Trouncing.

College today was reasonably ok lesson-wise, but was great friend-wise since I played cards, chatted with my 2 best friends, and arranged to go to Brighton with both of them tomorrow. We'll most likely all see Aeon Flux, a film we've wanted to see for a few weeks but not really got around to it. I also whiled away the time by watching Teen Titans on my PSP. At one point I had an audience all watching, compiled of other fans of the show. Though most likely 'geeky', it was great fun discussing the series with them, and speculating who exactly stole Robin's Red X suit ate up a huge amount of time. The sheer amount of gadgets packed into that suit is insane, it's a wonder why Robin didn't keep it and simply pain over the X with a giant R, heh. Other than that not much happened, though psychology wasn't as boring as it could have been. The constant bouts of writing were enough to keep me awake, since they were short enough to be easy, but long enough to force me to keep my eyes open and think. Not too bad all in all. English was the usual fun it was as it was our eccentric english teacher's day. Seriously weird conversations happened there, since it was about an older style of english language, but it was still a laugh.

Games Workshop was great today. I managed to play 3 games in all, and won all 3 of them. That in itself is quite pleasing. The first game was incredibly close, resulting in just a few models left on my side against one hero on the other. I was lucky to have the game end there, because in theory that lone heo could have munched the rest of my small army. The other two games were sheer massacres in my favour. In the first I only lost 7 men, and the second, 10. Meanwhile I completely annihilated the opponent's army. He's quite rapidly learning to avoid getting near to my armies now, since shooting them afar works best for him. Even with outright wins it was clear I made several mistakes, since the dice I rolled for the most part were actually abysmal. It was only because of bursts of luck or tactical thinking, where I pinned a unit down and obliterated it before moving on, that allowed me to win so soundly. I'm not sure if the thursday group is on, so I'll probably check later. Since I have thursday off college I'll most probably sleep anyway, thereby wasting the day in another person's eyes, whilst using it fully to mine, heh. Till next time.

Lethargy.

Today wasn't a bad day really, just overly boring in that usual 'not much happened' way. College eventually slid by, though in tutor today we had some absolutely pointless 'activities' on how to act at a job interview. Most of the tutor group already have jobs, or have gone through it all before, including me. It was some of the most tedious stuff I've ever done, but thankfuly it only had to last 20 minutes before we could all shake it off. The free periods weren't much better, and though I could have, I didn't bother doing the incredibly short homework for tomorrow. It involves going onto the Guardian newspaper website and printing off an article, so I can probably manage it before class tomorrow, even though sociology is first thing. Meh. I saw a few friends who've been away for a bit due to illness, so that wasn't too bad, but for the most part nothing happened. I was actually awake till my last lesson, which was then so inane I began to feel lethargic and almost fell asleep. It was a relief to get home, since I could just sit myself infront of the computer and idely do what I usually do, monitor the forums, chat on IRC and so on and so forth. There wasn't much else to do really, since I just have more manga downloading by torrent and that's about it.

Though everything else is watched and there weren't any anime updates per se, I did partake in the quality control of the Solty Rei eposide 17 since I was hanging around the Nyanko channel. I basically just looked for any faults and so on, but it was perfectly fine. As such I just reported what I'd noticed (that it was a good encode) and that was that. It certainly saves me the time of getting it later when it comes out, and it was a very good episode. The preview of the next one hinted at a good reunion, so I can look forward to that. I haven't started getting any of Karas, Madlax or Kashimashi, since I've had the manga torrent running, and I'm waiting for the Gnu fansubbing group to release their second version of the first episode's encode before I start watching the others. Apparantly the first episode has some slightly dodgy translation which could be better, so I figure waiting for the second version is better overall as that way I'll understand it more. Engrish can get confusing at times, heh. Games are still on hold for me, though I started playing Go on the net again. My god, I got whupped so badly by bots and people it just wasn't fully. Le sigh. Since that about sums it up, till next time.

NewType.

Today I fully recovered thanks to sleeping in till about 1pm. After I got up, feeling fine, I pretty much almost immediately went to Brighton to pick up te march issue of NewType USA as I usually do every month. However there were engineering works today. As such I had to get a bus to Lewes, then a train to Brighton. So instead of the journey taking 30 minutes, it took over an hour. Not that fun really, but at least I got to listen to more 2 Sense. Once there I basically just popped into Dave's Comics, had a browse around, got the copy of NewType then went to David's books. There I picked up another manga book called 'Plastic Little - Captain's Log' by Satoshi Urushihara. It's got some nice art, and it's a 'slightly' older style which looks better than quite a few of the modern ones I've seen. From what I've scan-read it also looks like a reasonably good story, so I have something to look forward to reading. NewType graced me with more series to look for, such as Karas, Kashimashi and reinciting my hunt for Madlax. Also I'm not going to get, when they start airing in Japan, Zegapain, Daimaho Tage, Himawari, and Shinigami no Ballad which I've known about for a few months. All in all quite a bit to look forward to over the next few months, which hopefully won't detract too much from my college work.

Other than that, and reading NewType, nothing else happened today apart from the usual speaking with people on MSN, Skype, etc. On Skype with several Soul Society forum-goers we've been discussing a manga based on the forum. It'll have two main characters, Yoko and Yoen since they're not that powerful and have a tracable story, and will most likely vaguely follow the forum with a few changes here and there to make it flow. We have an artist lined up, and I'm the scripter. As such I need to get writing reasonably soon when I have the time. The artist seems quite impatient to startm, which is completely different to another of my friends who wouldn't start as he didn't have the motivation. It looks like the project will definately be going ahead, as the artist has even done some practice sketches to get the style closer to Kubo Tite's. It's some good stuff. In other anime news I also have 3 episodes of Neo Ranga to watch, but since they're short I'll leave them till I build a few up. I'm currently getting the Fate Stay Night game, and after that it'll be Fate Hollow Ataraxia. I may not really understand it, but I can sure as hell try, heheheh. Since anime music is playing in the background I feel like reading some manga. Till next time then.

Illness.

I didn't really do much today. I felt quite ill when I woke up this morning, so spent pretty much all the day in bed trying to sleep it off. I ended up getting out of bed at 7pm or so, and then just had dinner. I feel reasonably ok at the moment. I did have stomach pain and a headache which isn't a good sign since apparantly a bug is going round with those as the first symptoms. Since I feel kinda ok now I'm hoping it's passed for the most part. To while away the evening I actually did my english exam homework instead of leaving it for tomorrow. It was a pretty nasty question since it was about language change but focused on text messaging speech. That only covers a few aspects, such as acronyms, abbreviations, social attitudes and so on and so forth. It pretty much misses other methods of language change, such as amelioration, perjeration etc. At any rate I wrote it and decided never to choose that style of question in the exam. here was a choice of two as per usual, but we'd already done one of them in class unfortunately. After that I just watched some Bill Bailey, mostly his Bewilderness show but currently Part Troll is on as 'background'. Not only that but for the sheer thrill of it I partly tidied up my computer and I'm back down to only using 85.4GB out of the 340GB I have.

