Current mood:	blah
Current music:	Konjiki no Gash Bell OP

Upcoming big one !
Yeah, Im gonna do a real update for the first time in ages.
Why?
Well, I had some ideas I wanted to jot down that I really cant talk about with anyone I know due to their nature. Heh, that makes it sound all devious and controversial but its really not.
Why have I not updated?
I havent been in the mood to let others see what my life has been like. I don’t have much of an online following anymore. No one has read this in ages I’m sure.
Ive also been so consumed in the world of bit torrent fansubs, Edmundo, work, and school that updating my journal is the very last thing I think of.
So, umm, school…
Im doing okay this semester… Had to drop my Stats class after making a 49 on my first test. If I had passed it with at least a D, which I thought I had done, I would have kept the class, but alas, I am completely mathematically challenged. The bad part about this is that I can no longer graduate in May. I have to wait until August after I take a science to make up for statistics. Im really not dissapointed about that. In fact, the idea of me graduating is kind of freaky.. I mean, Ive been in school for years and now, suddenly, its over. What do I do? Ive pretty much decided what I want to do, but a major change in my life has to happen. Namely, I have to get out on my own and leave far from home. Its not like that’s a new thing for me. After all, I did go to live in Germany for a while. The difference though, is that back then, I was spending university money and I had a place to come back to when I didn’t have any more.
Anyways, that’s not the stuff I meant to talk about…
My religion class is okay… It could be better…. but its not… Its not that Im not learning anything, its just that, well, the professor is insanely picky and deep with his questioning. His grading on participation is too strict. I looked on his gradesheet and noticed I was only getting 80s on participation and I talk just as much if not more than anyone who isnt participating. Short of dancing on the table, juggling historical interpretations of religion, what the hell do I need to do to get an A !! >.< I did get 90s on my presentations though, which was better than my partners. Dr. Monheit is a well-known professor at my Uni and its easy to see why, but he’s a little odd. Like during one of the presentations on Max Weber, the student explained that the famous sociologist had married his cousin and never consumated the marriage. He also mentioned that Weber didn’t have sex until he was 40 and that was during an affair he was having. Monheit for some reason felt he had to defend intellectuals after hearing this -.- lol, the sociologist funfact…
Music Appreciation reminds me of a high school level class. Its very simple and the professor treats us like children. In fact, this week, we are watching Amadeus cause he feels we could use a change of pace in our learning process… By watching a fairly historically innacurate film !?!? How does that movie teach us about classical music of that age >.< See?? I cant even name that age !!!
World Leaders is a really good class with one big flaw.. Its on Saturday morning from 9 to 11:30 @_@ sleeeeeeepy sleeeeepy students. Dr. Husain is a very good professor though. He is remarkably knowledgeable on the topic and I learn quite a lot when Im trying to stay awake. He’s quite harsh and vocally opinionated on leaders too. He always calls the most infamous ones “evil and demonic” like Saddam. I have to do a presentation in there at the end of this month about Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt. I’ll do quite well.
As for work.. I work way too much… Im at work right now actually typing this up to post when I get home later… and Im about to snap…There’s a Travel South convention here and they are welcoming reporters who want to showcase the City of Mobile in their magazine. Therefore, there is a touristy film playing on the big screen behind my desk. It’s an eternally repeating 3 minute long piece of crap featuring a horrible song about Mobile and showing two seconds of each attraction. RAAWRGH !! If they ever let me near dvd, I can assure you, it will be destroyed. Im going to be working in valet some this month which I have no problem with. If you want a job where you do nothing and get paid decent money with tips, then valet is the job for you ! I worked it the other night and sat in a peaceful room easily becoming oblivious to the world around me. I liked it…. Very much…. Too much… I cant drive a standard though…. And theres a huge responsibility when driving a customers car, but, when you only work an average of 20 minutes out of 9 hours racking up at the most 20 dollars a night in tips, its not a problem. However, I don’t think my boss will hand me over to valet.. My drawback is that Im someone who does my job and is known for being helpful and friendly to customers. Sucks huh? You work so well that you cant move to another position that pays the same, but you don’t have to do jack. Ive also been caught up in playing Breath of Fire 2 on a SNES emulator I installed here at work. Now everyone wants me to bring roms for them to play too.. Stuff like MK and KI and NBA whatever…..
My love life is the same.. I still love Edmundo quite a lot and call him quite often when I can ! It makes me so very happy now just thinking of him and reminiscing our highly enjoyable conversation from last night. He makes me feel very good, and without him, I just wouldn’t be all that perky or sociable. Just a gloomy shadow of who I am (like I was before). He cut his hair though T_T before I got to see !! whaaaaaa !!
My online comic Warui is now extinct……… Lack of interest… lack of frequent updates… and the possible loss of our free server… It’s a shame, but there’s nothing I can do. Im not even all that motivated to draw lately. I havent done any conte or charcoal sketches since Christmas time when I made some portraits for my grandmother. As for regular pencil sketches and doodles, I do those all the time still but havent created anything worthwhile. I did some cute chibis recently for Ed, but that’s about it. Ive also doodled some characters from an old samurai story of mine which has been playing in my mind a lot lately. I had a moment where I got all enthusiastic about working my Zenki website. I wrote out a pages outline for it and named all of my files and made thumbnails accordingly. I even created all the basic pages and named them so I could easily put them together. Unfortunately, I found a flaw on my design. I cant preview the pages that I make in the site frames I built. Since then, I havent worked on it. I also spent about a month obsessively pursuing the Zenki OVA file on WinMX with promises to my zenki community of fansubbing it. It was during this time I got to learn a lot of kanji and vocabulary through communicating with japanese filesharers. I met a lot of jerks and annoying people too. Eventually though, a kind user with the file shared it with me, and I traded him some Zenki doujinshi (one I had leeched and one I had scanned). I had abandoned all my downloads to get that one file and then, after I had gotten it, I went right back to music searching with anime themes and Field of View in mind. I still have yet to submit the Zenki OVA for funsubbing >.<
Perhaps I could do what I need to do, but……….. Ive been consumed…….

