Summer Blog Post - #0

Summer's finally here! . . . Well, it has been here for a while, technically.

I finished my second year of university back in May, but took the last two weeks of May to do absolutely nothing and finally relax after a whole year filled with some of the worse stress I've ever faced before. Unfortunately--nearly three weeks later--I still can't seem to get out of my state of stress, feeling like I absolutely NEED to do something at all times. It's also partially the fact I live back at home with my father, and being around him always puts a weight on top of me that never lets me actually relax. . . Anyways!

I've got one heck of a busy Summer season planned for myself. 日本語 studies every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Biking every day but Saturdays, my food choices planned out every day, actually finding time to do house work and catch up on all the media and literature I've been holding back on too. I promise, I will be watching a LOT of the Kamen Rider franchise this Summer, and will be posting reviews as well.

To prepare for it all, I went out and got a new desk. I got a corner desk to be specific, which marks something off my bucket list in life of always wanted a proper corner desk. Thanks to my partner for giving me the six hour car ride down to the IKEA in Philadelphia to pick this up as well! I'll be sure to post pictures in my first Summer blog. Speaking of which!!

Summer blog posts! I'll be doing them a lot more often, but there will be a guaranteed one every Saturday for me to recap my week, anything I thought of, did, and whatever else goes on. If I post outside of a Saturday, then what a wonderful gift to you? LOL.

One of the posts I want to do soon is something showing off my stuff, because who doesn't like seeing the junk other people have collected? It'd mostly be about my technology, reasons for why I have it, and any stories that come with that. I'm sentimental, so I tend to have a story for everything.

I'll also be posting a song or album with each Summer blog post as my recommendation of the week. Maybe a book or television show as well. We'll see how committed I get to the whole "media consumption" thing. The first song I'll toss out there is "おもかけたち" by 半田 健人 (Handa Kento). It comes from his 2014 album せんちめんたる. Handa-sensei is best known for his portrayal as Kamen Rider Faiz in the 2003 tokusatsu television show, Kamen Rider 555, but he's also a musician! I enjoy his music quite a bit, especially with his success in recapturing the early Kayōkyoku sounds of the Shōwa era. Please give him a listen!

His sound has done very well meshing with the songs from the 17-year cicadas that we're hosting up here in Pennsylvania. It fits a lovely early Summer mood, and I couldn't ask for anything more. Well, that's a lie. I could ask for more, but it has nothing to do with the cicadas or the music. Summers as a whole haven't felt very "summery" these last few years. I think it's the loneliness. 

When growing up, it was during an era where my mother was a babysitter. The oldest boy she babysat would be here all Summer, and we'd play video games or with my LEGO all day. This meant that there was always something going on around me, or people around to do something with. Those days are long gone, and when university goes out for a seasonal break, I'm right back to that loneliness. Unlike my teen years, sitting in front of the computer doing nothing doesn't really do it for me anymore, or playing games with others. Strangers, mostly. I'd like to make friends to keep in touch with, but I'm also very noncommittal where I like long stretches of silence. It's the sentimentality that counts for me. I like being in a room with someone doing our own things, occasionally getting together to do something. Please understand.

I was hoping to get a few model kits from an upcoming convention, but I seem to have run low on funds already after getting caught up in things I needed to get out of the way, so that's also a big downer. There's no guarantee that the stand with Kamen Rider models would even be there, but in that "what-if" scenario they were, then dang. F*ck me, I guess. LOL.

What I really hope for is to hear from others and meet people. I like doing that. Living in your barren home town can really bring you down. It sounds like a lot of my university club members are also facing that. So please reach out with a comment or a private message if you read this! I will still be enforcing my restrictions listed on my profile about who I want to meet though. Keep this in mind.