Wow . . . people may have been disapproving 
of my collecting but they never said it was like 
being on heroin. Gee. Well . . . not yet anyway! 
It's too bad your family and friends can't 
appreciate anime. That's a place we've all 
been, unfortunately. It's very hard to explain the 
appeal. That's why you have to force feed it to 
them until THEY'RE addicted . . . heheheh. 
Switch those sleep-learning tapes for some 
anime theme songs.  

Enjoy Japan, even if it's early to be telling you 
that. Looks like I'm going for my first time this 
summer and I'm really excited. And your Ryoko 
cel is dang freaking cool. And quite entirely 
unlike heroin. ^-^ 

Ayaka