I finally burnt the rest of Kiddy Grade to DVD, as well as the Teen Titans series 5 and the Hellsing OVA. That added to my DVD collection, and soon I'll need yet another shelf. Later after this post and when I finish updating the Soul Society forums I'll be holding yet more riddles on Skype to see who else can win the chance to get a rare item on the forums. It may not uniformly fair, but it's certainly an interesting method of doing it. It'll be the last riddle session today, so I'll most likely make it 'first to 3' or something. On the actual forums my Latenter character is finally in a fight. It's good in that I'm against the person who's second strongest on the forum, so I can fully let my character go mental and full power. I've not really missed my second character Jacob since I killed him off, as he didn't do much anyway. Being a storyteller means that mostly I only control NPC's, as my character can't do much for fear of killing people or ending an arc too soon. Other than that prospective activity I'll probably check up on anime and manga updates, as well as the webcomics I read. Games have taken a side path today since I don't feel like playing any. Tomorrow I'll hopefully get up early since I need to go hunting for yet more job opportunities, as well as go to Brighton to get the next issue of NewType USA. With any luck they'll still have a copy. Till next time.

Drama.

Unfortunately today wasn't as good as yesterday, bt that was mostly expected anyway. Any day with 3 and a half hours free during it is bad simply because it's incredibly boring. I spent most of the day listening to music to pass the time as quickly as possible. By doing that I also managed to get through another hour and a half long show of 2 Sense. I'm slowly, very slowly, finishing up the archive. The rest of college today was basic lesson. None of it was bad, and I was actually awake and alert for all of it. I played some Tales of Eternia, but not much. I had a try at the tournaments in Inferia City. In both available turnaments the first 2 matches of each are doable. However the third one is just insane... No matter what I try I just end up dying. It was quite annoying, I'd manage to kill 2 or 3 of the 4 and the last one would nail me. Kinda aggravating, but it only cost 5,000 or 10,ooo to enter depending on which tournament, but winning the first match actually pays out over 20,000. It's quite a good exp and money maker really. All it takes is patience I suppose, though each try did eat up 10 or so minutes, so patience and lots of free time. I played cards to try and make time pass faster too, and had a relatively even win to loss ratio. So all in all, a very average college day.

Once I got home it was slightly more eventful, in that I watched the remaining 8 episodes of the Teen Titans series and another 8 of Great Teacher Onizuka. Teen Titans was good, but the structure of the series was strange. It seemed to end at episode 12, as the thirteenth seemed like a completely stand-alone episode and wasn't related to the usual series finale. Great Teacher Onizuka is still a great series, and keeps it up to the end. There's actually only a single episode left of it to watch now, which I'll do immediately after this post. In fact I only stopped watching to make sure thing thing was written on time, heh. The amout of times Onizuka's nearly been fired is tremendous, but for the finale it looks like the real deal. I can only assume there'll be some form of major twist since that's what usually happens. If he does actually get fired it'll be quite a shock after all he's gone through to win all the students over. Out of the original class that were all against teachers now only one doesn't like them, Miyabi. She happens to be a friend of a previous student who committed suicide due to their last homeroom teacher, which explains all their hostility. It's quite good that they left it till late to explain it, since it makes it all the more dramatic at the right places. Anyway, the last episode beckons. Till next time.

All your base.

All your base are belong to us. A quote from such a badly translated game, but still a pretty funny song. I've been listening to it a bit more today since recently it had an 'updated' version with newer pictures in the video. It certainly provided an interesting sound track to updating the forums. Anyway, that just explains the title at least. College today was incredibly enjoyable. Psychology was about schizophrenia and different symptoms and treatments. Pretty interesting stuff really. English language was just a laugh as we were allocated groups, so naturally no one did any work. We need to make an A1 wall display, but we can easily completely write it all next lesson so it's fine. Afterwards sociology was the usual chatting session with the teacher, since she's very easy to sidetrack. All it took was for someone to ask about her 5 cars and she was off, pointing out the finer points in modding original Mini's. It was vaguely strange to see her so enthusiastic, but I suppose it's good to have a hobby. Even law was entertaining, as for whole the whole class just messed around instead of just a few individuals. Mostly everyone was laughing and cracking jokes, and our poor teacher actually had to struggle to try and keep the lesson in check. Still, we managed to get the work done so it was fine. It's rare for me to have such a good day.

Once I got home it was straight onto the computer for torrents and such, then Tales of Eternia. I now have around 28 hours play time, and I reckon I'm nearly two thirds through the game. For a PSP game it's huge, truly befitting of an RPG. I'll probably be kept adequately busy even after I finish the gamethe first time, since doing so unlocks a special dungeon of harsh death apparantly, on a whole different, and much higher, difficulty level. If it's as difficult as the last boss I had to defeat then it'll kill me and bury my corpse, heh. Maxwell, a greater Craymel, was just insanely powerful. Physical attacks would only do 1 damage per hit to him, and he was strong against all the elements I had. With 35,000 hp it took one hell of a long time to kill him, and the first 2 tries I failed due to his harshness. He managed at one point to cast 2 meteor showers in a row. Each meteor does over 1000 damage per hit. There's about 8 hits. My characters have less than 4000 life each. Pain. The third time I only won through sheer perserverence, and the use of the 'All-Divide', an item which cuts all the damage done by everyone in half. This meant his attacks didn't eat me as much, but it took supremely long to kill him. It was a damn hard battle. That's enough ranting about Eternia for now, I'll be watching the Naruto episode now and then hosting some more riddles for the Soul Society forums on Skype. Till next time.

Twitchy.

Today much a much nicer day at college, most likely due to the fact that I got a reasonable amount of sleep. I stayed awake through both lessons and it wasn't overly boring. Of course it could have been down to the fact that it was only a half day and I finished at 12.30pm, but meh. I didn't really see anyone else in my social crowd today since there wasn't much time, so I whiled away my break by playing Tales of Eternia some more. In fact when I got home I played it even more. After the Eternia session, through which I was getting updates, I finally watched Solty Rei 16, Bleach 70 and Eureka Seven 30. Solty Rei was a good episode, and actually had quite a twist at the end of it. Very entertaining to watch, as was Bleach. I'm still liking the fillers as they're actually quite good, and the added characters all feel, to me, that they fit in well. Eureka Seven was similarly good, though Talho's self-makeover was a bit dramatic. She gave herself one hell of a harsh haircut, and now she looks more serious which is suited to her role. Still, it's strange seeing her with a different image and outfit. The Mai Otome and Yakitate Japan updates will probably be arund later this week, so that's something to look forward to. With enough sleep my week should just fly by and be ready for them too.

For the past few days I've had a constant twitch in my lower left eyelid, and it was particularly noticable today at college. It was incredibly annoying, yet actually prompted several people to ask if I was ok, or if I was angry with something. That was mildly funny, but the sensation of wanting to blink a couple of times a second wasn't anywhere near as much fun. Luckily it's calmed down for the moment but I still have no idea what's caused it. How strange. I just hope with enough rest the damn thing will go away. I do intend to cut down on Eternia for more rest, since I'm actually only 3 minutes off of a total of 24 hours play time. A day out of 5 or 6. Umm... maybe a bit too much, heh. I've got quite far in it though, I managed to nab the Greater Craymel of Shadow, now I'm off exploring a sunken ship. I'm not too sure what comes after this, but it'll probably involve lots more critters, which are starting to get insanely hard. Using up an eighth of my healing items per fight is simply not good at all. It can screw me over when in a dungeon. Tomorrow will be another long day with plenty of free time so I'll probably get a bit more done in the game, as on friday, but over the weekend I'll probably be too preoccupied with anime to play it, heh. It's nice to have plans. Till next time.

Dang it.

