A zombie to the world, TV, and manga
My sleeping schedule's been super off the past month, and I think it's profoundly affecting my mood. I've been waking up at like 5 p.m. and not sleeping until 9 a.m., which pretty much means I'm awake just to go to work and be unproductive when I get home around 4 or 5 a.m. I don't get to spend as much time with family this way, which is bothersome because they're the people I should be closest to, but because I messed up my sleeping I'm depriving myself of time with them. Add that to the inferiority complexes I'm feeling at fire practice and work, and you have a very blue Ashi. Blue Ashi is not very fun at all, but nothing I've done so far has been able to fix at least my sleeping pattern. I tried pulling an all-nighter a few times to no avail. I end up napping mid-day and staying up about as late as I normally do. By some miracle today I woke up around noon, so hopefully I can go from there and adjust to a normal schedule? Or as normal as possible when you're a night shifter. Maybe I should try working out again like I did to prepare for Metrocon tryouts? Being active is supposed to be good for upping your spirits. I don't know, either way I need to do something about my screwed up biological clock.
Been kind of watching more TV lately, maybe because of my job. I didn't watch much of it on my own time, but now sometimes I'll pass those nights I can't sleep right away watching Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, House, and Sportscenter for NBA news, lawls. I'm not trying to catch up on the first two shows really, but they're an okay way to pass time, and Tay-face watches them both and ships Stabler/Benson and I think House/Cuddy, lol. In that little way, I feel closer to her since she lives across the country now. But shows I'm actually trying to keep up with are Cougar Town (Don't judge, it's good Bill Lawrence and ensemble cast fun! XD;;), Glory Daze (Adorable for a show about a frat house, and *SPOILER ALERT* the main character and his love interest, who's dating a NOT total jerk, decide to just be friends -- so refreshing!), Nikita as much as I hate The CW (It's cool to see girls kick butt and have an Asian lead, plus everyone is ridiculously gorgeous in this show, I don't even), and Young Justice (which is so much fun even when it's not making me nostalgic for Teen Titans and OMG, I think I adore Aqualad and soooo can't wait for next week's episode). Sis is sort of getting me into Sym-Bionic Titan and Travis Touchdown's little brother Generator Rex, which I watched regularly before the first mid-season break when I didn't work Friday nights yet, but haven't had much time to watch the recent eps. lately.
Also been getting my mainstream shounen on by following the recent chapters of Naruto and Bleach. I fell behind on Naruto because I'm really bored by the Akatsuki, who've been the main villains in Part II, but this Shinobi War arc is kind of interesting, what with bringing back all these dead characters and focusing on shinobi of other villages. Plus, evil, subtly snarky Kabuto = WIN. He's much more interesting than all of Akatsuki combined. I really liked Darui's fight, even though the taboo word thing was a little silly. I guess I relate to him on being apologetic, hehh. I like his laid back, dull-this dull-that personality, too. Team Asuma shenanigans seem to be up next. I do hope the next chapter doesn't turn into The Shikamaru Show though. It bugged me the next week's chapter blurb said "Shikamaru's Teacher, Asuma" when Asuma was Chouji and Ino's too. Granted, Team Asuma was probably my least favorite of the original Konoha genin teams, but all the spotlight Shikamaru gets compared to the rest of the team is annoying.
I started reading Bleach on a whim really. I've read the first four volumes and seen dotted eps. here and there, but I'm far from a proper fan. But this two-year timeskip that's trendy in shounen series these days seemed easy enough to start from, and I have this dumb, fleeting hope that the current focus on powered humans might mean Tatsuki and to a lesser extent Keigo and Mizuiro will finally be relevant like apparently Urahara hinted a million chapters ago. Lol, dumb hope is dumb, and in the likelihood that doesn't happen, well at least I'm in the know about a major manga/anime? XD I did love the bit where Chad talked about using his dark skin as his Fullbring because he has so much pride in his mestizo blood. It was just so sweet and inspiring.
Erm, this turned more tl;dr than I intended, but I guess the most recent entries in this thing have all done that on me. Hah.
Been kind of watching more TV lately, maybe because of my job. I didn't watch much of it on my own time, but now sometimes I'll pass those nights I can't sleep right away watching Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, House, and Sportscenter for NBA news, lawls. I'm not trying to catch up on the first two shows really, but they're an okay way to pass time, and Tay-face watches them both and ships Stabler/Benson and I think House/Cuddy, lol. In that little way, I feel closer to her since she lives across the country now. But shows I'm actually trying to keep up with are Cougar Town (Don't judge, it's good Bill Lawrence and ensemble cast fun! XD;;), Glory Daze (Adorable for a show about a frat house, and *SPOILER ALERT* the main character and his love interest, who's dating a NOT total jerk, decide to just be friends -- so refreshing!), Nikita as much as I hate The CW (It's cool to see girls kick butt and have an Asian lead, plus everyone is ridiculously gorgeous in this show, I don't even), and Young Justice (which is so much fun even when it's not making me nostalgic for Teen Titans and OMG, I think I adore Aqualad and soooo can't wait for next week's episode). Sis is sort of getting me into Sym-Bionic Titan and Travis Touchdown's little brother Generator Rex, which I watched regularly before the first mid-season break when I didn't work Friday nights yet, but haven't had much time to watch the recent eps. lately.
Also been getting my mainstream shounen on by following the recent chapters of Naruto and Bleach. I fell behind on Naruto because I'm really bored by the Akatsuki, who've been the main villains in Part II, but this Shinobi War arc is kind of interesting, what with bringing back all these dead characters and focusing on shinobi of other villages. Plus, evil, subtly snarky Kabuto = WIN. He's much more interesting than all of Akatsuki combined. I really liked Darui's fight, even though the taboo word thing was a little silly. I guess I relate to him on being apologetic, hehh. I like his laid back, dull-this dull-that personality, too. Team Asuma shenanigans seem to be up next. I do hope the next chapter doesn't turn into The Shikamaru Show though. It bugged me the next week's chapter blurb said "Shikamaru's Teacher, Asuma" when Asuma was Chouji and Ino's too. Granted, Team Asuma was probably my least favorite of the original Konoha genin teams, but all the spotlight Shikamaru gets compared to the rest of the team is annoying.
I started reading Bleach on a whim really. I've read the first four volumes and seen dotted eps. here and there, but I'm far from a proper fan. But this two-year timeskip that's trendy in shounen series these days seemed easy enough to start from, and I have this dumb, fleeting hope that the current focus on powered humans might mean Tatsuki and to a lesser extent Keigo and Mizuiro will finally be relevant like apparently Urahara hinted a million chapters ago. Lol, dumb hope is dumb, and in the likelihood that doesn't happen, well at least I'm in the know about a major manga/anime? XD I did love the bit where Chad talked about using his dark skin as his Fullbring because he has so much pride in his mestizo blood. It was just so sweet and inspiring.
Erm, this turned more tl;dr than I intended, but I guess the most recent entries in this thing have all done that on me. Hah.