listening to: Oshiri Kajiri Mushi :\

So another random pointless update...

Uh, I've been watching J-dramas again lately. Yay~

It had probably been nearly two years since I'd watched any titles at all, but then at some point... probably shortly after that post I made a few entries back with the list of shows I had seen but not reviewed here? whenever that was... so yeah, after that I rewatched a few of the series in my collection, but then kind of slacked off again. My CR workload was actually ridiculous throughout the summer, so for the most part I just couldn't find the time. I was apparently the highest paid subber in the company's history as of August, with all the new projects they kept handing me and all the substitutions I was called to do. See, having no life pays off sometimes :p

But then, as the summer broadcast season wrapped up, things FINALLY slowed down a little bit as some of my busiest and longest-running shows ended... and when I finally found the time to think about it, I realized my wrists were absolutely killing me. All the variety show fansubbing I did for those 3 or 4 years, and I had never experienced that much pain. I couldn't even hold a pencil long enough to get any decent kanji writing practice in, something else I've tried to do as frequently as possible.

So I finally decided that it would probably be wise to start using my extra time away from the keyboard as much as possible... and marathoning on J-dramas was the route I chose. It helped that my bike finally crapped out right around the same time... already I hadn't been riding nearly as much this year as I did the last couple years, but when things started breaking and bending and flying loose pretty much every time I tried to ride it, I just gave up... which gave me back another couple of free hours most days. >_>

Thus, after a long dry spell, I have finally been able to add some J-drama viewing to my schedule again. My wrists have felt much better since, at least. Now if I can get back into my other favorite study routines - kanji study and reading several people's Ameba blogs every day - maybe I can finally stop feeling like my last 10 years of study are going to waste as my brain rots away. :\ I really miss reading everyone's Ameba blogs (and writing my own)... but after being too busy to keep up for so long, it feels like I could never catch up or even get used to following everyone again... plus Ameba made following people a pain in the neck since they changed the whole system so you have to "friend" someone's blog AND subscribe to them, two separate steps, just to have all their posts show up in your MyPage feed. It's absolutely stupid, EVERYBODY complained and raged and hated on it, but of course stupid Ameba didn't listen and forced the new system on everyone regardless.

...I don't know what I expected to accomplish by ranting about that here lol, but that's me these days... attention span has eroded down to next to nothing.

Speaking of dramas, though, I once mentioned here that I sorta felt like I'd hit the big time when I started subbing a drama starring Kuriyama Chiaki, right? Well, since then I have also subbed one starring Yamada Yu... and now I'm doing one starring Kitagawa Keiko and co-starring Gackt. GACKT! :P He's kind of ridiculous in it though, lol. When his first scene started in the first episode, I'm pretty sure I literally facepalmed. >> His role did eventually get more serious, but... I still can't get over his horrible perm in this series *killed*

In other news, I think I have FINALLY gotten over the cold from hell. It wasn't really that bad as colds go, but it lasted fooooreeeevvvvveeeerrrrr. Like, it was mostly in my throat for a week, then feverish for a day or two, then it spent almost two weeks ravaging my sinuses. Last night was the first night since it started that I successfully slept longer than an hour at a time without the aid of decongestants.

And in other other news, I'm going to Katsucon with The Sound Bee HD in February. Yay for my Bee family ❤