2005-02-01, 04:41 PM — mangaholic
Currently fascinated with xxxHOLiC, a CLAMP manga... have to say, the art is absolutely lovely and the storyline is engaging. Love the characters.
But I do wish DelRey (publishers of this particular manga in Canada) would stop trying to get me to purchase not just this series but also Tsubasa, which while I would like to read it is -not- the story I am interested in now. So much "this manga crosses storylines with Tsubasa! buy it so you don't miss anything!" etc. etc. I like the style of xxxHOLiC better, anyways... although that's not to say I wouldn't like the other...
Blah blah. You know the line... rampant consumerism and me having problems with not buying things that advertisers tell me I should... I wish they would just stop it already.
2005-01-28, 01:46 PM — ideas for reducing the stagnation
So, I have to wonder what the point of this whole website really is anymore. I'm not updating it and I suspect that anyone who did read it is slowly growing tired of checking back and finding the same old entry again and again.
I go through spurts of wanting to share my random thoughts with the world. Frankly, I also go through spurts of having thoughts to share. I don't always feel eloquent or interesting enough to write anything here. Frequently I don't.
I have this problem, see, with talking about school here, in that I feel it's always whining; my life is full of difficult things, but nothing so difficult or tremendous that I feel I can complain. I have lots of wonderful things too, things that I cherish... but they don't necessarily get written down here either.
I thought of reducing bp to an abstract sort of thing where I write only fiction or those random thoughts that I would write down in a scrapbook of thoughts to keep for ideas. Maybe not a reduction; maybe an expansion. But then I have to wonder if posting fiction or ideas here would make me any more likely to post or to write fiction at all? The conclusion I come to is no.
And I really don't have much to talk about that I'm extremely passionate about. The environmental issues I investigate at school are important, but I spend enough time muddling through them and condemning various sectors of the human race in my head an in discussion with others in my program that I don't really want to put it here.
I would keep a birding journal online, perhaps, and that might be a fun idea. Goodness knows most of the people who read this little blurb aren't going to be so interested in that, but there are others who would be. I could keep a gardening jounal online, too.
That's something to do this summer, I think. Keep a garden, not necessarily a journal about the garden... although to be fair maybe I should do both. I'm not going to have a garden here, but I am going to tear up a plot at my parents' and visit it regularly, once or twice a week, to weed and putter about. I'm already getting excited about ordering seed for it, laying it out... a 10x10 vegetable plot, and maybe I'll throw in some New England asters and black-eyed susans...
So, yes. I'm not giving up on myself here yet. Not quite. There are things to say, things to do...
2004-12-16, 09:40 AM — griping
You know that end-of-term feeling where you're soooo close to being done that you feel like you can just quit now?
I'm there. Which means that either I am giving up early, or I really am very close to being done. I prefer to think it's the latter.
I've had a very intense couple of weeks, but the last two days have been less intense academically and more intense travelling-wise. That is going to change today, but tomorrow both will be combined into a pleasantly awful day until the evening.
Plus there's moving. Plus there's the fact that I have no food, thanks to the fridge dying and being fixed (with the combination of both, I now have no food at all, except for rice and sauce-less pasta).
So a smart, energetic person may go to Fortinos right now, and pick up some food for the day and maybe a tea from Tim's on the way back. We know that I am supposedly smart, but I am the furthest thing from energetic right now. Well, close, anyways... I'm not exactly comatose. But close.