Oho, another animarathon.

Today was a good day. I only had the one lecture, and I saw one of my mates before it. After the lecture itself I met up with him again and we briefly went to Brighton where I bought two more small anime figures and another booster box, and he bought the Time Spiral fatpack. He had asked me to stop him from buying anything, but meh. I wanted to buy the boxes from the fatpack from him, heh. We both quickly returned to uni where I sorted through all my cards and got several rather nice ones and a lot of slivers. By 'a lot' I mean nearly 100 cards that were either slivers or useful in the sliver decks I want to build, such as the Prismatic Lens card. It's handy to be able to change a mana's colour. My mate ended up sorting through my red and black cards and choosing a few to combine with the cards he'd got and thereby made a deck. Not long after two more mates from SWARM arrived and we started properly playing Magic the Gathering. I tried my red and black sliver-based deck and unfortunately lost. It was slightly aggravating as if I'd got one more mana in the last five turns I would have won. How irritating. The game pretty much resulted in me trying to avoid getting swamped by saprolings. The next game involved all four of us however and I was using my favourite sliver deck. I killed all three of my opponents in one turn. That was 'nice', heheheh.

Not long after the games I had to return home in time to call my girlfriend to ask if she wanted to come over. She was happy to, and so we spent some time making a D&D character for me as her drow has been made for a long time, my diabolus fighter is being used in the SWARM campaign, and so for my mate's campaign which he says will be starting tomorrow I didn't actually have a character. Now I do and it happens to be a monk. A human one unfortunately. I wanted to make a warforged one, but some of the drawbacks really didn't suit my thoughts on how I want my monk to act, so it was a bit annoying, but oh well. After the character creation and dinner we basically just snuggled and dozed off together, and it was really nice. When my girlfriend left I got to work on the next zombie campaign poster which I'll be putting up tomorrow morning. I'll be going to Brighton with my mates during my three hour gap, so I'll invariably end up going to David's Books for a little bit, though there's another place which sells card sleeves and deck boxes so I'll be checking that place out. Tomorrow is quite a full day at uni, then I need to rush home and go to Games Workshop to meet my mates and girlfriend and I'll need to remember my stuff for the campaign.

As the title suggests I did finally get round to watching anime. From the looks of things the only real time I have to watch anime is on a monday in the evening when I purposely set time aside to get it all watched. This is rather bad really, as I still haven't bothered setting time aside to work on law. As such I'm really falling behind now... I really need to just pick a day and read for several hours to at least catch up with my subjects in the text books. I'm determined to get some semblance of this done on friday as I'll have a four hour gap inbetween my seminar and lecture and I'll finish at 3 pm anyway, so I'll have all evening. I swear I'll get caught up in at least two subjects that day. I simply have to.

At any rate the anime I watched was - updates for Kiba, two of Tsubasa Chronicle, the Tsuyokiss final, the Innocent Venus final, Naruto, Welcome to the NHK, two of Tokimeki, two of Black Blood Brothers, Death Note, Asatte no Houkou, Crescent Love, Negima, Himawari (as it'd finally been subbed), Chevalier and Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori. 18 overall, which isn't too bad. Kiba was interesting as not only did Zed lose, his key spirit was stolen whilst he slept. This is bound to be inconvenient for him. Tsubasa Chronicle had more feathers and a rather shady character who seems to be almost too kind and helpful. Tsuyokiss had a slightly odd is acceptable ending, though Innocent Venus was left remarkably open indeed. Thankfully it didn't bother me too much as it's not a favourite series. Naruto devolved into a more 'filler-ish' tone with the remarkably quick happy ending, though Welcome to the NHK was funny as it demonstrated the problems with MMO's and character identities. Poor guy, he looked so broken. Tokimeki had some strange sports challenges and a girl suddenly declaring herself to be the main guy's girlfriend. It's sweet in a way, if quite worrying. Black Blood Brothers had more Kowloon Child talk, and their respective death to an extent. In Death Note the book is becoming even more useful to Light, who's beginning to be very clever indeed. I'm looking forward to how the series pans out. Asatte no Houkou finally had a confrontation, though the older brother didn't seem to believe it, which is understandable. Crescent Love demonstrated that the Moon princess is a crappy swimmer. At least she has noble intentions in trying to save a drowing puppy. As for Negima he technically won as Evangeline seemed to give up. Silly vampire. Himawari had yet more 'wanting-to-be-a-great-ninja' action, and Chevalier had even more cross-dressing whilst being a French Knight. Odd, but there you go. As for Jigoku Shoujo, there was another much more interesting punishment for the person sent to hell. Looks like the series isn't quite as tame as the first one thankfully.

That's about it for now, though I still need to watch the rest of the Glass no Kantai and Burst Angel series. I highly doubt I'll be able to watch those for a long while... At any rate, till next time.

Vast improvement.

Work started with me on a low ebb, as I really didn't feel like working at all. I just wanted to go home, sleep a bit more, then see my girlfriend. Alas such an option wasn't possible, so I had to tolerate work. As the time passed the stress and emotional low passed as there was the happy knowledge that there was gradually less work I had to get through. Happy, in a sense. During my lunch break I changed my shirt to my normal clothing and wandered around the store, buying a PSP mag to check up on the latest games as well as grabbing lunch. Bacon and egg sandwich, mmm. For the rest of the day work wasn't that bad really. Quite busy, nut nowhere near the hell of yesterday. After work I did of course get to see my girlfriend. We spent some time talking about a few problem issues, but once those had been said the rest of the time with her was fantastic. It was as close to perfect as I think it's feasily possible to get. We spent ages just snuggling together, watch TV, a short amount of tme browsing the net, etc etc. It was really relaxing simply being with her. Unfortunately that did have to come to an end when I returned home, but We kept the possibility of seeing eachother tomorrow open. Since we don't usually see eachother on a monday that's pretty cool. I was looking forward to seeing her again the moment I got home, heh.

Though I didn't have any time for anime today I figure I may have some time tomorrow before my girlfriend comes round (if it's possible for her to do so). I'll most likely end up going to Brighton again after my single contract law lecture as I want to get another booster box for MtG Time Spiral. It's either that of stuff from dave's Comics depending on what they've got in. Choices, choices eh? I may however stay in university for a bit since I want to use my new decks against my mate and his (now hideously and repetetively beaten) simic mutology deck. It'll be interesting to see if he ever wins against me with that deck of his. On another unfortunate note I didn't get to play Bounty Hounds on my PSP today. Le sigh. Tomorrow I'll probably not play it on the train because I (hopefully) will be doing dome more law reading. I really should catch up as I'll be in week five tomorrow... Darn. Since this paragraph isn't structured around anime and is quite random, I guess I should mention the forum riddle. The latest one ended today and surprisingly there were multiple winners for the first answer and a single winner for the second. Looks like half the riddle has to go into a tie-break situation. How interesting. Now I really have run out of news. As such, till next time.

Diabolic.

The title of this post explains how busy it was at work today. Oh ye gods. I can, with absolute honesty and certainty, say it was the busiest day at work I've had at ASDA since I started over seven months ago. Luckily after the first ten minutes of being on a till I was taken off to help collect the trolleys out the front, as there were dangerously few. I collected them. They ran out. I collected them again. They ran out again. This went on for a while. Every time I moved more back, they were all taken. After a whilte a few others came out to help and I went back in to collect all the baskets. They were being used ridiculously fast. Blimey. I ended up - collecting trolleys, collecting baskets, back to trolleys, back to baskets. Over and over again from 10.10 am-ish till 2 pm. The cool thing about this was that I was allowed to choose when I had my lunch, so I went for one at 12.40 pm. How convenient. At 2 pm however I had to go back on the till, and it was hellishly busy. By the time my second break finished (from 4.50 pm till 5.05 pm) it had finally, -finally- calmed down and wasn't too bad. There was still a constant stream of customers, but the queues of eight to nine people (I'm serious here) had gone. After work I naturally went round to my girlfriend's house.

It was nice seeing her. We watched some of Team America before I felt tired so I spent most of the remainder of the evening resting. Since I wasn't hungry and didn't actually eat dinner my girlfriend was quite worried about me which was sweet if a bit constant. Once I got home I spent a long time talking with my step mum about how life in general is going, and with her help and advice I worked quite a few things out. I have much to discuss with certain people. I didn't get to watch any anime, nor do I wish to at this point. I'll probably end up watching some either tomorrow evening after I get home or during the large amounts of 'free time' I have on monday. Unfortunately that's all the news from today, so till next time.

Timely purchase.

