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28th-Jan-2009 10:04 am(no subject)
I want this game now:


Too bad I'm not buying any video games this year.

Anyways, Ive noticed I usually come on and read my friends posts but don't bother to say anything. Usually it's because I'm boring, but I'll try to post things that are going on now.

I got my teacher assignment for UTeach! So excited. I'm sending her an email after this. I called my folks and let them know, I'm so hyped.

I also started reading the manual to the original Pokemon games, its really fun in short bursts. Like chewing gum made of nostalgia!

Coffee is amazing.

Blastoise is my favorite looking pokemon, even though in many ways he makes the least sense. He has cannons in his shell.

This weekend is the new set of Pokemon's prerelease, and I want to go, but it is $25. I have to think about it. ALSO, SUPERBOWL! My mother and I both want to get Danny to play football, and I suggested buying him Eyeshield 21, a really fun manga about football. It worked for me... I've become interested in boxing and football through manga, I'm a giant nerd.

Ummm.... coffee is amazing?

Bye!
21st-Jan-2009 10:32 pm(no subject)
29 - Nidoran Female
106 - Hitmonlee
116 - Horsea
150 - Mewtwo
161 - Sentret
175 - Togepi
186 - Politoed
187 - Hoppip
202 - Wobbuffet
237 - Skarmory
240 - Magby
250 - Ho-oh
283 - Surskit
303 - Mawile
312 - Minun
336 - Seviper
337 - Lunatone
361 - Snorunt
367 - Huntail
368 - Gorebyss
492 - Shaymin
493 - Arceus
23rd-Dec-2008 05:51 pm - Bored.
I am trying to find and do all the things to do on the internet, my quest isn't very interesting. The only thing fun is Dr. Tran. Yay Dr. Tran.

Looking forward to getting an Xbox so I can play games until Lauren comes and takes me away! Sigh.

In other news, I got 2 Bs and an A. That is all.
8th-Dec-2008 02:54 pm - Wish List
So, Lauren did one of these so now I will too.
-new jacket
-new headphones - big DJ style ones
-new non-RROD xbox360
-all the volumes of GTO that I am missing
-a HD TV
-someone to take my finals for me
-my R4 that I lost
-a beanbag chair
-a magic credit card to pay for food
-new shoes
-DVDs of good anime movies: My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa, Castle in the Sky, Akira, any else I don't know about
EDIT:
-LEGO Castle set, preferably one with orcs
25th-Nov-2008 03:39 pm - Fudging pissed
Some background: I work Wed and Saturday 11-4 at a local comic shop. So, the comic shop I work at sent out an email with this:
"_______________ will be opening at 11:00AM on Wednesdays again. Our Saturday hours have also changed. We will now be open from Noon to 6:00 PM, just like Sunday. Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday we will not be open Thursday (11/27/08), and Friday we will be open from Noon to 6:00PM. The holiday will also affect New Comic Day next week. Comics will be shipped a day late and New Comic Day will be Thursday (12/04/08)."

What? Why wasn't I told about this? Will I now work more on Sat? Why wasn't I told about this? The only thing I can assume is that I am being fired, or having Sat taken away from me or my boss just doesn't give a fuck. Either way I'm pissed off that I wasn't deemed important enough to know when I would be working or not working now. What kind of terrible employer doesn't let their employees know when they change their employee's hours?
8th-Nov-2008 10:50 pm - Books I want to read.
-Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
-Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
-For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
-Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
-Walden by Henry David Thoreau
-Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
-White Noise by Don Delillo
-Ulysses by James Joyce
-The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott
-Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
-The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
-Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
-Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche
-Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
-Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
-Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
-King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
-The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
-The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
-The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
-The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
-Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
-The Bible

Anyone read any of these, any good suggestions to add to the list?
20th-Oct-2008 07:32 pm - I gave blood, then voted.
Thats pretty much it. You should really do both if you can, they are both awesome.
11th-Oct-2008 08:47 am - Urg.
Not a good week. Lots of studying and a paper to write, but this week should be nice, lots of time to catch up on studying I overlooked. I was expecting to get fired this week, but didn't which is good because of the money. I was expecting it to be shitty, but now I feel a little better.

We finished Twelfth Night for SOS, and up next is King Lear. I want to be Edmund because I have never gotten to be a villainous character.

Looks like I'm not gonna be doing Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge anymore.

I've been working on my Pokemon deck and think I have a good one, but it's a little cheap. I'm trying to get Lauren settled on a deck for Sunday, but she doesnt seem to like any of the ones I come up with. I think she may want to make a water/psychic one, but not sure. Sunday is a big tournament, which should be a lot of fun.

Edit: 6:14 PM, after a whole day of working to mull it over, I am actually more upset, but I'm not entirely sure at whom.
6th-Oct-2008 12:04 pm - Comics I will pay for.
Hey guys, I just wanted to go over some of the comics I deem worthy of my $. These are ones that come out regularly, not those anthology type thingys that come out ever year or so. Anyway, here we go.
Action Comics (by Geoff Johns)



This is the typical Superman comic, but there is something about it. It just feels like such an archetype, that it just is great. Geoff Johns is awesome, and it looks like he has the title for at least one more year, so yay! Also, the art is really nice. Superman looks like he is wearing the costume Christopher Reeves wore, or something like it. It also has Supergirl and all of Clark Kent's friends and family etc, and feels really epic in how it is paced.

Amazing Spider-Man



This is just awesome. It keeps out of all the confusing Marvel stuff (I'm looking at you, Secret Invasion) and just gives me straight up, funny awesome Spider-Man. The art and writing changes every few weeks, but it is so much fun to read. My fav story so far? Spider-man fights an Aztec god summoned by a mathematician during a blizzard. BRILLIANT! The pic I put up is from the next issue, where apparently he teams up with Colbert? Sounds good.

Batman (by Grant Morrison)



The batman story right now is basically that Batman is being destroyed on every aspect by a mysterious group of villains with unknown motives. They have taken out his sidekicks, Alfred, defamed his family (showing that his dad was a drug addict and maybe had his mother killed) and shot him up with a bunch of drugs, and pretty much drove him insane. This weeks issue was so amazing, I flipped out at the end. SO good!

Final Crisis



OKay, here is where I might lose you. This book makes no sense. It tries to encompass the whole DC universe, but I don't understand 1/3 of what is going on. One whole plotline involves a gun that shoots backwards through time. HOWEVER, it is fun! I really enjoy trying to learn about all these new characters and whatnot that all the DC nerds really know. Even better than Final Crisis though, are some of the tie-ins. Rogue's Revenge and Legion of Three Worlds look amazing, and Rage of the Red Lanterns comes out soon as well.

Gantz



This is awesome. It's about a mysterious machine/human/being that copies dead people, then makes them fight monsters for points. When you reach 100 points, you have a choice of leaving the game, reviving someone who has died in the game, or leaving and going back to your normal life. Fucking great characters, awesome monsters, and well written to boot. The current English series is at Volume 2, but I think in Japanese its up to Volume 20 or so, and still going.

Invincible



This is sort of like the story of Superman's son, only not as lame as that sounds, and with a totally original universe. The story is so well done, I say that this is my favorite superhero book to anyone who asks. Ask me?

Walking Dead



Best zombie story ever made, hands down. Very sad, but so good.

In celebration of R.E.A.D. in America Day, tell us about what you're reading. How is reading important to you? What would you recommend to others?


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I got a copy of Anathem by Neal Stephenson signed on Thursday. It seems a little slow, but is otherwise great. I recommend Snow Crash (also by Neal Stephenson) to anyone who would be interested in a book about language and computers starring a hacker samurai pizza boy in the future.

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