life and things
21 Feb 2009 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayoraaseiDreams
So, right after I did the dreams meme (previous post), that night I had a dream involving a prince who had fallen out of favour was being locked up in a mansion (a sort of modern-looking - at least Georgian era - rather than gothic) while his courtiers planned his "death by accident". They evacuated the entire place and planted a bomb in the estate outside, but one of people who helped with the assassination plan was actually on the prince's side (without the prince realising), and he, or she, can't remember, went in right after the "rebels" had left the place. He bundled up the prince and climbed with him over the tall metal gates, and barely had he gotten over the fence when the bomb went off, in a big cloud of flames and black smoke. It was very high resolution =D
Life
One of my...colleagues (I still find this a pompous-sounding word) said something that really struck me. She said that neurology's pretty depressing because yes, it's fun to figure out what's wrong with the patient, but once you've found the problem, there's often not much you can do after that. It made me remember what my tutor last year said about cardiology...apparently he finds it incredibly boring (this is coming from someone working in boring rheumatology) because there's only so many things that can go wrong with the cardiovascular system. I mean, there's maybe a handful of infections that affect the heart, and the heart practically never gets cancers. Everything else is pretty much mechanical stress. I don't have to start thinking about specialisation for at least another three years, but it's interesting what people perceive of each specialisation.
Manga
I bought Gakuen Alice 15 and Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden 9 yesterday =D The people in GA look so elongated (older) now. Book 15 was the second part of the sports carnival, which managed to be both incredibly cute and somehow also tension-charged because of Luna.
I like reading the author's free notes usually. I wonder what's wrong with Watase Yuu. She's been complaining for two years of really bad back pain and what sounds like carpal tunnel. I mean...I know I read somewhere that lower back pain is like an occupational risk for mangaka (because of their posture), but Watase seems to be having a pretty bitter time with it, taking hiatuses several times to cope. It makes one question why she's doing three projects simultaneously, in three different genres =___=||||| I'm glad that Sakura Gari is ending soon so we can get more chapters of FYGK, which has been put on hiatus until next month.
I wonder how it's going to end. We know already that Tomite and Hikitsu were going to die, but the original series said very little about the final outcome for Uruki and Takiko, apart from that Takiko was supposedly killed by her father to prevent her becoming a live sacrifice for Genbu. We also know that Takiko's tuberculosis looks pretty advanced and she looks like she'd die within a few months anyway ==;;; Watase usually does really good deaths, but I think I'm going to be pretty pissed off if Takiko dies, simply because like 90% of anyone who watched Fushigi Yuugi I hate Miaka and I hate the idea of Miaka being the only Miko being able to get a happy ending. I wonder if Watase Yuu ever looks back on that work and cringes in shame at the oozing Mary-Sue-ness of it all =__=||||
In other news, the first volume of Yuki Kaori's new work (the title of which possesses an incredibly ugly chain of syllables that I can't remember) is released~~~ Still debating if I should collect it...considering she hasn't done anything suitably brilliant since Count Cain. This is what having babies do to people ="=
So, right after I did the dreams meme (previous post), that night I had a dream involving a prince who had fallen out of favour was being locked up in a mansion (a sort of modern-looking - at least Georgian era - rather than gothic) while his courtiers planned his "death by accident". They evacuated the entire place and planted a bomb in the estate outside, but one of people who helped with the assassination plan was actually on the prince's side (without the prince realising), and he, or she, can't remember, went in right after the "rebels" had left the place. He bundled up the prince and climbed with him over the tall metal gates, and barely had he gotten over the fence when the bomb went off, in a big cloud of flames and black smoke. It was very high resolution =D
Life
One of my...colleagues (I still find this a pompous-sounding word) said something that really struck me. She said that neurology's pretty depressing because yes, it's fun to figure out what's wrong with the patient, but once you've found the problem, there's often not much you can do after that. It made me remember what my tutor last year said about cardiology...apparently he finds it incredibly boring (this is coming from someone working in boring rheumatology) because there's only so many things that can go wrong with the cardiovascular system. I mean, there's maybe a handful of infections that affect the heart, and the heart practically never gets cancers. Everything else is pretty much mechanical stress. I don't have to start thinking about specialisation for at least another three years, but it's interesting what people perceive of each specialisation.
Manga
I bought Gakuen Alice 15 and Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden 9 yesterday =D The people in GA look so elongated (older) now. Book 15 was the second part of the sports carnival, which managed to be both incredibly cute and somehow also tension-charged because of Luna.
I like reading the author's free notes usually. I wonder what's wrong with Watase Yuu. She's been complaining for two years of really bad back pain and what sounds like carpal tunnel. I mean...I know I read somewhere that lower back pain is like an occupational risk for mangaka (because of their posture), but Watase seems to be having a pretty bitter time with it, taking hiatuses several times to cope. It makes one question why she's doing three projects simultaneously, in three different genres =___=||||| I'm glad that Sakura Gari is ending soon so we can get more chapters of FYGK, which has been put on hiatus until next month.
I wonder how it's going to end. We know already that Tomite and Hikitsu were going to die, but the original series said very little about the final outcome for Uruki and Takiko, apart from that Takiko was supposedly killed by her father to prevent her becoming a live sacrifice for Genbu. We also know that Takiko's tuberculosis looks pretty advanced and she looks like she'd die within a few months anyway ==;;; Watase usually does really good deaths, but I think I'm going to be pretty pissed off if Takiko dies, simply because like 90% of anyone who watched Fushigi Yuugi I hate Miaka and I hate the idea of Miaka being the only Miko being able to get a happy ending. I wonder if Watase Yuu ever looks back on that work and cringes in shame at the oozing Mary-Sue-ness of it all =__=||||
In other news, the first volume of Yuki Kaori's new work (the title of which possesses an incredibly ugly chain of syllables that I can't remember) is released~~~ Still debating if I should collect it...considering she hasn't done anything suitably brilliant since Count Cain. This is what having babies do to people ="=
