Monday morning... blergh!

Have I mentioned how I hate Mondays? It's the feeling of doom associated with them. You wake up, look at the clock and realise that in a couple of hours you'll be sat at your desk again, and you won't get unchained until 5:30. It's a lost opportunity to get something useful done at home, not that that's likely anyway really, but that's how it feels. I can't help thinking the flat would be tidier and I'd be in a generally better mood most of the time if I could just work from home. It's not like I have any distractions there I don't have here.

Part of the reason for this frustration is that I seem to have caught the writing bug again. It's amazing how much of a difference getting feedback makes. I should really thank Thursday for this, as she's patiently read through three of my stories now, and prodded me to do more. There's something nice about people wanting you to write. Makes it seem a lot less pointless than just churning out prose just for the sake of it. I think my first major project will be to finish the nanowrimo novel I started (barely) in November. It needs a couple of bits rewritten and a hell of a lot of fleshing out, but I think it's worth it. I've got a couple of good characters to work with and a plot that suits me. Worth a go, eh?

Anime - I have succumbed...

Thanks to the_hunter I am now a fully fledged anime fan. I swore I'd never let myself be drawn in, and kept telling myself it was all tiny Japanese girls with no noses in skimpy clothes, made purely for perverts who haven't figured out how to get real porn, but I was shocked and stunned by how *good* it turned out to be. The anime in question is "Hellsing", over the top vampire action in modern-day England (with jaunts to Hong Kong and somewhere else I forget now). It has some of the coolest characters I've seen in a series and, aside from a tendency to point the viewing angle up a certain character's skirt, is mercifully smut free. Not that I have a particular problem with smut, it's just my idea of a good time does not feature vampire policewomen, particularly not cartoon ones. Just the plot, please, Mr. Director.

I need to watch it again to catch exactly what's going on and why, but I think that's the hallmark of a good plot. I tend to feel somewhat let down if I understand everything perfectly first time round, and even more so if I can anticipate what's going to happen, which is all too often. It even tempted me towards fanfic, which is the ultimate dark side. I take a very dim view of most fanfic, as I always did of most anime, because it's generally written by angsty teens who wouldn't grasp the concept of canon if they were beaten to death with it. I've since found that there is actually some good stuff out there, amongst the crud. Who knows, I might just have to join this fandom sideshow too...