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Wednesday, December 31, 2003 — New Year’s Eve

Eh. My half-cold gave me a good swift kick before leaving, so yesterday I was completely unable to do much of anything. Not even a journal entry. I think I was subconsciously saving my energy for that evening, and the next step of the familial crisis. As seems to be common with such things, it didn’t go quite as expected. I think we resolved the issue, but I’m not sure. We’ll (hopefully) get confirmation […]

Monday, December 29, 2003

I drove to my parents’ house Tuesday evening after work. I had planned to bake a ridiculously over-the-top cake on Christmas Eve, so we’d decided I’d get there the day before and be able to spend all day Christmas Eve there. However, I was fighting off a cold by that point, so we decided to chill out instead. We watched Rush Hour, which we all enjoyed greatly, then I screened […]

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

First, for perhaps the first time, Tolkien gets more credit than he deserves, rather than less. Spent last night curled up in bed, watching MST3K and anime. The MST3K was The Hellcats, an incomprehensible film about wild 1960’s biker culture, impressively padded with shots of people riding bikes and tense confrontations that are resolved with feats of manliness and have no impact whatever on the plot. Then came […]

Monday, December 22, 2003

There’s something about the holidays that simply warps time and space. Everybody’s really busy, at a level beyond typicaly day-to-day busy-ness. This means that events are in flux; there are lots of concerts and plays to see, and regular weekly meetings are cancelled. I had a good weekend. Saturday was spent shopping, mainly. I spent Sunday morning and early afternoon at a party my parents held, then drove straight to a nearby church […]

Friday, December 19, 2003

Wednesday night was to be a free night. This was not altogether ideal; my wonderful art teacher cancelled due to a rather bad cold, with the knowledge that I won’t be seeing here again for several weeks (she’s going home for the holidays). She’s a good friend, and I’ll miss her. But I knew I’d have the evening free. I planned to bake some cookies, write, and do a bit of reading. I’d even […]

December 18, 2003

Saalon is sadly mistaken. t.A.T.u. Paragate (however you capitalize it) will be a plotless, pointless anime with weird pseudo-sexualization but no overt sex. This, I foretell. I still want to see it, though. And, hey, Texhnolyze (the latest ABe/Ueda/Konaka project) and Kino’s Travels (by the director of lain) are coming out in a couple of months. Can’t wait. Blast. Blast, blast, blast. The internet connection at work died intermittently […]

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Well, I’m back. I had an amusing weekend. On Saturday morning I swapped my truck for my parents’ SUV and drove about five and a half hours to Saalon‘s, where we spent the weekend hanging out. Lumix joined us to watch some anime (Interstella 5555 and Whisper of the Heart). I had a great time, as usual, just chatting with Saalon about everything from film to our current projects to the nature of the Gundam franchise. We woke up […]

December 11, 2003

GAINAX shows are like snowglobes: pretty and diverting, but ultimately pointless. The site on which I host my writing challenges is currently down until Brennen gets stun-software.com online. I’ve completed my 500-word monologue, though. Have you? My art teacher came down with something nasty and so didn’t come over for my drawing lesson last night. So I took care of a few things around the apartment — washing the pile […]

Wednesday, December 10, 2003

My depression is lifting. My thanks to those who offered their sympathy. Just to change things around a little bit, here’s the beginning of a bit of story. I’d like to post a bit more of it every Wednesday, like Saalon‘s Half-Tail stories. Grothnir raised his blood-encrusted battleaxe above his mighty mane of golden hair and, with a roar, was about to bring it down on the grizzled head of the hapless guard before […]

Wednesday, December 10, 2003

My depression is lifting. My thanks to those who offered their sympathy. Just to change things around a little bit, here’s the beginning of a bit of story. I’d like to post a bit more of it every Wednesday, like Saalon‘s Half-Tail stories. Grothnir raised his blood-encrusted battleaxe above his mighty mane of golden hair and, with a roar, was about to bring it down on the grizzled head of the hapless guard before […]

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