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In mid-July, I finally watched the rest of The Untamed, all in one fell swoop over the course of about a week and a half. (I'd started it several months back and gotten about 5 episodes in before pausing out of sheer apprehension -- the characters were so endearing, and the impending trainwreck so obviously intensely tragic, it took me a while to ( Read more... )

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Yes, it's that time of year again. I keep thinking of things I want to post about, but somehow it never seems to actually happen.

But I'm signing up for
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I ended up taking basically a whole year off from watching hockey as I got deep into an anime & manga spiral; I've started to filter a little of the hockey back in, but I don't think I'll return to that all-consuming level it was at for a couple of years there. And the anime & manga consumption is persisting, though I've reached some thresholds of ( Read more... )

I have been thinking that I'd like to try to post more, but somehow it always feels so difficult to get started. But here. I'm going to attempt to post approximately once a week. The topics will be totally random and they will vary wildly in length. Probably some of them will be quite short, and I suspect some of them will just be me picking up ( Read more... )

After dragging my feet for years, I have finally migrated over my old lj entries to the dreamwidth journal I'd set up long ago. I went through my lj friendslist and tried to find as many people on dw as I could off of it; it was incredibly nostalgic. It was also sad at times to realize how many of them don't seem to be around anymore (so many ( Read more... )

Events have conspired to get me on a bit of an anime and manga kick at the moment. The last time I watched anime with anything even close to approaching regularity was college -- which qualifies as long, long ago, at this point -- and even that was pretty sporadic and mostly based on what my friends felt like making me watch. It turns out, some ( Read more... )

I did a report on him in fifth grade; I think I picked him because he was the one people almost never talked about (I was pretty obsessed with the Continental Congress around that time -- I had a Scholastic book about it and also one about the US presidents that I read over and over). And I discovered that he was kind of a dick (well, I probably ( Read more... )

What I've just finished

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater, book 2 of The Raven Cycle. Loved it (description from previous posts still applies).

What I'm reading now

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater, book 3 of The Raven Cycle. This series continues to be wonderful. So far, I am especially pleased about the progression of the ( Read more... )