It's December already

There's snow on the ground, and aaaahhh I'll never be finished in time. Portion control problems with regard to workload; enough of you out there know exactly what I'm talking about.

So Prince of Tennis! Lux sent me 97 episodes of Prince of Tennis (which in my arcane and arbitrary mental calculation of fannish giri I have set down as meaning that I owe her the entirety of the next chapter of tBD plus Christmas fic, but I digress). As I've already read the manga, I've decided to adopt a slightly different approach to this anime by watching the beginning and then the rest out of order, according to importance. Thus I ask you, TeniPuri fans at large: which are the episodes I should watch first? As in Top Ten, Do Not Miss?

...I should seriously figure out how to copy digisubs onto tape or VCD so me mum can watch them on the telly. ^^; Not to mention everyone else I know who can't watch digisubs.

A second question: would anyone be interested in getting a mealworm lolly for Christmas? *evil grin* Is a usual barley sugar lolipop, about 1" x 1 1/2", with a whole mealworm embalmed in it. Looks gross, perfectly edible. I got two when I went to the Botanic Garden for the bug tasting (I bet all of you thought I was joking when I posted that), so I can vouch for the provenance.

The fried locusts were yummy, especially in a vinegar-and-ginger dipping sauce like you'd make for crab. Mmm, land shrimp.

Should be writing HTML, but hell with responsibility

TeniPuri TeniPuri TeniPuri! XD

(This fandom appears to have on days and off days. Odd, that. Or maybe it just depends on hours of sleep and number of g&ts in the system. ...Working on the third currently, counting the one that was actually half a cranberry plus raspberry vodka.)

Damned, the animation is nice. All of a sudden the various little bits and pieces fall into a coherent whole: the story, the character designs, the animation, the seiyuu, the music. Soshite (anime dakara atarimae kamoshiren kedo), BL factor upped by about 100%. XD As in moved from "background" to "distracting".

Should really stop here and go to bed, though - long day of work looming tomorrow, and I've been riding so high on false euphoria** this afternoon that I'm due for a crash. Darn it.

...Made Ced chase down White Love for me over filesharing. XD Was jonesing for Christmas jpop, which is the only kind of Christmas music I really like anymore. They're sad love songs one and all, which brings out the wistfulness and sense of time passing that I enjoy about the holiday season; without a bit of melancholy there's no depth to the joy. Plus cheerful Christmas songs are the worst earworms.

**Is normal. I go on caffeine cold turkey during the weekend, apart from a few sips of sencha. Then on Monday, the usual two large cuppas hit the system of a morning, followed by about a liter of tea...

EDIT -- starlighter, would you actually, er, like it better if I wrote TezuFuji? ^_^;;; Because I've been thinking about it. And thinking about it. ...And thinking about it. I think my brain naturally needs to latch onto a "hard" proof to gnaw on during free processor cycles (what free processor cycles?), like that twisty wooden toy without any ends that Belgarath gave Polgara to play with when she was a baby. I've been missing a pairing to figure out ever since I solved Ginji x Akabane.

(...Yes, I solved Ginji x Akabane. No, I'm not going to write it. Okay? Okay.)

EDIT2 -- Okita Souji = Makubex + 5 years + Natsumi's vocal mannerisms. Don't believe me? Just play an episode and listen.