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Really. Not dead.
Beans, publisher of Japanese teen novels that are a little bit young for me but amusing nonetheless, are putting out a series of very cute, very tiny bilingual picture books. Actually I think they're not all bilingual, but a good number of them are.
I've been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the beginning. It takes a certain amount out of it that I've known enough people in Buffy fandom so that every possible plot point had already been spoilered for me; and, also, having seen the last two or three episodes of the series, I knew certain people wouldn't make it through to the end of the series. And yet I get sucked in anyway. It doesn't summon up the utter adoration that some people feel, but I think you need the painfully slow one-episode-a-week pace to invoke that. It's hard to feel much suspense, knowing that there's a new episode on tomorrow.
And then there are the video games. Castlevania, Fatal Frame. Utter time sinks, all of them. I'm even playing the snowboarding game when I get stuck and need a walkthrough before I can make actual progress.
Wisdom teeth consultation tomorrow. Aaaargh.
Beans, publisher of Japanese teen novels that are a little bit young for me but amusing nonetheless, are putting out a series of very cute, very tiny bilingual picture books. Actually I think they're not all bilingual, but a good number of them are.
I've been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the beginning. It takes a certain amount out of it that I've known enough people in Buffy fandom so that every possible plot point had already been spoilered for me; and, also, having seen the last two or three episodes of the series, I knew certain people wouldn't make it through to the end of the series. And yet I get sucked in anyway. It doesn't summon up the utter adoration that some people feel, but I think you need the painfully slow one-episode-a-week pace to invoke that. It's hard to feel much suspense, knowing that there's a new episode on tomorrow.
And then there are the video games. Castlevania, Fatal Frame. Utter time sinks, all of them. I'm even playing the snowboarding game when I get stuck and need a walkthrough before I can make actual progress.
Wisdom teeth consultation tomorrow. Aaaargh.