I knew that the transition to a sophomore was going to be anything but smooth, and I was correct. I had a lot of misgivings before the start of the term and a lot of imagined problems with my coursemates. Somehow, however, I was able to persist: perhaps this is the reason that they call man to be the superior being, as his capacity to adapt is nearly limitless.
Today’s the second anniversary of this blog.
In some ways this feels more significant to me than Shounen Jump’s thirtieth anniversary this year, despite the fact that, as it may attest, introspection is the franchise I’m more familiar with. But it may be precisely my lack of easy familiarity with the outside world (notwithstanding the blogroll) that makes it more prominent in my mind. It was very nearly my first nascent experience in an flurry of surfacing blogs then, only preceded by Edison's, and it’s the one part of the memories that I’ve since recalled. I can quickly bethink several scenes to mind: his daily tooth-brushing rituals, for example, and of course the spectacular Dokopoko.
Sadly I am restricted to memory myself tonight, as he has inconceivably removed his blog and I won’t be able to squeeze one down this google cache any time soon. But even remembering him and the swine-calling in-charge, thinking of the delicious taunting that came after and all of its curious mixture of silly and serious, always uplifts me. I rather like the fact that the recollection give aplenty to think about: facing such attempted treason, camaraderie, in more than the narrowly naturalized sense of the word, is not a bad thing to remember.