it’s a snafu, right? right?

I was getting sick of being so down and depressed all the time, so I decided to indulge in something I don’t normally watch when people are around. (Nope, it’s not porn… although that’s not a bad idea either.) Why not use a good chunk of your company’s bandwidth and watch this following YouTube video, and possibly cheer yourselves up too? (Oh, and just a warning: as is typically the case with YouTube videos, the compression here is a tad wonky, so the audio is a bit off-sync with the video. Also, I didn’t upload this myself, just so you know.)

Did it work? Assuming that you spared a mere two minutes of your precious time to watch the video above (and assuming that the encoding worked, and that the video is still up on YouTube), I just wanted to show you folks that I haven’t completely lost my faith in humanity yet! Isn’t that great? What better proof to show that one still has an attachment to life than with a super peppy happy J-pop TV promotional ad? Nothing, that’s what.

By the way, that was Aya Hirano with “Bouken Desho? Desho?” (“It’s An Adventure, Right? Right?”), which was used as the opening theme for the show The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Which, as many people know, is a show that is usually watched only by the geekiest of otaku, with their creepy fetishes and bottles of Ramune. (I’d prefer not to be associated with otaku, but I’m no cooler than they are, and I’m not one to judge my fellow geeks.) But if you look past the stigma that comes with a fanbase of social pariahs, you’d find the show itself to be surprisingly good. Aside from the high-concept sci-fi elements and numerous references, the episodes are presented in such a non-linear fashion that it plays almost like a mystery thriller in the same style as Memento (and if you’ve ever watched Memento, you know movies can’t get any better than that)! Sadly, the rest of the audience most probably watches the show for the sole reason of ogling Mikuru’s bouncing juggies.

In other news, life is slowly starting to get back on track, as evidenced by the subtle (read: unnoticeable) decrease in the bitter tone of my writing. Hooray! Doesn’t change the fact that there’s still a void left by unresolved heartbreak (gag me with a spoon why don’tcha?), and that zem’s reputation is still stained with malicious rumors, but whatever! So I don’t have the world on a string, sitting on a rainbow. I say let those mooks from BCIT think what they want. Meanwhile, back to Job Hunting, Comic Book Writing (visit Atelier Zemzelett, my good fellows!), and Finding A Way To Patch Things Up With Why-You-Em-Eye. Ahem.