we finally joined a gym - mega yays! XD we went for our induction yesterday night (and it was one of those long ones where they go through all the weights machines as well as the CV stuff) and that was good, but i woke up this morning feeling all headachey and ill *grr*

ah well that's gone down a lot now so i'm cracking on with another good day's work!

it felt really good to get back into just moving around more (i walk quite a bit but most of the time i just sit at a desk so it was good to do stuff like the cross trainer to really warm up the ol muscles ^_^ ) ...i'm positive about it now, but just wait for the bitching when i've been going for a few weeks and i can't be arsed any more XD

reading, watching & playing

oo...i haven't done this in a while! here goes...

i just finished a cool travel book called hokkaido highway blues which is about a canadian guy who hitchhiked up japan from cape sata to cape soya at the same time as the cherry blossom front. it was a good read - an interesting look at the real japanese people that he interacted with in their daily lives, rather than an overly romantic look at japan ^^

as usual at the mo we're still watching DS 9 - seriously, i love that show! XD we're on season 5 now so only 2 more to go after this o.O;

anime-wise we've just finished the first disk of paranoia agent, and i'm enjoying it just as much as i thought i would! i'm really glad i bought the box set ^_^

games-wise i'm back on the DS after a month or so's break, playing phoenix wright 1 and loving it! boy is that an addictive game! (altho i haven't yelled 'objection!' at the DS yet as i think i'll look a bit stupid o.O; )

i've been catching up with the geek syndicate podcast which is a really amusing mix of kinda rough sounding london guys talking about how much they like comics o.O; one i really got into lately was a discussion about western comics and how they might be shooting themselves in the foot by being sorted by publisher rather than genre (amongst other things)

richard cheese took over for music again whilst i was doing my momiji designs (well wren10514 brought her albums down so i just had to listen to them all again! XD ) but today i've discovered the sound track to ghost hound, which is chock full of cool jazz tunes! its got a kind of yoko kanno cowboy bebop soundtrack vibe but with a few less of the sad songs methinks

here's the opener so you can get an idea of what its like

Tags: anime, books, games, gym, music, random
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( 3 very different novels that i highly recommend )

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