Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu!

[in_the_blue]

Each year, I'll try to learn how to say it in a new language.

I wonder if I'll really have the time, the patience, or the wherewithall to really take conversational Japanese this year. I might. My love affair with languages began a long, long time ago and I've never really gotten over it.

Not that that's either here nor there, nor is it particularly interesting, but what can I tell you? I watched my first Bebop of the new year with lostinapapercup today; as far as I'm concerned it was a day late. Heh. Time to petition CN to put it back on the rotation.

Our power outage lasted about six hours yesterday. Not too bad, all things considered. I also can't wait to have our house back again. This last month is going to inch by. I'm thinking that we'll have to move out about when Mitch's next business trip is scheduled. If it works out that way, I'll have to stay in the hotel with Hannah, just the two of us. I think I can handle that. Realistically, if it was just the two of us we could bring sleeping bags to work and stay over there. Heh. That'd be something. I'm not so sure I'd like that.

But there is a light at the end of the remodeling tunnel, and then we can slowly reclaim our house, and that will be that, and we'll be poor forever but have a lovely new kitchen.

I could go on a long drawn-out thing right here right now about why Cowboy Bebop is one of the best shows ever to be on television, but I'll bore you all silly. Or at least most of you. So instead, I'll just link to Spike & Beth's latest Venusian adventure for those of you who want to read a sample of my RP writing. Hope you enjoy it. (I suppose I should be polite and tell you there might be spoilers in here for Vertigo Comics' Y, The Last Man Issue #40.)


Leaving home for the Bebop
On Ganymede
Bounty hunting on the Interplanetary Shuttle
On Venus
Exploring New France, Venus, 2071
Christmas on Venus
Leaving Venus (currently in progress)

Comments

[prplhez8.livejournal.com]

Just wandering in to share a paragraph from my journal of today:

Whilst wandering through the graphic novels area yesterday who should come right into my line of vision? Why it was sit_good_dog 's friend, Spike. So, of course, I pick it up and try to read it/skim through it to see what all the excitement over Cowboy Bebop is (and because I have yet to see it on tv). Okay, why can't people explain things to me like I'm four? I had no idea until my step-d pointed out to me that you're supposed to read it backwards (cuz the book opens "backwards" too). I didn't get too far...but just so you know there, Lady N, you were thought of yesterday 'round noon , in case your nose was itching. ;)

Hope you had a happy new year!!!

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Spike says: "Hey. Put down the damn book and watch the show."

Then he goes off to kill a few guys ("don't die on me!") and have a smoke ("Shit, there goes the bounty.").

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

Why isn't your love for language itneresting? I'd liek total ksome more about it .I'm in a phase wher ihave no idea which to learn first. Adn i'm glad I understood the japanese just from the context. Oh and I"moffering toteach you the dutch.
And wh ydo so many peoel thin kthe stuf they post wont'interst others?I acutal yfel the other way aroud nyou know. I'msometiems scared to skip stuff becuaseIfeel stupid for not readign what someone else wrote (i keep forgettign totell you thei nfamous slash fic review where I felthe ned to apologize for not readign it evne if read other stuff ofthe author that DID interest me. Strange...
Probalb ynot learning mcu habout other universes because i'msomehow convincei can't cram antoher-oen in nexttothe hp stuff. special yif i'd fal in midway (says the one who wants to really startredign books and other fantasy stuff. Butthere'sa difference between readign aboo kadn seachign it for fic opportunities right?) Think I jsut want to go back to just readign books. :)
Teh. That went nowhere. Adn if it didn't, wel lpoint me to it .I n500 words or less. :P

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I actually don't really care if the stuff I post is interesting to others or not. It's my journal, so I can post what I want, dull or fascinating, and if people don't want to read it, they don't have to.

But that's just me. There are other people who care greatly and get insulted when they think things aren't read. I just don't have the time to read every word from every person, but I do try to read most of them. Some of it interests me and some doesn't. I'm terrible at following links to articles and other journals, though, and I get tired very easily of too much political diatribing (is that a word?) in LJ-land.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

Oh I feel the same about my lj. Ivé sen literal posts just togenerate commentsand when ijust had mien i sometiems just asked'who'sreadignactually?"
It's patofthe suposed shouldsand shouldn'ts though. I recognize it most from fando mrather than LJ but livejournal helped that-one further withthe hierarchy and socialcontor letc anyway.
DO you jsut mean political debates or the hwel structureand unwritten rules etc? Its'lie kanythign in life, ther'sso much comign with it that can so easiily go negative.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Political ranting, political debates, all that stuff: I get enough of politics and political talk in my everyday life and I pretty much know what sides of the political fences my friends are on, so I tend not to read any of that stuff when they post it to LJ. I want to know how they're doing, not what they think of the latest political situation. I probably already know that, and snobbish thought it might sound, I want this space to be a sanctuary away from the craziness in the rest of the world.

*shrug*

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

Same here. I"m acutal yrealisign alto of how i watn thisto be for me these days. I"m also finding outstuff about my own attitude. IF it wer stil yesteday afternon i'd write awhoel post about it but now isuden ydont'feel like putting that al litn owords(Becuse I know latle yoncei start o nsomething liek thaittriples in size and goeto many other thigns before I'm done.
I skip news/related rants etc too. I'mfar for mactivei nthat field. Ishoudl final yadmit I'm just hapy the way I del with this for mthe sidelines isntead of feelign ignoratn for not joinign the opinionated-letter drives. And god knows I'm spendign to omuch tiem already focussign onnegative energy and rants rants rants adn this wont help turning that attitudearound. :)