Completely and utterly consumed………

Tis the power of Hikaru no Go…. (Spoilers ahead)

For the longest time, I had been seing the name Hikaru no Go and really didn’t know what it was about. It did seem popular, but I didn’t bite until recently. The pictures were of a spunky young boy and a bishounen priest-like guy. I was curious and downloaded it. I don’t think it ever would have dawned on me that Hikaru no Go (of which I knew nothing about prior to watching it) was actually about Go… Now, Im not too keen on the world of strategy board games and an anime about one doesn’t sound too appealing. In fact, it’s a right dumb concept in my view to tell a tale of a boy who plays go with the aid of a go-lovin’ ghost. However, I became strangely drawn into the story of Hikaru and Sai. Before I knew it, it became quite amazing. Now, I watch a lot af anime… A LOT !! and I feel I have a good sense for whats good and Im very critical. There are very few anime out there that can really move me and Hikaru no Go just exceeded that mark as I watched it today. I got all upset when Hikaru realized that Sai was gone forever and that Hikaru couldn’t realize that even though Sai was a Go genius, he was too.. In fact, you begin to feel that Hikaru is the one that Sai was meant to play against for the divine move, but its all shattered. Hikaru would quit Go.. It was really upsetting !! really !! Hikaru is a character you can really grow with. The series takes place over two years and in that time, he goes from not knowing black from white on a go board to being a pro without Sai playing all the games. He develops a strong determination without involving that whole love thing that’s so typical (in fact, his girlfriend of sorts gets shrugged off to a very miniscule role) and then it all collapses when Sai vanishes. Its also kind of sad how, Hikaru leaves behind his life as a normal kid. His friends and pleasant go club are all replaced by rivals who want to be pros and then finally, the pros themselves (which includes Waya ^o^). Im now on episode 64 which seems to be a flashback episode. The one after progresses with Izumi’s go work in China and then another flashback with Akira.. I got a little worried that they might try to end it like that: Sai vanishes forever and Hikaru stops playing Go…
I went in search of answers and discovered that the series hasn’t really ended yet !! TV Tokyo is about to air another HnG special that confirms that Hikaru picks up Go once again to fight Akira for the hand of god…………….. without Sai…
UPDATE: Correction, I just finished the series and Im practically in tears, lol. Its really sad that its ending now when there’s so much more to see…. And that Sai… well, has moved on.. ~sniffle~ T_T
Mmmm, I loved this series very much… Its quite amazing to make someone like me interested in something I really didn’t care about. I don’t think I could pick up Go myself though.. It looks really complicated and Im certainly not the brightest bulb. Maybe if I was younger and had more intellect and determination. I downloaded a nintendo Go game and played it on my emu. There was no way I could beat the computer. He took my stones right and left. -.- It was so discouraging !
I did, however, just purchase some HnG wallscrolls that are completely yummy ^_^
The artwork in the series is quite amazing ! I want to get the artbooks too. The manga is licensed for US release now (a crapload are licensed now.. the US manga world is really growing now.) Im not so big on manga though. This one in particular is practically the anime verbatim so Im really not interested in reading what Ive seen. Oh, and I just bought some chibi HnG figurines ^o^ and pins ! I felt I was cheated with them damn pins though. I got the whole set through 7 ebay auctions, and when I filled out the form to pay for them, it said shipping was $12 !!! I was enraged !! That’s insane when you think about those little pins in an average small manila envelope ! I would say that it wouldn’t even be more than $3 standard USPS. I complained and really havent received a response aside from “We’ll see what we can do.” I think they still charged me the high shipping. Cartoonpassion is going to get 7 bad feedbacks from me.
UPDATE: Fuckin’ bastard >.< I get an envelope with four pins only and 80 cents charged in shipping !! I email the guy all bitchy like and three days later, I get a response saying that they didn’t have those pins and refunded my money. I was still angry. I don’t think you are allowed to have an auction for an item you don’t have. Its just wrong ! I didn’t give him negative because he did give my money back, so he got neutral but still.. I wanted them damn pins (especially the Waya pin).

Gah ! Im such a freak, lol… I bought an Ushio and Tora artbook the other day, and I must say that its quite amazing.. Id like to get the manga series of that. Its got some interesting artwork, a neat story, and doesn’t follow the anime, which I also just bought on dvd. I also got some cels of Kukuri from Mahoujin Guruguru as well as some figurines and a Zenki CD.

Right now Im watching Konjiki no Gash Bell to replace HnG which replaced Naruto when I caught up with that. It’s a story with a very interesting/amusing concept. One hundred demons have come to the human world to battle each other with the winner becoming the king. Each demon has a book that a human obtains. The human can read certain spells from it that cause the demon to attack or defend. Gash is a small cutsey looking child demon who shoots lightning from his mouth. He is partnered up with Kiyomaro, a genius schoolboy in need of friends and improved social skills. Heehee, I love the Parco Folgore guy, he’s so corny but his breast song is quite catchy XD
And the yopopo song ! “Yopopoi Topopoi Sopopopoi !!!” lol, poor little green bastard.

Anyhoo… Enough !