On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Hitoshi Doi wrote:

> Joe wrote:
> | 
> | On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Hitoshi Doi wrote:
> | 
> | > Joe [who was still capable of recovery] wrote:
> | 
> | Not anymore.  All I'm capable of now are occasional spurts of otakudom
> | when I find myself alone with some free time.  I've never even
> | listened to a single episode of Machiko's new radio show yet...
> 
> You have it backwards.

Oh.  I still can't tell which way is "recovering" and which isn't.
I'm certainly not "recovering" from a financial standpoint...(^_^;)

> You were still capable of fully
> "recovering" back into a normal human.  I'm not.

You're starting to sound like Darth Vader here!
Every one is capable of "recovering back into a normal human"
They just forget how.

> I need my dose of Machirin.
> I can't live a Machirin-free life any more..

Well, maybe you don't want to "recover" and live a Machirin-free
life.  But this whole routine of trying to be a one-man anime/seiyuu
encyclopedia has to stop sooner or later.  I don't know any other
otaku (Japanese or otherwise) that tries to be as multi-dimensional
as that.  That is what I would like to see you "recover" from.

> | Well, the sleep part is the key here.  The feeling of going through a
> | day after regularly getting about 8 hours of sleep a night has to be
> | experienced at least once in an adult lifetime...
> 
> Sometimes I do sleep 14 or 15 hours..

True exhaustion can't be relieved by a one-time sleeping binge.  A
normal amount of sleep everyday for a week usually does it.

> But this morning I woke up at 5 AM to watch the soccer game.

This morning I woke up at 9:00am because I forgot to set my alarm
clock.  (^_^;)  Anyway, what's the point of watching the whole game
when you can just watch the winning penalty kick on the morning news?

> | > I need Machirin!!
> | 
> | This may be my favorite Hitoshi Quote of all time!
> 
> You probably found a better quote above.. (^_^;)

Yes.  But this is still a surprising development, as you weren't at
all like this throughout the first year of "Machirin awareness"  You
wouldn't even willingly use the word "Machirin"!

> | If you can sneak out of the house around midnight I'll meet you there
> | someday...
> 
> Soccer starts at 28:00 again tonight..

So we can stay at Anna Miller's until 27:00 and load up on coffee!

Joe Petrow
poyopoyo@gol.com