Looks like this is the second version of the post I'm writing, le sigh. I dislike it immensely when blogger messes around. Oh well. In short yesterday I only managed to scrape a single hour of sleep, since I overdid it and didn't pay any attention to the time whilst I chatted with American friends. When they're on a timezone several hours behind the one I'm in I simply lose track of the time as I go about doing various tasks. It's a bit inconvenient when I notice really. Since I didn't have much sleep I caught some more snooze time on the train to college, and afterwards on the train back home too. College itself moved slowly and it wasn't the best of days for me since I obviously didn't feel at my best. Therefore tonight I'm actually going to go to sleep relatively soon. After college was Games Workshop, so I hurried with my computer and usual 'turning on of the torrents' ritual and set off. I'd changed my army, and managed to playtest it twice. It performed exceedingly well as I got 2 downright victories with minimal losses, Having both a Daemon Prince and a unit of erminators made my opponents either concentrate on one or the other, which left the rest of my army untouched. As such I could pick and choose targets and systematically destroy them. It was quite fun really.

Afterwards I came home and read the scanlation of the 295th Naruto chapter. The quality wasn't at it's usual good standard, but it was still readable. It looks like Naruto is going to go absolutely insane and lose it. It'll definately be entertaining if he does. Last night since I was up a lot I actually managed to get through 5 episodes of Teen Titans series 5. Control Freak made an appearance, and the fan-boyish 'Nemesis' for the Titans is always good for a laugh. Though I managed to get Solty Rei episode 16 I've decided to save it for tomorrow. Since I have a law essay to write, and a problem question too at that, I'm sure an anime infusion afterwards will help to raise my spirits from the mundane realm of tedious analysis. Though I happen to be quite good at analysis the question itself is incredibly open, so I'll have to pick and choose what to say since I don't feel like writing a small book on it. In an effort to relieve my lethargy I played Tales of Eternia some more instead of giving it a rest, and managed to get the levels for those in the group reasonably higher. It was quite handy really as it took my mind off how I felt, heh. For now though I think I'll sleep, so take care all, and till next time.

Bright eyed.

But not busy tailed. The Bright eyes I had today were probably a by-product of the lack of sleep. I had just an hour of sleep last night since I got carried away and stayed up chatting to a bunch of American friends. Tonight I'll definately go to sleep, since college today wasn't overly pleasant. It was a struggle to remain awake and alert throughout the day, and the only times I got respite were the train to and from college where I had a short snooze. To anyone else skimping on sleep out there, I recommend you get at least 4 hours a night. Any less and you may feel as worn as me. Since today is a tuesday the moment I got home it was time to turn the computer on, start a few torrents, then leave the house again to make my way to Games Workshop. I actually managed to play another 2 games of Warhammer 40,000 even though a tournament was on and I had chosen not to take part. I altered my army just to try something new, and the vaguely Khornate army I had works very well indeed at 1,000 points. In both games I won hands down with minimal losses, mostly in part due to the combination of a harsh Daemon Prince and a unit of Terminators. Quite a good combination as my opponents weren't sure which to shoot at, since both were equally devastating. I'll probably stick to that army since it worked.

As I was up last night I did indeed get through 5 episodes of Teen Titans. That only leave another 8 for the series so it's not much to go really. Control Freak made an appearance, so that was entertaining. The fanboy-like 'nemesis' for the Titans is always good for a laugh. I haven't got around to watching Solty Rei yet, and I won't today. I'm saving it fr tomorrow since I'll need something to pick up my mood after writing a long law essay. Nothing quite raises my spirits like an anime infusion. The scanlation for Naruto 195 is aso out now, so I'll likely read it after this post just because I'd rather not wait to read something so nifty. In completely unrelated news I didn't have a break from Tales of Eternia at all. Even though I was vaguely tired for most f the day I still managed another 2 hours on it, gradually building up my levels. Balir's Castle is a great place to train. The enemies are only moderately hard, whilst giving a shedload of exp. That's always handy, so I'll probably spend quite a few hours just randomly killing things before I go on to battle the big boss himself. It'l be nice to have a smoother ride to the win, heh. Again that about wraps it up for today, so till next time.

Spare Time.

Finally back to college, and what a boring day it was. Unfortunately though I only had 3 lessons each one seemed to drag on, and on, and on. Luckily I had my PSP with me as always, so I filled in the time between lessons playing yet more Tales of Eternia. As a matter of fact I played even more once I got home, and now I'm about halfway through the game, with a total play time of around 16 and a half hours. Not too bad for a couple of days. The bosses now however are starting to get ridiculous. The Earth, Ice and Electric craymels were evil to beat, as was the evil bad guy boss who also decided to pop in. Facing foes with over 45,000 life compared to 4 characters each with between 1,000 and 2,000 is 'difficult'. The sheer amount of times I've died is ungodly, but oh well. I'll eventually spend some time just levelling up in a safer area, since the places I'm at now host creatures that can seriously eat me if I do something wrong. It's a bit unfortunate to be poor in the game once more, since all the healing items eat cash like no tomorrow, but oh well. It's a fun, if quite challenging, game to play. I can only dread to think what the next boss is going to be like, the main evil man himself, Balir.

I also finished watching Kiddy Grade. It had a vaguely strange ending really, and the amount of deaths then revives there were was quite odd, but it fit within the series so I was happy. The sheer frequency the main characters changed their appearance was also a bit confusing at times, but it soon got cleared up with explanation. Before going back to Neo Ranga I actually decided to get series 5 of Teen Titans just because I'm a fan of the show and haven't seen any of series 5 yet. Though it's not anime, it does (over)use comical anime expressions so it almost fits in with what I usually watch, and it's also just quite funny. I like the characters too, so if it's on I always try to watch it. Since the whole series is already done now I'll have to set some time aside to watch them. With all the anime, sleeping and work I've been doing lately poor Guild Wars has been neglected. Come march however and Guild Wars Factions will be mine, and an Assassin will be rising up to join the combat ranks, heh. It's something I'm looking forward to, as well as Monster Hunter for the PSP which will come out in May, and Tekken for the PSP too, which at the moment I don't believe has a release date. Oh well, it'll come out this year anyway. So then, till next time.

Kittens.

It was a relatively early morning for me today, since I didn't go to sleep in the first place. As I didn't need to be ready to go out till 12.30pm I spent most of the time either in the #Nyanko channel or playing Albatross18, the anime-styled online golfing game. It helped to while away the time inbetween anime. Fate Stay Night was just as impressive as before, though not quite as action packed. It was more of a plot episode rather than fighting, which is quite a good thing. One aspect Type-Moon are renowned for are their plots. There's also only 5 episodes of Kiddy Grade left to watch, and all of them will be ready in 2 or so hours so I've nearly finished that series too. After I've finished it I think I'll return to Neo Ranga since the poor series has been neglected by me when I went on a 'new series hunt'. One other interesting thing I managed to watch was the hellsing OVA. In my opinion it wasn't bad, but it didn't come up to par with the original TV series. The series had more artistic flair and had consistent animation, and obviously more detail. The OVA, of which there's only been a single 50 minute episode so far, condensed the whole series into one session, missed out a lot of details, warped Seras' personality slightly, and just wasn't as well animated. The character designs weren't as good as they could have been either.

