That's It-- I'm Done

I'll no longer be going to watch anime at the university on Saturday nights, after roughly seven solid years of regular attendance. With Stefan and Aiden now busy on Saturday nights, the prospect of ten weeks by myself eating crappy junk food in a room full of people that I hate, watching shows that run the gamut from mediocre to awful, is simply too much to bear. I've got a list of shows that we were watching, and I'll finish the ones that I liked on my own time. I probably should have stopped a long time ago, but there were three things that kept me going. First, I am a creature of habit, and a stubborn man. I don't like change, and I don't like to stop something once I've started, and anime has, for better or for worse, been a fixture in my life for quite some time. Second, anime night once served an essential purpose-- it was my new show filter, that I used to discover shows I'd never seen before, and there were a LOT of good shows that I'd never have watched were it not for anime. However, through the magic of the Inter-mo-tron, I feel much better equipped to find new shows myself these days, and no longer worry that some gem from the new season will escape my notice.

Finally, anime night used to be a whole lot of fun, and I think that some part of me still held out hope that it could be again. I used to look forward to it each and every week, going to watch shows with 1/2 dozen friends, and then doing other stuff with those same people afterwards, whether it be eating at the Diplomat, playing video games, or watching yet more anime. However, a lot has changed in seven years. I now have much more refined tastes, and whatever crap they elect to put up there for consideration is no longer good enough. And it's been a long time since I had regular crowd of 1/2 dozen people to go with, with most of the people who used to attend no longer living in this city. Also, the place is a wretched hive of scum and villainy these days, full of loud, inconsiderate, and above all creepy people who I hate with every fibre of my being. Where I and my friends used to be happy, we are now miserable, sequestering ourselves in a nearby stairwell to talk for much of the evening, emerging only on those rare occasions that a show of good quality is shown. This being the case, even if I did try to bring someone new along, it's kind of a tough sell.

So, I'm done. I no longer need to be embarrassed to admit what I do on Saturday nights, but now only need to be embarrassed that I'm doing nothing on Saturday nights. I'll no longer need to schedule other events around anime, and I'll now have another night to spend working through my video game backlog. Most importantly though, I'll never have to see any of those freaks ever again.

Aside: I had an awesome idea last week, and feel compelled to share it. I think that there should be a website called professor-or-homeless-person.com, where anyone can upload a picture of a professor or a transient, and visitors can guess as to which they are. I laugh just thinking about it. :-)