State of the Mess: day 7

[wednesday_10_00]

I managed to get the living room straightened up last night, so today I'll take a break and then get to work on the mess in my bedroom tomorrow. This week has been really long and tiring, ugh. (OK, the living room still has a pile of boxes--because I'll need some of them for packing up books--and my sorted VHS tapes, but it's all out of the way and organized, and it's not like I burned a hole in the carpet or something, so I'm sure my parents won't mind.)

I brought some (shounen and shoujo) manga to work to put on the "free books" shelf that we have out in the hall. When I was sorting through my (BL) magazines, I found two duplicates (why??), so I brought those into work to throw into the recycling with a bunch of other papers. Some really thoughtful recycling worker pulled them out and put them on the free shelf yesterday, so this morning I noticed and threw them back in the recycling. Jeez, everybody I work with knows those books are mine, let's not mix the porn in, OK?

Now at least I know it's NOT safe to bring to work the BL manga I'm planning on getting rid of. I wish our recycling center in town would take paper, but they only accept newspaper and phone books, so I have to find someplace else to dump my books. Recycling porn is complicated.

A few years ago, I wrote this post about cats that reminded me of an old Bronze poster. I found that poster last night:



...and now that I've preserved that for posterity, I've thrown out the poster. Because I really, really do not like that series. I wish I could go back in time and tell my 20-year-old self to not bother with it, because those characters will NEVER be happy; in fact they'll just get more depressing and angsty as time goes on.

Speaking of stuff I read when I was 20, I found my original editions of Fake in a box, so they're now sitting on my floor while I decide whether to keep them or not. I'm getting rid of other duplicate manga editions, but with these I feel a special sort of nostalgia, like with my Fushigi Yuugi fansubs. It took me a whole summer to find these books, how can I throw them in the trash??

Comments

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

I have that same feeling when I look at the cover, but I think it must just be that I've looked at the cover a lot. At least, neither Amazon nor TRSI are telling me I ordered it through them, and it's hard for me to believe I would have picked it up anywhere else.

Is it worth $100 for me to own this series? Probably not.

I had the same conversation with myself a week ago, when Amazon was offering a bundle of all 9 seasons of The X-Files for $90.

Have you tried watching any dramas on Crunchyroll? Or do they not have anything good?

A while back, I looked to see if Crunchyroll streamed anything from the golden olden days of Japanese drama (ca. 1997), but they don't. Hulu already offers the Korean dramas I'm interested in...except I have a hard time watching the Korean romantic comedies/soaps/whatever straight through. I get impatient about 5 episodes in.

(edited 100 years later to correct spelling and caps)

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

I have that same feeling when I look at the cover, but I think it must just be that I've looked at the cover a lot.

Might be true for you, but I do actually own it. Phew, $18 saved. (OK, I probably paid more than $18 when I got it, but I prefer not to think about that.)