Five days in a row of successful exercising! Incidentally, when I say “exercising” I mean “walking at 3.3 MPH for half an hour and sometimes jogging for approximately two minutes.” Gotta start somewhere XD How many repetitions do they say it takes to form a habit? How much longer if you have no set time of day for doing it and kinda hate the activity in the first place? Well, the episodes definitely help. Relena is so damn hot in her riding habit; we only see her in it for, like, twenty seconds, but wow. If I went to her school, I’m afraid I would be among her cultists devoted followers too (though you wouldn’t catch me applauding the act of successfully handing over a party invitation).
I love Gundam Wing. Seriously, I do. But… but… but the canon is dumb. The setup is… OK… but everything that happens is just so silly. I can’t stop making fun of the show the entire time I’m watching it. Don’t think this means I don’t enjoy every moment of it, because I do; it’s just… stupid. It’s not as bad as, say, Weiß Kreuz, which I give the same treatment, but it’s still pretty bad.
The thing is that, just like in Weiß Kreuz, the characters and their potential interactions are awesome and endlessly interesting, so fanfiction is a must. And given that it can smooth over or avoid the silliness of canon or just go with an AU, it’s generally better than the original. Yay fanfiction!
It’s just that I don’t know if I can ever bring myself to write any long story in the canon GW setting. What Not To Do is supposed to be, but I don’t know if I can manage it! This will disappoint ZG (actually it probably won’t; she’ll move to England and forget all about my fanfiction XD), and possibly me, but it may be inevitable. Ah, well.
Last Sunday I forgot to eat anything. Then choir practice time rolled around in the evening, and when I got there I was all shaky and weak. It was very stupid. Today after I take a shower I’ma make sure to eat some food so this doesn’t happen again. And this entry is officially not very interesting, so that’s enough.
P.S. My eyes are mostly back to normal.
One of the ways to get around silly stuff in canon with GW is to write ‘What If?’ kind of fiction. You can follow canon to a point, then go off to do whatever you want with it.
I don’t know ZG, but I highly doubt she could ever forget you. ;-)
Yeah, I agree. “What if?” stories are pretty great.
We’ll see about ZG. She really is moving to England, and that’s a pretty big change. Mou.
Yay you! Five days in a row is fantastic! So very inspiring and I really do need to get up off my duff and do something like this as well.
For those jittery/weak (LOW BLOOD SUGAR!) moments, I always keep a supply of peanut butter crackers around. They aren’t too terribly “fattening” and do provide a bit of protein in emergency situations.
Keep up the good work!
And on the GW topic, I have to agree with what’s been said so far. AU/What Ifs are the way to get around the silliness.
Yeah, after that stupidity with the not eating, I bought some fruit snacks in packets and put them in my purse just in case. I love eating, but sometimes when I’m busy writing stories or whatever I get caught up in what I’m doing and don’t bother with food for longer than I should XD
You know I feel the same way about Rurouni Kenshin, just to a lesser extent? In RK it’s generally the extremely unnatural and bizarrely excessive dialogue that’s the problem, not the setting or necessarily the events. Every time I use a scene from the RK canon in a story, it takes me hours to deal with all the stupid dialogue XD