Random thinking
Autor: Crion_dm459
Things have been picking up a little bit, and it seems to be balancing out. I finally moved into my new apartment (the good side), but my flatmates are rather inconsiderate (the bad side). I have a job for the summer (the good side), and it is a job that I know and know the employees and supervisors (even better side), but we hired new people that I, as senior employee, need to train (the bad side) and clean up the mess left by my co-workers when they get lazy (worse) and complete the projects that only I have the proper training to complete (downright annoying).
The government is trying (again) to revoke my financial aid. I need to go and fight with the office again sometime, and hope that I can have it back so that I can graduate next year. I almost always seem to have a problem with money and women.
Thankfully, at my apartment, I am allowed to cook. In fact, I cook almost all the time (mainly because my flatmates don't know how to cook anything more complicated than cup ramen). This makes me happy since I can finally try to lose weight again (since I'm now back to the 102kg mark; I was up to 106 a month ago. Progress ^.^). This, like everything else this summer, does have a downside: cost. My flatmates are nice people (or at least nice enough). One of them (who moves out tomorrow) actually would help cover the cost of the food. My other flatmate doesn't do too much when it comes to groceries and actually complains when I buy fresh vegetables.
Cooking also brings back a few memories of Japan, of cooking for my friends and having a nice and entertaining dinner. It reminds me of the times I spent experimenting with these same dishes. It reminds me of the travels to the stores for the ingredients. It reminds me of the walks with a certain Panda that always led to my innate feeling of impending doom.
Good times that I wish I could go back to.
Or make new ones.
Now, onto the Otaku News!
An old friend of mine from the game Phantasy Star Online (Version 1, Dreamcast Edition) sent me an email asking me if I had watched Angel Links and Ai Yori Aoshi. If not, he asked if I would be interested in owning them. Here, this guy I've known and emailed with for the past 6 years (next winter marks 7) has some anime and other movies that he no longer wants (since he has no interest in rewatching it), no longer needs (he bought an HDTV and cannot use some of the discs), or has a second copy of (buying the full two season boxed-set will remove the need of season 1, don't you think?), and has offered to send them out to me. w00t! Free Anime! But it didn't end there; he also dropped in a copy of Valkyrie Profile 2. Anyone who knows me knows how much I love mythology; Valkyrie Profile was an excellent game in the first place, and I've heard nothing but good things of the second.
So now I am anxiously awaiting this package.
A few other random notes:
--I plan on watching Hellsing starting this weekend.
--I have a movie night set up with my senpai: Samurai-Jidai based films; mostly directed by Kurosawa Akira.
--I'm waiting for the gift for my "little sister" to arrive so that I may find a place to hide it beforehand.
--Panda has gotten me hooked on the band "Poets of the Fall." They are an interesting band, and I enjoy most of the songs on the album "Carnival of Rust."
--I'm still waiting to find some Sonata Arctica CDs that won't cost more than some of my nextbooks.
--I love my coffee maker ^___^
--I have started to run games outside of the 'mexx. I currently have one, planning a second for the fall semester, and then I shall begin running random games every month.
--The books for DSA are slowly being released here in English. A shame that they are all the 4th Edition (or was it 3rd? Whichever is newest ^^;). . .
--I've decided to dive back into Science Fiction by looking up the game "Alternity," and I have just begun reading the Core Rulebook to the "Serenity RPG" (based on the movie with the same name which was based from the series "Firefly").
--I went to see Pirates 3 with my senpai and a large group of friends (we took an entire row and a half in the cinema). Yes, I was dressed as a pirate, and that is me in the picture. No, that is decidedly /NOT/ my girlfriend. She is like a younger sister to me, so don't start jumping to conclusions f^_^;
Well, that about sums it up for me. I should get back to work.