Thursday, December 9, 2004

   Rain and Drear
Ugh, I hate days like today. Which is a justifiable cause to hate winter, because I hate gloom. Gloom always makes ME gloomy. >.<

I had a job interview at Starbucks, but I won't hear back from then until next week at the earliest. I need a job, this is beginning to get ridiculous. All of these places have 'now hiring' signs up, why haven't I got more callbacks?

Giyah.

Watched the first episode of Battle Athletes Victory last night... mmm, yeah. Maybe if I had more of the series sitting in front of me I'd be more interested in it. It looks cute.

I lost my CD with Battle Programer Shirase on it, so on to other things, then!

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Dammit, I drew fanart and it ran away. When I find it I'll post it. >.<

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[Edit 1]: Captain Tsubasa sucked me in so fast I can't even BEGIN to explain it. I was just sitting there, watching it, kind of enjoying it while making fun of the hairstyles when all of the sudden, bam.

I was ten years old again, running down the field and screaming at Michelle to pass the ball before the other team got it.

Good God, I haven't thought about when I played soccer in years. Years. I can't even remember some of the girls on my team save for their faces.

Not only did this show manage to bring that memory out, but it also had me standing in front of the computer shrieking "pass it, make the damn goal there's an opening GO!"

This is the first episode.

Yeah, I think I'm going to like this show. A LOT.

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[Edit 2]: I have officially turned into a girl. I'm really super-happy about having got some SHOES. Gih.

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[Edit 3]: I'll probably change the music out once a week. I dunno, what do you guys think? Can you listen to it/see it? Do you like it? Et cetera. Feedback, people!
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Wednesday, December 8, 2004

   Drabblefic! RK-02 stuffs...
... Trust me, this is SANE for that house...



"I dread to ask," Kenshin Himura said, slowing to a stop by the base of the staircase and glancing up. "But... what on EARTH are you doing up there?"

"Um..." Soujiro Simons was clinging to the ceiling. How, Kenshin had no idea and honestly didn't want to know. She glanced around once, then waved one hand at Kenshin vaguely. "Sleep!"

Kenshin blinked. "...oro?"

Soujiro wasn't looking at him. "Damn! It seems that he is a liability. He must be on to our plans!"

Kenshin stared at the dark-haired girl, feeling rather like a deer caught in some headlights. "What... plans?"

Instead of answering, Soujiro released her death grip on the ceiling and dropped with an inarticulate scream towards Kenshin. Kenshin dropped his books in surprise. "What the HELL? SOUJIRO!"

Kennichi stuck his head through the doorway from the dining room into the main hall. "Did I just hear Soujiro give off a battle cry?" he asked, before spotting Soujiro on all fours, on the ground. "What are you DOING?"

Soujiro glanced over at him wildly, but Kennichi didn't flinch. He glanced up at Kenshin, who had one foot on the doorknob to the front door and the other braced on the doorframe. "Are you all right?"

The dark-haired girl lunged at Kennichi, who was more than used to the Tenken on a sugar high. She went low, so he jumped and she sailed under him, rolled, and then scrabbled off ... still on all fours. Kennichi landed lightly, glancing over his shoulder in amusement. "What was that all about?"

"I have NO idea," Kenshin said dryly, still perched on the door. Then his eyes got really wide. "Oh, n-"

The doorknob turned as Kat and Karen pushed the door open from the other side. Kennichi watched, amused, as Kenshin lost his balance, fell, and was then shoved rudely aside by the heavy door being pushed open.

"I keep telling you, you need to get that door fixed," Kat was saying, stomping snow off of her boots on the mat. Karen had already stepped through the threshold in her striped stockings.

"That wasn't the door," Kennichi informed them, still leaning in the doorway to the dining room. "That was Kenshin."

"What?" Karen looked confused as Kat hopped through the door behind her, and Kennichi pointed.

"Oro..." Kenshin groaned, lying in a heap behind the door.

"Why's Kenshin behind the door?" Kat asked, not really looking but hanging her coat in the hall closet.

"Soujiro's gone stir-crazy again," Kennichi said matter-of-factly.

"Oh," Karen said.

"That sounds about right," Kat snorted. "Seen Sanji about?"

