Oh Jesus.
First of all, I've obviously been incredibly busy.
I finished my junior year of college (three semesters left because my major's requirements are more stringent than those of the university). I got Dean's List honours this term as well as last and a 3.65 GPA, which, I should point out, is considered remarkable in my major. Just finishing the UMass Japanese programme, assuming I do, is considered a minor feat of strength; I was surprised to learn how highly we're apparently regarded in my field. Anyway, more importantly, I firmed up some friendships this semester too. I had a fight with a friend on the weekend of Easter, which was also my birthday and Anime Boston, but that seems to have,
finally, been resolved. I've been on various reading and watching binges. As one would expect I'm neck-deep in
Korra right now and have outstanding commitments for various reasons to
Heartcatch Precure, The Twelve Kingdoms, and
Natsume Yuujin-chou.I have an entirely unreasonable if not outright alarming degree of FEELINGS about
The Prague Cemetery, mostly because it's genuinely terrifying. I had a perhaps more to be expected set about
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, which made me absolutely
bawl.
I was also elected to public office! I'm a member of the Town Meeting of Amherst, Massachusetts, a quaint form of local government used in New England. I'm one of 246 members and I was pretty involved in some controversial zoning votes (our side won in that the terrible development ideas that we were being presented with won't go through this year; we won only by a few votes!). I can talk more about what these controversies were and what the experience in general has been like in the comments if anybody is interested.
A week ago from the day that it now technically is on my side of the International Date Line I was finally officially confirmed in the Episcopal Church. It was the last set of confirmations for Bishop Scruton, whom I'm going to miss a lot. I'm not sure what I think of his potential successors, on whom we have not yet voted.
This summer I'm going to spend some time in Amherst with my friends and also at home with my family, doing a lot of gardening actually. A few weeks ago I finished, at long, long last, the writing project I'd been working on for two and a half years, and I've got something new going on! I've also been working on translating from a
Noir artbook that I got at Anime Boston.
I also have a tumblr now!I'm so sorry about my prolonged absence! How has everybody been?