Fight, Space Pirate Lenin! For Everlasting Communism!

You as an anime girl (with pics) by ayane isozaki
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I...guess the answer makes sense. And I have to admit, lately the color pink has been growing on me. I had this pink Cadillac Matchbox car that I thought was pretty cool as a kid. I...I think that one got taken away by my parents.

The depression has been a lot worse lately, so I'm watching random animes to keep my mind off of shit. Watched Nadesico and the movie, with the difference between the two in theme threatening to split my head in twain. They're both good, hell, they're excellent but for sharing a timeline and characters they're the exact opposite of each other. Another movie or series could have solved this disparity quite well by making it evident that the theme's expressed in the series could survive the events of the second--a bit like the second and third Dune books express why the first's "victory" was hollow so long as humanity continued to deny their potential.

Where the sequel would have gone was obvious--symbolism in anime is something that should be avoided until the medium understands its potential, but Akito's mecha, the Black Serena, manages to pull the symbolism off. Both Akito and his mecha are menacing, serious foes where once a caring, very human, very vulnerable human and humanoid robot existed, but underneath the Black Serena still lies the fragile but lovable pink Aestivalis. It's obvious that the director wants us to know that Akito may have changed to the titular Prince of Darkness, but the core of his being remains unchanged. He'll be there to support his friends, but not in the cheerleader sort of way he used to, but through his new, vengeful self.

I'm going to see a doctor next week about the depression, hopefully, to see if I can get a dosage increase. Not sure what he can do. At this point, I've got a good handle on it by "pruning" thoughts that would lead to the darker places of the psyche, but in terms of the emotional pain, I...can't really do much about that. I stare up at the ceiling, snipping off every thought that comes to mind, but the dull ache in my abdomen won't go away.

The neighbor/landlord situation seems to be improving. They're mad as hornets, but they haven't done anything to purposely annoy us, because they no longer think they can get away with it. The heat is finally going to be fixed Monday (it was made incorrectly and part of it deteriorated, at no fault of our own) and someone is finally looking into the rent situation. The government, apparently, is very interested in why a signed lease and actual payment requirements don't match.

The only bad thing is that we do not have the right to park on snow days, so our cars can get towed unless we park them at someone else's house when a parking ban in effect. The parking clerk gave us the wrong information, but I can't really blame her, since the way it was worded is strange. Essentially, all new buildings have to provide parking for tenants, but places that already have parking are able to deny tenants use of it, because the law was written assuming that parking for an apartment would automatically be for the people who live there. I guess the situation where a landlady might have her children in one floor never came up in the lawmaker's mind, or that people would be such bitches that they would prevent the tenants from parking at the house.

It's kind of sick that the Housing Authority's rules state that parking has to be available while the town laws says it doesn't. They can write anything they want in that little packet of theirs explaining tenant rights, but when the law is otherwise their own regulations have no teeth. I'm not even sure what job the Housing Authority does, anymore; they refuse to enforce their own regulations, and say they cannot help a tenant having trouble with the landlord when a problem arises despite them supposing to be a neutral third party. When the secretary tells you that they don't want to hear the landlady screaming at them for hours anymore because you took them to court over an issue, there's a problem! I'm not trying to interfere in anyone's life, but I do expect people to perform their stated job.

Hopefully the Urban Development guy tells us to who that extra fifty dollars that the Housing Authority said we had to pay (because the landlady said we had to pay it, despite the lease not saying it) is going. He says that a "computer error" or "it's okay because it's worth that much" is a bullshit answer and I am inclined to agree. If that gets fixed the final issue is to make sure the children upstairs can't use the other tenant's electricity like they did to us when we move out, and we're about done. We're not trying to screw with people, we just want them to, you know, obey the law. No one should have to fight for months because the people upstairs are stealing your electricity, causing your bill to triple. As soon as we move out, the next poor schmuck is going to go through what we had to do, and I'm not going to tolerate it. Fuck you, just because your mother and father own the apartment doesn't mean you get a free ride from the downstairs person's utilities. I'm not trying to be vindictive, but these people have kind of been asses. When you tell a judge in court that my mother is crazy and shouldn't be allowed to speak (the real story was that she had a brain aneurysm, remember, but was perfectly sane and provably so unless it had ruptured, which it did not) then you make the dispute kind of personal.

Did they think that purposely pissing us off and stealing from us was going to make us let them do what they want? Jesus. Maybe it's a guilt thing, they know they're doing something wrong and are now trying to goad people into punishing them.

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