my moral standing is lying down

Amazingly, I'm getting internet service in my room right now. I live in the basement, and there's usually no service on my bed. Heh heh. That sounded really hentai, but it's not what I meant.

Anyway, after some of my posts yesterday, I went back to watching anime. The first 6 or so episodes of Genshiken, which is kind of slow, but very entertaining. It's something to see the characters' thoughts and reactions to manga/anime/cosplay, which are much the same as my own. LOL. I will definitely go back for more, but probably not right away.

After 6 episodes of Genshiken, I wanted a change of pace. I couldn't take it anymore, so I decided to give in and skip those 3 episodes I still haven't seen of Wild Striker (34-36, I believe) and just start watching episode 37. It's really good and exciting and cute, and I just finished watching episode 46. So I only have 5 or 6 episodes to catch up to what's out now. =( What will I do when I'm all caught up?!

I've been trying to get a hold of Samurai Deeper Kyo manga volume 16, but haven't seen it at any of the Barnes & Nobles that I've gone to recently. Although I do admit that the ones I went to aren't ones that have a whole lot of manga selection. I just haven't had time to go to my usual haunts. =( I did pick up volume 5 of Othello, which was good, but mostly filler chapters. It's too bad, I do like the story and hope that the mangaka doesn't go volumes upon volumes dragging it all out.

And I am bringing the GTO manga, that Victor so kindly lent to me, with me tomorrow. I'm going to finish all four volumes this week so that I can return them to him and borrow more! =D

I also have to get my ass over to the library to return some books (that are overdue), and take new ones out! Mercedes Lackey's latest in the elemental mage series, The Wizard of London, is something I definitely have to read, as well as David Weber's newest installment in the Honor Harrington series, At All Costs, which comes with a CD that I believe has the complete Honor Harrington series on it! I am so tempted, but it's $26 that I don't really have to spend on a book I can borrow from the library and just buy when it comes out in paperback. Although I should mention that one of the things I love about Baen books is that they completely allow you to copy and distribute the CD as long as you don't try to sell it. They're so cool.

Friday night was cool -- Angelica's birthday, we went to my house, then Uno's, then to play pool. I really love playing pool with friends, but Angelica and I have to make a date to go play pool together sometime 'cause I get so aggravated having to wait my turn. Besides, there's more of a tension between two people 'cause there's a bit more competition going on. ^^ It was me, Liz, Will, Maryann, Raquel, and of course, Angelica. It was pretty cool that Raquel was able to come and hang out. We all had a really nice time.

I was able to update everyone (who didn't already know, namely Will and Raquel) on my new job and training at Nashville. I was also able to ask Raquel in person about coming to Nashville with me. She said she actually might come for a few days 'cause there's a law school down there that she wanted to visit, but she wasn't sure if it's really in Nashville, or if she was misremembering. So it would be really awesome if she actually does!

Saturday -- woke up around noon? The construction guys continued to work on the garage/room. They "painted" the outside of the garage -- the part that frames the new facade, and "holds up" the porch. It's a nice dark grey to match the other greys in the walkway and steps. Went shopping for a new entry door for the house. Doors are fricking expensive! What the hell?! Didn't do much else.

Oh, wait. I did! I watched more episodes of Wild Striker (up to 33, I believe), which is pretty entertaining now. I'm enjoying it very much, although it will never be as awesome as Whistle!, which I've been getting strong urges to watch over. Heh heh. Maybe I can convince Liz to watch it, then I can watch some episodes over while she's watching. =D

Sunday -- went to work at GCS. Barely any business, but I got quite a bit of pricing done. You know, it really bugs me that the record-keeping has almost completely gone to shit while I've been gone. It's really not difficult and it doesn't exactly take up a huge amount of time. I swear, I don't know how Fay managed to own a successful store for over 20 years if this is how she runs her business. It's really ridiculous, I'm surprised the IRS hasn't audited her and found wild inconsistencies. x_x; And how does it NOT piss her and/or Yvette off?! It's their business! Don't they care if their own records are correct or not?! alsjfklsjfs! I suspect it will be a freaking pleasure (in regards to this sort of thing anyway) to work for Russell, a former accountant.

I watched Wild Striker episodes 17 through 19 last night! I was feeling like watching anime again (yay!), and, in particular, I reallly wanted to finish watching Wild Striker. However... Angelica never gave me the disc with episodes 20-38 on it. =( So after finishing episode 19, which ends on a slight cliff-hanger, I didn't have any more to watch even though I thought I had the rest at home. Boo.

She's supposed to give me 20-38 today, but who knows when I'll have the chance to watch it now! I have a feeling my weekend will be booked; tonight we're doing something, not sure what. Saturday night is either Yoshi's party or if not, I'm supposed to go over Maryann's house to help her pack after work. Sunday I work in the store. Maybe I can watch a little then, but I've been a bit paranoid about watching anything there lately because I just have this feeling that Fay or Yvette are going to come in, so I don't even bother bringing shinigami because I don't want to set him up. ^^; So that leaves Sunday night, but maybe I'll want to play some video games with Liz since she's back from Chicago and chomping at the bit.

Yoshi, could you please let me know if you're having a party on this Saturday night, so I can plan my weekend accordingly? ^_~; (Oh! And I can't forget to get the schoolgirl lighter from you. =D)

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. =(