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Today I watched Kiki's Delivery Service! Which I have not seen since it first came out in the US, when I was in high school. I felt that I needed to see it, and I think I did; it is such a story about work, and art, and losing faith, and regaining it. It was also my first time seeing the Japanese version. Sakuma Rei voicing Jiji is VERY different from Phil Hartman voicing Jiji, which was an extremely Disney choice.

Every time I watch a Ghibli movie I am surprised by the silences in the background music. But the score is so beautiful -- I noticed it more, I think, because I picked up the piano solo book at Kinokuniya a while ago (not that I can play any of it -- I can just pick out the melodies).

I did not get all my words today, because of that and grocery shopping and laundry, and because I had to write almost everything from scratch. Also, it seems that it takes up a lot of memory to have two novels and a bazillion web browser tabs and a DVD player open at once and my computer started to get crashy. This is okay; I'm still reasonably ahead, for now.