OMG. In the past 24 hours, all three anime series that I’ve been waiting for releases in have had new subs released. So I watched Naruto 110-111 (double-length episode!) today. Tomorrow holds either Bleach 6 or Gundam SEED Destiny 7, where everything now makes a lot more sense, having watched 20 episodes of the original since i watched episode 6 of it. Tomorrow also holds several pages of rushed writing of my poem explication. Yay.
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If I had one complaint about my life, it would have to be the monotony of it. The daily school routine is pretty boring. Of course, as evidenced by Thanksgiving break, no school is just as bad, if not worse. I think it’s pretty telling that the only thing I have to talk about here is new anime episodes…
Which reminds me, the Fullmetal Alchemist movie should be in theaters while I’m on the Japan trip. That’s totally awesome.
Argh Suprnova.org is down. Not that I wanted to use it for anything illicit…
I finished Gundam SEED. It’s quite good. The series starts off pretty slow, but the pace picks up quite a bit in the last half of the series.
It looks as if we won’t get to Age of Kings in hsitory… That’s too bad. At least I have HISSS.
Chem homework is insanely long. Like hell if I’m gonna cut out 4 pages of that crap.
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Strangely, I seem to have very little to say today.
I updated the thing. You know - that thing.
Luke, magical king of angst, was added (and I changed a little HTML).
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Froogle has Google Account stuff now? Sweet. That totally beats Amazon’s wishlists. The privacy implications are significant, but oh well. I’d be sure to lose my Google cookie before doing any searches that I didn’t want linked back to me. And I’d do it behind a proxy. But I guess the average Interweb user isn’t that knowledgable… Sucks to be them, I guess.
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That brings me to my new favorite Firefox extension - Delicious Delicacies. If you’re geeky enough to get it without having to click the link (or even afterwards), then you get a cookie. And it’ll track all your Google searches. Oh yes.
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In other news, I somehow managed to not do anything interesting over break or get any work done. Hooray for unproductivity!
That poem explication thing is kinda annoying. Like what appears to be 75% of the rest of the class, I’m doing e.e. cummings’ “next to of course god america i. It is, or course, not easy to understand at first. Howeer, I guess that means that its all the easier to find the deeper meaning of the poem. Its still fairly tough to write pages of coherent thoughts on it.
I also found a recording of e.e. cummings reading a few poems (including this one) on Salon.com. It starts about 2:03 into the file.
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Gundam SEED still rules. In fact, I’d say that this week’s Gundam SEED is better than the episode of Fullmetal Alchemist showing tonight, since FMA episode 4 is like the worst one in the series. And SEED 33 has that cool song that I posted yesterday. Hooray for Yuki Kaijura.
No post yesterday thanks to the delicious holiday known as Thanksgiving. I spent most of the day playing Civilization III (no expansion packs here…) and downloading the last half of Gundam SEED (subbed). The video was really high-quality… but the subtitles were in French. So into the Recycle Bin they go. So here I am, STILL downloading SEED. At least this time I know the subtitles are in English. (Even if they are from AnimeJunkies.)
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And here’s my gift for the week: Akatsuki no Kuruma.mp3 It’s the background song from Gundam SEED episode 33 (airs tonight on CN). Pretty good, should sound familiar to people who watched .Hack//Sign.
I think everyone knows what tomorrow is - that’s right, the last day of school before Thanksgiving break. And if you didn’t know, I just told you. So you can go back and read the first sentence and respond yes. And then skip this part. Up to here. Start reading again here. So yay for break. Those 25 minute clss periods are totally worthless… But it means I’ll need to use both of my free ones to do math (probably).
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The last line of this made my day worthwhile. Oh, as well as Bill Maher on Larry King. I wish I got HBO. Or that he were still on ABC. That man is better than Jon Stewart.
I think I did alright on my math test (tho prolly not great, I try not to be too confident about stuff like that), and the chem test went particularly well. I didn’t really need my notes, and I think I got all the extra credit.
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Hehe, I got to go back in the Main Stacks today. I was looking for books on England’s oh-so-cool New Model Army, but since the book pagers are pretty understaffed (being as its Thanksgiving break for the university), my mom used her staff card to go back in the stacks. It was pretty cool. My books were shelved on floor 9.5, since the Main Library is such a mess. And then I pulled out a book from 1822. Since I’m working in the mid-1600’s the book was closer in time to the actual events than to the present. And thats just weird. I think I may have gotten too many books, like 8 or something… Oh well, I have all of break to read them.
Anyway, off to finish that crazy chem web assignment.
Man, I miss way too much stuff when I’m sick. Cases in point:
- Math exam
- Japanese exam
- English skit
- IMEA!
- Movie w/ Cole & ppl at Savoy 16
- Unhinged booster draft
- Movie at Annie’s house
But hopefully nothing more, now that I’m feeling better. I do still have to make up the Japanese and algebra tests, as well as the regularly-scheduled chem test this week, so I’m not exactly out of the woods yet.
Stupid UIUC library, being closed today. Well, I guess its open tomorrow, so I’ll go bick up my books then. New Model Army, oh yeah!
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I didn’t go to IMEA and instead went to the swim meet in Bloomington, as I mentioned yesterday.
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I’ve spent way too much time today playing SSBM. But now I’m back up to speed (more or less) with Mewtwo and Falco. And I hate you if you play Roy or Marth.
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Argh stupid ANBU not having a translator for Bleach. Can’t one of the several AKeep translators help out on it for a while? Lunar is up to Episode 7 already… I might just have to start watching their (decidedly inferior) subs.
Gundam SEED and Naruto are both in serious ass-kicking mode right now though.
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Unfortunately, I couldn’t/can’t make it to the movie tonight (National Treasure) or the Unhinged draft tomorrow with Cole. Hopefully he’ll be in town for Betrayers of Kamigawa… :3
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