Helianthus

Wow, Earthlink cancellation is shockingly painless and simple compared to AOL! My AOL account was closed years ago - I think they've since been sued over their retention tactics, though I don't remember details. Hell, they gave me a lot of trouble when I wanted to close one account and immediately open another.

Not a new Connie Willis Xmas story, but it's not in Miracle - "Just Like the Ones That We Used to Know." Makes me feel slightly better that some of you are getting snow and I'm just getting COLD.

Teh haul since getting the cable modem: 18 AMVs (thanks to everyone who made suggestions!), 59 MP3s (all legal, no less - Amazon.com has free downloads and I figured I'd try some new stuff, though I've sort of neglected to listen to most of it...) 20-some scanlated deals ranging from Naruto doujinshi to yuri manga, and 10, no, wait, eleven full episodes of Emma, the Victorian series Tsuneo Kobayashi directed; either of those things alone would make it an automatic-interest deal, but both make it a gimme. I've only watched the first episode but I love it madly already. I'm irked at the fansubbers for spelling the male lead's surname "Jounes" - IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S A REAL NAME WITH A SPELLING THEY COULD CHECK OR ANYTHING - but that's not the anime's fault. I'm especially rubbed wrong by the "Jounes" thing because the fansubbers actually put in the effort to look up, and add a cultural footnote about, a tiny detail of Victorian housekeeping - the anime itself looks very well-researched and I give the fansubbers props for doing a bit of research to keep up, but... Jounes. Argh.

Man, won't it be nice when I'm over the novelty value of easy-access downloads and I start leaving my room to read and stuff again? And stop doing stupid crap like downloading the first episode of the Sailor Moon live-action series just because I'm curious? And start hanging up my clean laundry so my cat can't sleep on it? Wait, I never did that...

I have cable internet! OMG OMG SO FAST!!

EEEE I'ma go pirate some movies now!!