neko’s thinkbox

Well, apparently it IS possible. Yay me!

Must’ve happened while I was at that AC/DC concert in Barcelona, heh. (Check my twitter updates for more on that.) I suppose I can celebrate now?

But I won’t go and stroke my e-peen on these obviously bloated figures ruined by spambots, that doesn’t seem appropriate in this time and age where every second shitty macdonaldized blog reaches the same number - but of visits - within two months now.
I won’t give you useless stats either, like how many % use Chrome, Vista and Ritalin to get rid of their troubles. And I won’t also tell you how many crazy “pangya lolicon” “ARIA hentai” (I fucking curse you) and similar tags and google searches this site has seen over time.

At first I thought I’d never make it this far without integrating any kind of trendy aniblogomerates that are out there, and history has shown how often I’ve raged about how poorly I’ve been served fame and recognition on that silver aniblog plate. I don’t even think I’ve actually made it far, hitting 1M after two years probably is just a natural occurrence. But, I do feel (or at least, I HOPE) that amongst those numbers, there are a couple of genuine regulars who do actually read my posts.

I thank everyone who has visited my modest blog ever so silently during its 2+ years of existence, and a big thanks goes out especially to those who were inspired enough to read and comment my often self-overrated posts. Partly obviously boosts my alter ego, but definitely motivates me to write less offensively, and much more intelligently. If this keeps up, I might even expect 20+ commenters a post in… 6 years? Great. And I swear I will be around by then to stultify you if you think this is stupid.

Now, I need some quality plugging on your hueg blogs to get moar hits. 2M in less than a year now, okay?

…Anyone?

D-1, my last day at home. Venice, I’ll soon be yours.

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Because one can’t get enough sweets.

Neko’s Thinkbox is turning two years old, and for this special occasion, I will conduct an interview with the creator and spiritual leader of this blog, natsuneko.

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PEW PEW FIARWORKS!

Hello folks, It’s time to bid this very tumultuous (sic) year 2008 goodbye, and to welcome the new year 2009 which promises to be even more upside down!

I don’t know what your New Year’s resolutions are, if you even have resolutions at all. I always thought I would keep mine, but in the end it all boiled down to a hypocritical naught. But for the sake of completeness (also perhaps of good conscience), I will state mine.

Can you guess the first one? Of course, watch more anime. 2008 was partly proficient, but as you can see on the chart in this post, there were many months without any kind of meaningful activity besides gaming and whoring about my Venice trips (the last of which I’m most probably not even going to report about anymore because slowking.jpg).

Looks like there’s gonna be activity SPIKES!

If I am not going to do a aloe,dream-like marathon, I want to catch up at least to the three series I was blogging about - Tora Dora, To Aru Majutsu no Index, and Hyakko. Perhaps I’ll even watch Kannagi because, you know I have an increased interest in pettankos (and since it had always been airing after Toaru anyway, I watched it as well).

Do I have another resolution? Yes, and it’s of a more complicated nature which might involve the future of this blog. Since I will be studying in Venice starting February, I don’t know if I will have internet access at my expensive lodging there; the ESU still has to reply to my mail from two weeks ago, and as you can see, their page contains a LOT of information right now. So yeah, depending on access or not, I might be very restricted on posting on this blog or not (not that it ever mattered to anyone, because nobody reads it anyway, or offered any helping hand).

No, I’m not going to become an Undine… yet.

Also, if there will be, my future posts from Venice will most likely concern life in Venice, and constant comparisons to ARIA like on this blog. As much as it is related to an anime, Venice might obviously not be of anyone’s interest. So therefore, if I have enough motivation, I might create a small blog about Venice then, next to Neko’s Thinkbox. (If so, NTB will have even less filler posts now ;o; d’aww.)

And a final resolution… Soon enough, on the 17th I believe this blog will hit its immemorable second birthday, so until then… I’ll post… five, no, TEN a couple of times. I think another resolution would be to keep doing things at my own pace, probably contradicting my first resolution… Another resolution would be to sound less contradictory. Perhaps I should also be a little more verbose to make me sound like a smartass. Boy, the resolutions keep flowing in!

Either way, once again a very happy new year 2009, and may some god, goddess or (im)moral entity bless you.

Akeome~

(By the way I’m two hours early, but even if I’m alone at home tonight I’m not gonna stay in front of my computer at midnight. Need to look at the pewpew fireworks outside, with a nice glass of champagne. :3)

…a pretty shocking but obvious revelation.

At least it’s not about the real srs bsns economy, or else the world would be in pretty bad shape right now.
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…as always, I suppose ;)

But at least I’m finding some motivation to share my everyday woes and hopes here.

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