Sunday, July 22, 2007

marathon
holy crap, my eyes hurt and my neck is stiff...i showed up at the book store about 10:30 to wait for the new harry potter book. i had already reserved a copy. the air was think with anticipation as would-be wizards frolicked happily through the hallways. to bide time since the line hadn't formed yet, i met up with a friend of mine in the manga section (go figure *shrugs*)
i was enjoying myself flipping through random manga with OT or MA ratings and laughing at my friend's and little brother's shock when i showed them excerpts. it was rather embarrassing when i was looking through the pages of "battle vixens" and a mother and small child wandered through the aisle way. i hastily hid the volume so as not to further corrupt the youth of america. (note the use of the word "further")
the worst part of the night was when i found a, i shudder to even say it, hannah montana... something...mixed in the with manga. i literately threw it down the hall like a hybrid pro skeeball/ ultimate frisbee player. then i broke down and cried...
after about 45 minutes of that, i decided it was high time to get in line. i spotted an old friend of mine from my first semester japanese class. we had some fun, but i judge by the exasperated and sometimes outraged stares that we were offending those around us. we were lucky enough to be lined up right by the anime sction. oddly enough, i found and anime called colorful. i flippied it over to read the back cover and this is what it said.

"roses are red,

violets are blue,

this is a show about panties"

i swear to you on my honor as a journalist, (go ahead and laugh, bastards)these are the exact words. that sparked a lengthy conversation about...nothing actually...
anyro' the line started compressing itself, and we eventually moved up to the boxed set section. mixed in the all the random early nineties tv shows and the sopranos, were quite a few anime sets. there were two yuyu hakusho sets, outlaw star (which was very hard to resist), la blue girl, which i read in a book called anime explosion is actually H anime., neon genesis evangelion and a few others i can't recall...

then the line really started moving. i got my book in about 5 minutes after they started handing them out. i was so happy! *sniffle* it took at least 10 minutes to check out after that because a lot of people mistook the line for non-preorder potter-heads as the check out line. i only paid like 17 bucks!! please imagine me looking very smug at the moment.

i went home and got started at around 1 and read until about 4. then i slept until a little before 1 pm and then jumped right back in. i finished at roughly 11:30 pm. thats right people, i tore through 758 pages of wizarding glory in 22 and a half hours, minus 9.5 hours for sleep, bathroom breaks and supply runs. thats 13 hours of marathon reading. thank god today was my day off.

but i'll refrain from talking of the book itself for another couple weeks, to let the saner members of the community catch up. ^__^ so in other words, this was a very long post with a very short point.

p.s. i kind of used it to get back in touch with my reporters writing style, which often requires being very long-winded. ^__^ thanks for your patience reading it

~kakeru yoshi
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