"Not since yesterday," Kennichi called as Kat disappeared up the steps. "And... she's gone. Why does she do that?"

"Do what?" Karen closed the closet door and picked up the bag she had put on the floor.

"That walking away while someone is answering you thing," Kennichi said, as Karen walked past him into the kitchen. "That!" He gestured after her. "Oi!"

Kenshin sat up, rubbing his head and checking for any permanant damage. "Ow," he groaned.

"Serves you right for standing on the door, 'niisan," Kennichi said.

"Well, I really wasn't too keen on having a hundred and thirty five pounds of Tenken land on my skull," Kenshin grumbled as he stood.

"ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN!" Soujiro shriekd from somewhere within the hosue.

Both Kennichi and Kenshin winced. "Wow," Kennichi said, sticking a finger in his ear and wiggling it. "How does she do that?"

"Don't wanna know," Kenshin said matter-of-factly, picking up his scattered books. "Hey, *you* haven't seen my calculus book, have you?"

"Why do you need your calculus book anyway, it's winter break," Kennichi said, turning as Kenshin went past him and into the dining room. Kenshin dumped his stack of books on the corner of the dining room table before glancing around and making a disgusted sound.

"I cleaned this place out last weekend," Kenshin grumbled, starting to pile newspapers on the dining room table. "What do I have to do to you people to get you to pick up after yourselves?"

"Calculus book," Kennichi reminded him.

"I'm behind," Kenshin retorted smartly. "And, unlike the rest of you, I'd like to catch up. This stuff is more than a little interesting." As he spoke, he uncovered week-old dinner plates. "AUGH! Look at this! They're FUZZY!"

"Hey, I wondered what smelled funny in here," Kennichi said, wandering over. Kenshin shoved the dishes into his arms. "Hey, ew!"

"Take those. Clean them, dispose of them, I don't care, get them OUT OF HERE!"

Soujiro came tearing through the dining room, leapt up on the table and was up on the chandiler before Kenshin or Kennichi could move. "Neither of you see me," she hissed without looking at them.

Kenshin and Kennichi stared at each other, then shrugged. Ever as they did that, they could hear a clatter from the upstairs. "SIMONS!"

"What did you do to Yuukito?" Kenshin asked.

Soujiro began humming.

"What are you do-"

"I'm being the chandiler. If you're not going to help me hide, go away!"

Kenshin and Kennichi exchanged looks again, before Kenshin picked up the stack of newspapers and headed for the kitchen. Kennichi followed him. "Tell me," Kenshin asked slowly as they walked into the kitchen. "Am I going insane, or is this house going more insane?"

"I think Soujiro is trying to drive us ALL insane," Kennichi said.

"Sounds about right," Kenshin agreed, putting the newspapers on the island in the kitchen. Aya sat there, next to his empty food and water bowls, looking rather unhappy.

"Yo, fuzzbucket," Kennichi said, rubbing the cat on the head as he passed.

Aya's ears went back, and he growled at Kennichi.

Kenshin stopped and raised an eyebrow at the cat. They'd all heard the cat in a nasty mood before, but he rarely actually growled at anyone other than Soujiro. "Has anyone fed the cat recently?" He shouted the question, and got negative answers from anyone in earshot.

Karen was at the fridge, cleaning out what she dared to. "No, he was cleaning out the mice, remember?" She frowned at a carton, then tossed it into the garbage can she had dragged over.

"Maybe we should feed him," Kenshin suggested, as the cat eyed him evilly.

From the dinning room came a scream, a crash, several clatters and a thud, followed by silence. Kenshin, Kennichi and Karen all swivelled towards the dining room but none actually moved to check out the source of the noise.

As Kennichi opened his mouth to say something, Soujiro shot through the door wordlessly, dashed through the kitchen and was out the side door in a flash. The screen door and heavier winter door both slammed behind her. As the second door slammed, Yuukito Shirow stomped through from the dining room, wearing only the pants he slept in and a foul expression. His usually cream-colored hair was now an electric blue.

Everyone watched wordlessly as he stomped through the two doors and out into the snow, barefoot.