My time in university was brief to say the least. I got up at around midday and eventually went into uni for 2 pm for a single hour long lecture. When that finished I went to Brighton. Unfortunately Dave's Comics didn't have the new issue of NewType USA in yet, so I went into David's Books and ended up buying a MtG Time Spiral tournament pack. I got a few nice cards and left the store. However something was dwelling on my mind, and as such I went back. I ended up buying a £60 booster box for Time Spiral. Extravagant? hell yes, but when I got home I proposed the idea that it count a the christmas present from my step mum and dad combined, and they agreed to pay me the money for it. That's excellent, though I'll most likely get another one with it.... Inside I got several very nice cards indeed. Combined with the 32 sliver cards I'd won off eBay arriving in the mail this morning, I had more than enough to construct a second sliver deck as well as heavily alter my first one. The first one did have 28 proxy cards in it, now it has five. Quite a bit better really. I now have a green/white/blue main sliver deck, and a black/red/green/white secondary deck with a few 'odd things' in it. The 'odd things' are pretty fun really. I also altered my Fun with Fungus deck, as I'd got more saproling creation cards, another Thelon of havenwook (rock on!) and another Sporesower Thalid (excellent!). That should help boost the army making potential of that deck.

When I got back I rang my girlfriend to see if she was okay, as I was worried about her being ill yesterday. She was much better today and I asked if she wanted me to go over as I also wanted to see her. From the really loud 'YAAAAAY' I heard down the hone I assumed she was rather happy at the suggestion, heh. It was nice being able to see her, not to mention snuggle up with her, and it really improved my day no end. Considering my day had already been pretty good it was like the icing on the cake. Niftah indeed. Though I could only spend a couple of hours with her I'll be seeing her tomorrow after work, and of course after work on sunday too, so I don't have to wait too long till I can see her again. Since I got back vaguely late I didn't watch any anime. My main 'priority' was sorting through the 615 new cards I'd bought. Though I don't really care about collecting a full set, I did want to separate colours, rares, mana and timeshifted cards. That's when I made the alterations to my decks and created the second sliver one. When the slivers I bought from America arrive I'll either change my first one again, or make a third sliver deck which is primarily green and blue. That'll be rather entertaining, basing a deck off of Psionic, Fungus and Watcher slivers. I'd most likely add Sidewinder and gemhide slivers 'to be safe' then fill the gaps with handy white or blue enchantments and spells. It's a cunning plan. I'm also planning to make an entirely anti-sliver deck which has a few slivers in it just to take advantage of the opponent's abilities. Fufufufu. I've widened my plans, now I want roughly seven sliver-based decks, as I'm going to have a wide assortment of the critters and having several sliver decks to choose from is just plain handy.

Oh, I also spent some of today reading up on Tort and playing Bounty Hounds.
Till next time.

Collect the Bounty.

Uni today was largely uneventful. The seminar in the morning went quite well, as about only three people in the group of twelve or so actually spoke, one of whom was me. I seem to be doing more than adequately in seminars considering the surprising lack of reading I'm doing. I know I really should keep up, but the motivation keep escaping me. At least I'm making a lot of lecture notes and actually using them for the seminars. After the seminar itself I had two hours spare. I spent a chunk of this listening to the Daft Punk song 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger' as not only do I like it a lot, it's also the theme music for my Sliver deck, heh. The rest of the time I spent reading a tiny (seriously tiny) bit of law text book, and the vast majority playing Bounty Hounds. Gee damn, Bounty Hounds is a fun game. It's like a cross between Monster Hunter Freedom and Coded Arms. It plays like MHF, with all the armour and gadgetry of CA. Instead of wyverns and reptilian critters, there's ETI's, a variety of alien 'life'-forms (I use quotes as one of the worlds hosts mineral-based creatures seemingly made of rock) which you blow to hell and back. It was fun going round comitting xenocide to terraform a planet. The lecture afterwards was incredibly boring by comparison, as it was Frameworks. Ye gods that's boring now.

When I got home I was excited as I'd soon see my girlfriend. However I heard bad news - it was not to be. My girlfriend's been ill today and had to go to the doctor. I have a very good idea of what exactly is wrong with her. I just hope she's okay and not in too much pain... Le sigh... Since I was going to be at home on my own, my dad and step mum (and one of her grown up daughters) invited me along with them to bingo. Now I don't really like bingo, but going out was far preferable to staying at home and feeling lonely. As such I took my PSP with me and continued to play Bounty Hounds. I kept playing when we all came back home too. In fact, I've been playing the game all evening as it's quite fun. True, it always points out where you need to go and you can't diverge much at all really, but you can certainly have a hell of a lot of fun with the xenocide and arming yourself. Thanks to my constantly changing armour, none of which seems to truly match another piece at any given time, my character looked like the bastardised love-child of a Gundam and Transformer for a while thanks to the helmet, torso and leg armour. It was pretty funny. Plus I'm now level 26, and as such have quite a few interesting skills. One is a field that regains me life and force, used to create the field, each time I hit an enemy. Combined with a slicer weapon, one that hits anything next to me all around dervish-style, I can keep my health reasonably high. How convenient.

One side effect to all this was that though I updated the forum and so forth, I've not watched any actual anime. This will probably rectify itself tomorrow, as I only have a single hour of lecture from 2 pm till 3 pm, so may watch some anime in the morning if I bother getting up, with more anime when I get back. yay for spare time when I should be reading law eh? Till next time.

Contagion.

Overall a very good day, though it ended on a bit of a low note. My seminar this morning went well. Since I'd focused on the devolution of power in the constitution of Britian for the task I was one of the four called up to talk about what they'd done. All the others were bombarded with questions, though when it came to my turn I was only asked one as I pretty much explained all of it. I would assume that was a good thing, heh. My lecture went fine too. After the lecture it was essentially SWARM time, and I started playing Magic the Gathering. In the early morning between my seminar and lecture I'd played a game and got over 250 slivers in play and did enough damage in one hit to get my mate to -1412 life. That was funny indeed. During SWARM I didn't quite have the same luck. In an eight player game I was harshly picked on purely for having slivers and for four turns I couldn't do anything as my gemhide sliver was bounced twice then countered. That effectively wrecked me for a while. However I managed to persuade the person to my left not to attack me, but to attack the club president. That was funny as she actually did and I was spared for a while. Surprisingly someone else went out before I did, and suddenly the game turned around. I got Sliver Queen and Crytalline Sliver into play. Yeah, I started hitting people hard. In the end I took out the last four players myself and won. I only had three life. Three. ROCK ON.

The zombie campaign is also going quite well. There was the first player fatality too as one of the infected characters deteriorated immensely quickly, and collapsed in a coma just before actual death. As such someone in a group with her put her in a small boat, chopped her head off, soaked her in an ammonium solution and set her on fire, then pushed her off and watched till the little boat broke apart and she sunk. Yeah, that's 'quite dead' for sure. The group on the downs split up slightly, with three going down to get more stuff. It went quite badly for them, as not only were two bitten (though one didn't seem to get infected 'miraculously', heheheh) but the third ended up stabbing one of them between the ribs with a crowbar as they'd damaged his camera. That was... interesting,. One of the downs group is now also coughing up a LOT of blood which is rapidly becoming a dark orange. He's so screwed.... The group who had been doing the best, locked up in hazmat suits in the uni itself, are rapidly getting into trouble. They took in a new girl as she was wearing a hazmat suit (she'd only joined the club today) and they seemed enthused as she wasn't wearing anything underneath the suit. However this was because she'd been attacked earlier, and they noticed the inside of her suit was starting to get a bit... orange... They tried cleaning her as she had orange marks over her body, but to no avail. They even briefly set her on fire to try and burn it away, and succeeded in savagely mentally scarring her. In other words, I had a lot of fun.

In the D&D campaign it was found out that my character had the evil runes on his hand, but luckily (and I quite suspect on purpose to avoid my death...) the local head of the Church said I wasn't tainted and that it could actually be a boon. He also gave my character a religious amulet to help persuade people that I'm not tainted and evil. That was calming, as the two other fighters in the group, one of whom is a Paladin, had been threatening me. Whoops eh? During the campaign however I'd been keeping an eye on eBay as there was the auction of 229 slivers that I wanted. In the end I had to bid $70 four minutes from the end as I had to leave uni to catch the train. When I got home I checked, and guess what? Some git had bit $71 about ten, TEN seconds from the end. Well fuck. That really pissed me off, hence my saying earlier that the day ended on a low note. On the plus side I at least have another 58 slivers arriving in the post from various sources. That is at least a small consolation, and the D&D DM has another 50 to 60 he's selling to me for £3, which rocks. That makes me feel marginally better too. I'm now glad I bought a Sliver Overlord seperately as I missed the one in the batch of 229. One day there'll be another such batch, and I -will- get it...

Unfortunately when I got home I didn't really have any time to watch anime, so it's beginning to pile up again.... Dang. Till next time.

Winning.

