Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

So I'm twenty-four, at least as of three days ago; it says something about the kind of schedule I've been subjecting myself to that I intended to post this a few days ago, and only now have time to--and even this time is punctuated by the blinking yellow-and-blue of an MSN conversation window. Not that being twenty-four is particularly amazing; most of the people around me have been twenty-four for at least a year, and as for me I woke up on the day before my birthday thinking I was going to turn twenty-five and was planning all sorts of puns revolving around being a quarter of a century old. I suppose this means I should rewrite my Introduction to Myself post; certainly I think I would like to fill it with links to tropes that I think are present in my life, and I think I've changed plenty since its last edit; I might as well also trash the Characters page, because people seem to come and go in my life the way the little drifting things go past your field of vision when yo...

I returned to Spore about... twelve hours ago? No, it's closer to fourteen hours now. Technically I and the family crossed the national boundary at around 9am or so... but I am getting ahead of myself. These few days have been full of things going on, but rather weirdly... I live very much in a world of my own, which makes me both easily entertained (because I pretty much never bore myself) and slightly off-kilter (because I'm also almost never quite paying full attention to the world around me). And of course, like the past few days, it makes for a sort of fugue state. The past few days, of course, have been the Chinese New Year--my second completed cycle, since it's now the Metal Rabbit and I'm a Fire Rabbit. And since this year it so happens that the two days of public holidays given for the Chinese New Year fell on a Thursday and Friday, travel plans naturally began accounting for the previous day or two--in the case of myself and the Gobbler, we decided to head out...