"I say we lock all the doors and windows," Kennichi said, quite seriously. "I mean, now's our chance. A nice, quiet evening--"

"Until either of them break a window, or door, or both, trying to get back in," Karen said, already back to cleaning out the fridge. "We tried that last winter, remember?"

"Oh. Yeah." Kennichi tossed the plates in the sink and turned the water on them. The fuzz just kinda laughed at him, so he poured half a bottle of soap on them and left them to soak. "At least it's never boring around here," he said.

"Ain't that the truth," Kenshin grunted, finally gathering the rest of the newspaper up in the kitchen. He carried it to the back door and opened it, leaning out onto the small porch and dropping the week's worth of papers into the recycle bin. He glanced up in time to see Soujiro sprint across the snow, a dark blur followed closely by Yuukito with a spear.

Kenshin closed the door and locked it behind him. "Since when has Yuukito had a spear?"

"Don't know, don't wanna know." Kennichi was putting the scoop to the cat food back under the kitchen sink, and Aya now had his head happily in the bowl of cat food. "Hey, Karen. Guess who I saw the other day?"

"God only knows," Karen muttered.

"Genn."

"Oh, my god." She closed the refridgerator door. "Please tell me he didn't see you."

"He didn't." Kennichi grinned at the confused expression Kenshin had. "An old friend," he explained.

"Oh, god, please don't bring him up, he'll show up, it's been a GOOD YEAR SO FAR," Karen was already out of the kitchen and halfway up the stairs. She turned around and came back, sticking her head through the door. "If you've jinxed us and that maniac shows up on my doorstep, so help me God, I'll kill you."

Kenshin watched, half amused, as Karen disappeared again before turning his attention back to Kennichi.

"Genn?"

Kennichi waved a hand. "I don't remember what his real name is, but he had this elaborate made-up Japanese name. He's the son of the people who ran the OTHER kendo dojo in Centerville who apparently thought Karen was destined to be his. He liked to randomly attack me, I couldn't get it through his thick skull that it was a bad idea, et cetera. He vanished a little before you came on the scene, which is a pity because we could have confused him all to hell. I saw him at the mall the other day." Kennichi had comandeered an apple and was already munching on it.

"Well, that sounds..." Kenshin stared at the cat for a moment. "...really stupid."

"Yeah. Nothing really interesting happened around here before Soujiro and the Juppongatana showed up." Kennichi smirked, amused. He turned about and headed for the door to the basement. "Hey, you haven't seen Sanji around at all today, have you?"

"Kat already asked you that, you said you hadn't seen him since yesterday."

"I didn't ask if *I'd* seen him, have you seen him since yesterday?" Kennichi paused on the top of the steps, a frown crossing over his face. "Have YOU seen him?"

Kenshin shook his head. "No, why?"

Kennichi frowned. "He said he was going out with some old Blu Pistols buds... that probably means poker."

"He went out gambling?" Kenshin shook his head, torn between upset and amused. "Are you sure he's not possessed by Sano's ghost?"

Kennichi blinked. "Who?"

Kenshin rolled his eyes. "Remember that picture Kat gave us all a heart attack over? The tall guy who looked like he thought the camera was going to eat him?"

"OH! The one who looks like Sanji!"

Kenshin rubbed the spot between both of his eyes. "You've got a mind like a steel trap, 'Nichi," he muttered. "Did he say if he was coming home last night?"

"Dun't know. But if we don't see him soon, I think we should maybe send Catie and Soujiro after him. They can strike fear in the hearts of... well... anyone."

"Have YOU seen Catie recently?" Kenshin walked to the top of the steps as Kennichi had already started down them.

"No, thank God, though I assume she's party to Soujiro's bizarre... well, whatever the hell Soujiro is doing at the moment. What IS she doing?"

Kenshin walked over to the window and glanced out it. "Well, she's in a tree, and Yuukito can't reach her although he's waving the spear around a lot. Oh, wait. She's taking off her top." He shut the curtains. "And, that's enough of that."

"Thank GOD our closest neighbors are a half-mile away," Kennichi muttered, rooting around in the drink 'fridge. There was a large clatter behind him, and Kennichi glanced over his shoulder, grabbing a can of cola and shutting the door to the fridge. Catie sat in the middle of the den, looking dazed. He glanced around. She hadn't been there when he came downstairs.

