I'd gotten a couple of Amazon gift cards for my birthday. Knowing it was rash, I just spent the cards and a chunk of my own hard-earned cash on the whole remastered Utena set. Squee...

...and now I will have a spare copy of the old release (the CPM one, which IIRC is region-free on the first disc - legitimately! - and region 1 for the rest). Before I flail through the nearly uncharted waters of selling it online, is anyone interested?

The only trades I'm looking for at the moment are book 5 of the Utena manga in English and book 4 of Flower of Life, both of which are out of print. Hey, one can dream.

Tring to phase out fandom stuff here, so I'll link to myself instead. io9 discovered femme-Doctor cosplay, with a combination of "I'd hit it"s and musing about why fans do this. via dw_cosplay.

Thank God that's over.

PDA is not natural to me, I hate being watched, and I hate having to prove to everyone around me that my marriage is valid through elaborate public rituals. It's none of your business, I want to snap. But no, since everyone else is talking about their plans and posting grandly about how devoted they are, my private life, by comparison, must not be real.

Fuck this stupid holiday.

Besides. Jay likes sending flowers, I hate getting them, and no matter what I say, he will not stop. This is going to stress me out and make me feel bad twice a year for the rest of our lives together. Whee.

Besides x 2, a friend recently said that we never act like a married couple, which was incredibly hurtful. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but it must be pretty bad. Maybe it's the flowers thing.

I don't know how this is done, since I literally know no one else with a marriage like ours. (Unlike our elders, we don't want to be locked into pipe & slippers / vacuum cleaner & pearls '50s stereotypes.) I seem to be failing at it, and I don't know how to stop that.

Yeah, so... good times.

Countdown to the end of winter! Let's say 5 weeks, right around March 21. All right.

edit: of course, 1 hour later I was search & replacing random words in my story document with "pants". Perhaps I am just too immature for grownup life.

Reading the answers from random people makes me feel a little OK. Heh.

Biology, minor in Chemistry (which was built into the college's requirements). I'm not using it, although I probably absorbed more information about the focus of the company than I might have otherwise. It has played into some of the non-credit classes that I take these days for fun.

I don't regret it, even so. I do wish I'd retained more of the chem and calculus than I did, because it's kind of scary to realize that swaths of your education have disappeared into the murk in your head. Maybe I'm just getting old. :)

Recovering from a day and a half of being knocked out sick, so I've got nothing else to chat about. Oh, except for, you know, the crack in the universe. (Jay called it.)

I'm going to try out DW - no commitments yet! So there.

I'm not really in the mood to connect the two directly, but I am obviously VERY easy to find. Most people are, if they provide enough information. Everyone says "Oh, my taste is sooooooooooo random! I listen to / watch / read everything from [x] to [y] to [z]!!" Everyone does that. That's one of the perks of being a real person and not a fictional character. And everyone's Venn diagram of "Harry Potter, Metallica and baby goats" is different, at least slightly.

Anyway, uh, let's see how it goes. With DW's greater focus on fandom and expression, I feel beholden to post something contenty, which I don't have at the moment.

Interesting choice of icons to leave, LJ. Default Shigure, Dotdotdot Yomi, generic book, Not an Exit, ARGH Shiori, dancing White Mage, and Monty Python Mamiya. ...It is kind of a microcosm of my fandoms.

Still not sold on giving them money again. I owe the .org money, too; I've just been lazy about turning the computer on in general. And my Paypal account never got unscrewed, so I'd have to pay through the Alley team account blahblahblahblahblah.

Anyway: It took me this long to try out the Kindle's web browser, and FB loads properly; LJ does not. -_-; I've got 3 real books* and 18 Project Gutenberg ones, most of which are randomly chosen volumes of folktales.

* The Magician King (read), Moon Over Soho (reading), Perdido Street Station (not read yet). Will need to break up the sausage party urban fantasy streak.

See, where would I ramble inanely about books? Huh?

For the record, I am aware that LJ is imploding. I'm also aware that close to no one reads this journal anymore, and I believe that moving over to Dreamwidth to chase a nonexistent reader base is pathetic.

I've been on LJ for 10 years, as of last week. Even then, my heyday was in the very late '90s up till about 2001, when I was in the FF7 fandom. My AMV editing, a more recent hobby, peaked in 2003. It's been Sunset Boulevard around here almost the entire time I've been here.
I'm not an idiot; I've always realized that. Why do I keep doing it? Same reason that I keep writing and editing, I guess. It's fun.

Continuing here so far is not based on loyalty so much as inertia and hopelessness. I opened an account on FB only to see it fail embarrassingly. I don't expect Dreamwidth (or Tumblr, or anywhere else) to be any different.

I suppose the answer is to back up 10 years of archives, leave them to get lost on my hard drive, and call it a day. That's pretty depressing. I like hearing what other people are talking about.

On the other hand, I am sick right now, which is bound to make me pessimistic. Maybe I'll come up with some brilliant solution later. I guess we'll have to see.

Learn to Sew tutorials, which I'll actually be reading as they keep posting them.

Seriously. Because at least 75% of my learning process, as is the case with a lot of people, consisted of following directions on patterns. And since pattern directions are occasionally gibberish, and no one is checking my work, and I lack confidence in just about everything but breathing (though that's improving), I sometimes wonder whether I'm making rank newbie mistakes and just don't know it.

I'd like to say that I'm just about to bound away and sew a bunch of stuff now, but that's not the case. It's time for my second annual just-after-New-Year's bout of coldish/fluishness. Posting here is actually a step up from what I did all day up till now, i.e. play Skyrim and avoid standing up too fast.

Getting back to the tutorial: I have a couple of machines that I don't need, although I still need to unpack them, match cords to machines, and make sure that they still work. If anyone local wants dibs, please let me know. I think everyone I know who wants one has one, but you never know.

I don't think they're worth enough to bother selling them, considering the outlandish fees likely to be involved with shipping a ~20-pound object. But we'll see.

Edit: I'm a day behind, but Bandai US is folding. There's nothing on their slate that we were planning to buy, fortunately for us, unfortunately for them.

Quite a bit of interesting arguing about the US vs. Japanese fanbase/market in the forum thread, too.

It's New Year's Day Observed, and yes, I know I'm lucky to get the day off. So, for the new year, how about a fun link?

The org sent an alert about some interviews it posted, and instead of reading those I followed through to the videos that the interviewees had made lately. I'm way, way, way out of touch these days, so it would be kind of pointless at this juncture to read "About the making of [video I've never heard of]...". So it was better to just watch. And this one was particularly adorable: Hold On To That Feeling.

Carrying on the FB mini-meme yesterday, New Year's Day as Portent to the New Year: apparently I will spend 2012 organizing the basement-slash-craft room, listening to Sleeper Agent, watching Doctor Who, and writing scenes that start out tense and devolve into fluffy. That's...probably not too far off the mark.

I should edit something. It's been a very long time, and the computer is all set up now. Hmm.