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searchsoleil) wrote2008-06-05 10:03 pm
searchsoleil) wrote2008-06-05 10:03 pm
In which I recount.
Posting from the blackberry again. The internet goes out at precisely 8:15 every night. I don't know what that is about, but it annoys me greatly. Here are some updates from my life.
I got a summer job. It is my very first job ever. No, I am not joking. It is a silly boardwalk job common to those under twenty who live on the Jersey Shore, but it is a JOB. I got my first paycheck. I already miss lazing about profoundly.
Otherwise my summer has been very much the same as my previous summers. Here is what I have done so far:
I tore through Pamela Aidan's Darcy series. It was thoroughly enjoyable, though there were some points in the second book where I was thrown out of canon. However, the third book more than made up for the second's shortcomings.
Actually, it amazes me how easily I default into Regency lit. When did this become the norm for me? Actually, I'm pretty positive it was Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell that started me down this dark path. Damn that life altering book! What am I supposed to do with a Regency fixation?
I also rewatched all of Lovely Complex. That show makes me sad now. The first 12 episodes or so are soooo good, and then it just starts to taper off, slowly but surely. It is still an awesome show, don't get me wrong. At its worst it is still a damn good show. I just wish it could have taken the post-get-together part at a slower pace. :/
I also rewatched and read all of Cardcaptor Sakura. I cannot believe how good that series is. I was kind of worried that the show wouldn't hold up as well now that I'm older, but it was surprisingly engaging. Although I do not appreciate the fact that it is now pervy for me to be head-over-heels in love with Li Syaoran. ESPECIALLY ANIME!SYAORAN. THE SLOW REVEAL OF HIS GENTLEMANLY CHARACTER--GOD. A 10 YEAR-OLD HAS RUINED ME FOR OTHER MEN. I FIND THAT UNFAIR.
In a similar effort to recapture my childhood, I dug out my old copy of Lego Racers the other night, which was also a surprisingly engaging trip down memory lane. I was proud of how many shortcuts I remembered, although I am embarrassed to say it took me more than a day to beat it. Mind, I spent a lot of that time futzing around with the player builder. What can I say? I am easily amused.
Also, I started downloading Nodame Cantabile today before the Internet split for the evening. THIS SHOW IS AWESOME. NEED MOAR! NAO, DAMNIT. I HATE THIS INTERNET. D:!
In other news, it looks like I am in a bind for Otakon yet again, only this time I do not even have a hotel room to my name. I do not like how this looks like I will be gathering yet more experience with con-ing solo.
My life. Let me show you it. :/
I got a summer job. It is my very first job ever. No, I am not joking. It is a silly boardwalk job common to those under twenty who live on the Jersey Shore, but it is a JOB. I got my first paycheck. I already miss lazing about profoundly.
Otherwise my summer has been very much the same as my previous summers. Here is what I have done so far:
I tore through Pamela Aidan's Darcy series. It was thoroughly enjoyable, though there were some points in the second book where I was thrown out of canon. However, the third book more than made up for the second's shortcomings.
Actually, it amazes me how easily I default into Regency lit. When did this become the norm for me? Actually, I'm pretty positive it was Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell that started me down this dark path. Damn that life altering book! What am I supposed to do with a Regency fixation?
I also rewatched all of Lovely Complex. That show makes me sad now. The first 12 episodes or so are soooo good, and then it just starts to taper off, slowly but surely. It is still an awesome show, don't get me wrong. At its worst it is still a damn good show. I just wish it could have taken the post-get-together part at a slower pace. :/
I also rewatched and read all of Cardcaptor Sakura. I cannot believe how good that series is. I was kind of worried that the show wouldn't hold up as well now that I'm older, but it was surprisingly engaging. Although I do not appreciate the fact that it is now pervy for me to be head-over-heels in love with Li Syaoran. ESPECIALLY ANIME!SYAORAN. THE SLOW REVEAL OF HIS GENTLEMANLY CHARACTER--GOD. A 10 YEAR-OLD HAS RUINED ME FOR OTHER MEN. I FIND THAT UNFAIR.
In a similar effort to recapture my childhood, I dug out my old copy of Lego Racers the other night, which was also a surprisingly engaging trip down memory lane. I was proud of how many shortcuts I remembered, although I am embarrassed to say it took me more than a day to beat it. Mind, I spent a lot of that time futzing around with the player builder. What can I say? I am easily amused.
Also, I started downloading Nodame Cantabile today before the Internet split for the evening. THIS SHOW IS AWESOME. NEED MOAR! NAO, DAMNIT. I HATE THIS INTERNET. D:!
In other news, it looks like I am in a bind for Otakon yet again, only this time I do not even have a hotel room to my name. I do not like how this looks like I will be gathering yet more experience with con-ing solo.
My life. Let me show you it. :/
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I believe when you became a Barbara Cartland fan you abicated all pretense to the contrary. Don't worry, there are lots of good regencies. I like the ones by Carla Kelly (down-to-earth introspective romance), Loretta Chase (fun and adventure-y), and Amanda Quick (sweet, sweet formula) myself. And early books by Celeste Bradley, before she started to let her personal kinks show a bit too much.
A 10 YEAR-OLD HAS RUINED ME FOR OTHER MEN.
I find his 14-year-old persona in Tsubasa even worse. I mean, as far as ruining goes. How is anyone supposed to compete with that?
In a similar effort to recapture my childhood, I dug out my old copy of Lego Racers the other night
I spent last weekend playing Pokemon Snap, and it was wonderful.
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Don't even talk to me about Tsubasa. Oh, Syaoran. *sighs besottedly*
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I was kind of worried that the show wouldn't hold up as well now that I'm older Ditto. I never rewatch CCS and Karekano (my other favorite) because of that. Maybe I will now. And since I was in love with Eriol - and he wasn't really 10 years-old- maybe I won't feel like a perv XD
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You have a point there with Eriol. :) I'll just have to keep telling myself that it was CLAMP themselves who put Rika and Terada-sensei together. A 9 year age difference is nothing to theirs!
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God, I've got to stop going to that website.
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I'd completly forgotten about Rika/Terada. I remember when I first watched the anime and that R/T-s and Tori/Yukito were kinda subdued. It only became more clear to me when I read the manga. And as for Eriol, as someone else pointed out, he's really seven-hundred years old XD