Not much of a milestone, but I figured I might as well celebrate it anyhow: today marks my first month of blogging. Good news? You bet. As for the hit counter…well, let’s just say “slow and steady”.
Needless to say, this is going to be a pretty short and informal post. I just thought that, having completed a full month of aniblogging (and having made that sound like a difficult task), I should toss together a couple paragraphs on my thoughts of the medium. Well, maybe not a couple paragraphs; I’m sure a few sentences could do the job, but knowing me, that’s not going to happen.
Getting back on topic, however, I have to say that I’m enjoying this whole blogging thing. As you may or may not be aware, this is my absolute first blog, anime or not – I completely skipped the whole “ramble about anime and your daily life on Blogger” step. While it was more than a little daunting at first with the time and devotion required to maintain a blog (and I thought I was busy before I started), not to mention with the community of highly experienced otaku that watch RAWs and travel to Japan, I somehow managed to pull through – and more importantly, I realized that it isn’t nearly as hard a task as I expected.
As a matter of fact, one could even call it fun.
So with that said, I still have many months of blogging ahead of me; I’m hoping this site sees me through my high school years and far into the future, so far that it isn’t even worth thinking about. Reminiscence aside, right now we’re approaching the Fall season, and with a ton of great anime to watch and blog about, connections to be made across the internet, and *gasp* a novel to write, there’s no doubt that I’ll be busy. But it’ll be worth it. That’s why I’m sitting here tonight typing this, instead of watching the last few eps of Allison and Lillia – it’s surprisingly fun.
Don’t mean to be greedy, but we need more Shana someday soon.
Also, before I forget: I’ll be heading off to New York in the beginning of November for about a week. Am I excited? Of course, especially since I’ve never really seen America before (oddly enough), but I’ll be with my school, which is both good and bad. On the plus side, senior trip! w00t! I doubt there’ll be any hijinks involving rooming arrangements and hot springs, but it should be fun nonetheless. On the downside, however, I probably won’t have much time to wander around and meet people…not that there should be anyone to meet. To my knowledge the only anibloggers living in NYC are JPMeyer and Hinano, unless I’m missing someone (which in all likelihood I am). Regardless, it’s not like I know either of them well at all, but for what it’s worth, we’ll be in the same city for a week! Not that it matters. Bottom line: you’ll know that I’m gone on the trip when I either disappear from the blog for a week or when my posts drift away from anime as I end up rambling about things no one really cares to hear.
So anyway, that’s about it! One month down, tons to go…someday, I’ll look back on this post and think about how childish it was of me to write about something like this, but who cares? All I know is that I’ll be here for a long time to come, providing you with your daily several-times-a-weekly dose of wordy otaku blather. So, like I always say, TSUZUKU!
~ ETERNAL
つづく
