Sunday, August 1
04:23 AM
We lost.
Wednesday, August 4
12:55 AM
Lost again. Can you believe this tournament? I'm losing my mind.
Wednesday, August 4
01:36 AM
How do you poach an egg?
Saturday, August 7
02:03 AM
Another weekend in. At least in season it isn't so bad, you know, but the tournament's all over now and I'm definitely losing my mind. You're always traveling for your vlogs. How do you handle being away from home so much? I hate it. I bet you do, too.
Monday, August 9
11:00 PM
Trying poached eggs again. I had to look up what a slotted spoon was. Utterly stupid. Why would you put holes in a spoon? Everything falls right through! And I don't remember seeing something like this in any of Yamato's stuff, and he's so particular about kitchen things. When we roomed together in grad school he was always after me about using his stuff, which was dumb already because at a certain point we'd forgot what belonged to who, you know? But I admit I wasn't the greatest about taking the best care of our place. He's just the type to get very tense and wrung out sometimes, and cleaning calms him down. So that's what I said, right, that I was doing him a favor leaving all the dishes and pots and stuff around for him. I have no idea why that made him madder. Can't do a single nice thing for that guy, I swear.
Thursday, August 12
10:23 PM
I don't think I fully understand your channel, all cards on the table. You're a vlogger, but you cover food, and traveling, and I guess cute shit or whatever? Honestly I really only started watching your videos because my sister Hikari does, religiously I might add, and I used to get horrible insomnia from work stress and traveling so much, you know. Anyway, she visited me once and one night was playing one of your videos on her tablet without headphones like a goddamn sociopath and I was out like a light in half a second. Have you thought about participating in sleep studies? Or maybe podcasting? No, scratch that. Your voice could cause an expressway pile-up, and I'm not taking responsibility for giving you the idea.
Friday, August 13
00:01 AM
Pile-up in the good way, like the time I was trying to look at that one billboard ad you've got and crashed my bike into this gaggle of tourists. That's how I knew about you before the vlogging, actually. Your face is everywhere. Sora says you've been a big deal since you were a teenager or something? I'd thought you'd sort of looked familiar from Hikari's videos. Anyway, you know the one billboard you did for that phone company a couple months back? Right on that one major intersection with all those high-rises and shopping centers downtown? Well, you look really great in it. I, on the other hand, absolutely totaled my bike when I first saw it, or I guess, you. It never stood a chance.
Friday, August 13
00:07 AM
I was fine, by the way. The tourists…well, who likes tourists?
Saturday, August 14
00:45 AM
I'm kidding. It was just a regular bicycle, and it was the side of a regular department store I ran it into. No tourists were harmed in the making of this very pathetic picture of my life story I'm painting you. It was actually my dad's bike, a hand-me-down that survived a couple of wars, if family lore is to be believed. Not sure why I'm telling you that part. I just don't want you getting the wrong idea about me being as cool in life as I am on this by now very cringe Instagram DM thread. I'm 100% no one you need to look at twice. I'm told I'm charismatic but I cause no pile-ups. That's not me being self-deprecating. I factually have never caused a traffic accident. Well, as far as I know.
Saturday, August 14
02:43 AM
Googled it to be safe. I'm in the clear. Although I did find my secondary school class picture. I haven't seen this in years and most of these friends in even longer. Growing up is the best kind of worst.
Tuesday, August 17
09:13 AM
Had breakfast with a client this morning and guess what we were served? Poached fucking eggs. The world is taunting me.
Saturday, August 21
08:24 AM
Went for a run and the randomized playlist included your latest episode. Nearly wiped the fuck out, right there on the pavement. Sleep study. Look it up.
