The Disappearance of Cruel Angel Theses’ Melancholy

August 26th, 2008 | Categories: Omake | Tags: Code Geass, Site Announcements

The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Really. The only reason I’m using a Haruhi reference in the post title’s due to my irrational yet time-honoured tradition of needing to bait unwittingly dumb people who will proffer even dumber comments about how I’m likening my e-go and e-xistence to the attention that the massive Suzumiya Haruhi fanbase lavishes on the franchise, ergo attracting more traffic to this post. On the other hand, if I really had the need to do so, I would have probably used Lucky Star, but that’s one equine corpse I’m going to put aside for a bit.

For the thousands or so of you not in the know about the reason behind my involuntary, abrupt, and impromptu hiatus, I’ve been to university for my English degree. No, wait, make that in university since I’m stealing time–that nerve-wracking limbo between the final wave of assignments and the first wave of finals–in order to write this. It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon, and my playlist (H&C) is currently on Suga Shikao’s Sorosoro Ikanakucha, fittingly enough.

(Speaking of H&C, uni life is exactly like it, only that the Takemotos are annoying more than earnest, the Moritas annoying undiagnosed Aspergers patients instead of eccentric, the Mayamas a lot less aloof and a lot more poseur, and as for the Hagus and Yamadas, well… the attractive girls are always taken as a rule, so no, just no. In other words, university isn’t like H&C at all, but you knew that already, and if you didn’t, I bet you were fooled from the first sentence of this paragraph, suckers)

Tertiary education isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The saddening predicament of being in a residence sans affordable internet has been met with shock, horror, and even revulsion from those I’ve talked to, but hey, that’s 3rd world for you. If I had been with permanent internet, updating in the past three months would have been almost perfunctory. Fortunately, I’ve heard that Summer wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and as I’ll be returning in Fall–like a certain favourite series of a certain blogger whose terse line in one of his updates, “And don’t e-mail me about xx”, was positively hilarious–God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world indeed.

A fellow blogger just told me an hour ago in Google Talk, “I missed talking to you like this,” and I was all “Oh gawrsh, shucks ma’am” inside.

What have I been up to since May, studies aside? That’s a toughie, and I’m not talking about my ability to ace subjects without studying, either. The only contact with anime that I’ve had would be Code Geass R2, which means that I’m about as familiar with the themes, symbolism, characterisation etc. of the series as you would a person after being stuck on a desert island with him or her for the same amount of time. Everything else I’ve been watching was either dropped or put on hold indefinitely as a result of my sucking at fansub release schedules. Thank God for Eclipse’s consistency.

There’s a personal project thing I’ve been occupying myself with that some of you might know about, but as all I have at the moment are pre-pre-planning plans, I’m afraid there’ll have to be a two-year timeskip before I can give you more concrete information. I’ll also be back home (and blogging) for about 3 months in October; until then, however, the internet lab’s time is limited, and I’m afraid I have to go.

P.S.: Code Trainwreck is probably the most intelligent, witty, and funny blog I’ve ever read that’s solely dedicated (for now) to a series that a lot of people seem to have dumb opinions/attitudes about/towards. A+ for exceptional use of analysis, logic, commentary, and about everything else that makes a great anime blogger. miasmacloud puts the “fan” in “fansubber”.

P.P.S.: This was written on the 24th, hence “rainy Sunday afternoon”.