Hmm, it was the full uni day today, and it wore me out a fair bit. An hour lecture, hour gap, two hour lecture, three hour gap (which was filled by playing Magic the Gathering) then an hour lecture. After that it was time to quickly return home and then straight to Games Workshop. The spare time I had an uni however which wasn't spent playing MtG was occupied by hanging out with a friend from law. She's been having a people of people trouble so we were chatting about that for a while. In the MtG games themselves I did rather well. I won both of them which is generally good. In the first however I could easily have died, and thankfully due to persuasion I managed to get my mate to attack the other guy and not me, so instead of dying instantly I was able to take him out within two turns with a few handy sliver combos. Quite useful really. After uni when I went to Games Workshop I didn't actually play any games in the store. When my girlfriend arrived we went for a short walk before grabbing food with a mate and retreating to the pub for a couple of games of pool. Largely it was uneventful, but quite relaxing compared to uni. Though uni wasn't actually difficult, it was still quite draining a I had to take notes in the last lecture which was rather boring, and keeping my attention honed was exceedingly difficult.

Though I've not watched any anime today, I did finish the Ghost in the Shell movie yesterday. It was quite entertaining to watch the raid, though Togusa's actions when he was controlled was quite surprising. I didn't expect the outcome as I really thought he'd go through with it. Overall the film wasn't as good as the first, nor as thought-provoking as the second, but it still had a high amount of aestheticly pleasing animation and intrigue. I quite enjoyed it. I also played a bit more Rengoku II, though I'm still on floor three. I also tried out Avatar The Last Airbender and Blade Dancer on the PSP, and though both weren't bad per se, they didn't seem that remarkable either. I'll probably end up trying either Work Time Fun or Bounty Hounds and Mercury Meltdown next when I actually have the time. As it was trying the games today was rather brief at about five minutes per new game. Not exactly time draining. Tomorrow I have a seminar first thing and I really should have prepared... Oh well. I'll probably bring the relevant text book with me tomorrow and read on the train. Not quite the best option, but better than nothing I would assume. After that there's a two hour gap, in which no doubt I'll play PSP and potentially read a bit of law, then my usual lecture before SWARM. I'm looking forward to see how the participants in my campaign will react when I up the campaign a notch in terms of attack frequency... Till next time then.

Hax!

University was rather quick today. As I didn't bother going to Brighton afterwards, I got the 10.11 am train to uni, had my lecture at 11 am, got the 12.02 pm train back home, and got back to the house before 12.40 pm. All in all, a short day out. Once back instead of doing the sensible thing (catching up on reading contract law, which I'm going to do tomorrow anyway) I decided to play on my PSP some more. Though many reviews say Rengoku II is as shallow as the original, I still like it immensely. Hell, going round as an android and shooting other androids to hell and back is, for me, fun. I'm currently armed with a few types of machine gun. No doubt soon I'll have all kinds of nifty shiz. For a couple of rooms I armed myself with a missile launcher and that was quite fun indeed. After chatting with an old friend on IRC I decided I may as well try the 2.71 SE-A firmware for the PSP. Essentially it's 2.71 which has the homebrew playing elements of 1.50. This is quite convenient as it doesn't mean I have to keep switching between Devhook emulation and 1.50 to get everything to work. All in all it's rather nifty indeed. As of yet I've not tried irshell even though it's been recommended, as I've not seen that much point for me in using it. As I don't currently use my PSP to read ebooks I don't feel I have the need to try it. Eventually I may do.

With lots of free time you'd expect me to have watched lots more anime right? Wrong. I didn't really get round to it as I spent time on the forum, on my PSP, and making the new poster for my zombie campaign 'Thirteen Days'. I did however watch the updates for Chevalier, Black Lagoon and Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori. Chevalier had mercury-filled dogs. They looked kinda cool. Black Lagoon seemed like a happy ending till the very end. That surprised me a fair bit, then made me laugh for ages. The brother and sister were good characters, and the way they went was quite funny. As for Jogoku? It used the same fiery chariot clip which it used over, and over, and over again in the first seires. That annoyed me quite a bit, but overall the episode was quite entertaining. Tomorrow I'll probably not watch any anime due to an annoying lack of time thanks to a full university day then Games Workshop afterwards. Oh well. For now at least I have my spare time filled with PSP goodness and (supposedly) law. With that I've not really got anything else to say, so till next time.

Grargh...

Work was a bitch. It technically wasn't too bad, in the sense that I didn't start feeling like crap till after my break. This was because my midday break was actually given to me at 2 pm. Considering I start at 10 am, that's the full four hours before I had it. Had I worked asny longer, it would have been illegal. Bloody lack of god damn staff. As such by the time I got my break I was feeling drained, and after my break I was fed up with being there and just wanted to leave. Two hours of desperately wanting to leave doesn't feel good. After work though I got to see my girlfriend, which was excellent even though I felt wrecked from work. We relaxed together and talked for a while, and it was really nice just being able to relax with her after work. I suppose that feeling of bliss makes the stress of work worthwhile, in a way. We also watched Fullmetal Alchemist again, and the series will be ending within a month. Then I can give the movie to my girlfriend as she's been wanting to watch it for quite some time now. Hopefully it won't disappoint her when she does see it, heh. When I got home I checked my torrents, which I'd been very kindly allowed to leave on all day, and to my delight they were all done. Excellent. As a consequence of this I started playing Rengoku II on my PSP. Oh my, it really does rock. The graphics are better, the level (what I've seen of it) is much darker and techno-gothic, movement feels more fluid and the best thing of all is that I already have an automatic crossbow equipped to my head. ROCK ON!

Though I do have time to watch anime, I've not quite managed it yet. I spent a fair amount of time on my PSP obviously, then did my usual search for anime updates and updated the forum. I also wrote a new riddle for the forum and this one has a rather large prize. I hope only one person gets the answer otherwise I'll have to think of a good mini-riddle... At any rate the anime I need (well, qould like to rather than 'need' per se) to watch is a Bleach dub update, Innocent Venus, Black Blood Brothers and Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori. Jigoku Shoujo was pretty fun, so I'm quite interested in how the second series will turn out. One of these days I'll also probably get the Megas XLR and Ultimate Muscle cartoons since I enjoy them and haven't seen them for a while. I'd also like to find some more fun PSP games, though Rengoku II, Tekken, Bounty Hounds, Killzone Liberation, Mercury Meltdown and Spectral Souls will more likely than not easily fill all the time I have not spent reading law books or watching anime. As that essentially covers everything for today I'm going to go grab some food. Till next time.

The animarathon returns!

Even though I knew I wouldn't see my girlfriend today I did my best to keep the day entertaining. Rather unfortunately I had to go into work over an hour and 20 minutes early, so I did a bit of shopping, buying a book to be a Christmas present for my dad, a DVD of Bugsy Malone (bloody good film) and the Tekken Dark Resurrection game for my PSP. Yeah, I finally caved in and bought the damn game... I spent the rest of the time before work playing Bomberman howver. Damn those CPU players and their ridiculously good bomb-fire avoidance. Bah. Work itself wasn't too bad for the most part as it didn't make me feel low at all. It did however piss me off slightly in terms of my breaks. I had my midday break at 12.51 pm, and my 3 pm break at 4.55 pm. They didn't have enough staff to cover all the breaks in a timely manner, probably due to staff sickness and whatnot, but it was quite annoying. After my shift finished I picked up the new uniform, to be worn starting the first of November, and the new fleece does look a lot better. Instead of being purely lime green it's now predominately black with a few green strips. It's also really warm which is a handy bonus. After I got back home from work I set about changing my PSP. It had firmware 2.6, and the tekken game requires 2.71. However I didn't want to go up to 2.71 even with the reverse devhook for emulation, so instead I went down to 1.5, up to 2.0, then down to 1.5 again to have a 'pure' 1.5 homebrew. Thanks to Devhook I can still play Tekken (and it's damn fun) plus I'm able to use PSPTheme to change the background into a jet black number. How stylish.

The questionably 'good' aspect of not seeing my girlfriend today was quite noticably obvious - time. More of it to be precise. As such I managed to get all the PSP stuff done, the anime update check done, Urbad Dead done (in which I'm now level 14), and get 13 anime episodes watched. That's not bad considering for the past few days I've not been able to watch any at all. They were as follows - Kiba, Inukami!, Ah! My Goddess second season, Bleach, Naruto, Tsuyokiss, Aria the Natural, The Gargoyle of the Yoshinagas, Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru, Negima, Tonagura!, Death Note and Crescent Love. As per the usual 'usual' I'll quite briefly talk about them.

