essays, fairy tail, rubbish - in that order

I finished one out of three Princeton University essays. Hooray, hooray, and all that. It came out almost perfectly for a first draft, as my counselor in Seattle said, and thank goodness for that, or I would have been stuck with that essay until the end of the month, when it would have ceased to be of any consequence. The problem now is that the other two are as confusing as essay prompts come. It’s really easy to come up with a favorite quotation from a book you read in the last three years, but when you’re asked to demonstrate how you were inspired by it, and how it’s affected your life, things start to appear different. I’m hung up on the idea of using a Shakespearean quotation, which would have been perfect, if it weren’t for the fact that I haven’t been “inspired” by any of them into bringing drastic changes into my lifestyle. Ayn Rand might sound too cultish or didactic or abstruse, or a combination of all three, while with PG Wodehouse, you would only be asking for it. I can’t get that line out of my head: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry,” but I have borrowed and lent money before, if only to a select few people. Besides, I don’t think resolving not to be a borrower or a lender would qualify as bringing mature, inspired changes into your life. Gosh, I’m so desperate right now, I’m even willing to quote from a self-help book. Ideas will be greatly appreciated.

For future reference, (because that’s how I started the topic in my previous entry – consciously, and precisely because it made no sense in that context) Fairy Tail has stopped airing – all because they couldn’t wait long enough for the whole series to be made into episodes. They’re probably never going to air it on TV, because Indian television is like that. All that is good in the television world is slowly but not subtly being replaced by crassness. More about this in the next paragraph. My plans now involve watching the rest of the series on YouTube and then moving on to the manga, just as I did with Bleach. Hopefully the lack of compulsion to come up with overly intense action scenes will give Hiro Mashima an advantage over Kubo Tite when it comes to satisfying fans. I have plans for at least two Fairy Tail fan fics right now. What prevents me from writing them is the fact that I have a million college essays to finish by the end of the month. But come on, delusions aren’t that bad, are they? I mean, I ranked 10 out of 330 people on the last test while heavily drunk on Fairy Tail. So ha, and three more ha’s to follow, and behold, a concrete fan fic writing schedule drops out of the sky. My muse refuses to return, though.

Now, on to the fact that Indian television is being taken over by utter garbage. Disney Channel is a classic example of how low-quality Indian products are preferred over high-quality foreign products. These supposedly funny shows wouldn’t pass for humor on the most liberal scale on the planet. Plotless, disgusting, crass Hindi shows like Shararat, Eashan (for crying out loud!!!), and others whose names I don’t remember are gradually replacing Disney Channel originals. Wizards of Waverly Place, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, and the others have all been relegated to graveyard slots, and might soon be done away with entirely. The problem is that these crass shows go on for hours on end. You look at the program schedule on your satellite TV’s guide, and you see Eashan or Shararat starting at 3 p.m. and ending at 9. What kind of sick, self-hating, intelligence-loathing sociopath would want to put himself through that kind of torture? Well, congratulations Desi Disney Channel! Your incredible, unrivaled stupidity has lost you every intelligent viewer you have ever had.