"Wow, total phase-shift," Catie said, grabbing both sides of her head and wince. "Vomit-inducing, even."

"Nice. Don't vomit on me, or the carpet, please," Kennichi said, going back up the stairs. "Catie's downstairs," he reported.

Kenshin glanced up from the dishes. "Really? Where's she been?"

"I didn't ask, but she was talking about vomiting so I'm not going to bother," Kennichi said, popping the tab on his drink.

"Sounds reasonable," Kenshin said. "I think Soujiro is naked."

"Oh, god, I don't want to know." Kennichi said.

"I locked the back door," Kenshin contiuned.

"Good plan."

"Go lock the front door."

"No, you do it. I don't want it on my head if they break it down again."

Kenshin frowned at him. "I'll take responsibility for the back door if you cover the front."

"Hell no! The back door is like a hundred bucks cheaper than the front door!"

As they spoke, the front door slammed, and there was a thud. Kenshin looked at Kennichi and turned off the water. "Fifteen says it's Sanji."

"I learned a long time ago not to take bets from you," Kennichi grunted. "How about ten says he's hung over?"

"Twenty says hung over, beaten up and broke."

"Done."

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Yeah, that's my randomness for you. You can find at least four of those lunatics in this picture. And yes, that is the "real" Kenshin in the story. His body isn't his original, natural, he's currently inhabiting a body cloned from the DNA of his direct descendant Kennichi. Yuukito was a "trial" clone and is, as such, imperfect. (Hence the white hair, he has no pigment in his hair but he's not a true albino.) He is, however, batshit insane. As is Soujiro, but really, Soujiro's got no excuse.

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Anime I've Seen...


I'm sure this list is incomplete because damn I can never remember what I've seen and what I haven't. I will note, though, this is just anime that I've seen COMPLETELY, all the way through. TV and OAV/OVA only, no movies in this list.

.hack//GIFT
.hack//Legend of Twilight's Bracelet
.hack//SIGN
Air Master
Aishiteruze Baby
Angelic Layer
Aquarian Age - Sign for Evolution
Asagiri no Miko
Avenger
Blue Submarine #6
Chobits
CLAMP in Wonderland
Cowboy Bebop
Dragon Half
FLCL
Fruits Basket
Fullmetal Alchemist
Fushigi Yuugi: Eikoden
Gunsmith Cats
Hakkenden
Hellsing
Hoshi no Koe
Iczelion
Jubei-chan: Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch
Jubei-chan 2: Siberia Yagyuu no Gyakushuu
Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu
Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu Deluxe!
Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu Final
Juuni Kokki
Kanon
Kiddy Grade
Licensed by Royal
Macross Plus
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Nightwalker
Outlaw Star
Peacemaker Kurogane
Princess Nine
Read or Die OAV
Read or Die TV
RahXephon
Record of Lodoss War OAV
Ruin Explorers
Rurouni Kenshin
Rurouni Kenshin: Tsukiohen
Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen
Saishuuheiki Kanojo
Serial Experiments Lain
Shinesman
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: Revenge
Spiral
Star Ocean EX
Vision of Escaflowne
Weiss Kreuz
Weiss Kreuz: OAV
Weiss Kreuz: Gluhen
Witch Hunter Robin
Wolf's Rain
Yami no Matsuei

Meh, that really isn't all that much. Now, mind you, if we factor in ANY anime that I've seen even an episode of, I can quintiple that list in a heartbeat. But so far, those are all the anime that I've seen all the way through. I really need to get my butt in gear, methinks.
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Avenger
So, who had fun watching Avenger?

I did!

I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. It's got the whole 'post apocolyptic' feel to it, and even at the end of the series there's still a feeling of impending DOOM. But I enjoyed it, and I absolutely love Layla. She's so bad-ass. And, I don't think she ever speaks more than fifty words an episode. No long-winded speeches about justice, morality, or vengence from her, no-sir-ee!

Can't say the same for some of the other characters. >.<

Anyway, the anime is gorgeous. It's definitely going on my "to buy" list, because imagining it on a big-screen television with surround sound and the lights off... *purrs* (Someday, I will own my OWN MPS, and it will kick so much ass...) The music is gorgeous, but that can be attributed to the wonderful Ali Project, who definitely took some cues from Yuki Kajiura.

