"I don't mind getting shot but I hate to get cold"
Saw S at work today. He has grown a beard and is as thin as ever. Didn't quite twig it was him until after he left and I was standing there wondering why this guy was being so familiar.
It's been ... five years, at least? It's always strange recognising former classmates over a counter. But with S it's something else, since it was basically because of him that I encountered anime - I'd seen Ghost in the Shell before, but Cowboy Bebop was him, Weiss Kreuz was him - and from there the fandom involvement, the group I hung out with at uni ... even, obliquely, the career choices I'm making now. I have ambivalent feelings about S as a person, but the extent to which our awkward, teenage friendship has shaped me is unnerving.
It's been ... five years, at least? It's always strange recognising former classmates over a counter. But with S it's something else, since it was basically because of him that I encountered anime - I'd seen Ghost in the Shell before, but Cowboy Bebop was him, Weiss Kreuz was him - and from there the fandom involvement, the group I hung out with at uni ... even, obliquely, the career choices I'm making now. I have ambivalent feelings about S as a person, but the extent to which our awkward, teenage friendship has shaped me is unnerving.