Though the whole experience with Hell was vaguely disappointing, since much more could have been done with it, I simply shrugged and moved on. During the day I went, with my dad and step-mum, to my step-sisters' house since she and her husband are moving. It was a sort of 'last supper' for them in that house, so we went along to wish them well with the move and so on and so forth. I ended up playing Dan, the husband, in Super Monkey Ball. Though I lost at tennis, I won at golf, so it was fairly even all in all. It was a good day, and they have 2 kittens too. Honey and Bella. They're long-haired, so looked like slightly sleek puff balls of fluff. They were reasonably friendly but tended to move away alot unless you actively played with them using ribbon, mice and even straws. For some reason they also liked climbing into bags. Odd, but there you go. After the large meal and subsequent gaming it was time to return home and thus I did, listening to The Prodigy during the ride. Nothing quite soothes a car journey than The Prodigy. At the moment I'm debating whether or not to spend a ridiculous amount of time levelling up in Tales of Eternia. It'll take ages, but I'm sure it'll be worth it when everything will be slightly smoother later on. Unfortunately I can't spend too long on it tonight since I need sleep. I do have college tomorrow after all. As such, till next time.

Another day passing.

Yet another day of relaxation of moderate stress. I spent absolutely ages searching for a i386/lang folder on the net purely because I can't find my Windows XP discs and I want to install east asian language support so I can actually install then play the translated Fate/Stay Night game demo. It's quite aggravating in that I couldn't find one at all, so I'm having to download a copy of Windows purely for that folder. Bah, hours absolutely wasted where I could instead be getting the rest of Kiddy Grade. I've actually managed to watch the first 16 or so episodes of it now, and it's a really enjoyable series. Watching it did help to calm me down, but what made me even happier was finding ot that the 7th episode of Fate/Stay Night was subbed. Right now I'm getting it so I should be able to watch it once this post has been written. That's quite uplifting really. I'd also recommend joining the #Nyanko channel on the IRC Rizon network since it's filled with cool people. They also happen to like F/SN, heheheh. That did not make me biased in any way, shape or form. I didn't actually do much else other than watching Kiddy Grade and searching for the damn language folder today, so overall it wasn't an eventful day.

I did have a few new conversations on AIM with new people from the forum, and I also spent some time idely watching TV, but that again was about it. One thing that's currently happening however is a really worrying grating sound that's coming from my hard drive, so that simply cannot be a good thing. In fact it's worrying me quite a bit. Ah well, I can only hope it sorts itself out, or at least keeps the racket down. After I watch the episode of F/SN I'll mostly likely either go to sleep or do the more probable option of playing more Tales of Eternia. Since I'm enjoying the game I feel I may as well play it. The Soul Society forums also had me policing around them, but I decided not to update the main arc today since I feel that it needs at least a few more people to post in it, otherwise it's not exactly a big arc. There hasn't been many posts in it at all, in fact it's not even reached 100 yet, though plot-wise it's slowly coming to an end. I'll probably build up on my idea or something, that seems like the best way. At any rate that's it from me, so till next time.

Eternia.

Today was another day of relaxation of moderate stress, all mixed together to result in 'normality'. I slept in till 1pm or so since I didn't actually go to bed till 2 or 3am this morning. It was all due to the amount of anime I watched really. I've now seen the first 34 episodes of Great Teacher Onizuka, which is making me wonder how it'll all end since there's only 9 more episodes to go till I've seen it all. I also managed another few episodes of Kiddy Grade, in that I've now watched the first 11. It's taking a dramatic turn as the main pair are now pariahs in their own organisation, cast out and ready to be 'purged'. It's pretty easy to guess what that means really. Not much else has been going on really, so there's not an overly abundant amount of stuff to talk about really. Unfortunately there weren't any updates for the other series I watch, since Solty Rei has been pushed back a bit due to encoding and scripting work. I am hoping for the translated chapter of Bleach soon though, since the raw was impressively cool as stated last post. Hopefully with the speed the scanlators at Bleach7 work at it shouldn't be long at all, and I can get another infusion of Bleach. It's the same for Naruto really, just so I have an idea what Sakura is saying.

There was also another hour or so on Tales of Eternia. I already had the Water Craymel, so off I went to get the Air one. That went smoothly enough, but once I got to the fire one it was insane. The thing's a freaking monster. For a start, it's huge. Secondly, it uses ridiculous amounts of TP to quite literally use devastating amounts of fire. It's quite insane. I just had my party die twice before I decided to stock up on a stupid amount of healing items and such. Unfortunately I didn't quite have enough to buy all the new armour and weapons, but I did manage to get a few tings which reduce taken damage. That should keep me alive a bit longer the next time. The depressing thing is the fire Craymel has over 20,000 health. My characters all have about 1500-ish. With 4 characters, that's nowhere near even. I can only hope the sheer amount of healing I have is enough really. Once I got to the stocking up point I decided to call it a rest, hence I managed to get here to post on time. I reckon I'm getting rather consistent now, since I haven't had any late posts for a week or so. It makes a nice change to having to rush to get a post done. However since it was a largely uneventful day I'll be off for now. Till next time.

Fate Stay Night.

Yet another application form sent off today, to another place which definately has an opening. Lets hope it works, heh. Yesterday after my post I managed to get my sociology essay done, hurrah, which leaves me with just a psychology and a law essay. The psychology one I'll probably do tomorrow, and just to treat myself I'll save the law one, a problem question, till saturday. Bleh. I didn't actually go to sleep last night, since I was randomly browsing around the net and found a Fate/Hollow Ataraxia CG set. It's from a hentai game, but amazingly it's done by Type-Moon. I'm a fan of Type-Moon since they made Shingetsutan Tsukihime, my favourite 'cult classic' anime. I'd heard of Fate/Stay Night before, but didn't realise it was made by them. Once I had a look at the amazing artwork in the set I went searching for more, since the character designs were insanely good. It was then that I found out on AniDB that Fate/Stay Night, the first game and prelude to the Ataraxia CG set I'd found, was in fact being made into an anime series. In a state of anime bliss I immediately downloaded and watched the 6 subbed episodes. Sheer. Goodness. The 7th episode is actually airing tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to it immensely.

An image of Saber and Archer fighting, from the CG set.


If you haven't seen any Type-Moon stuff, search on google for fate/Stay Night and look around the official site. It's good, damn good. I didn't do much else during the day however. I watched 7 episodes of Kiddy Grade, and the animation is superb. Some of the abilities the characters possess seem quite handy. For example in the latter episodes of those I've watched two people can control molecular bonds when their hands are touching. Dissolving rocks? I think so. I also got through another 5 episodes of Great Teacher Onizuka and the newest Naruto episode. GTO was as good as expected, and I had to stop myself from just going off and watching far too many in a row. Naruto however was the standard filler fare, which makes me anticipate the return to the manga all the more. The fact that the newest Naruto chapter raw was around elped this feeling, since seeing Orochimaru and Kyuubi-Naruto fight it out is just downright cool. The Bleach raw was pretty nifty too, since it had a lot of Vaizards in it. Yay for the bad guys, though it's possible that they're 'just misunderstood', heheh. There was also another few fun hours on Tales of Eternia on my PSP, but other than that it was a pretty barren, if enjoyable, day. If only every day was as relaxing. Till next time.

Closer.

Well I'm vaguely closer to getting a job, purely since I filled in the application form and handed them back to the relevant places. I also enquired about a space in Debenhams, and was given a number. The number didn't work. My dad was nice enough to look up the real one, which I duly called. I was told to hang up and call another number. Accordingly I did so. I got put through to the Fire and Rescue service. What the hell!? It was pretty funny, and the guy who answered actually explained that it had been some time since someone had called the number, but the same thing had happened before with previous Debenhams applicants. How strange. I tried another number and instead went with menu options, and basically got told to look at their website. Thankfully on there it was a bit more coherent, and I managed to apply for an oh-so convenient opening at the store nearest me, the one which I'd enquired within in the first place. Yay for complications. On the plus side it got in done, and it was a definate opening. The application deadline was actually the 8th of next month, so that wasn't bad at all. With any luck I'll be contacted for interview. I tried a few other numbers but the respective websites were ridiculously complex and misleading, so I didn't bother following them up.

