Very quickly

Nauseating headache most of the afternoon, shading into exhaustion period. But mood was substantially improved by finding English issues of Five Star Stories on the shelf of a downtown comics shop. Bought #9 (that is, vol.IV part 1), because it's the beginning of the Traffics arc and one of my favorite chapters. Kaien! Aisha! Muse! AT! They're "only" 11$US per issue, people. No more excuses.

Also, now have a brushed-chrome flash-mem MP3 player that looks like an oversized zippo lighter. (Am plotting to get a GB phone strap for it at sjcon, assuming such things exist. It's the first time in my life I've ever had use for a phone strap.)

Have been asked by several people to just write down my analysis of Get Backers, already. Will do so when not completely brain-dead.

Good mood

Feeding on jasmine tea and nori rice crackers, white chocolate cookies, good schtuff like that. Not sleepy. Funny how that extra 30 minutes makes a difference, doesn't it?

Eyes still kind of busted, though.

GB: up to volume 13. Ban with the gel washed out of his hair makes me pointillate eloquently. He looks... he looks like a willowy purple-eyed bishounen. And like he wouldn't get expelled if he went to school. So very odd. And the more I think about it, the more he really is like Ash from Banana Fish. Seriously, how many other characters can you think of who're like, "I'm a rude scruffy bad-boy street hustler, but I also have an IQ of 195, play classical violin and know what all the little forks in a twelve-course dinner setting are for"? It's not exactly a shounen manga stereotype, or at any rate not convincingly so.

( Ban, Himiko, Ginji - and Hevn because frankly why not )