I am currently working on my 10ish-parts of travelogues detailing the 2 week journey into hell and out of it - will probably cross-post it at the other blog, I don't feel entirely like a 100%
otaku anymore, maybe just 50% - it's the growing out of it, after nearly 12 years of chaining my soul of Japanese visual culture! I just feel that
in your basement should be so much more than just otaku rambles. It needs to be me Side B. Oh well, the travelogue is in progress, am chugging through part 1 (On Temples in Thailand!) and going through the huge log of photos I accumulated - 2000 of them - and processing them.
In anycase, some part of the trip was spent me clamoring to get my hands on internet access and a PC because I needed to edit my FlowTV.org article which is up
here!; it's on Twitter and it's relationship with AWARE and it's seen pretty good reviews so far on Facebook! So do take a look. My first, and hopefully not last published work. I supposedly beat out a bumper crop of graduate students and lecturers, so let me feel good about myself for now!
Exam results have been dismal as usual and I'm now caught at this conundrum where my writing is decent enough to get published but my grades are far from scholarship material. There goes my dream of sitting in a slightly dimmed office, surrounded by a growing collection of old musty books, and smiling as students come into my creepy abode. LOL
Other news! My Korean contact has resumed her shopping service again! I am going to stock up on lovely stationery goodies! Taiwan has rekindled my lust for all things eclectic and whimsical and I must get my hands on whatever (useless and useful!) Korean thingamabobs! I like
zakka a lot, as you can tell.
Anyway, amongst blogging and photo-taking/processing, I've got my hands full with waiting for the Waseda package (HELLO???? ANYONE GOT THEIRS YET?), taking charge of the notice board design (I am thinking temple-like!), and writing the damned 3,500 essay amongst other for-fun essays I'm thinking of writing about (Graphic Novels and Buddhist icons; Disney Super Heroes...) Am also going out this Wednesday and Saturday for arty farty things, and I'm feeling rather happy? I want to watch
Up! and this blog entry is progressively getting very messy now. >__>
Okay, back to workkkkk! I need to get back into my Arashi fandom; very lost at the moment!