Wet Lowell trip and an old acquaintance

[matrixrefugee]

Got to confession and Mass at St. Joe's today, and I needed both, badly. This despite the wet, splonky mix of sleet/snow/rain/freezing rain falling in fits and starts today. It's supposed to clear out by tomorrow. I don't mind seeing snow in April: I'm used to it (I was a baby during the Blizzard of 1978, I thought freak snowstorms late in the season were normal). It's the whinging from other people that I can't take, and God knows I've heard plenty of that. I just hide behind my copy of "Dead Beat" (Book 7 of the Dresden Files) and ignore the whingers. I'll admit, I'm having a leetle trouble getting into this one, unlike the others, for some odd reason (probably merely the fact that I haven't been sleeping well, due to how tired I've been from work. I didn't think there was such a thing as being too tired to sleep, but this is one of those cases.).

And my last chance at Easter shopping wasn't too fruitful, however, the trip to Burlington was worth it since:

1.) I actually laid a hand on a copy of "White Night" and --

2.) More importantly, while I was waiting for the bus back to Lowell, I bumped into an old friend I knew from Middlesex Community College, namely, Matt "the Magician", a computer programmer in training with an encyclopedic knowlege of every computer game out there and an incredible knack for slight-of-hand tricks. He's this tall, thin, gangly fellow with a shock of dark hair and an almost skull-thin face, and I'll admit, he's been my mental image of what book-verse!Harry Dresden looks like. He's even got the likable, snarky personality. I even was really fond of this guy, but he's now happily married and he and his wife now had a six-month old daughter that he dotes on: baby pictures in his wallet and all. I'm happy for him, but I'll admit, there's a little pain in my heart for what might have been. I'm just not letting it hold me down.

Got a haircut yesterday, and I was in dire need of one, since I was starting to have a bit of a shock mane ala Alucard in the "Hellsing" manga, which I've started reading. :: Curses her crazy friends in the MxO for getting her into more fandoms than she needs::

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[nightofcydonia.livejournal.com]

*is utterly amazed that you're reading 'Hellsing'*
Oh well, welcome to the club. *grin* How far have you got with the manga by the way?
~Weaver

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this from the person who doesn't normally go for vampires, after the maddening experience with an anNOYing vampire RPer on the Matrix Online :: Laughs::. I've read Books 1, 3, and 4, and I'm having a hard time finding Book 2 for some very strange reason. Yay for reading manga out of sequence! I've also read the first volum of the "ani-manga" based off one of the anime serieses (I think there's two different versions of the anime, for some odd reason), and I hope they keep up with that one.

[nightofcydonia.livejournal.com]

Yep, there is two versions of the anime. The first one was made before volume three was finished and it seems that they took what had happened in the first two volumes and pretty much made up everything that came after it on their own, with the result that they ended up miles from where the manga was heading. The newer version, the OVA, is more closely based on the manga and generally considered to be far superior by Hellsing fans.
~Weaver