Since I managed to get it all done by 2.30pm I was free to relax for most of the afternoon. Whilst out returning forms I gave in to temptation and bought Tales of Eternia for the PSP. It was a moment of weakness, but it's a pretty good game. I elected to turn all of the in-game voices off though, since I go through scrolling text like a daemon and they only got in the way. Not to mention it wasn't exactly the best voice acting around, heh. The game itself is pretty good, though some of the things you need to fight at an early stage are insane. Seriously against this huge plant freak thing I had to use 4 restore lifes and countless health replenishers. Jesus. The closeups of characters are all done anime style though, as in the intro movie, and it's pretty cool. I've not played a 'Tales of Eternia' game before, though I'm pretty sure it's been around before. It's for the most part traditional RPG fare, though on a PSP each button combination has to do something different just so you can actually do everything. It's confused me a few times, but the real-time fighting system is pretty good. With the right timing you barely take any damage at all even against 7 or 8 opponents with your party of 4. It's just the evil big bosses that nuke you.

Zomg, a longer post than usual, heh. Anyway, after I managed to put the game down several hours after starting it I was free to watch anime and actually cook my dinner. I happily munched away as I caught up on Blood+, Mai Otome and Bleach. The Bleach filler arc seems to be ending a bit later than expected, as it was widely assumed it would end in the Valentine's Day special. Not so, it's still going, plus they've introduced a new class of soul. That helps out in my Soul Society RP, even more variety for the masses. I'm sure quite a few people will enjoy the 'Bound' class. Blood+ is continuing to improve, though since I've been watching the Bakakozou subs a name is changed. Haji became Hagi. Not too much difference really, as in my head I just read it as Haji anyway, but it's another reason to redownload Shinsen's versions. Mai Otome's episode 18 wasn't anywhere near as dynamic as the previous one, but it was still on par with the series so therefore not disappointing. The level of conflict is seriously escalating in the plot now, so I'm looking forward to a hopefully good ending in 8 or so episodes. Only 8 weeks, which reminds me that Naruto will apparantly be off fillers in 6 or 7 episodes. Miracle news indeed! Till next time then.

Jobhuntin'.

It was just as tedious and boring as I thought it would be. I ended up walking around eastbourne and enquiring, for the most part, fruitlessly. I did however end up with a few application forms, numbers to call, and places to give in a CV, but nearly all of them are merely to 'put me on file', where they can glance at the information when a placement comes up. Naturally this isn't exactly encouraging. The end result of 4 application forms, 2 phone numbers, and 2 CV's required isn't overly bad, but the fact that only one of the whole lot actually has vacancies is. Well, damn. This means tomorrow I'm going to spend an hour or two filling in the forms, writing a CV suitable for both requests, and filling in lots of information over the phone. That will probably eat up my morning, then just to pile up even more fun I'll most likely have to do a college essay, lest they build up on me and ruin my upcoming weekend. Searching for a job frankly is just incredibly boring, and in most instances fruitless. I know perserverence means I'll end up getting a job, but it's still an irritating task to do. Once I have one it shouldn't be any problem at all maintaining it, but 'bah' to the process of obtaining one. The Job Centre was pointless too, there weren't any suitable jobs listed near me. Meh.

Games Workshop in the evening made my day more tolerable, since I managed to play a remarkably quick game of Vendetta Bloodbowl. Basically it's the game played till one team is completely dead, so I naturally took my Undead team. being able to regenerate, and therefore ignore death, is quite a handy trait in Vendetta. Accordingly I won with no permanent deaths. Admittedly 3 of my players died, 2 zombies and a werewolf, but they all regenerated and carried on ripping humans apart. It was the best, and coincidentally quickest, game of Bloodbowl I've ever played. That was the only game I managed though, since I spent the rest of the time chatting. Once I got home I had a revelation. Blood+ is only up to 14 by Shinsen, yet Bakakozou have subbed the first 17. This means I'm free to watch up to 17 and redownload them as Shinsen release. That's quite handy really, because I enjoy the series a lot. I probably won't watch much anime after this post though, just possibly the Blood+ episodes. After all, if I save anime for tomorrow evening it should make my day far more tolerable as a whole. Since that about sums everything up, till next time.

Le Sigh.

Today was quite a great day overall really. I had the customary 'no college' sleep in, and got up at around midday. Since I'd arrainged to meet up with my best friend today, yet calling yesterday didn't work, I called her again today and went round her place. It was nice just hanging out with her and joking around, and she even went to the trouble of making me a really nice cake. It was one of the few times I've been truly happy, and it made my day a fantastic one. There was also a fair amount of lounging around and watching TV, but that's pretty much customary really. Xiolin Showdown, Futurama and Teen Titans. Hurrah for cartoons, heh. I took my leave later on in the evening and headed home thanks to public transportation. Though trains can be late or cancelled quite often, at least they're convenient most of the time. After I got home it was back to the same routine really, animarathon, though a shorter one. I've just finished watching the rest of Gantz, i.e. 8 episodes, and the updates for Eureka Seven and Yakitate Japan. The ending of Gantz was quite strange in all fairness, but I wasn't fully disappointed with the sheer ambiguousness because as a whole it was a great series. With Eureka Seven yet more mysteries were explained, and the contents of episode 29 does help when it comes to understanding Holland's actions. As for Yakitate it was the usual interesting fare again, but what suprised me most was that there was an actual update. I thought the subbing group was on hiatus.

Since it's a monday today I also did my usual round of webcomics since most of them update 3 times a week or so. It helped relax me even further before job seeking reared its ugly head once more. It's got to the stage where both my step mum and dad are nagging me to get a job, and it's vaguely pissing me off. This is doubly so when one of them just walks into my room without knocking, sits of my bed whilst I'm watching anime, and starts talking to me in the assumption that I'll just drop everything I'm doing to listen to their preaching. It's entirely aggravating, especially since I dislike being interrupted in the middle of an episode, and the constant nagging is beginning to get to me. My dad is actually going to wake me up in the morning and drive me to Eastbourne and leave me there, just to find a job. I now have no choice in the matter, and personally I can't be arsed to get a job at this moment in time. I have no motivation for one, nor do I really care about a job in general. As such if I do miraculously manage to find one, I doubt I'll exactly 'put my all' into it. That's the main reason why I stated 'overall' my day was great, since this naturally brought it right down. I feel it explains the title of this post quite well. I can only hope that tomorrow I'll be able to find a job without too much hassle or stress. The main bad point is that because I'm not 18 yet I can't simply get a job anywhere. Once I hit 18 in July I'll probably change jobs anyway. Bah. Exiting on a bad mood for today, so till next time.

Animarathon: The Second.

Today I woke up and had the great experience of being able to stay in bed for hours. At least it felt that way, when I checked the time it was actually 11am. This means I must've woken up ridiculously early, but oh well. I ended up getting up at midday, and celebrated with a pizza and homework. I'd already decided to get at least 3 of 5 pieces done, so I went ahead and got it done. Admittedly whilst doing it I watched the first 4 episodes of Chobits from the DVD's I bought, but I still got the work done. The sociology task took 5 minutes, and the english booklet took me 10, since there's no way in flaming hell I'm going to bother spending my free time to annotate 30 pages of small dense writing. All I did was read titles and subtitles and speed-read most of the book to get a general feel for what it was all about. Different types of cures such as homeopathy and reflexology, as well as the effects of placebos. It wasn't that interesting to be honest, and considering that some of the exam questions ask you to write about the material in a 'fun and facinating' way for 8 to 12 year olds, damn. I can only hope that in the real exam the material given isn't a incredibly boring to write about. I don't mind exams in general, but with material like that there's no way I can enjoy them.