Kiba has more interesting fights, though the way Robes won seemed to show how pathetically rubbish his opponent was. Inukami had more surprisingly good life views from the perverted Keita. Ah! My Goddess had more messing from Hild in a non-manga story. I didn't watch the preview, so no idea if it's returning to the manga plot or not. Bleach had Soi Fon successfully use her Shi Kai. It looked funny, if a bit slow. naruto had some interesting genjutsu, and though the character's didn't look particularly well animated, the paintings did look quite nice in some instances. Tsuyokiss had more angst from the girl about the guy she likes. Aria the Natural had even more heartfelt connections and whatnot to Neo Venezia. The Gargoyle in Yoshinagas evidently doesn't like the magician-thief. Pity eh? Surprise surprise, in Otome wa oku ni Koishiteru the incredibly beautiful girl found out that the man character is a guy, and also happened to have an emotionally damaging past affliction. ye gods, do ALL beautiful girls in anime and manga, idolised by groups of people, have some serious catastrphic accident or something in their earlier life? It's almost contagious. Negima had more cool fighting effects. Though the art is very different to the manga, it still looks reasonably impressive. Even more reconciliation was in Tonagura! and it looks like the pair are back to normal, even if they haven't really told eachother how they feel directly. As for death Note? More coolness. That Shinigami has gained cool points by posing light with a very costly, but beneficial, proposal. I'm liking this series quite a lot. Finally in Crescent Love the Luna Princess doesn't seem to be doing too badly to fit herself in.

It's a good thing I'm not picking up any new series, as I've seen at least five series with their first episode subbed lately. It's so tempting to check up on what they're about, but I'm hard pressed to keep up as it is already. Poor series... No doubt if they're good I'll see them in the future. That's about it for today, and I've not much else to say other than that I'm really looking forward to seeing my girlfriend tomorrow after work, obviously. Now that's all said I'm off to watch another anime update, Welcome to the NHK! Till next time.

Juxtaposition.

What an interesting day. It started out with a seminar first thing, which went well. Then I went to Brighton, bought some Magic the Gathering cards, and went back to uni. For the rest of the four hour break I read a bit of my tort textbook then dozed. I then had a lecture which similarly went well. After that I returned home. A mate came round and we played a few fun games of MtG and I won them all, rather harshly when I used my Sliver deck. Once he'd gone home I phoned my girlfriend to check if I was indeed going round her house tomorrow after work as per usual, as she has training in Brighton. Unfortunately I finish at 6 pm, and she'll be catching a train back home at 6.30 pm. She probably won't get home till 7.10-ish pm, so I'll not be going round. This made me feel quite low, hence the extreme brevity of this post. As I don't feel like doing anything else, I'll call it a day.

Till next time.

Seminars and lectures.

Meh. I went into uni an hour early today to read up on the first three chapters in the frameworks of law prescribed boo kin preparation for the seminar, and ended up spending less than 2 minutes on that and most of the hour cruising ebay and various online stores for more slivers. I'm quite liking the stupidly large variety there are. You can practically make a whole plethora of different decks just using slivers and basing play around their abilities. No doubt there are a myriad of ways around them, but they do seem fun. The seminar itself went well, as did the lecture, although the lecture was boring. Once it finished I made my way back home quite quickly as my girlfriend was going to turn up at 1 pm, and I needed to catch the 12.02 pm train back. When I got back I had to quickly collect a parcel from the local post office branch (ah, another anime figure....) so by the time I got home and (barely) settled my girlfriend turned up. I was actually still vaguely damp from a shower. She seems to have impeccable timing - she always arrives five or so minutes before I'm truly ready, it's quite entertaining. As it was she played more Pokemon Colosseum as she'd not lavished it with much time in the recent past, and after that we read manga together then watched some of the Dogma film.

Unfortunately time passed by far too quickly and she had to return home. Bah. Since I happen to have a tort seminar tomorrow morning first ting I figured I should really get round to actually preparing the set tasks for it. I'd already found relevant articles so I printed them out and duly didn't bother reading them. I suppose I should have. I didn't really go through the text book either. Instead I used my lecture notes to answer the set questions, coming up with brief (and quite probably inaccurate) sums for calculating the relevant damages. This, notably, took a lot of time for little work. I guess I just didn't have the relevant motivation. I did however have the motivation to make a shedload of sliver proxies. In case you're wondering, a proxy card is a fake card, a stand-in. Though I've bought some new sliver cards, it'll be a while till I actually receive them. Till then I'll be testing various stand-ins to see which combos really work well and so on and so forth. I've therefore altered my sliver deck to be green and white with a miniscule element of blue. Again gemhide sliver comes to the rescue for other mana. Tomorrow after my tort seminar, and before my tort lecture, I have four hours of free time. With luck I'll get a test game in then, or I'll end up going to Brighton to David's Books to look for more slivers.

Again, I've had no time to watch anime. It's beginning to pile up. Till next time.

Zombies!

Ahh, it's nice to have an excellent day. It started with an hour and a half of research in the library using the online law resources and during all that time I found six or seven usable pieces for my seminar on friday. After that I hung out with a friend from law lectures for half an hour or so, then quickly popped into Falmer House and met up with two SWARM friends. The three of us went and had breakfast, then it was time for my lecture. It made me feel especially pleased as each one of the statues and commission reports I'd found was mentioned. This means I got the right stuff then. Excellent news. After the lecture it was straight to SWARM where the two friends I'd met earlier were already waiting, and I got down to some Magic the Gathering games. I used my sliver deck in a Two Kings game with another sliver deck on my side. Oh gods it was dirty. My side won, relatively decisively, eheheh. In the second game I played it was all verses all, and as I was slivers I got picked on a bit. It took me a while to die, but I didn't come close to winning. I was the third of eight to go out the game. Once that was over however, the real fun began.

Today was, afterall, the start of my zombie campaign. A few people had to finish up character creation but that went quite smoothly. The campaign itself started as thus - over the past few weeks strange news reports have been filtering in, containing missing people, hysterical accident victims and a supposed epidemic sweeping the country. However there was no visual proof of any of this for the members of the group. Gathered in the library, the various members of faculty and tag-along students had to find out what exactly was going on. Led by a series of 'clues', or rather random student created zombie pamphlets, they came into contact with a strange coughing dude who tried to get them to join his club. Alas it was not to be, as when he started coughing blood he left, and they deemed it was good time to leave also. After doing some research in the various labs, they came to find that in the man's blood was a particularly virulent strain of tuberculosis, and for some reason a practically lethally high level of sulphur. having that in your blood can't be a good thing eh? It was then that everyone fragmented into three groups - the bio-chemists, the small group of friends, and the large group of people intending to survive. The first group was only three strong but all got hazmat suits and completely and utterly locked down a restaurant in the Uni, getting it into total quarantine which was impressive, the second group used a car and loaded up on food and weapons before getting on a boat and staying near the coast, and the third went up into the Downs ( a countryside-ish place for those of you not English), and organised routine watches. Not bad really, though I did of course mess with all of them. Fufufufu.

In the D&D campaign I managed to get the ooze off my face and it was prompty killed to my relief. There was a fair amount of exploration and another two encounters, but I stayed relatively clear and in safety, purely because a single hit from the big critters, or the combined attacks from the smaller ones, would have just killed me. There was also a really evil sword, but despite my best efforts when no one else was looking, I wasn't able to break through the protection. Gee damn I want that shiny black sword.... the rings in the case with it would be cool too. Thankfully I managed to get back to the group without them noticing I'd gone, but the fact that my actions released a stupidly large aura of evil, the Paladin assumed it was my fault as since I'm a Diabolus in the campaign, I look demonic. This doesn't bode that well in terms of being healed and not attacked by party members....

After getting home I naturally had no time at all for anime. Bleh. Till next time.

Bowling.

Today was meh in general. I've had a headache all yesterday and today, as well as sinus troubles yesterday and today. As such it's felt like the inside of my head, and half my face, is throbbing with a dull acheing pain. It's not that pleasant at all. It's also my busiest day on a tuesday, so that wasn't all that pleasant either. An hour of lecture, an hour gap, two hours of lecture, three hours gap, then an hour of lecture. They passed reasonably enough, and in the three hour gap I played two long games of Magic the Gathering with my Sliver and Unhinged decks respectively. I won both. With the Sliver deck I just slapped my two mates around with harsh damage through simple tapping (yay for Psionic and Watcher Slivers!) and with the Unhinged one I got up to 134 life at one point. That was funny. Once the lectures were over I returned home quite quickly, in order to pick up my girlfriend. She came round mine for an hour or so before we went off to a party for one of her friends. It had lots of bowling, and party food. Oh, and glow sticks. Those provided an amusing distraction from doing badly at bowling. I started off repeatedly missing, then got into my usual form of strikes, spares, nines and eights. I came second in the games I played, and would have come first in the last but I took another guy's bowls for him, ended up getting a spare, and so his points went straight past mine. That was vaguely unexpected.

Afterwards my dad kindly picked us up and dropped my girlfriend off home, before I came home and searched for anime updates as per usual. I now have ten episodes of Glass no Kantai to watch thanks to an update, as well as the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society movie (with subtitles!) and updates for Negima and Kiba. I simply do not have any time for anime right now, as I need to catch up with my law reading and prepare for two seminars later this week. As SWARM will be running from essentially the end of my lecture tomorrow till 10 pm, I'm having to go into university three hours early just to be able to prepare for the friday seminar. Thankfully I've done the library exercise for thursday, but I still have some background reading to do for the seminar itself. Meh. Combined with my feeling crappy and in pain, this isn't exactly appealing, nor is my motivation all that brilliant... ah well. Till next time then.

