What?! Two posts in the same month?!?

Yep, I think this is the first time I've blogged twice in the same month.

An update on my Japanese learning: I'm up to 37 hiragana characters. I only have 9 more for the basic 46 characters, but then there's another 60 characters to learn. So far it's been pretty simple, but I'm not looking forward to learning Kanji. You need about 2000-3000 kanji memorized to be fluent in reading Japanese.

I was going to learn a few more characters today but got sucked into this site anime-planet.com which is a great way to organize the anime you've watched, are watching, etc. Hmm, speaking about anime, I'm really looking forward to Anime Central in May, being held in Rosemont Illinois. What I really need is a job to be ready to splurge all over anime goodies. Hmmm, came out a little wrong.

I'm cutting this blog short. I have a couple of more things I want to talk about, but I'm kind of tired so ehhhhh, that's it for now. I leave you with this picture of a cat.

Refocusing on Japan

Well as the title says I've been doing more Japanese stuff lately. I started watching anime again. Well, I've been watching Naruto for 2 months or so, I started watching anime with a schedule last week. Mondays are for Cowboy Bebop, Thursdays for Ghost in the Shell, and we'll see if I add anymore. I figure watching one a week instead of all at once will help me remember more of the series, plus it makes me feel like in the good old days when I used to wait each week for new anime episodes on adult swim.

I love adult swim but in my opinion they should focus a little more on anime instead of they're original programming. It's getting a little too weird for me. Shows like ATHF, Harvey Birdman, and Robot Chicken are great but then they're other stuff I'm not really into. I probably wouldn't even like Tim & Eric if Connor hadn't made me watch it. I remember we saw the 1st season together and I was like "wtf?". Eventually I started to like it but sometimes there are episodes that are just waaay too weird. C'mon adult swim! Step up the anime! I rarely ever see a bump for an anime show anymore, though I don't watch adult swim anymore because I only have basic cable now.

Yesterday I also started wondering if I might try and learn japanese. I'd always thought it'd be great to learn the language but I wasn't really thinking about the amount of work I'd have to commit to it. Well, I figured I waste my time so much already and don't do my homework I might as well do something productive in my time. Sure it's going to be work, but hopefully the fact that I'm actually interested in what I'm learning will help me keep on track. Anyway today I started reading up on some resources and places to learn it. I pirated Rosetta Stone but haven't used it yet, been using a couple of free internet resources first. Maybe I'll write about my progress and what resources I used in a future blog.

Right now I'm listening to Buck-Tick. Everyone says immersion in the chosen language is key. I also installed Windows7 today (illegally obviously). Seems pretty awesome so far, still trying to figure out the intricacies of windows explorer however. Unfortunately I forgot to backup my internet bookmarks when I reformatted my drive so I lost all of those :(

I also wanted to talk about QR codes, but ehh this blog is getting lengthy and I don't want to switch up topics. See ya for now

Half a year to go

So, ya.....I am alive to all those who thought I died (Connor.....maybe). Connor yelled at me until I agreed to come blog. I have not blogged since the first day of school, and today was the last of my 1st semester finals. Odd, no? I am a failure as a blogger :(

So, I just got the HTC Hero yesterday. It's got the Android OS on it so that's pretty cool. I can stream directly from my phone which is cool. Only one day of live streaming and I've already got requests to take my shirt off from strangers. Lol.

I recently have returned to the great community at IPower. It's a great social networking site for those of you who don't know. The main sort of theme is social activism, so to better yourself and other assorted junk. Though it seems as if a lot of people are inactive, leaving me to debate the economy and it's effect on increasing industrial farming which leads to inhumane treatment of chickens (well pretty much all livestock, i just use chickens because thats what we talked about first). Hmmm. This paragraph isn't a very good incentive to join that community. Well.....I'm there so.......ya

I mentioned I had finals. Those were hard. Math was....a bitch. I failed the 3rd term(I didn't do any homework and failed all the tests) but hopefully I didn't fail the final (I don't think I did) because that would mean I would fail the whole class. I'm going to try and drop the class next semester, which reminds me I have to email my counselor to tell him what class I want to switch it for. I'm taking fitness next semester which I'm excited about, this time I will not stop working out halfway through the semester (I hope). Oh, I paid a visit to my old middle school yesterday and saw my all time favorite teacher and hero Mr. Martin. He was just as cool as always, but he kept talking to attention whore Connor (lol) about chemistry. Anyway he only talked to us for like 5 minutes cuz he had to teach or something.

Hmm well, I think that's it for now. Usually I proofread my blogs but im pretty lazy right now so.........ya. Maybe I'll post another blog tomorrow, who knows, maybe pigs will fly.

