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Well, thanks to the pimping of various people on IRC, I've been reading JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. >_<

( some thoughts )

Anyway, I think I may be coming down with something. I've been feeling achey and exhausted for the past week or so, and have been in a total fugue state - for example, Thursday I was getting ready to leave the house, thought, "oh, it's cold, I'd better put on a coat," and then realized, "oh, I'd better put on some pants, too."

Also my gut seems to be trying to devour itself. Ugh, there are some days I could totally live without a digestive system.

I'm really starting to hate my seminar class. And the weird thing is, I shouldn't - I'm interested in the subject, the readings are interesting, I like the teacher (who's the nicest person EVAR - seriously, I'm doing a presentation on Janet Hamilton later in the month, and so she lent me an 1885 first edition of Hamilton's poems to help with the research!), I like my classmates...there's no real reason I should dislike this class except that I feel dismally stupid in it. For example, we've had to take turns coming up with discussion questions for part of Aurora Leigh, and Wednesday was my turn...only every question I came up with got shot down by the rest of the class. They weren't being mean or anything, they were just like, "well, I don't really see that, because of this" and then I'd be like, "oh, I hadn't seen it like that but that's a good point and makes way more sense than my interpretation of that. And, er, that also happens to completely invalidate my point. Crap." So basically I never say anything in that class that isn't a) obvious, b) irrelevant, c) moronic, or d) some new and exciting combination of the above!

Oh well, at least I'm mostly enjoying my other classes.

Let's Positive Linking!
- A sequel to The Dark Crystal? That could be either really good or really bad. :/
- MOST ROMANTIC VALENTINE'S DAY EVAR. From someone on the flist, I don't remember who. (eikitty, maybe?)
- Crack crack crack the egg into the bowl. Butter butter butter joins the bowl! ...Now I want to bake me a cake. D:
- Tilt-shift photography is the coolest thing ever. Those are all full-size things in those pictures, by the way. (From rathershady.)
- Bollywood remakes Fight Club. With musical sequences, natch! (From satsu.)

...ugh, I think I may be coming down with something after all. D:

First off, GIP. Because vampires on steamrollers never get old.

Secondly, to give you an idea of the specialness of the JoJo manga, I have included a couple of sample images. These are not the most egregious examples in the manga either.

( gay posing )

( more gay posing )

I think those two images sum up JoJo in a nutshell. And I'm not even touching on the more-than-occasional incestuous implications, as in the following exchange:

(Joseph is taking care of his grown daughter Holly, who is ill. He brushes her teeth, her hair, clips her fingernails, etc.)
Holly: Daddy, can you change my underwear too? :D
Joseph: ...er, ahem... D:
Holly: ...just kidding! :D

God, but the Special in this series truly is like a kind of unhealthy crack. XD

...

Also, this song really sums up post-undergrad life for English majors.

What do you do with a B.A. in English?
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge
Have earned me this useless degree

I can't pay the bills yet 'cause I have no skills yet
The world is a big scary place
But somehow I can't shake the feeling I might make
A difference to the human race

Especially the chorus:

It sucks to be me
It sucks to be me
Is there anybody here it doesn't suck to be
It sucks to be me

D:

Let's Positive Linking!
- Protip: don't get tattoos from a door-to-door tattoo salesman with a homemade tattoo gun. But hey, courters28, at least Springfield is making the news! XD
- Law and Order: Special Valentine Unit. (From rathershady.) Guilty...of being my Valentine!
- A JoJo cafe in Taipei. Next time I go to Taipei, I know where I'm goin'! XD