I started watching "Durarara!" It's pretty freaking awesome.
On the way home from school today I saw an old man drop his gloves. I was biking, & he was walking in the opposite direction. And as I continued on my way (as I'm not in the habit of abruptly stopping) I thought in a panicky sort of way, "What if he doesn't notice? What if his hands get cold? I probably should've said something...." But I didn't go back.
I got a free taiyaki later today. I've written about it before. (it took me forever to find that link...) It's pretty delicious. I was planning on buying one anyway since I was grocery shopping w/out having had lunch, & when I walked up to the stall the cardboard price-sign blew down onto the ground. Naturally, I picked it up. Not b/c it was the "right" thing, or b/c it was "nice". It was just logical. It was there. I was there. I was stopping anyway. The taiyaki-man thought it was amazing though & gave me one right then and there, before I even had a chance to say I wanted to buy one.
Izaya is my favorite, no contest.
The old ladies I teach were talking about how they need to make their lives simpler today. I can't really see how they're all that complicated, seeing as most of them are retired, but it turned out they were talking about getting rid of clutter in their houses. Old people accumulate a lot of shit. I remember my grandmother's house being like that too. One of them was saying she was really happy after she cleaned out a bunch of stuff, but she was surprised that she could live with so little. And all the others were like, "Yeah! Now that we're old we can realize that!" I had to try really hard not to laugh at them. And to not say, "I've known that since I was 25 and all my stuff disappeared in one night."
Of course, I have more stuff now, and I like it, but it's far less than what I had. And different from the life I thought I was headed for back then. And I have no problem getting rid of stuff I know I'm not using. I've gotten pretty good at not being upset if things get lost or broken either. It's important to know what's.....important. So when they asked me what my New Year's Resolution was, out of nowhere I said, "To not waste time." I couldn't exactly tell them, "To be happy about stuff," since they think I already am, or "To have a booth at 冬コミ," since then they'd ask all kinds of annoying questions. But after finally deleting all the millions of applications other people got me involved in on Facebook this weekend, I suddenly feel like I have a lot more time (and energy to use in that time) available to me that I didn't even know I was missing. It's important to know when to throw things out, and what to not waste time on.
But.....Shizuo is a close second....