Moar feegurez.

University today was quite fun. I only had an hour of lecture, so afterwards I went down to Brighton to Dave's Comics. Unfortunately the anime figure order hadn't arrived, so I went into david's Books and ended up buying a Magic the Gathering Time Spiral fatpack. It came with six booster packs, 40 mana, a life counter (D20 dice), two panoramic art card boxes (which look really nice), a Time Spiral novel, six little plastic dividers with good art and a card list-booklet. All in all, quite nifty. The most important thing however was that I got a fair amount of slivers, many of which were new types. Even though my sliver deck is white green and red, the nifty gemhide sliver meant I was able to put blue slivers in the deck. They're pretty harsh... After that I went back to university to meet up with my mate, and from all the remaining cards he made a deck to fight me with. It went ridiculously well. There was a period of 16 or so turns when I could have completely iradicated him, doing 40-ish damage a turn should I have wished. Instead I beat him down to two and enjoyed the game. To my surprise he managed to play a card which killed off all the other creatures, including mine. This, combined with a spell that did 17 damage and the attacking 3/3 creature meant I died. At the time I though it was fantastic and really funny, but I laughed even harder when I got home later in the day. The spell he'd used to do 17 damage wasn't X mana and a few red, it was -double X- mana, so to do 17 damage he'd have had to pay 34 mana instead of the 17 he tapped. That was pretty funny.

After that match I called Dave's Comics and the anime figure order had finally arrived. I quickly went back to brighton and proceeded to rummage through. After a good deal of fun and disregarding certain models, I had another eight selected for purchase. Four were from Moon Phase, and the other four were from artwork I'd only seen in passing before, created by Satoshi Urashima. That was pretty cool. When I finally returned home I had to spray the second set of four's bases, since they were orange. Black looks better. After I finished admiring my new purchases I went through a bought of MtG deck alteration, making my sliver deck a tiny bit harsher and slightly changing the Fun with Fungus deck. IOut of boredom and curiosity I also made an Unhinged deck. It'll be interesting to see how people react to it on wednesday.

I did also get through a small amount of anime. The updates for Ah! My Goddess second season, Chevalier, Tsubasa Chronicle and an episode of Glass no Kantai (finally). Ah! My Goddess has seemingly branched out into 'fillers' now, as I don't remember Belldandy accidentally gaining a Demon's licence in the manga, nor Keichi being completely messed around by Hild-sama (which was shown in the preview for the next episode). I don't really mind since the new stories aren't completely rubbish, like some of the Naruto ones. Chevalier had odd cross-dressing/possession in it. How strange. Tsubasa Chronicle revisited a world they'd already been to again. The creators must be running out of plausible ideas. As for Glass no Kantai, the poor aristocrat got his ship sold and crushed into a metal cube. Poor bugger. I still have nine episodes of Glass no Kantai to watch, but you can bet it'll be ages before I watch them all.

In other happy news, I got to level 11 in Urban Dead. Head shot baby, yeah. Till next time.

Transmutation.

Work went from soul crushingly bad to vaguely tolerable in the six and a half hours I worked today. It was a slow gradual change. This morning I just felt awful. Not ill, it was just a low emotional ebb. Considering work tends to get me into such a state, starting in one obviously wasn't a pleasant beginning for the day. However it gradually got better as I was counting down the time till I could bloody leave, and though it didn't feel all that fast, it was nicely constant. Looking up to see only 15 minutes have passed instead of the 30 it felt like may be bad, but the secure knowledge that at least 15 minutes have passed is there. After the stress and thankfully not endless despair of work the sight of my girlfriend made me feel one hell of a lot better. The hugging certainly helped a great deal too. We watched some anime together, namely two episodes of Ouran High School Host Club as she's not seen the whole series yet. I need to get her the rest, as she's now finished watching the first 18 I burnt for her. Fullmetal Alchemist rocked. It was one of my favourite episodes, where Lust attacks a shedload, Wrath is stupid, and Sloth gets turned into ethanol. Supremely funny the way Wrath essentially helped the Elric brothers by trying to be closer to his 'mummy'. Stupid git, eheheheheheh. After that we watched part of the Memories DVD which has on it three short anime films from different directors. Unfortunately I didn't get to see the whole of the first one before I had to leave.

You guess it, I did my usual anime and manga check when I got home then updated the forum. I've still not watched any episodes of Glass no Kantai, probably because none of it is hardcoded and I dislike overlapping subs, not to mention that I can't watch it all that quickly. I do however have another dubbed episode of Bleach to watch as well as the final episode for Kamisama Kazoku and the first two episodes of the new series of Black Lagoon. I completely forgot that Black Lagoon was going to have a second series. Excellent stuff. There's another episode of Tsubasa Chronicle to watch too, but it isn't exactly high on my list of priority anime to watch, simply because by now it's getting incredibly repetetive. Asatte no Houkou needs to be nabbed too. Updates always seem to arrive in groups of 'many'. Slightly inconvenient now thanks to organisational and timetable problems (i.e. lots of law to read...) but I can't really complain. At least I have them to watch eh? Tomorrow morning I'll be going into university an hour early to get an A3 zombie poster, from a zombie survival kit, colour photocopied in the library to put up on the SWARM notice board. Like hell I'm using the real one..... In the spare time I have afterwards, since it won't exactly take long, I'll be doing my best to read more of my law textbooks. I've been kinda... neglecting them. Which is a bad thing. Yeah. Damn.... Ah well, till next time.

Excellent music.

Currently I'm listening to the instrumentals and songs from the Matrix films. Gotta love atmospheric music. Such dramatic music is strangely calming. Anyway, onto the usual content. Work was fairly boring. This doesn't mean it spiritually crushed me as per usual, oh hell no. It didn't particularly make me feel good or bad, it was just weird-ass neutrality. meh I guess. I did get quite agitated when it was time for me to l;eave. I overran by five minutes, and I hate having to do that since my girlfriend waits outside for me. However three other co-workers near me found it amusing, as they knew why I was getting irritated, and the customer and her teenage daughter also fouind it amusing when they were informed by said staff. That wasn't overly pleasant, but meh. After work time with my girlfriend was naturally comforting and relaxing. We watched a bit of Lost, but it's not really my thing so that didn't last long. My girlfriend also started another one of her mum's Christmas presents with her sister, so I essentially just sat back for that since it didn't really have anything to do with me. The rest of the evening passed pleasantly enough. Since anime is aired on Rapture on sundays there wasn't a Fullmetal Alchemist episode to see, but there will be tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing the final homonculi fights against Ed purely because he's learnt a lot with how to deal with them.

Once I got home I spent a fair amount of time chatting with my step mum before coming onto my computer at around 11 pm. I haven't really bothered to update the Soul Society forum yet but no doubt I will do. I've not watched any anime either, though I'll probably watch an episode or two of Glass no Kantai before I finally drist off to sleep. Tomorrow it's going to be boring work once more. I'm lucky to be able to see my girlfriend after work, I reckon it's one of the few things helping me keep my sanity. In the nature of planning ahead I guess when I get back home tomorrow, and on monday before my lecture, I'll catch up on some reading. I highly, and I stress highly, doubt I'll fully catch up, but by any deity you care to name I'll damn well get close. Of course since I'm an atheist such an oath is a bit pointless, but I assume you get my general meaning. With ten episodes of Glass no Kantai that actually need watching I suppose I should really be off to watch a few, so till next time.

Early.

Three hours early to be exact. I had decided to go into university far before my only lecture in order to have time to start and actually finish the seminar task. This plan worked well, aside from the fact that it only took me an hour to do. This meant that for two hours I was generally just wandering around campus or sitting in Falmer House common room doing nothing. As you can guess, this was vaguely boring. My lecture wasn't too bad though, and once again I didn't take many seperate notes but did do a fair amount of annotation. Afterwards I decided to go to Brighton, and spontaneously bought a Time Spiral 'Sliver Evolution' deck in David's Books as the tournament pack I'd bought before had a fair few sliver cards in it. Unfortunately Dave's Comics hadn't received their anime figure order, so I just bought two more little Rozen Maiden figures to add to the collection. Not counting the little dog model, which doesn't really fit in anyway, I've now completed the set with all seven little doll characters. It looks quite nice really. Other than that I didn't really do much when out and about, and returned home once there wasn't much chance of the delivery showing up. I even started to read my law tort book on the train journey back and, though complex, it was quite understandable. How convenient.

Not much anime was watched today and I can't be all that bothered to list it. All that's left for me to do is to update the forum and, since it's been a while, possibly add a new riddle should I think one up. Tomorrow after work I'll see my girlfriend again, so that's definitely something to look forward to. This lack of news cuts the post shorter than usual, so till next time.

Blissful contentment.

