*blink blink*
Still here, eh?
I suppose I'm only here because I'm bored and have been enjoying the fact that there's an ice machine downstairs a bit too much tonight, but...
So how's LJ land been since I've last visited? Well, I trust?
I still haven't decided what to do with myself, but have been entertaining thoughts of yet more grad school, but for serious this time. I know some of you out on the interwebs have have less-than-exciting experiences with it all, but hey, who knows? If I don't have to produce any empirical evidence, maybe I can just BS my way through it, eh?
I've decided that, maybe, I'm not an otaku anymore. This may be a result of the fact that I have no TV, no games but my DS, and, really, no one to watch giant robots blow shit up with, but I've nevertheless been growing farther apart from fandom bit by bit over the years. Have I just grown older? I tried to join the anime club here, I really did, but it just seemed so... childish? Was I embarrassed to associate with such people? Maybe a little.
I mean, it's not like I don't still love giant robots - I still sing the heck out of the Mazinger Z theme when I don't think anyone's listening, but... maybe people who live and breath this stuff kind of irritate me now? I mean, honestly, it's fun, but is it really the only thing that defines you? If so, maybe you should try some other stuff; it's kinda sad.
I'm writing a project on manga in the library right now, so I guess I haven't abandoned my old ways completely, but I find myself distancing myself from my weeaboo ways to the extent that I often don't even want to carry a conversation on the subject of anime. I watched that new CGI Resident Evil movie today and, even half-drunk (fully by the end of it), I found that I couldn't really get into it. Is this the end for our hero? Has he grown so callous that not even one of his most-loved narratives can elicit even the faintest of sympathies?
Who knows?
Then again, I did enjoy the hell out of Mazinkaiser a couple weeks ago.
But, then again, I also tried to analyze and deconstruct it.
Who knows?
...
*drink*
I suppose I'm only here because I'm bored and have been enjoying the fact that there's an ice machine downstairs a bit too much tonight, but...
So how's LJ land been since I've last visited? Well, I trust?
I still haven't decided what to do with myself, but have been entertaining thoughts of yet more grad school, but for serious this time. I know some of you out on the interwebs have have less-than-exciting experiences with it all, but hey, who knows? If I don't have to produce any empirical evidence, maybe I can just BS my way through it, eh?
I've decided that, maybe, I'm not an otaku anymore. This may be a result of the fact that I have no TV, no games but my DS, and, really, no one to watch giant robots blow shit up with, but I've nevertheless been growing farther apart from fandom bit by bit over the years. Have I just grown older? I tried to join the anime club here, I really did, but it just seemed so... childish? Was I embarrassed to associate with such people? Maybe a little.
I mean, it's not like I don't still love giant robots - I still sing the heck out of the Mazinger Z theme when I don't think anyone's listening, but... maybe people who live and breath this stuff kind of irritate me now? I mean, honestly, it's fun, but is it really the only thing that defines you? If so, maybe you should try some other stuff; it's kinda sad.
I'm writing a project on manga in the library right now, so I guess I haven't abandoned my old ways completely, but I find myself distancing myself from my weeaboo ways to the extent that I often don't even want to carry a conversation on the subject of anime. I watched that new CGI Resident Evil movie today and, even half-drunk (fully by the end of it), I found that I couldn't really get into it. Is this the end for our hero? Has he grown so callous that not even one of his most-loved narratives can elicit even the faintest of sympathies?
Who knows?
Then again, I did enjoy the hell out of Mazinkaiser a couple weeks ago.
But, then again, I also tried to analyze and deconstruct it.
Who knows?
...
*drink*