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I'm really not a fan of the heat at all, I'm the guy who went to Spain on family holidays and walked around in the shade from buildings while everyone lapped up the sun.

The other day was brutal, I couldn't sleep at night so went to work on about 2 hours of on and off sleep and spent my day working outside in the yard in the stupid sun while wearing welding gear again, I think I nearly passed out about 5 times....Bring back the snow I say!
 
Professor Irony said:
Having seen the banners advertising it for a while now, I was morbidly curious to see ANN have launched their new 'Vice and Luna' webcomic today. Surprisingly, it seems more like a long form story of sorts, as opposed to the old Anime News Nina gag strip - if anything, it reminds me more of Tokyopop's old 'OEL manga' comics. I doubt that I'll be following it (the story doesn't appeal and the art is rather amateurish), but if they see a market for this kind of thing, fair play to them I suppose.
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I have to agree with this - I'm not really a fan of the art style and the way it's paced doesn't really work for me. I much prefered the cutsey bite-sized feel of the old Anime News Nina strip.

I hope Vice & Luna does OK for them though, as they seem to have invested a lot of time and effort into it, and it's admirable to see them trying new things.
 
Baby loves! How are you all?

I'm off to Japan in September for 2 weeks. Yay!!

Got some colour over the weekend as sunbathed in my garden all Friday :)

MCM Manchester is on Saturday but that's all I intend to do this weekend as I want to be lazy. I did something both days I was off and the Saturday and this weekend flew far too quickly for a 4 dayer!
 
Funily enough I finally came back to the forum today too (I think I was missing it really!) - I'd been in a job for the past eight months or so that had become pretty stressful, so it kind of took me away from here and a lot of other stuff I did in my spare time - but I left that job about four weeks ago as I'm going to start an MA course in Japanese Studies at the end of September - safe to say I'm pretty excited about that!

It's kind of kickstarted quite a bit of reflection for me - and I've tried to change some of my habits/mindset about a lot of things, including anime. I'd kind of reached a point where I was in danger of burning out re. watching it, so I've scaled back quite a bit in terms of watching shows/collecting it (especially as I don't have a regular income any more). I'd kind of naturally reached a point where I'd seen the majority of the 'canon' of generally agreed 'great' shows, so I've tried to avoid the 'consume absolutely everything' mentality I had before.
 
Yeah I've stopped myself getting the AOL DOTW now just cause its cheap. Needs to be something I've wanted now. I'm focusing on my to buy list only now which is stuff like Tokyo Ghoul S3, Durarara x2 part 2, Freezing Vibrations, Black Butler Book ofs etc etc as and when they eventually come out. Then there's old ones like FMA (not Brotherhood) as I own Bootleg and it's my last one to replace!, Puella, Psycho Pass, Future Diary etc. Hoping I can score more bargains at MCM Manchester this Sat :)

I've been really depressed the past 2 months. It hasn't lasted this long for ages. I think I'm slowly coming out of the rabit hole though :)
 
Not sure if you'll find it helpful, but I found this book really useful when I was suffering from serious anxiety / self doubt earlier this year: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anxiety-Rebala ... +rebalance

I've read quite a few books on the subject and this is probably the only one to have had a tangible effect on me, which is why it kind of surprised me. But yeah, it definitely helped me more than I thought it would and really helped kickstart me to changing my mindset on a lot of things that I'd been struggling with for a long time.
 
Buzzkillington said:
Welcome back Lutga & -Danielle-, nice to see that people are still making their way over even now.
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Indeed! We are resilient to all forms of online outage! Like scorpions in nuclear test sites, in a certain manner of speaking...
 
My girlfriend has been watching Romcoms on my Netflix profile so I have the romantic comedy selection as one of my recommended selections...... First title on the list is Elfen Lied. Gave me a good laugh.
 
Urgh, today has been awful. From the moment I lay down to go to sleep last night, my brain has been telling me there is something wrong :/ Dunno what, nothing most likely but the feeling is there and it kept me awake all night. So off to work I went on no sleep and feeling really sick, boss ended up coming up and asking me if I was okay as I kept just staring blankly into space for minutes at a time and wasn't really talking much. He ended up suggesting I went home, which I hate but today was my last day before my 4 days off so hopefully I can get my head out my arse by Wednesday....Although I really need to stop taking these short holidays and go on an actual holiday soon.

Also when I was getting ready for work I came across a huge spider in my bedroom, so I ran downstairs to get a glass to catch it and when I got back it had vanished >_> so yeah- now I know there's a huge ass spider cutting about my bedroom somewhere...watching, just waiting for it's opportunity...Shoulda killed it lol I mean I'm not scared of spiders or anything, just rather not know a huge one is wondering around where I sleep. Speaking of sleep, it's all I want to do but if I do now I'll mess up my sleeping pattern. ;-;

-These inane/tedious ramblings brought to you by Buzzkillingtons frazzled brain.-
 
Spending Friday night in a field listening to Blues & Soul music, I can think of many a worse way to spend a Friday night, though only problem is though I've seen some rather tasty looking burgers at the soul kitchen, but I've been dieting all week and I feel if I eat them it would put jeopardy on my progress (he says whilst drinking his second pint of cider). There's something therapeutic about listening to a song called "That's it I quit" in a field!

Random Side note though I'm really happy we get these sort of events in my hometown, between the Blues & Soul Festival and the Food Festival there is something to look forward to, I'd hate to be living somewhere where there is nothing really going on!
 
That sounds really nice, the only thing getting me to get out of the house is Pokemon Go embarrassingly. Depression does that to you I guess.
 
I'm having a rare day out on Sunday. Going to Portchester Castle with a friend for a knights tournament event that they have going on. Then possibly in September we might go to Brighton to go up the i360.
 
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