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We now return you to your regularly scheduled Blogathon day.

That’s right, as of this posting I’m officially more than halfway through the Blogathon. You know what that means, don’t you?

It means we can only go downhill from here.

Yeah, I know, it scares me too. We may all be in for a bumpy ride…

So this viewing was of the 8th episode, “Rumors.” Near as I can tell, all that’s happened is that the writers have added Yet Another Layer Of Mystery And Weirdness.

I still want to see how it turns out. I still have hope that there will at least be a point, if not that it’ll make any sense. Each episode has one or two interesting elements that make for good imaginative seed material.

But is it a good story? I don’t know yet. By the end of the ‘thon, however, I might have an answer. Five episodes to go, and I have at least that many half-hours remaining before I get to sleep, no?

Well, this episode managed to move things subtly forward and provide a history lesson along with some needed backstory. I’m thankful, very. Who knows, this show may not be so annoying after all.

Mind you that there’s still almost ninety minutes’ worth of material still to get through before I’ll know for sure.

I’m going to spend some time putting the kids to bed and puttering around the house. I need to move around, ya know?

We’re now past all of the easy entries, all of the entries I could just knock off without much in the way of effort. From here on out, I have to come up with things, I have to stay awake enough to write them coherently, and I must at least attempt to keep the entries interesting enough not to be a complete waste of electrons.

Well, two out of three will do nicely, wouldn’t you agree?

I’m down to three episodes of Serial Experiments Lain. Huzzah. Dawn wants me to churn through Digicharat when I’m able. Who knows, maybe I’ll be too burned out on anime by then. Then again, what else will I do with my remaining eight hours?

Two thirds of the way through my twenty-four hours. Excellent. Now for the fun part.