely seems decades away to me.

Oh, interesting. Apparently I could actually form a somewhat okay sentence 3 years ago. Full of grammar errors, but well, still understandable.

I don't recall actually starting serious reading about Japanese until 2 years ago though. Maybe I'm just forgetting something.

About 1.5 years ago is when I started my Japanese class in college, and my professor there was the person who started sending me linguistics papers, and that's when I really started getting into things.

Yeah. I'm very happy I got to meet him.

I think I probably would have quit Japanese if I ended up with a normal professor. :)

@snailplane: Hmm... I think I'm going to copy your intonation example into that formatting meta FAQ. Mind if I steal it blatantly?

(or you could put it in there) :)

haha... okay

@snailplane 「飛行機がたつ」、の「たつ」って「立つ」だっけ

なんか漢字あったような

飛び立つ?

@Chocolate 発つ とも書ける

でも、立つ なんでしょうね