It started rather badly. I was woken up at around 7 am this morning by a call from my girlfriend with good news. She's managed to get a job placement at Primark which was fantastic indeed. However as a result she had to go and create a bank account in the afternoon and wouldn't be able to come round. She seemed quite upset on the phone and I was really disappointed, but still happy for her as she'd managed to land a job. After that call I pretty much went back to bed for a few hours till I needed to go to university. The lecture wasn't bad at all, as it was the first, and only, lecture on online research methods and so no notes at all were needed. After all, everything the lecturer said was in the booklet so I figured writing the same thing out again was stupid. After the lecture I rushed home and called my girlfriend, offering to go round her's instead. This made her quite happy, and made me feel a lot better when I got there as she had thought she wouldn't see me today. Pfft, like I'd let a chance to see her slip by without doing anything. We went with her mum and made the bank account, then went window shopping. I tend not to be good at window shopping as I usually feel like baggage since I have nothing to do. When we got back however my apathetic mood eroded quite quickly since my girlfriend was really affectionate and made me really feel loved. It's a wonderful feeling.

Towards the end of the evening we both actually drifted off together, as we frequently doze, woken only when her sister yelled up the stairs that my dad had arrived to pick me up. That was vaguely embarrasing as I don't think either of us meant to fully fall asleep, heh. Once home I did the usual anime updates check and updated the forum, as well as getting even more ammunition in Urban Dead. I also managed to watch the updates for Bleach and Black Blood Brothers. Bleach was pure filler as nothing much happened, and Black Blood Brothers had yet more vampires biting people, but this time with added politics. Interesting. I also have ten episodes of Glass no Kantai to get, as I forgot to check for updates for that series for a long time, as well as the Death Note and Tsyuyokiss updates. It'll probably be a week or two till I end up watching some of them as my workload is getting heavier by the day. Tomorrow morning I'm going to university three hours earlier than my lecture to do the frameworks seminar library task and catch up on a bit of reading. After the lecture I'll also be going to brighton to Dave's Comics as they'll have got an anime figure order in, but that's not 'work' per se, heheheh. I have to have something to keep my spirits up if I'm not seeing my girlfriend right? Heheheh. Till next time then.

Minion horde!

The day started out vaguely irritating. I'd spent a fair amount of time doing the puclic law seminar task, and due to timetable changes the first seminar is in week four, not week two which is this week. Therefore I've done the task two weeks early. On the plus side I have it done, but on the annoying side I turned up to university three hours earlier than I needed to.... Hmm. The lecture itself was fine and didn't require many notes at all really, since the lecturer was talking about tort statistics which were in the course handbook, so there was no need to write it all out again. Instead I just annotated them and that served well enough. Afterwards I went to SWARM, which I'd been looking forward to, and was quite pleased with the zombie campaign turnout. After helping everyone make their characters I counted the returns and had 13 characters. Considering that I had 12 people signed up, and two had said they couldn't make it, that's a good turnout indeed. Additional people are all good, heheheh. It got slightly hectic a few times, but I spent a great deal of time just chatting with everyone, learning names (which I'm terrible at so I really had to do my best simply to vaguely remember them) and joking with everyone. From the sheer level of enthusiasm which greeted me it looks like everyone's really gearing up for it. It's tremendously encouraging.

At 7 pm though the D&D campaigns started, and the DM explained the setting to the group I was in and off we went. The president of the club, playing a dwarf paladin, ended up being viciously mauled by a black bear and ended the session buried under a remarkably dangerous and camouflaged ooze. My diabolus fighter only got slightly injured by the bear, but unfortunately ended the session with another ooze wrapped around his head. That's not good at all considering he wishes to breathe... Hmm. Lots of serious injuries right from the start suggest that this could be a slightly quick campaign. Even so it's pretty entertaining, so I'm already looking forward till next week to see what happens. Since I have another week to plan my campaign (in very rough terms) I'll be able to tidy up everyone's characters sheets as some are an absolute mess, as well as possibly fully writing out the 13 mini 'missions' for the campaign overall as it's called 'Thirteen Days'. It's going to be a real treat seeing how they all do and how they react when confronted by ambiguous situations, such as an ill limping man (who only has a cold), a tuberculosis sufferer who coughs up a lot of blood, and lots of really hungover students who are unsteady on their feet, grasp a bit and moan a lot. It's going to be a lot of fun simply confronting them with a complete lack of zombies for a short while to see if they get trigger happy.

I've still not got round to watching those three episodes of anime but I will do eventually. Till next time.

Slightly better.

A slightly busier day. Four hours of lecture for three subjects. Not really much, but the three hour gap between the second and last lecture can get a bit boring. In the future do doubt I'll spend it reading... The lectures themselves went fine and I took adequate notes for all of them so there was no problem there. I also spent some of the gap with two friends and played table football so some of the time passed nicely enough. However by the time I got home and had prepared to go to Games Workshop I was feeling quite low again. My girlfriend seemed quite concerned and worried about me which was sweet, but I didn't really feel like making her worry so I went for a walk outside. It turned out that me suddenly disappearing made her worry more, and retrospectively I can see that simply leaving a stifling store to get some fresh air, but not saying anything to anyone, is possibly a merit for concern. I probably should have thought a bit more about it. At any rate she came out to find me and we sat outside for a while and generally talked. The cool air made me feel a bit better, though my girlfriend made me a lot more relaxed and happy as a whole just by being around. A very quick meal later and I was beginning to pick up, and soon was essentially fine though still a bit quieter than normal.

Once I got home I looked at what I'd be doing for the seminar tomorrow morning and saw I had a task to prepare before the seminar itself. I see. I had to produce a flow diagram for the constitutional structure of Britain, as well and preparing it enough so that I could explain the differing power levels between the states. For this I had to read several chapters in the public law book and I decided to use photoshop to make the diagram itself. It's quite plain, but meh. Though tomorrow I'll not really be doing much work in the afternoon as I'll be seeing my girlfriend, on friday I'll be doing another seminar task, a library one to be slightly elaborative, as well as spending some time in Brighton shopping (thanks to an anime figure order Dave's Comics are receiving) before taking several hours of my evening time (and by several I mean my whole evening) aside to just read up on the chapters I really should have read by now. With luck I can catch up on all the required textbook reading, at which point I'll only need to catch up with cases which I'll probably do on tuesday next week in the three hour free. It's a plan!

Though I have two episodes of Kiba and the first episode of Busou Renkin. Yeah, another new series, meh. With luck I may even get time to watch it. Tomorrow any spare time will be spent reading most likely. Till next time I guess.

Strangely empty.

I only had a single lecture today so it wasn't that bad really. Afterwards I went to Brighton and bought a few things, namely the first three manga volumes of Cromartie High and first volume of Trigun, as well as a new Time Spiral deck and additional cards pack. Out of the 75 extra cards many looked fun but wouldn't fit in with the deck I bought. I may just make another. The deck itself, called Fun With Fungus looks interesting to play. It's essentially a slow saproling deck in which the fungus can get incredibly harsh. It'll certainly be interesting to use, that's for sure. I also bought the Saviors of Kamigawa fat pack as my mate had given me the money for it and I finally remembered. Hurrah for me eh? I didn't really do anything else in Brighton other than that so I came home and lounged around. For some reason I felt really low and empty inside, and since I didn't know why it felt a bit worse than usual. Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow morning, since the four hours of assorted lecture I need to go to will probably keep me occupied. Since I didn't have much else to do this afternoon, and as I'm not going to rally get into the law reading till next week, I decided to watch 28 Days Later. It's a pretty good movie, and gives me a few ideas for the campaign I'll be running at SWARM.

I also managed to almost get up to date with my anime finally, so that's all good. Today I watched three episodes of Naruto, the latest update for Inukami and Innocent Venus, five episodes of Tsuyokiss, and the first episodes for Asate no Houkou, Negima and Tokimeki Memorial. Naruto was better than it's normal fillers as the genjutsu moves were quite interesting. As for Inukami and Innocent Venus, magic and double crossing are generally entertaining to watch, so I enjoyed both of the episodes. Tsuyokiss is vaguely confusing since there's a lot of little breaks during the episodes where a character will say 'Tsuyokiss' for no reason at all. It's quite odd. Asatte no Houkou didn't go into much detail in the first episode, but it's basically about a little sister who wishes to be older, and a late-teens/early twenties lady who wishes to become younger. At the very end of the episode their ages switch. An interesting premise to be sure, so I'm looking forward to how it pans out. Negima completely messed with the original manga, so it was quite surreal. The animation style doesn't match the manga either, though the quasi-gothic look with Evangeline's surroundings was quite good. Again, something to watch in terms of how it turns out. Last but not least Tokimeki Memorial was another school anime which again didn't go into much detail in the first episode but seems to be about a guy transfering to a school and falling for a girl. You know the type, beautiful, excellent at sports and incredibly intelligent. No doubt other girls will fall for him as it's set in a school. Ah, complex love connections. I know I said I'd not pick up too many more series, but a shedload have finished so I guess I may just have the time.

