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feeling: lazy yet restless yet bored yet impatient
listening to: B'z - Ichibu to Zenbu
Yeah... definitely getting the annual winter depression thing setting in. Not quite like the depression I was in toward the end of 2011, but the kind where I don't get out much because of the weather and sicknesses and stuff, and I just don't feel like doing anything... even the things I used to take the most pleasure in. Daily tinkering with certain flash game apps, reading people's blogs on Ameba, kanji study, even translating lyrics... just can't seem to bring myself to do any of it. Might be partially because I actually have a job now that satisfies the ol' urge to work with the Japanese language to some extent. But I blame it moreso on technology and the many fails thereof. e_e
I was really hoping 2012 would get off to a better start after the hell that was 2011... and then, just days into January, my computer died. For a week and a half I had to borrow my dad's old cheap laptop just to get my work done... then I bought a nice shiny new computer and all was happy and good... until it died too. After ONE WEEK. Turned out to be a memory issue, and it was under warranty, so I sent it back to get it fixed... and got an email just today informing me that I should be getting it back in about TWO WEEKS.
This laptop is killing me. Seriously. And I'll have been stuck on it for almost two months by the time this is over. -_______- And just watch, come summer the new computer will die again, but I'll be screwed because the warranty expires in April and it will have spent HALF OF THE WARRANTY PERIOD BEING REPAIRED.
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Anyway... other than that idiocy, this year was actually shaping up to be kind of promising. My fellow industry ladies and I managed to make positive contact with several cons across the US and even some pretty well-known bands in the V-kei scene, and have been seeing the beginnings of some plans slowly trickling into shape. Of course, it's all still at a stage where it could just as likely fall apart before anything even begins, but it's the most hope we've had since we started out last summer.
Also, randomly, I've been thinking about writing J-drama reviews again. The one good thing about this laptop is that, when I can't fall asleep at night, I can take it over to the bed along with some DVD from my drama collection and watch an ep or two until I drift off. So, yeah, I've been rewatching a few old series lately... no new ones in a while since I don't want to burden this puny laptop any more than work already forces me to (and risk it crashing too and leaving me with zilch)... but man, I've been missing J-dramas lately.
So just for my own reference, here are the titles I've seen that I never got around to reviewing here...
Long Vacation
Home & Away
Itoshi Kimi e
Ichi Ritoru no Namida
Gokusen 3
Last Friends
Room of King
Mendol
Bloody Monday
Akai Ito
My Girl
Buzzer Beat
The Quiz Show 2
Smile
Godhand Teru
Yankee-kun to Megane-chan
Sunao ni Narenakute
Bloody Monday 2
Himitsu Chouhouin Erika
...of course, some of them I barely remember anything about anymore, so it wouldn't do much good to review them anyway. There are a few gems in that list though, and some that I even wouldn't mind rewatching just to have some foundation to write a review on (also pure curiosity and frustration at not remembering what the heck happened in them)... but eh... we'll see.
Speaking of J-dramas, I was reminded the other day that a 2011 version of Hama Kimi was made last year, with all new actors doing pretty much the exact same story - broadcast by the same TV network, and even using some of the original soundtrack. Just from one glance at the promotional image, I can tell it's not worth watching, though. >> I did break down and check out episode 1, but... uh, no. Honestly, I don't know why that network felt the need to film a whole new version only four years after the last one was such a smash hit.
...But yes, it did inspire me to start rewatching the 2007 version. :\
Ok, I don't know why I'm still writing this when I have handbell sheet music to write...
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 2/10/2012 11:05:00 PM
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