The tracks are so vibrant at first I mistook the music as Yuki Kajiura, but to my surprise she's not credited at all, it's all Ali Project. They definitely did a good job with the music, although a certain track seems lifted from the score to The Rock (one of my favorite scores to write by). Only a handful of notes are different, and that raises my hackles. It could be completely unintentional, or it could be a complete rip. No way to know for sure.

The opening and the ending are gloriously catchy, they'll be stuck in my head for days.

The story... is interesting, but I am majorly confused about several things still. I like my series with a bit of mystery, but Bee Train? Lay off the crack, please.

The animation is gorgeous to behold, vibrant colors and strong character designs. Layla Ashley, the main character ... looks like a Kenshin rip-off. I shit thee not, if you take her profile shot and compare it side-by-side with either Kenshin or Fujiyama Aya, you'll get so confused so quickly it isn't even funny. Personally, the more I watched her the more she got firmly associated with Aya in my mind.

Aside from that, the character designs are bold, but from their design you can immeaditely tell what purpose they'll surve. Nei? Little child-like figure always in danger. Speedy? Handyman. Westa? Goddess-figure. And they don't ever break those molds, which is disappointing. In my mind, the best character designs are the ones that lead you to believe one thing, and then they grow out of that mold and mature into something else. With the exception of Nei, none of the characters really change at all.

There were so many subplots that could have been explored but weren't, and that makes me sad.

Back to the animation -- there are sooooo mannnnny panning shots, and 'the camera holding on so-and-so's face' that you can tell where they cut corners to save on the animation budget. However, in their series and their series alone, this works. So much about characters is communicated in this series by their eyes, their expressions, and their pauses in the conversation that to just hear them explain everything seems wrong. Yes, it's an animation-shortcut, but used in the proper context and it works fine. They overdid it just a tad in this series but honestly it doesn't bother me, because I can oogle the backgrounds and the pretty, pretty colors. Also, they didn't skimp out in the animation department for each and every battle scene, they are all beautifully animated and don't reuse the exact same footage every time. That's quality.

Overall, I enjoyed Avenger. It's been licensed by Bandai, so I hope to own the DVDs soon. There's only a handful of series that I want to own on DVD that haven't been released yet and this... this is definitely one of them.

((Incidently, I KNEW I recognized your voice, Garcia! ONIMENO KYO! And Amidamaru, too, but ONIMENO KYO!!! *points*))
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Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Ads of DOOM
Every time I see the ads on my home page, I giggle.

Without fail, 100% of the time, FMA-related.

*giggles again*

Yeah. Death Note just sucked my brain in, it's currently on a vacation somewhere where super-convoluted plotlines of DOOM aren't making it try to die. Ow. Just...just... OW.

Now I'm going to go try to make it BLEED by reading more raw Japanese manga. Oh ho yes, my comprehension wavers around fifteen percent, but by dammit I'm reading it!

Job interview tomorrow at Starbucks, should fit with the horribly pretentious attidue I've had. Wish me luck, I'm in dire need of money!

Oh, and Avenger is pretty good so far. I'll probably watch the rest tonight, expect a nice summary/review either tomorrow or Thursday. Ta!
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Asking too much
I dunno, am I asking too much in that looking around this website, I can't really find anyone's page who interests me? Everyone seems so shallow... I'm sure my anime babbling must seem as trite to other people as some of this stuff seems to me. I was surfing around, looking for pages with... I dunno... content. Haven't had much luck so far, which saddens me.

Why is it so hard to write in complete sentences? What is so wrong with capitalization, and proper punctuation? Geez, I'm an AOL brat (we had the accursed service for years), and, well, look at me. I at least like to think I'm coherent. If not overly verbose.

Is there something wrong with me? Am I alone in this? Or am I just holding people to a standard that most can't meet?

*sighs*

I don't understand the internet sometimes.

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I figure I should explain one of my bizarre quirks before I get too many odd looks. When I really, really like a character, they become a muse. This doesn't happen often ... sometimes a character will pop up and be a muse for a month or two, and then, whoosh, they're gone.

