The improvised Country Roads scene may be my favorite moment in any Ghibli movie

1. Only Yesterday - Probably my favorite movie ever. It’s so authentic and personal and real.
2. Spirited Away - Really emotional and dramatic and surprisingly NOT overrated at all.
3. The Wind Rises - Feels very personal while also feeling broad and important.
4. From Up on Poppy Hill - I love complicated family situations, and I like the aesthetics and music.
5. The Secret World of Arrietty - The philosophy of the characters in this one is actually really interesting.

I like every season, but summer the most for longer days.

Yes, in books and stuff, but often it is horizonal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/etymologies-for-every-day-of-the-week

Separate, but they still had equivalents / parallels. Tuesday is named after the god of war, Thursday is named after the sky/thunder god.

Yes but if I remember correctly, each of those Norse gods are correlated with the Roman gods who share names with planets, which is how you can draw a connection between the planets and weekdays for English. The same connection exists in many languages across the world including Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese.

The gods that the weekdays are named after also have associated planets, so really every day is named after a celestial body already.
Ex: Saturday is obviously Saturn Day, Thursday is Thor’s Day, with Thor being the equivalent of the Roman Jupiter, so Thursday is indirectly Jupiter Day, etc.

The days of the week come from the Sun (Sunday), Moon (Monday), and classic 5 planets (Tuesday = Mars, Wednesday = Mercury, Thursday = Jupiter, Friday = Venus, Saturday = Saturn). This makes more sense in some other languages, for example Spanish: marte / martes, mercurio / miercoles. Saturn = Saturday though is almost obvious.

So if there were another day in the week, I have no choice but to either:

• name it Earthday
• name it after Uranus, the next discovered planet

This gives us precedent to create up to 10 days per week by including all 8 planets plus sun & moon.

Yeah it’s definitely more reasonable than maybe it seems.

As kids we had pretty similarly sized feet. And I don’t think I noticed if the socks I was wearing were too big or too small anyway, even now I have some socks that are bigger or smaller than others.

And my parents had their own socks, so the sock basket was just for me and the sibs.

Sharing socks. My family used to have a sock basket next to our shoes. You didn’t own your own socks, you just grab a pair when you need them.
I mentioned “the sock basket” offhand to a friend in elementary school and she thought it was crazy. That’s when I learned that not every family has a community sock basket. Looking it up though, I find a couple reddit threads from people with the same experience (and people replying that it’s weird) 🤷‍♀️