In the midst of life we are in death, they do say, but in the midst of exam week, a well-know fate worse than death, I'm actually in a pretty good mood. (Well, this morning's lousy Media Culture final notwitstanding, but meh.)

Case in point! The essay-of-death I wrote on Miyazawa Kenji recently was quite well-received. Now I kind of feel like vanity ( Read more... )

I think last night, unless you had context for it, could count as that wherein I surrendered my claims to not being a complete nerd and for all: I may no longer look upon the all-night Starcrafters, the doujin collecters and the armies upon armies of Chii cosplayers as, in any sense, an "Other," to put it in theoretical terms. After finishing up my ( Read more... )