Back in Hell

First off I have to say, Fuck TV commercials. The last couple of weeks of summer came by faster than I expected and all I'm trying to do is enjoy the time I have left but all I see is commercial after commercial about "Back to School". What the hell? These commercials started in JULY!

No I do not want to get a new haircut for school (Well, actually I did get a haircut, but I don't need a commercial to tell me to get a haircut, I just look in the mirror and if my hair looks bad and I can't do anything with it then it's time for a cut). No I do not want to get a whole new wardrobe for back to school. And FUCK NOOOOO I was not "Rock-Staring" at you, but I'm about to Rock-Shove-My-Foot-Up-Your-Ass!!!! (thank you Connor for the last quote :P) These TV advertisements made sure that school was never from my mind and therefore a constant downer on my mood.

Anyways I'm back in school again, didn't manage to get that creative writing class with Connor and I have a crappy lunch but that's why they call it hell school right? This summer sucked weatherwise with all the raining but I was also lazy so my gundam remains uncompleted. It's about 95% done with primer but....now the parts are just sitting at my desks. It rained again today.

And now something to make this post not all about me and my whining. The Trailer for Avatar came out yesterday and it looks amazing. For those of you who don't know its a Sci-Fi film that was planned 14 years ago by director James Cameron who also filmed Aliens, Terminator 2 and Titanic. Short synopsis is humans are colonizing a life-bearing planet with a race of sentient beings known as the Na'vi. The atmosphere is not breathable by humans so they create a Na'vi/human hybrid that harbors a human's consciousness as the "pilot". Then the battle for the planet ensues. James Cameron is supposed to be using some pretty incredible new technology to film this movie such as a 3d camera that uses two lenses to simulate depth of vision just like our eyes. The HD trailer looked quite amazing and if nothing else the movie will be gorgeous to watch. Here's to hoping it turns out ok.

My Gundam will Kick Your Gundam's Ass

Well, unfortunately this summer has sucked for painting my Gundams. It rains every couple of days, jacking up the humidity so that the paint will dry poorly and look like ugly betty. The Primer that I ordered came yesterday (While I was at Connor's house) and now I just need to pick up some laquer thinner from a hardware store and wait for a good day to finish painting, hopefully tomorrow.

The stuff I wanted to use was called Mr. Surfacer and is made in Japan so it's pretty hard to find in the states and most places you'll find it online will make you pay for international shipping and will take weeks. Luckily I found this great site "Weber Plastic Models", and was able to pick it up for $5.39 and a $2 shipping charge. This stuff is supposed to be like the best stuff to use for plastic model kits. I'm excited to get to try it out.



I just set up a photostream for my gundam pics on flickr here: Gundam Pics. Hopefully I'll get some new pictures of a fully primed gundam up there soon.

Swine Flu has entered my World.....of Warcraft

Yep, you read that title correctly, swine flu....in World of Warcraft. Here's a screenie:

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Apparently this disease has been in the game for more than a year, and its just coincidence that we're being plagued (ha, pun) by the same disease today. WoW really brightened my day when I saw this, yep, I felt joy at the sight of a deadly disease, how awesome. Heres a link on the stats of this disease on wowhead.com: Swine Flu

On a somewhat related note, 2 days ago I recieved an email from Blizzard Entertainment (devolopers of WoW) that my old account that I no longer use was signed up for a free 10 day trail. I thought this was odd but didn't really think anything of it. Today I get another email, here is an exerpt:

****Notice of Account Closure****

Account Name: EXIMIUSNERO

Account Action: Closure
Reason for Action: Terms of Use Violation - Economy Exploitation

After a thorough investigation, we have found that a player of the account listed above participated in activities designed to gain an unfair advantage in the World of Warcraft economy.

Damnit! I inadvertently broke those terms that nobody reads!

Hmm, so I guess someone hacked into my old account, time to change the password on my new one!!!

Assorted funstuffs

Well, haven't posted in a while, but thought I'd tell you about what I've been up to.

I finally read Watchmen 2 weeks ago and man, what an amazing book. Rorschach has you sucked into the story from the first page. The things that happened in that book were pretty shocking, and more so because it was written in the 80's. I love Dr. Manhattan. Anyway I'm super excited to see the movie, I'm going opening day this Friday.

I'm so tired of this Chicago weather. I need it to be spring so I can spray paint my gundams :(

I revisited Batman: Gotham Knight this weekend after having another dismal weekend at my dad's. Watched it twice, the second time with commentary on and it was awesome. I noticed a lot more things this time and picked out the few links between the 6 episodes written by different writers. This was the first commentary I've seen on a dvd and I thought it was great. I felt a lot closer to the dvd and batman in general (lol I sound gay) and it was really cool to hear what these guys and Kevin Conroy ( I love him! lol more gayness) had to say.