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One thing I'm beginning to notice about living in a house with guys not related to me:

Guys do weird traditional "manners" thing, the kind you always see on movies. They offer to carry stuff, and they want to hold open doors, and they generally act... mannerly.

It's kinda freaking me out.

I mean, I've only ever lived with my brother and my father-- my brother would never offer to carry something for me unless it was really really obviously heavy or I was overloaded, and my dad generally believed carrying my own things fell sort of in the category of doing the dishes-- character-building.

But now there's these guys, who act all... polite. Not *all* the time, you know, but frequently.

In one way it's nice, and different, so I kind of let it go sometimes. Other times it irritates me because, really, I can carry a grocery bag myself. I've got two working arms. And other times it just makes me feel weird.

This is like the guy I went out with-- the first guy I ever went out with-- who wanted to run through the rain to my car to get my umbrella so he could bring it back to me so I didn't have to walk in the rain. Me, being me, was all DOES NOT COMPUTE: "What? But then you go through the rain three times. If we both go now we only go through once." *

It's weird. I'm not used to this stuff. Someone holding the door for you in a grocery store, sure, but beyond that it's... new and strange.


* We argued over this for almost a minute, before I won. My parents said, when I told them later, that I was missing the point and shouldn't beat up on a poor kid who's trying to be romantic and sweet. I'm just sitting there with a blank stare and a sweatdrop. Does. not. compute.

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I just went to http://www.gomanga.com/, because I read about "Seven Seas" which is aparently a new production company putting out the first American-made comics in the strictly manga style. If you click on the "preview" option it will open a window with a cute drawing of a bunch of characters in S-D form, and if you experiment with click various objects on the image (spilled paint, cell phone, hammer, skull, etc) you'll get previews of scans for the upcoming titles. The best one is clicking the bottle in the water, because you get to read a cute poem that introduces each of the 4 titles the company is going to release in November.

I don't know if they're going to be any good, but it might be nice to not have to wait for translations when something is released. I might browse their selection when it comes out.

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Has anyone on my flist watched Texhnolyze? Even heard of it? Got any opinions whatsoever?

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This is me hiding under a rock from all things FMA until the sub comes out.

::viciously hides::

Public Service Announement: I am a sap. And these are beautiful.

Mary Oliver

Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars

of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,

the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders

of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is

nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned

in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side

is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.



William Blake

Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hells despair.

So sang a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden by the cattle’s feet;
But a Pebble of the brook;
Warbled out these metres meet:

Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight;
Joys in another’s loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.

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I've posted both of these on my journal before. They are two of my favorites. I got "In Blackwater Woods" (poem 1) in my Intro to Poetry class at my community college, and every time I go back to look at it, it amazes me.

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I rewatched Naruto episode 1 for nostalgia. Some thoughts:

1. I still :heart: Iruka

2. The animation was best in seasons 1 and 2. Stupid production company short-cuts.

3. Shikamaru!

4. I :hear: Naruto. My poor angsty babyninja. We still love you.

5. A lot of people in this village have grey/silver hair. Mizuki. Kabuto (but he was adopted so maybe he doesn't count). Kakashi. Tsunade's lost fiance. Maybe there's a secret clan of grey-haired people in Konoha?

6. The ending animation is the most beautiful ending I've ever seen on an anime series. They could have kept this ending for the entire series and I would have been happy. The water-color look, the monotone shades that keep changing. The butterfly and symbolism! So. Dang. Pretty.

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Well, on the plus side to this, my printer/scanner/copier works! Like a charm.

Now I just need to actually go buy paper. Ooops.

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Hellorwellian yeah!

FMA 51

oh my. it's here. the most orwellian episode ever is sitting on my comp and i'm afraid to watch it.

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series finale - I have only two things to say besides Oh My Fucking God:

1. Full Metal Alchemist is the best television show I have ever seen, in any language.

2. The shot at 09:20minutes was the most ( mood spoiler )

cut-away in the history of television cut-aways, in any language.

Beyond that... I have no words.

Okay I do have one thing to say (FMA spoilers)

( for Psycho )