Renovations, Disconnections, and Self-Exile – The Withdrawal

No, it’s not an Ah! My Goddess or Hayate no Gotoku episode or chapter title, so leave me alone in my oh-so-pitiful state or else I’ll wham you on your chin…

I was almost out for a week, and it felt like a month. No twits for my status, no new posts, no new animu episodes for me to watch, no new manga chapters for me to read (thank God there wasn’t any new Negima yes, or else Kurogane would’ve laughed at me for being late about some WOULD-BE AUSUM NEWS), no new h-animu, no torrents to get, no eroge to download, no whatever goes when I surf. COLD TURKEY. No shit!

The reason, you ask? I got my room renovated. Out of my own whim, I asked my apartment manager, and told her “Can I somehow get my room fixed?” and went to do it when she nodded with permission. No, no pics for you. The kitchen and toilet (door), I still need to figure out. Besides, I got short on budget. And just when you’re busy with the carpentry, your net gets cut off while downloading Saki, Tayutama, A!MG! OVAs, the latest A!MG! manga chaps, Tenshin Ranman, and the final two episodes of Chobits.

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So what to do when you’re on your so-called forced self-exile? The withdrawal’s being quick enough, telling me: “Find an e-cafe or e-shop! Go back to the office and leech some nets! Ask your female neighbor! FUCKING DO SOMETHING!!!” or something of the sort, but I somehow managed to find a way to pass the time till the room’s finished. A list of what I did during the week, which may apply if this happens to you:

• Marathon Chobits (incomplete, missing 2 final episodes), Midori no Hibi, Hand Maid May, Love Hina, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Nagasarette Airantou, Kara no Kyokai, Ai Yori Aoshi, and I My Me Strawberry Eggs, all on a day, for three days.
• Read Love Hina, Negima, Chobits, Angelic Layer, Saki, and some Touhou doujin, for four days.
• Finish Tayutama and Tayutama: It’s Happy Days for three days.
• Draw Touhou doujin, for four days (still far from halfway, though).
• Regret your pitiful self for not getting Katawa Shoujo demo and Tenshin Ranman before your net got cut off, for three hours straight, for N days.
• Do Art Requests, and hope the unnamed nasty server op doesn’t get mad with the delays, for four days.
• Call the local hotline of your ISP and bug them about your Internet, for a week.
• General cleaning, for three days.
• Thinking of how to put all your stuff back to your room, for two days.

So much for that, it’s enough to make me cope up with the spare time I have left after I do work with the room starting from the morning till sundown. Not that you would mind me griping, but yeah, it’s fine enough. And now that the net is back up, I can work on my Melty Blood scanlation, post some artwork, and continue the damned downloads for all I care… until work comes picking me up on the pace on Monday next week…

Back to regular programming now, guys.