Fundamentally I quite like cold weather - or at least given the choice between massively hot or cold I'd go for the cold. There are various reasons for this, but basically the whole thing of being in a toasty warm house and looking at on frozen scenes really appeals to me.
The key there is being warm inside. However, wear I live this is really difficult to achieve. Basically the heating I have is electric and it costs a fortune to have on - I mean literally if I have it on all day in weather like this it would cost me about £20 a day, which is a horrendous amount.
So I try to avoid heating the whole place, just heating the living room instead. I also try to wear more clothes so that there's less need to have the heating on full boar, but it can be a little sufffocating wrapped up in ten layers of shirts and jumpers.
Anyway, the point of this is I kinda don't like it when it's cold where I'm living now - it's a bit of a pain.
I tried to get the artbook scanning finished this w/end, but didn't quite succeed. Partly I was hampered by the cold - my computer is in one of the colder corners in the living room (I need to buy a new heater for the corner, I think) but also it was jst fatiguing.
The good news I now only have 1 artbook left and I've actually started it. The bad news is it's huge (around 125 scans!) so I doubt I'll get it done before the weekend.
I've grown a little tired of scanning as well, and may well have reached something of a mental blockade - I wouldn't be surprisde if I just stop now until somewhere around chrimbo time when I'm on holiday.
To give you some idea of how much scanning I've been doing I sampled all of these shows across the end of last week and the weekend:
- To Aru Majutsu no Index was surprisingly good. There seems to be a surfeit of shows that fall into the "echii romantic-comedy" category this season and I'd say this was one of the better ones. It also seemed to have quite a bit going for it besides the whole rom-com thing and it's extremely well animated.
- Toradora! was also surprisingly good. This again is another echii romantic comedy, although the echii-ness is actually fairly light. It's also got an interesting set of lead characters and a nice misdirect in that at the start they're not interested in each other. How this develops will presumably make the show a bit more interesting than the usual fair. It was also well animated again.
- Kannagi was okay. This was the third of the rom-com type shows I tackled almost in a row and it may therefore be a little bit of fatigue on my part but this didn't quite peak my interest in the way the other two did. I think it's because it's slightly more "standard" than the others - there didn't seem to be anything to make it stand out particularly. However, it was again very well animated. I dunno if it's just a weird co-incidence or the order I've watched them in, but the Autumn '08 shows all seem to be quite well animated.
- Kyou no Go no was okay. Think Azumanga Daioh but a little more realistic and you're pretty much there. I think the kids in this are a little younger, but it's essentially the same sort of idea - it's a slice of life job and they're in school and the stuff in the episodes happens during the breaks between lessons or at lunch or after school, etc. It's quite good, but I dunno it felt slightly too light for me. Plus there's a stylistic thing they do with serious faces (it's difficult to explain) that didn't really appeal to me.
- ef - a tale of melodies was okay. This is basically a sequel to ef - a tale of memories and if you liked that show then I'm sure you'd like this one. However, I didn't really like it so it didn't really do much for me. I'd say I found this less annoying, but not enough to elevate the series overall. Plus it still had that whole weird angles, bizarre effects and odd pacing that I found tedious in memories.
Blimey!
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