At least the walk to work was nice
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Walked to work amidst a swirl of drifting snowflakes, the kind of powdery, soft snow that looks beautiful and coats the word in a blanket. I'm sure it was terrible for anyone who had to drive, but I walk and take public transit, so I thought it was lovely. ❄️
I'm glad that work was closed yesterday, because I spent it being ambiguously sick. Sometimes I felt okay, sometimes I felt like my stomach was already full even as I got ready to eat something, and I had an extremely difficult time talking because I couldn't organize my thoughts properly to the point whereschoolpsychnerd was a little concerned. She thought it might have been anxiety, and it might have been. Going for a brisk walk outside cleared it up almost completely. However, this morning one of my ears is stuffed up, and that's a sign to me that I'm sick enough that my body is fighting something off, but not sick enough that anything else is impaired. So here I am at work, listening to a podcast with a headphone in one ear. The other ear doesn't need any assistance to block out the world. 
schoolpsychnerd and I did use some time this weekend to finish the first season of Sword Art Online, and it was Extremely Bad. The first part of the season was okay, if conventional. If you die in the game, you die in real life, and the protagonist is your average hot-blooded hero who yells a lot in battle and has a bunch of women interested in him for no obvious reason, but the story was kind of fun. All that goes away in the second part, which has the main female character trapped in a cage for the whole arc, a villain whose motivation is wide-eyed evil cackling, the protagonist's sister with an incestuous crust on him (but actually they're cousins or something, I don't remember), and also the setting is now an ordinary MMO, so all the drama and conflict seems silly after the first part. When the consequences of death go from "you literally die" to "ten-minute respawn timer," it's impossible to take it seriously. We should have stopped at episode 14 like some people suggested.
Alright, back to work and constantly pushing my new glasses back up as they keep falling down.
I'm glad that work was closed yesterday, because I spent it being ambiguously sick. Sometimes I felt okay, sometimes I felt like my stomach was already full even as I got ready to eat something, and I had an extremely difficult time talking because I couldn't organize my thoughts properly to the point where
schoolpsychnerd was a little concerned. She thought it might have been anxiety, and it might have been. Going for a brisk walk outside cleared it up almost completely. However, this morning one of my ears is stuffed up, and that's a sign to me that I'm sick enough that my body is fighting something off, but not sick enough that anything else is impaired. So here I am at work, listening to a podcast with a headphone in one ear. The other ear doesn't need any assistance to block out the world. schoolpsychnerd and I did use some time this weekend to finish the first season of Sword Art Online, and it was Extremely Bad. The first part of the season was okay, if conventional. If you die in the game, you die in real life, and the protagonist is your average hot-blooded hero who yells a lot in battle and has a bunch of women interested in him for no obvious reason, but the story was kind of fun. All that goes away in the second part, which has the main female character trapped in a cage for the whole arc, a villain whose motivation is wide-eyed evil cackling, the protagonist's sister with an incestuous crust on him (but actually they're cousins or something, I don't remember), and also the setting is now an ordinary MMO, so all the drama and conflict seems silly after the first part. When the consequences of death go from "you literally die" to "ten-minute respawn timer," it's impossible to take it seriously. We should have stopped at episode 14 like some people suggested. Alright, back to work and constantly pushing my new glasses back up as they keep falling down.
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Date: 2018-Feb-01, Thursday 03:04 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-Feb-01, Thursday 16:28 (UTC)I've also heard it's because Kawahara isn't a great writer and leapt to otaku tropes when he hit fame and moved beyond writing a keitai shōsetsu, but I've never actually read his writing so I can't confirm that.