And it's about time, too

Note to self: do not -- repeat, do not -- be the last one of your friends to see any given anime. Particularly not when it's your bloody DVD.

Yes, after over a year of owning it, I sat down and watched my Hellsing DVD. The problem is that I don't know what I think of it. Part of the reason for this, I think, is nadriel telling me that I must see this anime in a way that indicates that, in his opinion anyway, this is "Best. Thing. EVAR". And then when I came to watch it, there in my mind was the concept, "Oh, I'm supposed to be really keen on this". And then about halfway into the second ep, still thinking, "I'm supposed to be really keen on this", the question came back, "Okay, but why are you supposed to be keen on this?" This indicated to me that I wasn't as into it as I expected to be. But it wasn't bad, is the thing. Divorce it from the expectation of UberCool, and I'd have probably enjoyed it a lot more.

I had the same problem with a couple of Firefly eps, actually -- "Shindig" and "Objects in Space". The latter in particular because cholten99 went on for ages about how fantastic an episode that was, whereas I only had a couple of brief moments of gushing from corone about "Shindig". And yeah, probably fantastic eps ... when divorced from the expectations.

Anyway, back to Hellsing. ( Cut for spoilers )

And it should disturb me that one of the things that I think about when looking over that is the RPG possibilities. Then again, I had considered picking up BESM and corone's Lain supplement thing and trying a one-off Lain thing. Except BESM is also d20, and I don't understand it and corone won't touch it. Then again, I'm not great at maths but I'm sure I could do a few White Wolf/Roll+Keep conversions if I had to.

Oh shoot me now, I am such a geek.

Running on

On Tuesday, dodgyhoodoo said, "I suspect I'd have a three-day migraine under the circumstances". And behold, there was migraine. Then again, there was going to be migraine anyway, but it's now day four and there is still migraine -- this looks set to be one of those long-running ongoing hell-heads that just eats a week and a half of my life. Way to work that mojo(jojo), dodgyhoodoo. (Kidding, of course. Even if he was capable of inflicting this kind of thing on people, he's probably got a list of people he'd rather sic screaming head pain on that reaches somewhere into the dozens before it got to me.)

It's a good thing I didn't have any plans today. Thing is, apart from Budgens I haven't left the house since Tuesday and I'm getting really, excrutiatingly bored. I considered watching Urotsukidoji but quite frankly, I'm not sure tentacle rape + migraine = fun for all ages. Maybe Kai Doh Maru. Or maybe just curl up with a book. Of course, I've read all mine to the point where I know them practically off by heart, so not exactly taxing on the grey matter. Which I suppose is what I need, really, but arrrrrrrgh bored.

Right. First thing's first -- foray into the outside world for something edible. I'm likely enough to die of boredom without adding starvation to the list.

Ask

Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh. So. Incredibly. Bored. I'm uninspired, not in the mood for anime and out of new stuff to read; my Sims are dull as dishwater and quite frankly, I'm entirely fed up with my own company. Bored bored bored bored bored... While work isn't exactly fun n' games at the minute, I just keep reminding myself that I have another week of this. It's enough to make one wish for incarceration in a salt mine somewhere just for something to do.

Then again, I suppose I have the job-hunt next week. Thrill. Of course, not sure how I'm going to manage interviews etc with my head the way it is. Right now the answer to most questions is "Fuck off and leave me alone; my head hurts". I'm somehow not seeing that as the way to make friends and influence people.

At least I'm getting out of the house tomorrow for 7th Sea. cholten99 texted me earlier to tell me he was overnighting in Oxford (I think it was Oxford, anyway) but wanted to give me a lift to game "so I'll see you at lunchtime". I suppose he wants to show off new car, so it's a pity I had plans to go browsing bookshops and the art supply store up the road from the Tally Ho before the lunchtime meet-up. I suppose I could have just blown such plans off and done that tomorrow, but why? To make cholten99 happy and not mess with his plans, I suppose. I feel less bad than I possibly should, and otherwise would, because he didn't exactly ask -- just informed me of his wants and plans without asking about my own. Eh, it happens; enthusiasm tends to have that effect on people. Still, just goes to show why one should ask instead of telling. Well, he did say "Beg pardon", so no harm done.

Ohhhhhh, for something new and entertaining...