Tuesday, August 24
05:20 PM
Is it weird that I feel like I have to apologize for not updating this thread in a while? I know you don't read these things, or at least I hope to all that is holy and good you don't, because I can only imagine the kind of fucked up shit celebrities must get. Which doesn't bode well for me or my state of mind, does it, that I'm still writing to you like this? I don't even know why I started. Maybe you're easy to talk to? Your siren-like voice could crash ships in the ocean, sure, but it's kind, and I've already crashed the one bike, so might as well. Maybe it's because I know you don't read these things, that your team manages your accounts for you, that I feel okay writing into the void and not have to worry about the void trying to talk back, because, feelings, gross. It's easy to make this the void, and easy is nicely rare these days, because it's been hard. Really hard. I really, really hate being away from home. My parents are the best people, my sister is the single greatest person to have ever lived on this earth. Yamato can be a nosy dickhead trying to always check up on me, but he's my nosy dickhead, you know? Plus he's also the only solid ground in my life, which I can never have him find out, so please let's never speak of that again. I miss Sora, a fucking lot. Kou's been my best friend since we were in grade school. I'm pretty sure he's the best of all of us. I mean, I even miss Jou! Not that you know these people, but they know me, better than I could ever know myself. Without them, I feel…unknown. But I also love my job. I worked really, really hard to get here. I know I'm doing something important, something that will make a difference. If I could just take everything I do and everything I left behind to do it, and put them together, maybe I'd know myself again.
Thursday, August 26
06:03 AM
Sorry, I don't normally talk like that. Emotions, yuck, who needs them. I'd rather crack a joke and move on. Speaking of, I really should move on, right? I have a feeling I must have made some kind of blacklist with your team, and I'd hate for my patheticness to be the reason Hikari can't get tickets to your next live taping. She's been going on and on about it. I was hoping to surprise her, so that's why I'm up so early today. Not that I'm trying to win any favors here or anything! I'm playing this by the rules. Set a timer and everything, right here in the kitchen. That's right. It's poached eggs time. Let's see if the evil will be defeated today.
Friday, August 27
09:19 PM
Welp, the evil defeated me. Completely bombed a major deal my team'd been working on for months. It's a sign. I'm a ship crashing in the ocean. Fuck. I don't know what to do.
Tuesday, August 31
06:30 PM
Hi, my Mimi minions! Weren't expecting a surprise video drop today, were you? Well, it just got better, because I'm here to share with you one of my favorite guilty pleasures ever: poached eggs. This one is extra special because it goes out to one of my most loyal subscribers, who's been having a bit of a hard time recently being on the road for so long. And, boy, do I know what that's like. That's why I love making these videos for you all. No matter where I am or what's going on, I know you've got me, and I want you to know I've got you, too. Now, let's get out that sauce pot, a couple of eggs, grab that natto – trust me on this! – and your trusty slotted spoon, and let's make something yummy!
Tuesday, August 31
10:34 PM
Thank you.
Tuesday, August 31
11:11 PM
I just hope I didn't put you to sleep ;)
Tuesday, August 31
11:18 PM
I'm thinking of bottling it, sell clips of your voice recordings on the black market. Halt traffic the world over, destroy transoceanic trade, ruin the global shipping economy.
Tuesday, August 31
11:21 PM
You know that my whole team reads these, right?
Tuesday, August 31
11:24 PM
Don't worry, I'd cut them in on the deal, too.
Tuesday, August 31
11:26 PM
I want 20%.
Tuesday, August 31
11:27 PM
15%.
Tuesday, August 31
11:29 PM
18%.
Tuesday, August 31
11:31 PM
16% and that's my final offer.
Tuesday, August 31
11:31 PM
It's my voice.
Tuesday, August 31
11:33 PM
And it's a nice one, mythological powers aside. I might even like hearing it, you know, live. In person. At a taping. With my beloved sister.
Tuesday, August 31
11:36 PM
You are a sharp negotiator. All right, 17%, VIP seats with a backstage pass, and you keep telling me about your day.
Tuesday, August 31
11:39 PM
My day?
Tuesday, August 31
11:41 PM
I'd like to know you're okay.
Tuesday, August 31
11:44 PM
You don't need to know that stuff. But thanks for the tickets. That would actually be really awesome.
Tuesday, August 31
11:45 PM
You're very welcome!
Tuesday, August 31
11:55 PM
Can I tell you about my day?
Tuesday, August 31
11:56 PM
Yeah, of course. Everything all right?
Tuesday, August 31
11:57 PM
Not really, no.
Tuesday, August 31
11:58 PM
Tell me.
Tuesday, August 31
11:59 PM
You won't fall asleep on me? ;)
Wednesday, September 1
00:00 AM
Haha, nah. I'd listen to you all night.