my moral standing is lying down

I finally finished Beck! Episode 25 played fine, but 26 was a motherfucker! It would play a couple of minutes, stop. Then I tried to play it again, and it would play from a few seconds after the place where it stopped -- for a minute or two, then stop. Repeat process. So I missed a couple of seconds every few minutes. I know I didn't miss too much of the story, but it really broke up the mood of it. aslfjaslashdfljsk! It's such a good show, I really adored Koyuki, but was so disappointed in the way it ended. It wasn't a bad ending, I just want more, dammit! And the whole thing with Ryuusuke (is it Ryousuke or Ryuusuke?) being all secretive and unfathomable sometimes bugged me. A lot. Probably because I liked Koyuki a lot more and just felt cheated out of seeing him because I had to watch Ryuusuke being stupid.

Also watched two episodes of Peach Girl. I had started reading the second half of the manga (which the Americans have called "Change of Heart" even though it's all under "Peach Girl" in the Japanese), so I kind of know what happens later in the series. Boy am I glad. I really, really like the series, but I know that if I didn't know what happened later I'd be horribly upset by the evil Sae-chan! What a bitch! Momo likes Touji and Sae does anything and everything to make Momo feel bad, even besides trying to break them up (and they literally just started going out)! I really like Momo, though, she's got guts and sense -- she doesn't fall for Sae's traps initially, only when she sees what really does look like incriminating evidence. Anyway, I wish I could read the first part of the manga, but since it was licensed quite a while ago, it's near impossible to find it on IRC, and just as impossible to find it in a bookstore to be able to read it there (I'm *so* not paying $10/volume to buy over 6 volumes!).

I've watched up to episode 16 of Wild Striker and I almost wish I'd seen this one before seeing Whistle!, because Whistle is so much better (so far) and even though I'm enjoying WS, it makes me roll my eyes a lot more than it might have if I hadn't seen Whistle. But I'm still enjoying it enough to continue.... provided Angelica gives me the next bunch of episodes because once I get to 19, if I don't have more, I might end up stopping! (Oh, btw, Liz dl'd episode 32 from IRC for you -- she's so nice! So, when you get home, give her a call and if she's home she can AIM it to you since it's on the home computer.)

I have also downloaded episodes 10 and 11 of Tsubasa Chronicle, but haven't seen them yet. And I'm going to try and get back into dl'ing manga from IRC. I really miss it, but I hate not being caught up, and especially 'cause we lost a lot of manga when our computer crashed in February. =(

Angelica's totally into the Onna! thing now, which is good, I guess. I'm not as excited about it, which is odd because shoujo is (generally) more my thing that hers, especially in comparison to Yaoicon. But whatever; maybe it's just 'cause it's in October. I just can't get all worked up about it right now. Otakon is only 79 days away (with only 11, 684 spots left, haha), and as is typical of me, I haven't started any costume work yet. My sewing machine belt still needs to be replaced, and I haven't even contemplated how I'm doing those costumes we decided on (the mushroom heartless from Kingdom Hearts).

I got a letter from Yoshi today! メール　ありがとう！　Now I have a penpal to write to and use some of my stationery! LOL, I wish I'd brought some with me to work, but I'll just have to wait until I get back home.

I watched up to episode 5 of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle on Sunday -- it was sooo good! I'm really enjoying the series! There was a really funny part in one of the episodes where the tall warrior guy has to run after someone (probably Shaoran) and he says "mendoukusai!" which totally made me think of Yoshi and being in Japan, and that whole thing of not saying "mendoukusee." It really startled me to hear it and I blinked -- it was just really cute and funny; my reaction.