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foxinthestarsHappy New Year everyone! My family has a tradition of not really ringing in the new year at all, but tonight I'm listening to NPR's special and had wine and cheese at midnight. (Wine is an issue at our house, but Mom and I had hidden some mini-bottles of Sauvignon Blanc for cooking and I drank one; I still can't help making a face when I drink almost any alcohol, but I still just want to every great now and again... And of course, because I never have it, 187ml might be making me disproportionately silly...)
Since Christmas, I've kind of fallen off doing everything, including writing and blogging, so I'll have to get my act together... For now, though, I'll just keep it to notes I can dash off quickly.
Still loving Kemono no Souja Erin; watched too much of it today, but hey, special occasion.
My favorite Let's Player is posting again; hoping that holds.
I also gave myself some serious sticker shock yesterday by spending the money I had gotten for Christmas and a bit more at Amazon Japan on stuff I just love even though I can barely read it... With the exchange rate and express trans-Pacific shipping, it worked out to about $15 per book, which isn't so bad for books these days, but when it's a dozen of them, you can do the math. Sticker shock, yeah... But I got essentially two, technically three entire Manga series. "After 0" by Okazaki Jiro is like a Twilight-Zone-esque series of Sci-Fi one-shots that was occasionally featured in Mangajin Magazine back in the day (I had a subscription toward the end of its run and still miss it, but the After 0 stories are what stuck with me most)---I had a few tankoubon already, but it was just re-released in a new "definitive edition," so I just got the whole new set, plus the two "After 0 Neo" volumes. I also got the two volumes of "Sarusuberi," a Manga about the life of Hokusai, which I wanted after seeing it featured in "Kingyo Used Books." And then, because such an order just wouldn't feel complete without the aspirational cherry on top (something even more fascinatingly impenetrable than manga), there was this, and I want you all to know that I didn't just get it because the cover looks cool and it involves a fox; I got it because the cover looks cool, it involves a fox, and it's by the author of the novels on which Kemono no Souja Erin is based. (Moribito is based on another series of hers, the first two volumes of which were translated into English, so I'll have to check those out when I get the chance, too.)
And that kind of took me beyond "dashing off quick notes"... I want to stay up another hour, until it's 2011 where Jessie and Jo are, but I'll wrap this up with one last thing:
New Years Resolutions:
-Finish the Mirrorverse.
-Limit Soda Intake to 2 cans/24 oz per day.
Since Christmas, I've kind of fallen off doing everything, including writing and blogging, so I'll have to get my act together... For now, though, I'll just keep it to notes I can dash off quickly.
Still loving Kemono no Souja Erin; watched too much of it today, but hey, special occasion.
My favorite Let's Player is posting again; hoping that holds.
I also gave myself some serious sticker shock yesterday by spending the money I had gotten for Christmas and a bit more at Amazon Japan on stuff I just love even though I can barely read it... With the exchange rate and express trans-Pacific shipping, it worked out to about $15 per book, which isn't so bad for books these days, but when it's a dozen of them, you can do the math. Sticker shock, yeah... But I got essentially two, technically three entire Manga series. "After 0" by Okazaki Jiro is like a Twilight-Zone-esque series of Sci-Fi one-shots that was occasionally featured in Mangajin Magazine back in the day (I had a subscription toward the end of its run and still miss it, but the After 0 stories are what stuck with me most)---I had a few tankoubon already, but it was just re-released in a new "definitive edition," so I just got the whole new set, plus the two "After 0 Neo" volumes. I also got the two volumes of "Sarusuberi," a Manga about the life of Hokusai, which I wanted after seeing it featured in "Kingyo Used Books." And then, because such an order just wouldn't feel complete without the aspirational cherry on top (something even more fascinatingly impenetrable than manga), there was this, and I want you all to know that I didn't just get it because the cover looks cool and it involves a fox; I got it because the cover looks cool, it involves a fox, and it's by the author of the novels on which Kemono no Souja Erin is based. (Moribito is based on another series of hers, the first two volumes of which were translated into English, so I'll have to check those out when I get the chance, too.)
And that kind of took me beyond "dashing off quick notes"... I want to stay up another hour, until it's 2011 where Jessie and Jo are, but I'll wrap this up with one last thing:
New Years Resolutions:
-Finish the Mirrorverse.
-Limit Soda Intake to 2 cans/24 oz per day.