On the plus side Chobits kept me in a good mood as it's been a long while since I saw it last. Seeing the first 4 episodes made me remember what happened throughout the whole series and the difference between the anime and manga, so I didn't really need to delve into my collection to find the rest. Instead I continued watching Gantz and Great Teacher Onizuka. Both series are continuing to rise in my esteem, and Gantz is rapidly climbing the list of my favourite anime. Kei, though an arrogant jerk at first, in now frankly cool. The way he attacks and disposes of the alien-things is beginning to get very impressive. Onizuka is also showing more of his talents in life knowledge and experiences, and is consistently winning over more of the class. I've now managed to watch the first 18 of 26 episodes of Gantz and 22 of 43 episodes of GTO. I actually intended to stop at episode 15 of GTO but it's one of those titles that makes you want to watch the next episode, then the next, and so on. It's almost manifest curiosity that drives me on to watch it, and I'm enjoying it immensely. The two series are some of the most involving I've seen, though it could just be due to my sporadic love of anime violence and intriguing deep character. Call me unusual if you will, heh. Since that about sums up my day, till next time.

Rather busy.

Though it's now half term, the day was still pretty busy for me. Instead of having a nice sleep in this morning I instead had to get up so I'd be on time to meet my mate in Crawley. I managed to get the right trains and arrived at 10.15am, 45 minutes early just to make sure, and because the train times are strange. Unfortunately my friend didn't arrive at 11. Nor did he arrive on the next 4 trains, so I walked to the cinema and popped into Games Workshop on the way. I figured waiting too long at the station was pointless, so I figured if he was to arrive he'd make his way to the cinema. Sure enough, after arriving at the cinema he turned up, only 5 minutes after me. We ended up seeing Zathura, purely on the basis that it was a space version of Jumanji. Sure enough it was a pretty good film, but Jumanji still holds true as the best of the two. The first card from the Zathura game was pretty funny. "Meteor Shower. Take evasive action." Before the film though, and since I was wandering around shops on my way to the cinema, I found a pack of 10 DVD's, all about anime. Seeing the first volumes of 10 different series bundled up for just a tenner was great, so even though I had 5 of the series I still bought it. It has series such as Gungrave and Serial xperiments Lain which I haven't seen, so it should be worth it.

Once I got home it was naturally anime time, though I only managed to watch 6 episodes of Gantz and 4 of Great Teacher Onizuka. Both are good anime, yet the main character in Gantz isn't exactly a good guy. In fact he's a rather nasty person, but oh well. As with other works he may improve over the series as he learns. Onizuka on the other hand is a great character, living up to his name. Though I've only seen a tenth of the series I'm looking forward to how it all develops. It'll certainly be interesting to see how he completely wins over his assigned class. Since they're the worst in the school through sheer dirty tactics, and caused 3 teachers before Onizuka to resign from stress and stress related disorders, it's entertaining seeing how they try to break him. They almost managed it too. After this post I'll be doing my best to update everything in the forums, since I have one hell of a lot of work to do. I need to write up a good amount for my character in the arc and PvP he's in, not to mention soryteller all the other threads. At least it's a good hobby. Till next time then.

Break time.

Stop! Hammertime. The joy of no college for a week is truly nice, as is the prospect of socialising with friends outside of a working environment. Tomorrow I'll be heading to Crawley with a mate, most likely to see a random film. Later on in the week I'll probably be going to see another film with my best mate, and if all goes well I'll be off to Brighton with one of my other close friends, who I like, to spend the day with her. Since her work days are sporadic due to family babysitting duty neither of us are sure what day she can be free, but it's certainly something to look forward to. Unfortunately the work set does mar the free time, but I'll probably do 2 of 5 pieces on sunday or something. That'll at least help clear everything up. It'll most likely be the english and second sociology, since they're only annotating a 30 or so page booklet and filling in a question sheet respectively. Unfortunately the other 3 are all essays, so I'll leave them for another day when I can be bothered. It'll be fantastic to get all the work done and just relax, it's something I usually only do on weekends and even then when there isn't any set work. It's rare for me to just be able to kick back and do absolutely nothing for a day or two, heh.

In other news my eyes started developing slight stabbing pains. This could be due to watching 12 episodes of Chrno Crusade in a row, but on the plus side I managed to finish the series. The ending wasn't exactly what I expected, and was faintly disappointing. I honestly hoped for an ending which wasn't so overly pessimistic, and it even hinted that all the actions of the religious order, Chrno, Roesette and everyone else were completely pointless in the end. It could have been ended in a much better way, but I suppose the ending used does fit, in it's own sorrowful way. Luckily Gantz has the first two episodes for me to watch, so I don't have to dwell on Chrno Crusade's ending at all, and can instead simply move onto another series. Since Gantz doesn't get a good speed at all it'll probably take a few days, but during half term I should be able to finish it and make a start on Kiddy Grade. Regardless of searching I can't find decent torrents for the series Desert Punk, Burst Angel or Starship Operators. It's a bit disappointing, but I'll just look for something else and hope they turn up later. It's entirely possible. In a break from anime for a short while I continued to update the Soul Society forums. Due to word of mouth quite a few new people joined, so it's certainly keeping me busy. Pretty good really. Till next time.

Not quite.

It's almost half term. Almost, but not quite. Tomorrow is the last day before I have a blissful week off, and I'm quite looking forward to it really. One of the few drawbacks is that I've already been set a law and a sociology essay, and I'm likely to have another sociology, english and psychology essay set tomorrow. Though I'm most likely going to have 5 essays to write, comparitively it won't be much at all. Combined they'll probably only take me the equivalent of a day, if that. Therefore I should have more than enough time to complete my colouring entry for the Shinigami contest on Minitokyo, as well as time to watch one hell of a lot of anime. The main drawback to this plan is that it's most likely going to beat my computer up. As of late the whining and humming noises have been marginally louder, but consistent. Leaving it on for even longer due to more time at home probably means that it'll degrade more. The silver lining is the warrantee. Hopefully it'll cover any failure since I've only had the hard drive since december. If I'm really lucky it'll be the processor fan making the whirring and humming, and then I can simply buy a new one since they're not that expensive. As of yet I still haven't opened it up to selectively check, so I can only guess really.

After college I managed to watch yet more Chrno rusade. I've currently seen the first 12 episodes, and they're very good indeed. By tomorrow morning I'll have the next, and in fact remaining, 12 done and so I can have a rather pleasing little marathon of daemons. That is certainly what I class as enjoyable, so it's already something I'm looking forward to. GTO is again being pushed back, but with a week off I should at least get 20 or so episodes watched at the very least. Since the new Naruto filler, or occasionally named 'episode' was out I watched it. I'm hopeful that eventually the anime will go back to following the manga and then it'll be really good again. The episode itself was the usual fare, but was redeemed for me personally since it had Shino in it using bugs. It wasn't much, but it was still cool. Shino using bugs is always cool. Solty Rei and Mai Otome haven't been updated today or yesterday to my knowledge, but for some reason Yakitate Japan hasn't been updated for quite some time now. I'm assuming the group is having a few issues with members, since all it takes is for someone to be ill and the whole operation can stop. On that thought filled note I'll leave you for so, so till next time.

