For some reason I feel really sad that summer's ending. I don't know why.

I randomly have the song "Fathoms Below" from The Little Mermaid stuck in my head.

It occurred to me that the two Disney movies whose background music always gets stuck in my head at random moments are The Little Mermaid and The Rescuers Down Under. There's something about their soundtracks that struck me as a kid and never really disappeared over the years.

It's usually "Tour of the Kingdom" from the first movie and that one song that plays when the kid flies on the eagle for the first time in Down Under that do get stuck in my head. Although when I listened to them again recently from their soundtracks they seemed to have a faster tempo than I remembered them having... I guess I thought they sounded better slow or something.

Finally finished The Moonstone. Kinda interesting I guess for being one of the first mystery novels, but I was dying a bit to get back to 20th century lit. I guess I'm not that big a fan of 19th century... (well, besides classic Austen and Dickens anyway).

So next on the to-something lists:

books:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Satanic Verses

games:
Flower, Sun, and Rain
Persona 4
Tales of the Abyss (if we ever find the time when school starts again -_-)
Gabriel Knight 1
Sam and Max Hit the Road
kinda want to start a game that's been featured on Adventure Gamers recently... but I dunno yet.

anime:
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (I intend to finish all 110 episodes.)
Umineko
Full Metal Panic (on the side)
Kara No Kyoukai 6
Mind Game

manga:
ongoing series
Akira
Sanctuary
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Vinland Saga
Narutaru... maybe.

KIRCHEIS. NO. NO. NO. WHAT THE HELL.

I hate it when series that I like do this to me. damn it.

and for that matter, I freaking hate Oberstein.

The moment I opened this up I almost forgot what I came here to write about.

So anyways lately I've been getting a little obsessive about getting around to that list of things I've been meaning to get to but never have. Except to be honest, I actually have been slowly chipping away at it all this time; I just have this overbearing habit of actively trying to add to it so it appears almost as if I'm not getting anything done. I suppose if you compared the net rate of me adding to my list and me accomplishing things from the list, I'd be adding 10 items for every item I accomplish... which is why I always feel like I never am getting anything done.

So with that said, recently I'd been thinking about... keeping a sort of tally of the things I have been getting done, as opposed to keeping a tally of things to do, because otherwise I just continue to feel overly depressed about how massive my to-do list looks. I guess. It seemed like a good idea anyway. But then I started thinking, is this how I evaluate my self worth? By a measure of the "number" of "items" I've accomplished?

mm, I dunno. I guess lately I have been keeping a sort of mental tally anyway. Every day seems more accomplished, every day doesn't feel wasted... or does it? During one of my mind talking walks yesterday I realized that I'd been neglecting the two items that've been sitting at the top of My Listy (stupid Ryan, just typing that name is making me smirk now... wooow I can't stop laughing.):

- read Bible
- PRAY

(there are more things implied by these)

Every time I've hesitated about something related to God and tried to act on it, I've never wound up regretting it (thus far, so to speak... but yeah). So I wonder what's stopping me now.

On another note, recently started Legend of the Galactic Heroes. I like how it takes place in the 35th century and they're still using medieval axes as weapons. Old anime is fun.

I miss Nick already. :/

I miss Nathan already. :/

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Finally got to watching Vertigo with Jade. Watching the ending again makes me want to kill ten kittens. It's so well made, and I love it, but at the same time it's so.... AUGHHHAUEHW{IHRFEWF.