*bouncies*

[meganbmoore]

Thankies for all the birthday wishes in post, IMs and comments.  Uhm...if I replied to all it'd take a couple hours, so I feel very loved(consider this the mass group reply.)

I am officially doing nothing productive today(NO! WORK!) but might be going to dinner with the parents.  And possibly wrapping Christmas gifts(everything but Tall Cynical Guy's Secret Santa gift is purchased and I am beyond broke...but I will have money before gift exchange day.)

I used birthday money to buy myself a set of Tyrone Power movies, which Amazon tells me are swashbucklers, but some reviewers say otherwise.  We shall see.  And to buy Christmas gifts(yes, that broke)

Sadly, the mailman was not holding onto my Princess Tutu DVDs to gift me with on my birthday, so I do not have them to mainline.  Perhaps I shall start season 6 of Stargate SG-1 or watch movies today instead.  He didm however, leave a wonderful package from a wonderful person with a Borders giftcard that will let me go use the 30% off coupon(s) that I have...Probably on Pumpkin Scissors or Suikoden III manga if they have them, Tsubasa other wise.  But, like Someone Else, I'm totally only reading one Clamp series now and I'm not reading a second for a crazy guy with a sword.  At all.

It also included a package that I am not allowed to open until Christmas and a note saying he'll know if I do open it before then.  Due to my inability to keep my mouth shut, he's probably right and now I must have it taunting me for the next week and a half.

Actually, I may do the "year in review" for Manga today, afterall.  I shall read more manga before the end of the year, but I shall only be covering series that I started this year(or at least read vol 2+ and only vol 1 last year because I have to include Night of the Beasts).  Why?  As revealed in my very hasty count, not including scanslations(which I shall ignore except for possibly Shin Angyo Onshi) I've read 134 manga spread through 56 titles...this only narrows it down to 26.

If you want me to cover 56 titles(57 including SAO)-and I don't know if more than 2-3 will even bother to read it-then come down here and teach my 11 month old nephew to say, with perfect diction, "Aunt Meg, please review every single manga title you read this year."  That might work, but I make no promises

ETA:  I'm not sure, though, that any birthday gift could top this:

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I run hot and cold on Daniel...I like them, but then he has this smug mental and moral superiority thing going, and he always ends up in the right at the end, which gets rather annoying. Like, a lot. If he would just be abyssmally WRONG a few times, it'd be easier. (The fact that we have Carter and she's practically ego-less just makes it stand out more. She knows she's a genius but doesn't see why it's a big deal and just sometimes forgets others aren't as smart as she is, whereas Daniel more needs to make sure everyone knows he's smarter.)

I very much liked Jonas in his one episode, though.

[morwen_peredhil]

I don't dislike Daniel, but you're right: it's the smugness. It makes me want to smack him.

If I want to watch someone who needs to make sure everyone knows he's smarter, I'd rather watch Rodney anyway.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Because Rodney, based on the 1 ep I've seen, is treated like a smug SOB, not like walking talking perfection.