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I gotta preserve my Japanesing for all these biographies and and magazines I bought.

I got bored halfway through but it was blah blah Hanyu injured blah blah quads are hard you guys, blah blah etc.

lololol I was wondering what the hell was with the hair but it seems the little jii-chans and baa-chans would probably love Showa style helmet hair! (That shirt, though. )

Oh my sweet lord WHYYYYYYY?!?!&&@$%%%{£nah Well SEIMEI is just Noh on ice, right? RIGHT? Maybe if they make them go back to skating on geta we can get figure skating recognised as traditional Japanese performing arts. Then from there he’ll be a clog-in! (Dad joke I’m so sorry I will seppuku now.)

Well, congratulations to him but I won't be satisfied until he is designated a Living National Treasure.

I didn't know there was a name for it either until this very day! I feel like we're lucky to have lived through it because now we're adequately trained to deal with the Mad Max future that awaits us. Seriously, going to Japan during the drought was so weird. It took me until the day before I left to get used to not being insane about water and then I had to relearn the stinginess again. Seeing people throwing buckets of it on the footpath outside shops and houses was just mortifying! Our bathtub is still purely decorative. I'm in Melbourne but aparently a new Japanese cafe opened up nearby while I was away that serves yuzunade so that's the first thing on my list to try!

>_< I hope your next flight is a little more comfortable! I had a similarly awful flight. The seat was strangely hard and concave, like a carseat for a baby, and I kept falling asleep in 10 minute bursts and then having to DIY chiropractor my spine and repeat. Luckily my layover was in tropical Queensland so the blazing heat and humidity healed my aching aches (and not a bum crack in sight this time!) I still haven't had Yuzu flavoured anything! Evidently, my mother and sister have become massive fanyus in my absence and as soon as I unpacked they snatched up all the yuzu lollies and those weird lollipops we were given. XD I did buy some Yuzu bath salts but I think I'll give those away, too. Ever since The Big Ol' Droughty Thing of 10 Years or Whenever Ago I feel too guilty to take a bath. Eat the yuzupan! Eat aaaall the yuzupan! Are you at the level of tiredness where food talks to you yet? Best eat it before it begs for its panny life. Not OT

That's pretty cute, I guess, but the real cute is at 0:03.

Let's just pretend we didn't see it. And then bask in some more cuteness.

I ded. (Apart from this one source of all that is good and happy, that uploader has some very... interesting... videos.)

It's a super-expensive mask custom made to fit the wearer's face exactly. He wears them for his asthma, I think.

I can't believe it's only been 10 days. It feels like 6 months.

Damn.

Please Jack, just tell me where you found it. I looked in every bookshop in Japan and nothing. Can’t even find it online anymore.

I hope he keeps 4lz just so he can get confused with the 4lz sign in the kiss and cry again. My heart needs it. (I will never catch up with this thread now. I’ve been behind since CoR.)

Mai Plushy and Evgenia are on the P&G team now? Also Daisuke!

That too! I hope his dream comes true, I really do, but even if it doesn’t I think this has shown he’s loved and regarded as the greatest no matter the colour of the medal. (CoR proved it, too. How many seconds of screen time did the winner get at the gala? :P)

He is! It’s so overwhelming to witness all the love and support just as a fan. I’m sure he can feel it! It’s really something so special and incredible that I can’t think of this injury as a completely terrible thing.

Getting super OT here but: Thank you! It's already a massive blur and seems like I've been here a lifetime but if I spent all the time I needed resting I wouldn't leave the hotel at all! I'm just dying to get back home and lie in bed for 10 years and eat fooooooood. I died at the Deniss and Stephane interview. It was sad seeing that they finally came around to coach-cam and Brian wasn't there, though! Back on topic:

I tell you Deniss was the star. I was so mesmerised I couldn't clap until the end and then too much (that's why I'm so dead now.) I must see his master, Stephane, as many times as I can before he retires or I die! God I wish they had let Stephane compete in Yuzu's place. He's my other favourre of all time. Still in Japan! Trying to make the most of Kyoto though still recovering from gala and Yuzuruha shrine so a lot of it is enjoying view of hotel ceiling from bed. I think I'm over the disappointment now, or just did the denial thing backwards. I'm just so relieved to hear his recovery will be short. I was so scared. Friday was a nightmare not knowing how he was. The thing that made me go to Yuzuruha, though, was seeing him try not to cry through that interview (and of course at that time the recovery length still wasn't known.) It just broke my heart. The absolute hardest part of rehab is the mental and emotional which is why I thought I should go and pray and give as much support as I could even if it's just a tiny drop in the ocean. I recognised his words - focusing on small goals, not the past or the future which can't be helped - because that's what you get told to focus on in rehab. But when your goal is to conquer the world it's such a frustrating and difficult thing to bear. But he's done it before and he'll do it again. I still believe in his miraculous powers.

Then they sorely need a dictionary! What a terrifying choice of words!

Article I read said 10 days complete rest then rehab and training should take 4 weeks to get back to pre-NHK condition.

Omg sig of life!

lol we’re not safe!

Sorry if already posted ”Hanyu piece in the works The New York Times is working on a major profile of Hanyu to run shortly before the Pyeongchang Olympics. How serious is the NYT about their Hanyu piece? They have sent veteran writer Jere Longman to both the Cup of Russia and the NHK Trophy this season to see Hanyu compete. Longman was looking forward to watching Hanyu skate in Osaka, only to have him get injured in practice and be forced to withdraw.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2017/11/14/figure-skating/satoko-miyaharas-olympic-dream-serious-jeopardy/#.Wgq6E6L3XYU