Or they can be like Kenshin, and stick around for five years.

After a certain amount of time, I'll randomly start giving said muses affectionate tags. I call Kenshin "oniisan", because of an RP I was once in, I played a character who was brainwashed into thinking she was Kenshin's little sister. So, whenever you see me refering to 'niisan, I'm probably talking about Kenshin.

There are only a handful of characters I do this with ... I occasionally refer to Ichigo from Bleach as "aniki", and I like refering to Ed as "chibiko" even though I usually have to run afterwards.

So that's my strange geekery-quirk.

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One of my good friends' father had a stroke yesterday. He's doing very well from what I hear, there doesn't seem to be any permanant damage. Still, if any of you are religious in any way, please keep my friend in your thoughts and prayers.

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I relish my anonymity on this site. I don't know how long it will be until all my friends start flooding over ... not that that's a BAD thing, mind, but it's nice to 'start fresh' and have the possibility of making new, and MORE friends.

Besides, it means Saitou won't pop up in the comments and call me Kenshin. ¬_¬x;;
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Busou Renkin
I am a Nobuhiro Watsuki fangirl.

This is evident in my long love-affair with the manga for Rurouni Kenshin. Make no mistake, the anime is nice and shiny and all, but the MANGA is where it's at. The Kyoto Arc is just as, if not more effective in black and white, and Jinchuu ... goodness, that still sends shivers down my spine.

Sadly, the manga had to come to an end but it ended nicely. Seisouhen? As far as I'm concerned the last OAV never happened, since it totally contridicts the ending of the manga. (I still say the only thing that OAV had going for it was adult!Yahiko and bratty!Kenji fighting.)

Hell, the ending of the manga almost upset Kenshin as my favorite character in that show, because damn, Yahiko turned out cool.

But, it ended. And then there was no more new Kenshin stuff for me to read, and I was sad. I moved on to other things. I heard of Gun Blaze West, Watsuki's newer series, but the reviews for it were... not so good. Now, I've read the first volume and it's... decent, but it acts like it's gunning (no pun intended) for a long-running series, yet it wraps in three tankobons.

So, I went about my life, got interested in other manga, still made fun of 'niisan (Kenshin) on a regular basis, and time passed. Viz released the first translated manga, and I picked it up, curious as to how they would or wouldn't butcher the series. Needless to say I was nicely surprised by their translation, and they left the 'oro's' in. POINTS FOR VIZ. Erm. But, on the 'flap' where they talked about the mangaka, it mentioned his newest series, Busou Renkin.

Now, about this time I was getting head-over-heels into ANOTHER series with 'renkin' in the title, and if you can't figure that one out NO COOKIES FOR YOU.

Okay, to be totally honest it didn't say 'Busou Renkin', they translated that title out into "Armored Alchemist." Which, actually caused a furor on one of the FMA boards I was on at the time because people were like "waitaminnit WHAT?"

So, I decided to check the series out. BUT I COULDN'T FIND IT. Anywhere. I gradually forgot about it until I came across the scans of the first handful of chapters and fell in LOVE with it.

Basically, it's a fighting manga, which I love. 'Busou Renkin' is the name of the weapons the fighters use, and can take many shapes depending on the user. The manga only uses alchemy in the loosest sense of the term, and the 'baddies' are called homunculus. That's about it for the alchemy bent, at least that I understand. My comprehension of raw Japanese manga wavers specactularly sometimes.

Something nifty I noticed, though, is the symbol of the school the main characters go to is a variant of the Rod of Aesculapius. *amused*

I love the characters, Kazuki is awesome. And he has this... pose... he does that cracks me the hell up. Tokiko is... hell, Watsuki himself said in the story notes that he wondered why she was so easy to draw, and it took him a while to realize that she has the same facial structure as the Battousai. She even has a scar, a nose cut that looks very much like the scar I gave Shrike. She's very cool, and despite wearing a skirt never looks feminine. If you get just the headshot, you catch yourself going 'wait... what's Kenshin doing in this manga?!' Which amuses me more than it should.

The Shishio joke amused me way more than it should. I think I laughed for ten minutes at that.

