Last night, inspired by Diana needing help to figure out how to put the cover back on her comforter, I decided clean my room more thoroughly than I had been... and ended up rearranging most of my furniture. So far I feel very happy with the new setup. It feels like I have more room in my little 6-jou apartment.
And maybe it's new location is why I turned on the tv for the first time in forever. Some interesting random things on the news. 2010's kanji of the year (a la Kiyomizu Temple) is 新 or "new," as in オバマ新大統領 (new President Obama) and 鳩山新政権 (Hatoyama's (Prime Minister) new government) and 新型インフルエンザ (swine flu).
I also learned that when referring to the sexes 性別 of animals on tv we use the animal specific words osu 雄 male and mesu 雌 female.
