Summer Days, Ticking Away

[fh14]

So I'm already starting to feel a sort of burn out with my rewatches/completion watches of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Higurashi When They Cry - not really because of the stories themselves but rather because binge-watching subtitled anime requires me to pay a lot more direct attention to the screen than normal television would. So I decided that either today or within the next couple of days I'm gonna start my viewing of the Fifth Doctor era of Classic Doctor Who. I was going to watch Blake's 7 first, but considering what the world is like right now I can't really bring myself to tackle something like that which is by all accounts very depressing, and somehow it doesn't feel like the right time to do Sapphire & Steel even though I'd also planned to do that at this point. I think what's ultimately going to happen is they're going to join Star Cops and the like in a massive, post-Who watch of other "related" properties, which is probably a better plan if I'm being honest with myself.

Also, I suspect I'm gonna wanna put any binge-watches on hold come mid-September anyway, as I'll be devoting myself to the Halloween season and watching a bunch of horror movies and Halloween and Autumn-themed programming. I started a running list but I need to refine it somewhat. Quarantine may have killed the other activities I had planned but I can still do that much.

I'm getting the stitches out of my finger in slightly under a week and I'm really looking forward to it. I went on the elliptical the other day and while it went fine, the sensation of blood pumping in that respective arm and hand was very disconcerting. I also want to finish up some writing by the month's end, as this month I've just seemed to accumulate working drafts of greater length. I'm also kind of annoyed with myself because one of them is the draft of a prompt that was originally supposed to be completed in June.

As far as Summer itself goes, I'm hopeful to have at least one more instance of "summer plans" over Labor Day weekend, even though it will involve me being essentially isolated in a pool. It's the small victories I guess. Especially since the weather pretty much guarantees any outdoor activities in Autumn will be a no-go. At least Pumpkin Spice has made it's triumphant return.

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[sonofgodzilla]

I've been meaning to watch the Nagato series. I saw Disappearance for the first time recently too, and I was quite taken with it, although I felt I missed a lot because it was before my re-watch of the series.

I'd actually really like to read the light novels, despite all my complaints recently about such works, and whilst I found myself really annoyed by aspects of the show 10 years later, I wouldn't be absolutely adverse to watching something new with these characters... in fact, I think I'd actually quite like it.