Sleeping.

Since today was a short day, I managed to get home by 2pm. The weather today was very sunny and quite humid, which tends to make me drowsy. As such when I arrived home I just went to sleep, and I only got up an hour or so ago. I've only managed to watch the new Bleach and Gun X Sword episodes, and I have to day Van in Gun is starting to get a lot better at fighting now. It'll definately be interesting to see how he develops later on. I've got another 3 episodes of Chrno Crusade to watch, and I'm looking forward to it since the anime is good indeed. After watching the first 4 episodes I can see huge similarities between Chrno and Trinity Blood, and since Trinity Blood is one of my favourites I'm guessing I'm going to deeply enjoy Chrno. At any rate since I slept for most of the day I don't have much to write about, so as such this is just an incredibly short post. Till next time.

Eldrich death.

As hoped, today at college was marginally more interesting. Not by much, but it was still at least something. There was lots more conversation with friends, and I also tried to console my best friend who's going through a little trouble. In slightly more uplifting news I ate donuts. That pretty much sums up my college day, as it was just normal college, without a huge heaped mound of boredom. Games Workshop was again far more eentful. I actually leant a friend from there the Rurouni Kenshin movie. I bought it from America a while back since I really wanted to see more Kenshin anime at around that time, and truth be told it disappointed me. The animation style wasn't really like the series or OVA's, but at least it was something to watch. Since my friend hasn't quite gotten around to watching the series yet his expectations won't be too high overall. Apart from lending out anime I got around to playing another game of Warhammer 40,000. This time it was against an Eldar army with an insanely stupid amount of guns. I kid you not, nearly every single shot from them killed one of my Chaos Marines with no save. They were that ridiculously powerful. At the end of turn 3 my army was looking decidedly smaller, but I carried on anyway.

By the end I'd managed to inflict a few key losses on the Eldar, but my own army was just devastated. At the end I had just 3 men left, but they were part of the unit of the match. My Havok squad managed to nail 3 guns and a healthy amount og troops. Without them I'd have suffered in quite a nasty manner. It just goes to show that any one unit can be very useful and can help turn a complete rout into an acceptable loss, heh. Though a usual game takes a bit longer than an hour, this one actually took nearly 4. It was deeply involved as I tried to turn the tide, but to no avail. I learnt a very valuable lesson, that the Elder guns were just damn scary. Thankfully once I got home I had the prospect of anime to watch, yet instead I decided to type this first to make sure it was on time. I have the first 4 episode of Chrno Crusade to watch now. Since it's talked about a lot by my American otaku friends I fully expect it to be good. With any luck it will be, though since it's in mkv format I doubt it'll be hardsubbed, which is a shame. I'll just have to make sure I listen to it in Japanese, since I always choose to listen to the original voicing rather than the dub. Since the anime beckons, till next time.

Uneventfulisation.

I've come to a conclusion about mondays. They go through a process which I term 'uneventfulisation'. Any promise they have of being interesting or having major news is carefully removed for later on in the week by a thin metaphysical gauze and set aside for another part of the week. By the end of the day I was nearly falling asleep, and I felt completely wrecked once I got home. Within an hour of being in a home environment I felt better again. This seems to only happen on a monday, and during the rest of the week stuff actually happens to me. Admittedly not the most exciting of stuff, but at least there's something going on. The stuff that happened to me at college today was simply normal. I hung out with my best friend for a bit, then had a chat with my previous ex. She's doing just as well and is still flaming hawt, so it was really nice chatting to her. Other than that nothing happened. Lessons just dragged on, and with psychology back, since the coursework deadline has now passed, the day seemed even longer. With any luck tomorrow will be better for 2 main reasons. 1, I'll have all 4 classes so hopefully the amount of work will make me forget boredom, and 2, I have games Workshop afterwards.

Once I got home from college and after the lethargy had faded I was happily greeted with the task of needing to write a law essay for tomorrow. Naturally this wasn't exactly a good time to lose all motivation, but that happened anyway. As I result I watched Bill Bailey's show 'Bewilderness' first, then feeling suitably happier I went about writing it. Thankfully due to the wording of the question on theft I didn't have to summarise over 20 pages. That would have been annoying. Whilst browsing for anime afterwards I discovered that boxtorrents isn't quite working properly for me anymore. Some pages remain completely blank. At first it was the front page, so I deleted all my cookies to force it to completely reload. When the front page subsequently appeared, I found that the log in page stayed blank for me. I don't really have any clue why it does this, so I guess I'll have to wait a few days to see what happens. Luckily all the other websites work for me, so I guess boxtorrents must be having some kind of strange problem with their coding. At any rate there haven't been any updates for me, so I'll just be leaving now to listen to music as GTO will have to wait a bit longer. Till next time.

Nearly done.

Yet another sleep in blessed me today, though not by much. I got up by midday because I didn't really feel like staying in bed too much. Even with more time in the day I didn't really get around to watching any Great Teacher Onizuka at all. Since it's dual audio with soft subs I can't watch it at double speed since the subtitles overlap. I usually watch anime at double speed since that way I get to watch a lot more in one go and I can have truly crammed marathons. Since I'm a very fast reader it's easy for me to pay attention to both the subs and what's happening, so I don't lose out. Soft subs destroy this however. It's unfortunate, but it looks like it'll take me a long time indeed to watch 43 episodes of GTO. Luckily I have other projects lined up, namely Chrno Crusade and Gantz. I also plan to get the anime Boys Be... as it's a familiar genre that's been subtly changed. Usually it's the girl that's forlorn and is only just experiencing love, but in Boys Be.. it's from the guy's perspective as they enter the realm of relationships for the first time. It's an interesting premise, and combined with the other two series I want to watch it'll probably be my 'relaxation relief' from all the action anime I watch.

In yet further anime news I managed to watch Mai Otome 17. That was an incredible episode. The sheer scale of bad guys was nifty, and the good twist for some of the characters was well done. The only drawback was that it immediately made me want episode 18. I still want episode 18 now, though I know it's not going to happen. I want to see what happens with Sergey, Akira and Nina. It's all very intricate, and the emergence of the Black Diamond to fight the Azure Star is quite intriguing. Not only was there Mai Otome goodness, but the next episode of Solty Rei has been released. That is of course excellent news, so I'm currently downloading it from IRC and I should be watching it not long after this post is finished. Unfortunately I had to stop my torrent for the Bill Bailey Bewilderness DVD, but that only has an hour or so to go anyway, so it won't exactly take too long to set back on track. Even now there's only 15 minutes to go, which is excellent news for me. It's a soft sub format, but I don't mind with Solty Rei since it's one of my favourite shows so deserves more of my time. The only other things I've been doing today is keeping the Soul Society frum going. I've made quite a few posts today, helping boost my opost count yet again. Soon I'll probably reach the 2.5k post mark. Considering it's a smallish forum, that's a ridiculous amount. Till next time then, Solty Rei beckons.

Down.