I still have the last two episodes of Good Witch of the West to watch (and another series will have finished for me) so I'll be off to watch them now. Till next time.

.....

Today was boring. Quite boring indeed. Work was tolerable, and alright for the most part as I actually had energy till the last hour and a half or so. Regardless it was quite boring as what else can you really do on a till, within regulations, aside from scan items over and over again? Geh. After work I did get to see my girlfriend which was greatm, but the game her family chose to play was, quite frankly, mind-numbingly boring. Oh ye gods it was bad. It was essentially a game for kids which they'd tweaked the rules to. As such I spent a lot of the time staring at the TV which they'd left on for background noise, trying to hear it and thereby overcome the boredom. I didn't want to say anything because her family seem to get on well together during such 'family games' and I didn't feel like it was my place to speak out against one of the sessions as it would have been hugely rude. Not only that but I wasn't sure how my girlfriend would react, so I did my best to get through it. e gods it was boring.... Unfortunately that game pretty much took up the whole evening other than the episode of Fullmetal Alchemist (a more than welcome diversion) so the boredom lasted from dinner till when I got picked up. It made the evening a lot worse than I'd hoped it would have been. With luck when I see my girlfriend on tuesday the absence of a game I think is bad will mean I'll actually enjoy myself...

Upon getting home, and feeling quite dissatisfied with my day overall unfortunately, I basically ranted to friends and snapped at one of them as their sarcastic remark just got to me. Meh. On the up side I did watch the otaku episode of Japanorama, and it made me laugh a fair amount which did make me feel a lot better. Jonathan Ross is good for that series. Plus the figures that were seen in the shops.... God damn I want to shop there, jeebus... At any rate I have around 14 episodes of anime to watch, so I may as well go and watch them now. Till next time.

Average.

Ah, another day of work. Truth be told it was pretty average. I can't think of anything notable to say about it really, though there was one mother who seemed like an incredibly bad parent. She wasn't treating her son very well at all, and he wasn't even doing anything wrong. Needless to say, I didn't like her that much, but did my best to be polite anyway. Bah. After work I happily saw my girlfriend and spent a lot of time with her as she played Dragon Fable (I think that's the name...) which is basically a flash-based RPG. It looks kinda interesting, but not really the thing I'd go for. She actually wants to play Online MMO's and so forth (in conjunction with me, which is quite sweet) but as she owns a Mac rather than PC she can't find any that'll work. I also told her of a future plan I have, future being within the next few months, which made her so happy she cried. Whenever she sheds happy tears she really does look phenomenally cute. I'm eternally glad I have such an incredibly girlfriend. No doubt many guys feel the same way, but darn it, I'll keep repeating it anyway. I also spent a sizable chunk of the evening watching Lost with her family. Considering I've never seen any of the series at all before I reckon I asked remarkably few questions. The most notable ones were "So what are the 'Others'?" and "Know what the numbers mean?"

Unfortunately I did, of course, have to return home, but I'll see her tomorrow so that's all good. Once home I updated the forum (as I pretty much always do) then did the usual check for anime updates. Not many of interest, but it all adds to the pile... I also went onto Urban Dead and got another level by killing a zombie and -almost- killing another. Unfortunately I ran out of action points, otherwise I'd have gained two levels. I went for the buying skill just so I can get ammunition easier. Next up I'll got for the final pistol and shotgun skills before I get the health boost skill. It's all a plan! Now I can actually hit with guns reasonably well my exp gain rate is much faster. It's quite pleasing. The anime I still have to watch is the first nine episodes of Tsuyokiss and the update for xxxHOLiC, not to mention the first episode of Death Note. That's eleven, not too bad really considering I've not had much time to watch them. I should be able to finish them off tomorrow time permitting, and, failing that, on monday I should be able to fit them in amidst the craploads of reading I have to do for tuesday. Ye gods I have a lot to read for tuesday.... Wednesday can't come quick enough. SWARM damnit, SWARM! It's easy to see that I want to get character creation done so I can get the campaign started... The main issue I need to work on is how to start the campaign in an involving and exciting way, when the outbreak is a gradual thing... Hmm. There is much to ponder. Till next time then.

Getting a beating.

Today wasn't bad at all to start with. I went to Brighton and once again to Dave's Comics, buying a Satoshi Urashima artbook (since I think his work is ridiculously good), another small figure, a tiny Oogie Boogie figure (from Nightmare Before Christmas should you be wondering) and a Zombie Survival Kit. The kit rocks, and comes with a fantastic poster which is pretty much perfect for my zombie campaign. If I can find a place which does A3 colour photocopying (and possibly laminating) then I'll be able to put a copy up on the noticeboard since I'm in charge of it. The lecture wasn't too bad too. I took a page of notes which is a lot more than I usually take. One thing that hit me hard however was the purchase of the rest of the law books I need. I'd bought one for £20, but today I bought the remaining three and a year planner/diary and it came to £101. Ow. That stings. At least I have them now, but jesus, expensive bastards.... After the lecture I went round a new mate's house. I met the guy at SWARM and we get on well since we have very similar hobbies. Whilst there we played a fair few console games, hence the title of this post. He's a better gamer than me, but it was still fun trying to beat him. It was also pretty impressive how many corporeal anime DVD's he has. Whereas I tend to 'obtain' anime and burn as data, he actually buys the DVD's. rom what I saw it must be quite financially crippling. Jeebus indeed.

Once I got home I spent two hours clearing crap and random paperwork out of my room and into black bin bags for disposal. This happy task freed up a fair amount of room (making my room look tidier) which was then, neatly, filled with my university books and so forth. I've still not gotten around to watching any anime and it's rapidly piling up even more, so tonight I'll probably stay up for a bit just to get the majority of it cleared aside from the stuff I'm downloading now. I have over 20 episodes to watch again, and this time none of them are full series. Dang, it certainly piles up quickly when a group suddenly mass release. Especially so when several groups all mass release at once. It's not a bad thing, but considering that my free time is beginning to dwindle it means I can't watch all the anime I want to without staying up till ungodly hours unfortunately. That's saying quite a bit considering how late I usually go to bed... As that pretty much covers everything I guess I'll be off for now. On a last note I'm beginning to do rather well indeed on Urban Dead, thanks to lots of gun training. Fufufufufu. Till next time.

Quality time.

Once again university wasn't bad. I spent the first part of the morning buying the law book for the Frameworks of Law I and II course. Unfortunately the old lady infront of me counted out her change and took bloody ages. As such I was three minutes late to the seminar. Not a good start. Two minutes later, after the lecturer mentioned year three history, I realised I had the wrong room. Well, crap. I went to the -right- room and apologised, and from there on the day was fine. The seminar went quite well, and directly afterwards I had a lecture (both of which were for the Frameworks course). The book actually came in handy during the lecture, so that's quite a good start textbook-wise. After the lecture I pretty much booked it to the train station to get an early train home. Thankfully I managed to catch it, so had a bit of time to relax at home before I went off to see my girlfriend. As she couldn't come over today I simply went to her. It brightened my day even more being with her, and even though the weather was crappy after her job interview I gladly walked around with her in Eastbourne. We spent a bit of time in the Arndale shopping centre before returning to her home for a warm dinner. I'd offered her my coat when we'd been waiting to be picked up as I wanted her to keep warm, but I quite underestimated the cold. In a simple shirt I got very col, very quickly. Meh.

When I did get back home I updated the forum then spent a rather large amount of time looking for Pokemon Leaf Green codes. It's all well and good playing the game on an emulator on my PSP, but quite a drawback that I can't trade pokemon and therefore get the unique critters from the other games such as Ruby and Sapphire. As such I devoted over an hour to finding codes that worked. Needless to say it was annoying, but at least now I have some of my personal favourites such as Gardevoir. I still haven't got round to watching the anime piled up, and I have 13 episodes waiting. Eight of Tsuyokiss and the updates for Bleach, Zegapain, Kemonozume, Black Blood Brothers and the final for Ergo Proxy. With luck I'll get those seen over the weekend before the true workload hits me. I'll most likely not pick up many more new series should they start appearing, purely because I just won't have the time to watch them and stay up to date. It blows, but oh well. I have to work to get my law degree, so sacrifices must be made. Hell, I'll still have time with my girlfriend and time at SWARM, so I won't be completely without relaxation time. For now though I need to be off. Though I don't have a lecture till late tomorrow afternoon I have an agreement to be in Brighton early in the morning, so I need to be up. Till next time then.

Survivors!