Oh, and the last fight in the fifth volume smacks of the Kenshin/Shishio fight, but more in a 'homage' way. And of course they had to leave it on a bloody cliffhanger, despite volume five being the most recent volume released (November 11th says the publication date). *cries quietly* I need to know what happens.

But, yeah. Busou Renkin is a lot of fun. I hope it makes it to be animated, because... I would combust with glee. GLEE. It took fourteen volumes before Bleach got the animated treatment though, so... ah, well, here's to hoping.

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Random thought... by studying alchemy does that make me an alchemist? I haven't attempted anything yet because I need access to a hearth and a tub of water for 30-32 weeks, but rest assured I'm considering it.

Heh. It's not like the process is HARD, just specactularly time-consuming. Which is why I want to try it. I mean, how's that for a conversation starter? Hi, my name is Catie, I've created the Philospher's Stone. XD

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Monday, December 6, 2004

WHEE!
I got things in the mail! I got Christmas presents! (I already opened them because OMG THINGS WITH MY NAME ON THEM WRAPPED!!!) I got Busou Renkin! I AM A SQUEEING FANGIRL!

YAY!
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Asagiri no Miko
So, I've finally finished watching Asagiri no Miko, and can we all say "cliche?" Very good.

Overall, it's a cute show. The characters are likeable and it's a quick series, given the 12-minute episode running length. But it's chock full of cliches, if you've watched any amount of anime at all by the fifth or sixth episode you know exactly how it's going to wrap up. It's cute, though, and I didn't mind sticking it out to the end. Probably a six out of ten stars, methinks.

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I'm in an arguement/fight with someone over on Livejournal about alchemy. Just alchemy in general. Neither of us is winning, and truth be told I'm just responding to her verbal lashing. I don't look kindly on people who condescend to me, as I am not a stupid person. (Reckless, maybe, but not straight-out stupid.) Calling alchemy a 'ficticious' science really riled me, because there is no such thing. 'Ficticious science?' Oxymoron alert. Allow me to open my dictionary. Science is defined by "The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena."

Let's break that down, shall we? It means people study it. Experiment with it. Try to prove hypothesis. If people do such a thing, it's a sciene.

Oh, and the emphasis on chemistry as a "real" science. I thought her need to define chemistry quite amusing, actually.

I wonder how many people I've pissed off on this community? I don't muchly care, because this is getting more amusing. I retorted to her explanation that "people were very superstitious then" with 'and people aren't now? Have you seen religion lately?' I like being snarky. (And yes, I believe all organized religion harbors many superstitions. Lots of tradition there, too. Nothing wrong with it unless you're trying to deny there's a lot of superstition there.)

Oh, hey look. The first definition for superstition in this dictionary is "1. An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious."

ANYWAY. She's responded to my last post and I'm getting psyched up for her likely condescending reply. Whee, this is fun!
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Sunday, December 5, 2004

Odds and Ends and Odder Ends
Today was dull, as Sundays often are. My job hunt is as ever fruitless, although three of the jobs I applied for promised callbacks on Monday. So, here's to hoping I'll have some money in the bank come January 12th.

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I'm going to stay up insanely late and watch anime, for the sheer hell of it. I've fallen off my habit of at least two episodes a night, and my collection grows still. I haven't been downloading any new shows this season, and that makes me sad. Bleach is one of my favorite manga, I need to be watching that anime, dammit. Beck is interesting and the music is catchy. The random Engrish amuses me all to heck as well.

Maybe I'll have watched all the fansubbed series I have that start with "A" and I can move on to the "B's"... and yes, I really DO have that much anime to watch. I'll watch just about ANYTHING... but if I don't like it or it doesn't catch my interest chances are I won't finish it. Angel Sanctuary lost my attention in 10 minutes. I like the manga, but the anime ... well, the best term I can think of is that the anime feels claustrophobic.

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I love this website, but something it could use is a comment notification system. I like getting feedback, but going back through everything I've already submitted, one thing at a time? That's tedious. I don't have the attention span for that. Hey, cookies.

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Speaking of, I should probably add some friends on this website. I'm just lazy, don't feel offended. I link-skip and look at all sorts of random pages, I just haven't gotten around to that yet. Maybe it's something I'll do before I go on an anime-spree.
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