February 28, 2006 – 1:24 am
Last week the network dudes in my company suddenly decided weird traffic wasn’t a good thing, and shut down all irregular ports. Ugh, I no longer have BT or Skype. This is a tragedy.
At least it’s harem time at Fate/stay night, makes it more palatable to not-watch. Otherwise, I would be far more depressed. As it is, I am denied my weekly fix of Rin, and the strain must be devastating because I almost lost it at work last week, too pissed with stress and whatnot.
On the bright side, I went boarding in brilliant weather and nice snow. I love my new gear, I can pull all kinds of half-assed shitty turns and still wind up breezy.
I think I should get out a bit more. Yeah.
Less than 3 weeks to Hekiru’s tour.
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February 17, 2006 – 2:14 am
Faint as the pale glow on a frozen morning
Fine wisps of cloud
Breathe the cold air, unwilling
To stir silence, so rare
Remember, it’s only one life
Find it
Make it worth living
Where? Is it fear or frustration
Or pity that brings tears
Sometimes we forget that we run so we don’t have to accept that we’re not getting anywhere.
And that’s that.
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February 12, 2006 – 1:37 pm
He’s at the University of Michigan, does research in software. I’m in Tokyo, I design web systems. We were talking about snowboarding…
12:55:48 PM: it started snowing again here, but I don’t have time off.. had to work today :(
12:58:36 PM: too bad…
12:58:55 PM: I feel like playing hooky in the middle of the week and doing a day trip :P
1:05:54 PM: I wanna go >:(
all this snow gonna melt by the time I can take time off
1:12:13 PM: can’t you take a day off?
1:28:57 PM: nah, not for the next two weeks
got site visits from the army and secret service coming up.. need to get our junk into gear
1:33:36 PM: geh… dude,.. you realize how bad that looks in writing :P
1:35:53 PM: heheh
Strange strange world…
What the heck should I do with my life?
In other news, was surfing the anime blogging world when I came across this. The post itself was great (for obvious reasons…), but I think the true gem was the comment below >:D
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February 9, 2006 – 12:55 am
For some reason, domestication perhaps, these two weren’t terribly exciting in Mai Otome. Natsuki, the somber Headmaster of Garderobe, and Shizuru, her loyal second-in-command.
Then came ep 17, when the brown stuff hit the fan, we incur much destruction and, yes, death, betrayal, angst, fury, tragedy… blah blah… But you know, I only had eyes for Shizuru and Natsuki :D
Shizuru – cool and collected and competent as ever, she’s apparently an excellent fighter even without her robes. And dang, they stuck the good artist on her for this ep, she looked awesome oozing ultra kyoto style as she tells Natsuki to beat it while she handles the riffraff.
Natsuki – much talk, no action for 16 eps, and sadly not much here either (it’s hilarious to hear her complaining in the voice over for the ep 18 preview!). All the same, I really like this Natsuki a lot. Probably has to do with the fact that she’s no longer a 16-year-old kid with some messed up emotional baggage and attitude to match, heh.
In any case, these two rule, and have waaaaay too little screen time.
On a plot-related note, I guess the writers are trying to match the emotional whammy of Mai-HiME, but it’s not doing much for me. I was shocked when Kazu-kun bit the dust, flabberghasted when Mai’s Child went ballistic, and completely, completely postal when Shizuru pulled the nasty. I have no idea what it would take to equal that in Mai Otome. It’s just not quite serious enough, even when it’s being serious, if you know what I mean.
Enough, just give me more of Shizuru and Natsuki being cool.
Not too excited by Natsuki’s transformation, Shizuru’s “Materialize!” was much cooler :D
I want a poster of Shizuru…
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