Time is flying by waaay too fast lately.
I'm up at book 42 in the One Piece manga as of today - and was around book 36 at the time I should've posted this, which makes for a pretty even reading pace of 18 books/week since I started.
I don't plan to read all the way as the final book I have is 66 (the final segment of the One Piece manga published in Sweden - it didn't sell well enough), and I'd like to pause at a good point. Maybe right before the Strawhat reunion at the Sabaody Archipelago... or right after. Maybe. Maybe it won't be so easy to stop reading once I reach that point, though.
I've been spending both nights and train rides to and from work flipping pages lately, and it just keeps getting better and better, and better than I remember it. I'm surprised that it doesn't seem to matter how many times I go through this one particular manga - it still evokes the same inspiring sense of adventure and emotion, and I realize once again that Eiichiro Oda is a story-telling genius. Who else could build up an intrigue for so long - all without filler or repetition, and still have it conclude with such finality, rather than running out into the sand like most stories do when they go on for years without end?
It's like that with most of the entertainment I partake in. I keep dropping them if they go on too long. The boss fights in both Final Fantasy 4 and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow are lined-up before this. For some reason I keep picking up something else right before I'm done with the current project... but not when it comes to One Piece! Not yet. Not even with the anime, no matter how sub-par it's become.
So whatever does this one series have that other forms of entertainment don't? Probably something about continual attention requirement. You can't drop it for a second, whereas games easily turn into a grind either just before or after their final phases. That and a great story, and character, and continuity, and an obvious care for all of this by aforementioned author. I'll save the full analysis for some other post though, this is starting to take over my weekly summery.
Despite lack of time and a feverish reading of One Piece manga, it's been a pretty good week. Pretty good. Not bad...
Actually it's been hella stressful. I think I woke up 3/7 days with a headache. Too late nights, too sweet food and too much computer. We went to a traditional gather-together event called Lilla Julafton (Little Christmas Eve) this weekend and had a good time there, but otherwise it's been tiresome and non-mentionable.
I boxed a bit on Monday, but then barely exercised at all the rest of the week. I'm about to upload that project I promised the week before last. I've been falling behind with Project 2016, even though I've been skipping my 750 Word batches for a couple of weeks now, but I'm caught up with the hundreds. There's a few collabs I really want to finish before the New Year, and other projects, and so much I doubt I'll be able to finish... but what's the rush? You can only do so much in a day anyway. Better leave the rest till the next and just plow through it at a steady pace, one step at a rhyme (pun!).
The last three weeks I've been posting mine and Jabun's collabs over on my SoundCloud profile - one track each Monday, and I'll probably be adding a link in the sidebar soon to my profile. Though Newgrounds is my home eternally, it wouldn't hurt to gain a few followers on the bigger social soundsites as well. You'll always hear my stuff either here or at NG first, but I plan on uploading most of it to SC as well come next year... and maybe some of my older stuff as well.
On the blog I've posted this, 6 reviews, 2 new on old titles, and here's last week. Been eating a ton of mandarins too. It's nuts. And nuts. The week passed fast, and that's that, and sorry for the late posting about it. Work's coming to a pause tomorrow so hopefully there'll be time to catch up. Onto the recently also very non-mentionable and routine
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*holds out radar-gun as time passes by* hmmm...nope, time is flying by at the same rate as usual, 1 second by second. Damn! just when you think you can give time a speeding ticket.
hmm, one piece is on my anime list, after cowboy bebop, Dimension W, and Parasyte. Not the comics though.
you get headaches often huh. I suggest a glass of lukewarm before bed- make sure your last meal of the day is low in sugar. I rarely get headaches. my ailment is usually stomach aches- got damn IBS!! whoops...I probably shouldn't have ate an entire bag of Starburst, a bunch of candy canes, some Jolly Ranchers, a few dozen handfuls of chocolate covered almonds, a box of expensive specialty chocolate, some gummy bears, a tube of reeses pieces, a Toblerone log, not to mention lots of fruit (including Mandarins too)...hmm I feel like eating an orange right now but I should probably hold off...I think my blood sugar has reached hyper-diabetic levels
Sure that radar gun's working OK? It must be some trick!!
Oh, Dimension W's one I don't know if I've seen yet... *checking list* though it's on my watchlist apparently! Probably been there quite a while. Definitely recommendable titles those other two, and the One Piece anime started great, but feels like it's become pretty watered down over the years. They kept a good pace the first 2-300 episodes, but somewhere after that it caught up with the manga, and you know how that goes... btw, didn't know you watched much anime? Do you?
Yeah. At least once a week. Barely any during summer, though, which enforces my suspicions that I lead far from the ideal life at the mo. It's probably a combination of a lot of things. Stress. Tension. Cold air. Late meals. Computer strain. Bad posture. I do drink a glass of water each night (gets oxygen into the bloodstream right?), but probably not usually lukewarm. Will try.
lmao man, can't have been any of that! Sounds like a healthy diet! XD I rarely ever get stomach aches, but plenty of stomach-related stuff too. Also potential cause for headaches...
Is Christmas season also mandarin season over there btw?