University today was much less work intensive, and a lot more enjoyable. For a start I went in early and spent my time hanging out with people or going on my laptop as I'd bothered bringing it in, and during the lecture itself I sat next to a friend I'd made during Fresher's week but hadn't seen for a few days. Afterwards I went to her dorm building and met everyone there which was pretty cool. University certainly has a lot of interesting people. The only downer was the sheer amount of times the lecturer today told us that we had to pass otherwise we'd either have to leave or retake the year. His repeated emphasis wasn't very encouraging, and the amount of work he said we should be doing (40 to 50 hours of outside reading in addition to the 10 hours of lectures/seminars a week) is quite... daunting. That's straight work from 9 am till 7 pm five days a week. Jesus bloody Christ. I.... don't think I'll manage to keep that rate up without breaking.... It'll seriously kill me. I'm not a person who can do that much work without losing all sense of motivation, and at times, self... Damn. Happily, SWARM was much, much more fun.

There were a very respectable amount of people interested in my All Flesh Must Be Eaten campaign. The two D&D campaigns together got 12 people to play in them (of which I was one). My campaign on it's own, got 12 people wanting to play. Around now I'd insert a casually excited evil giggle. That's a lot of survivors to fight off the zombies. Lots of them are new to RP, and I think it's the whole lure of zombies, and being in a familiar setting at the same time, that drew them in. Not to mention I was adequately load and was seemingly charismatic. It was a fun evening, explaining to them the general premise, how it'll all work, what characters can be and so on and so forth. Next wednesday will be character creation, and, depending on how quickly that passes, the very start of the campaign. In addition to my law work therefore I have a fair amount to prepare and write for my campaign. Oh the work never ends, heh. At least SWARM is highly enjoyable, where as law promises to be quite stressful and potentially confusing. Though I have four episode of anime to watch and several more to get, I simply don't have time. Tomorrow not only do I have to buy law books in excess of £100 all together, but I need to buy a card and birthday present for my Dad as I've simply not got round to it today. God damn it, so hectic. I'm going to have to cut back on all my hobbies just to fit work in from the looks of it. Gah.

Tomorrow I have both a seminar then a lecture on the frameworks of law, so it's essentially two whole hours of a single subject. I have two hours of public law on tuesdays, but the lecturer for that in energetic and entertaining. The lady for frameworks simply isn't... Le sigh. So much to do. Till next time then.

A few lectures more.

Hmm. Today was busier than yesterday, that's for sure. Instead of a single hour of lecture, I had four hours of lecture. Thankfully I lasted through it quite well, but the sheer amount of extra reading that needs to be done for the subjects is quite daunting. Very daunting indeed. I seem to need to read the equivalent of a few law books as well as some cases already, and it's the first week. Well, dang. In the afternoon I actually had three hours of free time, so instead of buying law books and reading them I went to Brighton again, popping into Dave's Comics and chatting with the manager there for a fair amount of time. I also spent £13 on three small models (one Rozen Maiden, the other two were Samurai Champloo) so it was a much chapear trip than the past two. After that it was back to lecture, and thankfully we were let out just early enough for me to hurry to the station and catch a train which leaves two minutes after the lecture is scheduled to end. That was quite convenient, as I was then able to go to Games Workshop earlier. I used to go on tuesdays just before 5 pm, but now I actually finish college at 5 pm, so that makes it a bit more difficult. In the end I played a small 500 point game againt my 'gnome bard' mate using a very small army comprised of two squads of seven men and a lord. I was up against sixty, so outnumbered four to one. I was quite pleased when I won.

Once home I went to update the forum, and, once that was done, passed into the realm of anime watching once more. I got through the updates for Ergo Proxy, Kemonozume, Ah! My Goddess second series, Kamisama Kazoku, Innocent Venus, Chevalier and a DVD special for Aria the Natural, a series which I really should check the updates for. Ergo was simply cool as it had more of Vincent and Real, obviously. The way Raul died was vaguely harsh, but entertaining. Kemonozume had it's usual sketchy style and a strange private detective. Ah! My Goddess has now reached the 'infinite room' story which was fun whilst it lasted. I can't quite remember what comes next, so at least the series is still fun to watch as it's slightly unexpected. As for Kamisama, Tenko and the main male lead have pretty much admitted how they feel to one another and the end feels near. I can't be bothered to check how many episodes there are going to be... Innocent Venus had a remarkably cunning double cross. It made me grin for a bit. In Chevalier D'Eton is seemingly refusing to let his sister's soul fight through him as it's filled with rage and hatred. I would assume he's going to tame her in time. Last, but not least, the Aria DVD special was a 'video letter' which basically went over a few of the points from the very beginning of the series. It ate up time I guess. I -still- have Ghost in the Shell 3 to get, it's at 90.6%. Not only that but I have the final episode of Ergo Proxy to obtain as well as the first 8 episodes of a new series, Tsuyokiss. Till next time then.

Spending.

The lecture today wasn't bad at all. It lasted an hour, and the first 30 minutes were spent getting people into the hall, handing out the course booklet, and explaining what was in the booklet. As such there wasn't much actual work per se. If it took half an hour to do that then my 30 minute lecture on friday may not include much actual learning. Since I was going round my friend's house for 5 pm, and finish Uni at midday, I went to Brighton again. Invariably I ended up in Dave's Comics, and spent... a little more. £40 on one figure, £32 on another, £20 on another, £20 on yet another, £10 on two more little Rozen Maiden figures and £15 on the newest Munchkin set. That's £137, bringing my total spent in that store in two visits to £226. Erm, ack? I think I should exercise a -little- more control when I go in there next.... On the plus side I've bought most of their big stuff, so there's nothing overly expensive to lure me. It's all good therefore. Since I'd bought a fair amount, and especially because it was irritating to carry around, I went home before going round to my friend's house, primarily to drop off all the stuff. It took quite a bit of rearranging of the figures I already have to get everything to fit. I need to get some more shelves up, damn... At the moment the desk infront of my monitor has five reasonably sized anime figures. They do look very nice however, so that's all good I guess.

When I did get round my friend's house there was eating of popcorn, and much deliberation on a film to watch. In the end we all walked down to the nearest video rental store and borrowed Underworld Evolution and Karas. Karas simply rocks, but we watched Underworld first. Seeing werewolves and a harsh vampire hybrid is always entertaining, but I really wanted it to end so I could watch more Karas. We eventually did get round to Karas, but I only managed to see one episode before I had to leave with my other mate in order to catch the last train home. A fair amount of the time had been used up with me making a simple meal which never the less took time to cook. Meh. At least it tasted nice. When I got home it was well past midnight, so naturally I had to roll back the time for this post. I did however divert slightly by updating the forum first, then playing Urban Dead to get (yet) more ammo. I want a shedload of it so I can go on a rampage and shoot the hell out of many zombies. As for anime, I currently have three updates downloaded which need watching, which are Kemonozume, Chevalier and dubbed Bleach. I should probably get round to those soon, otherwise I'll end up with a ridiculous amount to watch all in one go. The Ghost in the Shell movie is still only at around 80%. Dang... Till next time then.

Much better.

I coped today. Yes, I managed to cope. It may have been partly thanks to eating a large breakfast, but I had the energy to maintain a (relatively) positive disposition and thereby avoid the majority of soul crushing that usually goes on in the retail industry. Admittedly the thought of seeing my girlfriend after work did make me a great deal happier, and I focused on her for the most part. The canteen food continues to be free, so I had a rather big lunch too which continued to help me in terms of energy, plus I actually managed to have lunch with one of my main friends at ASDA. She's 18 in two weeks so'll be able to return to the tills. I'm vaguely impressed that she wants to come back... After work seeing my girlfriend naturally brightened my day. Talking about how we're doing would be purely repetetive, so I'll skip it. Full Metal Alchemist has finally got to more revelations about Hoenheim of Light and Dante. It's about time. As for Mezzo DSA, I think it's finished now. I'm not overly sure, but the episode I saw today looked like a final. If not, then it's getting there. Once I got home I pretty much got my bag ready for University tomorrow (for a whole single hour of lecture! Zomg!) then planned my day. I'll end up going to Uni, going to brighton to get more anime and manga figures, then going round a friend's house to watch a movie. It's a solid plan.

After a day-long break I got back to anime. I watched two episodes of Kemonozume and the updates for Kamisama Kazoku and Love Get Chu! though I still have an update for Kemonozume, dubbed Bleach and Chevalier to get. Kemonozume was intriguing, if a little strange. The animation style, as sketchy as it is, is growing on me. Kamisama Kazoku had a demon in it finally, which was pretty nifty. Thoyugh not overly demonic, the girl's eyes were pretty cool. Love Get Chu! had more antics from the potential voice actor, and simply filled up time. The Ghost in the Shell new movie is still under 60% which is a bit of a bummer. Hopefully it'll be done by tuesday since I'm wanting to watch it more and more. As of yet I've not picked up any more series, but considering so many have just ended it's only a matter of time before I bolster the ranks. For now I guess my spare time needs to be used to write up details for the All Flesh Must Be Eaten campaign I want to run at Uni. Here's hoping that I get many people interested. Till next time then.