In regards to those
Avatar spoilervids floating around, excuse me while I just say OH FUCK
YES. While Zuko is nowhere near my favourite character, the fact that the rest of the series seems to be ALL ZUKO ALL THE TIME isn't actually bothering me particularly. Either I've become a more accepting person, or Zuko has become a more appealing person, or (and this is the most likely) it's been so long since the last episode that I don't care who they give us clips of as long as they show us someone, anyone. The rest of the series could be about The Duke at this point and I'd be so grateful there was actual animated
Avatar I'd be on my knees sobbing thankfully to the Nickelodeon gods.
Of which I am quite certain there are none.
In other news, I still haven't gotten around to watching GSD yet. I keep thinking of those giant, almost-identical robots punching each other in outer space and I get all clammy because I
know I won't be able to tell them apart, even though I do want to know what happens to the characters later down the line. On one hand, I could satisfy my curiosity and indulge in my newly-discovered attraction to awkward lolmecha. On the other, I'd be crippled by my pathological confusion regarding shounen fight scenes. WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!
I KNOW, MAKE A LIST.
*WORK Awesome conversation between my boss and I last week, I forgot to relay it here. We were talking about the drawer we store the PC games in - they get put into little plastic sleeves and since most of the booklets have cd keys on them, we're supposed to put the booklets with the disc. Someone *coughAntheaandJonocough* hasn't been doing that, and Dave was getting a bit annoyed.
Him: I really hate how we have to search for lone ranger booklets, it's much easier if everything's just put together in the first place.
Me: Hey, I know I'm criminally lazy and cut corners whenever possible, but putting the booklets with the discs is like the only thing I
do do.
Him: Yeah, I know you do it, but man, those other guys...
Me: Oh, Amy definitely does it, she's had a go at me a couple of times about finding them without the booklets. She's anal like that.
Him: That's cool, I like anal.
Me: Yup, same.
*awkward silence*Him: Uh...
Me: Oh...
Him: Well,
shit.
In my head I was all, "BRB LOLING FOREVER".
*ANIMU Special A ep 2 was pretty good but not as funny as the first and I think they got the pacing in the actual wrestling match a bit wrong - I felt it dragged unnecessarily. If Kei keeps giving these long-winded demonstrations of his love anime!Hikari will come across as even more dense than her manga counterpart and I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS POSSIBLE.
Vampire Knight ep 2 was ultimately forgettable. I'm not joking, I watched it yesterday and I can't even remember what happened. Aidou continues to be the winner in the manga-to-anime transition stakes, he's still looking awesome, and Ichijo is probably a close second. Zero still sounds tired, Kaname still sounds wispy, and I can't look at happy!cheerful!Yuuki of these early days without thinking of how she is in the manga at the moment and feeling a bit disappointed. If you're current, you'll know what I mean. ;_;
* MANGA I don't leave the house these days without taking a couple of volumes from my manga collection because the bus situation at the moment is just ridiculous, I've had to wait for over an hour on several occasions. The last few days I've been going through
Fruits Basket from vol 16, I started an epic re-read of it a while back but crumpled under the pressure at around the play. I finished it again last night and it was great to read it in published form as opposed to scanlations - maybe I was looking in the wrong places but it actually made sense this time. My heart broke again for Momiji, but apart from that, I think it ended pretty solidly and I'm glad she didn't drag it out any longer, I probably would have just snapped. I bought vol 2 of
Blade of the Immortal today as a precursor to the animu coming up and as a bit of an early birthday present to myself. Sure, I buy a lot of manga, but I rarely splurge on BotI because it's so damn expensive. By next birthday, I aim to have at least THREE volumes!
* REAL LIFE It's amusing now, but at the time...
Last night a group of friends and I went out for a birthday dinner for another friend. We met at around 7pm outside the restaurant and because she'd invited a few cliques there was at least fifteen of us by the time they all arrived. We went up and were seated in the restaurant by about 7:15, were presented our menus by 7:20, and had ordered our meals by 7:30. It's a Chinese restaurant, and while there were a few other large groups of people, there were probably only eight other occupied tables. It's a big hall-like kind of place that would easily sit a couple of hundred people, so they were hardly overrun.
Time passed, and because I hadn't caught up with these friends for a while we had a fair bit to talk about, so we didn't really keep an eye on
how much time was passing. Eventually, the hollowness in our stomachs made itself known, and we checked our collective watches only to realise it was now 8:30 and
our entrees still hadn't arrived. We waited a bit longer to give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they were too busy, but then we noticed that groups of people who had come in after us had already been served THEIR MAINS.
More time passed, and finally at
9:15 - nearly two hours after we'd ordered - SOME of our entrees were brought out. Yes, SOME. I got mine, but
_the_dark_room_ didn't get his, and he was also the tragic victim of a double-shafting when one of the waitresses came out and asked who ordered a "*mumble* chicken". He asked if it was the crispy chicken; she said no, and asked again if anyone had the "*mumble* chicken" Since he was the only one with chicken, he specified another part of the chicken and she nodded this time before saying, "Anyway, we don't have it."
GEE, DO YOU THINK YOU COULD HAVE TOLD US THAT
TWO HOURS AGO?!
In the end,
na_ru_ta_ru went up and and complained quite vehemently, refusing her meal when it was FINALLY brought out, and we left at about 9:45 after scarfing down the food that they did deign to serve us. In a bitter twist, my meal was delicious and if the service hadn't been absolutely abismal, I would definitely have had it again. As it was we got a reasonable discount and a couple of free items but my image of the restaurant *coughKingofKingsinChinatown* has been forever tarnished. I can't help but feel sorry for the girl whose birthday it was - her meal was one of the elusive ones that never managed to make it out of the kitchen. What terrible luck. :(
* RANDOM Just when I thought Rick Astley couldn't get any more awesome, wiki serves up this gem:
In a March 2008 interview, Astley said that he found the rickrolling of Scientology to be "hilarious"; he also said that he will not try to capitalize on the rickroll phenomenon with a new recording or remix of his own, but that he'd be happy to have other artists remix it.Rick, you are a better man than I. I'd be on the coattails of that meme faster than a rabid Zutarian on the implications of those
Avatar vids.
SORRY GAIZ I COULDN'T RESIST. XD