For some reason Blogger didn't seem to be working when I wanted to make my post, on time, so I had to wait a few hours and set the post with an earlier time. So much for consistency, hmm. At any rate today was for the most part a lazy day. I slept in till around 2pm since sleeping in is my weekend routine. Admittedly it means I get less done, but I certainly enjoy it. Aside from reading a book and listening to music, all I did was burn anime for my friend's birthday. 292 chapters of Naruto, 213 chapters of Bleach, and episodes 59 to 66 of Bleach. With any luck it'll keep him busy for some time. Since it'll bring him up to date I'll actually be able to talk to him about stuff that happens without fear of completely wrecking it for him. The party itself was fun, in that 'oh dear' kind of way. Dance dance Revolution mats were set as, as was the game, since another of my friends owns it and happens to be rather good at it. It was almost scary how well he could do compared to everyone else, and after several goes on it I briefly felt like I could never breathe again. Having asthma didn't really help me. The sheer amount of food for the number of people was scary. This must be some unwritten party rule, to have twice the body mass of the people attenting in little snacks.

Transport was aggravating. due to engineering works I had to get a train from Polegate to Lewes, then get a bus to Haywards Heath. The timing was inconvenient, and due to the time of the last train from Lewes to Polegate I had to leave the party 2 hours earlier than it's noted end. Naturally this was a bit of a downer, but on the plus side I managed to get home before midnight instead of some early ungodly hour in the morning. Once home I had the pleasure of gaining and then watching 2 episodes of Eureka Seven, 27 and 28. They were very good episodes. Holland was once again depicted in a good light (a pun for those of you who've seen it) and it proves that even with character flaws he's still good good priorities and dedication. Renton had to cope with more knowledge of dead people, but hopefully it'll be character building rather than detrimental. Now he has Eureka by his side he should be far more stable and happier as the two of them emphasize with eachother a lot more now. Unfortunately the Solty Rei update hasn't been released yet, but there's still tomorrow before the prediction of sometime this week is wrong. I quite want to see what Roy does, so sooner is naturally better than later. Nyanko are doing a very good job with it. The main pity is that the subs don't always stand out enough, so reading white subs imposed over a white background can be a bit difficult at times. Thank heavens pause exists, heh. Till next time then.

Single session.

Apart from days with no college at all, today was the shortest college day I've ever had. Having a single lesson wasn't bad, but it was a bit annoying having to go in for only an hour. Thankfully the short day obviously passed quickly, so I was able to go to Brighton for the afternoon. Yet again it was another visit to Dave's Comics. I ended up buying another anime figure from the same series as before. This time it was a bunny waitress. A small niche, but one that does look good if done properly. In the nearby David's Books store I managed to find the 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising'. It's a book I bought for a friend's birthday some time ago, and I intended to get a copy for myself. Since I never actually got around to it, finding the book in DaVid's Books prompted me to spntaneously spend. As such it's something else for me to read over the weekend. For tomorrow I still need to burn a shedload of anime and manga to DVD to give to my friend,. Since it's his birthday and he likes anime, not to mention he only has a dial-up connection, I figure giving him yet more updates for his favourite anime series (Bleach) can only be a good thing. Since he doesn't have the manga either he'll end up with a lot of reading to do.

Since I got back from Brighton early I managed to completely finish watching the Azumanga Daioh series. It was a fun series to watch considering it was purely comprised of short stories on par with the manga. The 'movie' was incredibly short too. In fact it was exactly the same length as an episode, 5 minutes. The only real difference was that the movie was a higher quality overall, with more character detail and shading. Due to the abundance of anime I watched I only got to play Guild Wars for about half an hour. Instead of beefing up my warrior some more I just went around as my necro, happily killing things. It's a handy way to relieve stress. As the only anime I have to watch is now Great Teacher Onizuka, and Neo Ranga when I feel like downloading more, I've decided to keep the rest of today free and just listen to Azumanga Daioh music. Watching GTO would be a bad idea purely as I'd want to watch quite a few in a row. At this time in the evening it's mean I probably wouldn't go to bed till 3am or so, and that won't help me when I have a party to go to. Music will therefore be short and relaxing. Y'know, one of these days something momentous will happen and I'll have something nifty to talk about in this blog, heh. Till next time.

Barely.

Yet another post barely on time today thanks to Games Workshop. Starting at the beginning however, college was tolerable today. I actually ended up with a sore throat for the latter half of the day since in my 4 hour free I was constantly chatting with friends in a noisy common room. As such I wore out my throat, which probably made several people in my later classes rejoice. The main highlight of the day however was indeed Games Workshop. I played yet another huge game of Man O' War in a 3 verses 3 game. Unfortunately I was on the losing side, but it wasn't that large a margin. My side had 27 points at the end (had it gone on another turn a definate 32) and the other side had 33. They also had a large array of crippled ships which would've been easy prey, but thanks to time constrictions the game had to end. Unlike the game I played last week, in which I got absolutely murdered, this game went much better for me. Magic worked, movement worked, and most importantly the guns on my fleet worked so I managed to do a fair amount of damage. It was pretty nice just hanging out and playing a naval battle with a twist, but unfortunately it won't happen next week since the main organiser will be on holiday.

Anime-wise I have a lot to watch. A vast amount of episodes. I have 13 episodes of Azumanga Daioh, all 43 episodes of Great Teacher Onizuka to watch and after this post I'll have the newest episode of naruto too. This means that my weekend will be relatively packed with anime. Due to the lack of homework this is easily plausible. Not only that but tomorrow I have just a single lesson. My pleading to have it cancelled was to no avail so I still need to go into college, but at least I'll be home by midday. This means more anime time. Saturday will be a bit more hectic since I have a friend's party to go to, so that'll take up pretty much the whole evening. Sunday is another happy free day, so I may be able to get through most of GTO by monday. That'll be quite handy really since apparantly the next episode of Solty Rei and next 2 of Eureka Seven will be out soon. So much anime, possibly enough time. Since it's getting late and I want to watch anime (as well as read the newest Mahou Sensei Negima chapter and Bleach raw chapter) I'll leave you there. Till next time.

Consistent.

Ahah, I happen to be making posts consistently on time now. Admittedly I only have a few days to base this fact on, but it's a fact none the less. Since today, happy wednesday, was the usual half day of college I got to relax at home even more. This was naturally marred by the presence of homework. True, it was only 1000 words of english language work, but the annoying factor was the requirement to write it in a style suitable for 8-12 year olds. I can write parody rather well, and I like to think I have a reasonably good writing style. My main weakness is writing styles based on age groups. Most of the time I need a ridiculous amount of reference material to copy a style, and even then it can get a bit dubious. At any rate I tried the usual method of writing for younger people - simplifying the lexis and grammar used, and adding more term explanations. With any luck I'll get a good grade. Though it doesn't count for anything, it's still a practice of the real exam I'll be taking in june, so if I do well now it's a very good sign. The only other work I had to do was a small law task, and I finished that in 5 minutes before my law class today so it wasn't exactly anything taxing.

The only other activities I've really been doing today are listening to music, typing, and watching yet more anime. The Bleach filler arc goes on, but I'm still enjoying it. Unfortunately my hopes of the new characters being similar to Onimorte, a 'Shinigami from hell' idea created on the forum I administrate, was dashed since they were revealed to be mod-konpaku. On the plus side the filler arc will end on Valentine's Day, at which point it'll resume with following the manga. I'm intensely looking forward to seeing all the Arankaru being depicted. Ulquiorra is damn cool. There's not been much manga around for me to read so that's unfortunately been on a hold. What's also on a hold is my job-seeking. This is purely down to my apathy and complete lack of motivation. I'll most likely get around to it eventually, but not right now and I doubt in the near future. Possibly by the end of the month. On a slightly more enthusiastic note I need to thank Ringthane, who now classes as a 'regular' here due to his comments. Cheers! As I glance at Azumanga Daioh's download speed and sigh inwardly I shall leave you all again. Till next time.