So, my life right now. I don't even know where my time is going. I haven't read my FList since the last time I posted. Which is not to say that I haven't been following the LJ. On the contrary, I seem to be around quite often. It's just that it's become a very specific following of very specific things. For example, the shit-ton of Janto fic I've been reading lately. And the fanmixes I've been downloading. And the communities and friends I can be bothered to check up on when I see them pop up on my Firefox alert for new FList posts.

So. I've been reading a shit-ton of a lot of things in the past month. Most of it is shoujo manga. Basically, any and every short shoujo manga that comes up in goosygirl_icons. That girl has fantastic taste. It has become a problem. A time- and bandwidth-consuming problem.

Also, I've been following Nodame Cantabile season 2, which, can I just say, ack. The picture quality in the second season has dropped off the charts. It still has great voice actors and a great story and its the quality and not the aesthetic that's changed, so it's bearable (not like, say, Antique Bakery, which I still haven't watched because the aesthetic quality of that anime is abhorrent to me), but still. It pains me in a the way that one might be pained to see their lover make a horrible faux pas. You love them, right? But you kind of don't want to be seen with them. Oh Nodame, you are not making it easy for me to spread this love I have for you.

What else, what else. Well, there was a lot of school stuff going on this October as well. I had midterms and an insane paper/presentation thing on Yeats whom, let me qualify, I have loved for years, but possibly never want to hear another word about ever again. I ended up dropping that Psych class and my life is a thousand times better off for it.

Over the past long weekend (Columbia closes up for Election Day weekend) I re-watched Torchwood, every episode of Doctor Who with Captain Jack, and also, incongruously, The Sarah Jane Adventures. Then Wednesday night I was cleaning out my gmail account and ran across arekuru's old rec of the Kimi Wa Petto drama, and randomly decided to start watching it. Such a wonderful mistake. I stayed up all night and ended up sleeping through my first class, but GOD, OH MY GOD, I LOVE KIMI WA PETTO. I've been rereading as much of the manga as I've been able to find online. God, no josei will ever be as great as this one. Love love love.

Oh and OBAMA GOT ELECTED. THAT WAS PRETTY COOL, EH?

This is me attempting not to make this into an insane tl;dr post, but I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their lives as much as I have been enjoying mine. If you haven't, I advise you to repeat the words "PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA" to yourself as many times as it takes for the awesomeness of that statement to sink in. :D

My life has been kind of crazy lately. I've been running around doing lots of summer things, such as going out to movies and staying in to movies and going to birthday parties and the like. I've also been working, which is getting shittier and shittier the longer I'm there. Oh well. Such is life.

I re-read Sailor Moon, which did not hold up as well as I hoped it would to my maturity level. God, when I was in sixth grade, Sailor Moon was my entire universe. How is this manga so mediocre?

After that though, I started watching Nodame Cantabile, which. I have no words. Wow. SO good. Amazing. Heart-warming, hilarious, pretty, thoughtful, educational. Finally got me to listen to my parents collection of classical music. Finally caused me to fall head over heels in love with Tomokazu Seki. To me, this series is on par with Hikaru no Go. It is that good, that epic, that wonderful. It also reminds me a lot of Nobuta, in that it is about a haughty guy who learns how to connect to life with the help of a strange girl. And also, the necessity of human relationships, their interconnectivity, and how love and friendship make the world go round. Superb. 5 million stars. I need an S-Oke shirt for Otakon.

Then I reread Cartograhper's Craft. Which is also superb and wonderful. I never get tired of how unrelentingly clever copperbadge's plots and style are. So much fangirlism. How the man does it, I will never know.

This of course led to a re-reading of Come Write Me Down (a prequel to Cartographer's Craft written by metallumai, not Sam), which, is heartbreakingly beautiful. Reading them both back to back, I actually like CWMD better, which is upsetting. But I love this Ellis and Sirius so, so much. Their feelings and their goals and their meaning to each other. God, so beautiful. And by stopping before the tear-your-heart-out ending, my love of it isn't tainted by the overbearing angst that puts me off so many Marauder-era fics. It handles the foreshadowing beautifully though.

And now I'm sort of hovering around thremedon waiting for people to start posting madly. I want mad posting!

Next books!

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

( The books! )

This one is sort of late, but oh well.

Reply to this post with the answers to these questions so that I can get to know you better. Then post it on your journal so you can get to know your flist.

( The questions )

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. :/