Getting Better
Jan. 13th, 2004 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksAt least, I think I am. Boston was very good. Thrud writes nifty novel which I want in hardcover so I can have her sign it. The apartment we looked at was nice and will be nicer when they have renovated the kitchen. We will buy it. Except for apartment-looking, I tried not to move the entire weekend, and it worked okay although we all stayed up too late. I have been sleeping eighteen hours a day or more since returning and it seems to help. At least, I don't seem to be coughing badly; I'm just in pain all the time and exhausted. This is dealable as, given the last few years, I am *used* to being in pain all the time and exhausted. I can't remember what it was like not to be in pain all the time and exhausted. Consequently, this is only a bit more aggravating than usual, since I have departed from my usual routine in that I know this will get worse if I do not baby it and so I am forcing myself to rest. Ordinarily I do not let pain and fatigue keep me from doing things because I know from experience that not doing things will not make the pain and fatigue go away. Except at the moment because this is actual illness. So life is just that tad more annoying. However I think this is getting better, maybe, and I think it has passed the point where I need to be paranoid about pneumonia. Especially since I mean it about the eighteen hours of sleep a day or more. Ghost and Phoenix are here and are exemplary houseguests in that they are delightfully sociable when I am awake and are delightfully quiet when I am not. It is quite nice.
In a weak moment, in Boston, I consented to watch 1-5 of Air Master, on the grounds that Thrud had said that it gets about twice as good with each passing episode, so I calculated that it would become watchable by episode 5 and if I didn't like it by that point I'd know I wasn't going to like it. I was expecting nothing because on the one hand episode 1 was the cinematic equivalent of pouring acid into my eyes and I would have committed emergency hara-kiri to get away from the ending sequence, which remains the worst one I have ever seen on anything, bar none, but on the other hand the recommendations were SO enthusiastic.
I take back anything I may have said about Air Master. It is in fact brilliant, and in ways no other anime I have seen is. You just have to grit your teeth and bear it until it gets there. Then it is worth it (assuming you like fighting shows in the first place...if not, the ways it transcends its genre may not be as noticeable, but anyone who liked Flame of Recca or Yuu Yuu Hakusho should grit their teeth through the first few episodes and then just glory in it). I am considering naming my next thesis after one of the characters as a method of encouraging myself to work on the thing (and also because I hope some of his coolness may rub off). I left Boston carrying 1-22 in my backpack, and when I go to Virginia I will be showing at least 1-5 to Sei, EVEN IF I HAVE TO TIE HER DOWN. THERE WILL BE NO ESCAPE. MWAHAHAHAHA. Nii-chan would like it too but I don't know what his schedule is so we'll just have to see.
I go back to sleep now.
In a weak moment, in Boston, I consented to watch 1-5 of Air Master, on the grounds that Thrud had said that it gets about twice as good with each passing episode, so I calculated that it would become watchable by episode 5 and if I didn't like it by that point I'd know I wasn't going to like it. I was expecting nothing because on the one hand episode 1 was the cinematic equivalent of pouring acid into my eyes and I would have committed emergency hara-kiri to get away from the ending sequence, which remains the worst one I have ever seen on anything, bar none, but on the other hand the recommendations were SO enthusiastic.
I take back anything I may have said about Air Master. It is in fact brilliant, and in ways no other anime I have seen is. You just have to grit your teeth and bear it until it gets there. Then it is worth it (assuming you like fighting shows in the first place...if not, the ways it transcends its genre may not be as noticeable, but anyone who liked Flame of Recca or Yuu Yuu Hakusho should grit their teeth through the first few episodes and then just glory in it). I am considering naming my next thesis after one of the characters as a method of encouraging myself to work on the thing (and also because I hope some of his coolness may rub off). I left Boston carrying 1-22 in my backpack, and when I go to Virginia I will be showing at least 1-5 to Sei, EVEN IF I HAVE TO TIE HER DOWN. THERE WILL BE NO ESCAPE. MWAHAHAHAHA. Nii-chan would like it too but I don't know what his schedule is so we'll just have to see.
I go back to sleep now.
