Kann irgendwer hier...

die Trennregeln der neuen deutschen Rechtschreibung so richtig *fantastisch* gut?

Science fiction, my life, 20th Century Boys

1.) This got linked all over the internet earlier this week, I think. I only just read it now, and I'm struck by how it ties into half a dozen conversations I've been having recently, in wildly different context. With Greenpeace people, about my motivations. With fellow students and lecturers, about the necessity for wonder. With my mother, about Avatar and about Lois McMaster Bujold, and about why I'm interested in all this kind of stuff. With fellow fen, about Avatar. Not taking the world for granted.. In a way, in *many* ways, that's what I'm all about. My mom keeps thinking of me as someone whose world is somehow smaller than hers; she doesn't get that it's really infinitely vaster than hers, because it doesn't stop at the boundary of the 'real'.

2.) I feel strangely energetic today. Energetic enough to start my day dancing sedately to Gazpacho. (Dancing sedately? Yes. You've never seen me dance, have you? Well, few people have. *g* Even dancing sedately is an expression of uncommon energy, with me.) Yesterday, too. Even though I'm sleeping as badly as ever, getting up as late as ever, and still getting woefully little done by common standards. Still, in *my* terms, what I've managed to do yesterday was quite a lot, and the remaining To Do list for today looks manageable, too. When I've finished the list, I may even write some fic - if I still have enough energy left, that is.

3.) 20th Century Boys is making me so happy. Well, happy in a "yes, of course my life is still a complete mess and I need help with that etc." kind of way. You can have islands of sheer happiness even in a mess like that. I *love* the characters so much. They may be the saddest resistance fighters in popular fiction. I would hug them, if they didn't awe me so much (and if they weren't characters drawn on paper). <3 (Well, I would probably hug Yoshitsune, because he needs it.)

http://www.onemanga.com/20th_Century_Boys/217/14/
http://www.onemanga.com/20th_Century_Boys/217/15/

http://www.onemanga.com/20th_Century_Boys/79/17/

Music

I used to think that if I'm ever going to take up learning an instrument it'd be guitar. But lately, I feel myself really drawn to the idea of drumming.

Which, of course, is a rather impractical instrument to take up. Hm.