4 October 2002 CE 12:43 am
People worry me.
Earlier today (well really yesterday now, but it feels like part of today, kinda, my sleep schedule is messed up so don't try to work it out) I had economics class. For the extra credit midterm, our class is playing a game (I think it's stupid, but WTH). Anyways, today we chose teams for next tuesday's class, and I was the first person picked.

This wouldn't be quite so traumatic, except the team captain thinks I know all the stuff, and I have seen my quiz scores, and by no means are they reassuring. I'm not failing the class, but I sure as hell am not putting enough effort into it that I actually remember things that I'm expected to. Secondly, if I'm the first pick, what does that say for the quiz scores for the rest of the class?

The whole incident is worrying. Somehow people have gotten the wrong impression about me. I'm a terrible student, you don't really want to depend on me for answers in situations like this.
1 October 2002 CE 5:08 pm
Quincy Archer does not hate me nearly enough.
Today I made the Saiyuki (it's always a Saiyuki even if you're not heading west) to Kinokuniya to pick up Asuka 10 which had arrived a week or two ago. Of course despite my financial situation, I got distracted by other things. So I left with Asuka 10, One Piece 25, Bleach 4, Sakuratetsu Taiwahen 2, and after months procrastination Yami no Matsuei 11. And two artbooks (Clamp North Side and South Side). Oops.

The title on Bleach 4 says "Quincy Archer Hates You". It is deceptive. I was anticipating most of the volume to be Quincy doing what he does so nicely, hating. I was disappointed. There's barely any Quincy, and he doesn't really do any hating. Since Kya-la-la says that there should be lots of Quincy-hate in volume 5 and maybe even 6, we have proposed several alternative titles for volume 5, my favorite two are "Quincy Archer Wants Your Head On A Stick" and "Quincy Archer is a Sexy Bitch". The title on volume 4 has disappointed me, and I await volume 5 (so full of hate).

Northside and Southside. Wow. I love them both. I'm sure other people have probably listed all the series represented in each and I'm betting there's scans from each. Therefore here are MY reasons for reccommending them. As Emi said, most of the art is familiar. Sure, lots of it is familiar, but mostly that's off bootleg goods, black and white reprints in manga, and from magazines with text over the pictures. These are clean vibrant color prints. Even the scans I've seen of these don't have the same impact as actually looking at the book. South Side has art from two of my favorite Clamp series ever, CCD and Duklyon, and clean images from Lawful Drug. North Side has beatiful clean prints of Clover art, but probably the nicest part of it are the prints of the Clamp In Wonderland art, some of the Zine-rom art, and some random works for various magazines and their website. Sadly enough, there's no Angelic Layer art in either of these. I keep hoping they'll release an artbook for it one day (not anime book, there's tons of those).

There's updated halloween plans in the livejournal.
25 September 2002 CE 12:03 am
For my info, you can ignore.
Ethical Philosophy Selector
1. Sartre (100%)
2. Kant (91%)
3. Bentham (77%)
4. Mill (76%)
5. Epicureans (74%)
6. Spinoza (74%)
7. Nietzsche (67%)
8. Aquinas (63%)
9. Noddings (60%)
10. Aristotle (59%)
11. Stoics (56%)
12. Hume (50%)
13. Prescriptivism (45%)
14. Rand (45%)
15. Augustine (43%)
16. Ockham (42%)
17. Hobbes (38%)
18. Cynics (30%)
19. Plato (15%)
24 September 2002 CE 8:48 pm
Religion
Religion for me is something that happens to other people.

Sure, our society is becoming more materialistic, agnostic, and sophistry abounds (which in turn creates the right-wing reactionary religious groups), but most people at least pay lip-service to a religion of some sort. Even most people who claim no religious affiliations were raised within a religion and then later decide to quit. Meaning almost anyone you ask has some sense of what it is to be a member of a religion. I do not.

I have had a truly non-religious upbringing. My father is agnostic, and my mother is really truly atheistic. Sure we celebrate Christmas and Easter, but that's cultural rather than religious, they have no meaning other than to have fun. Until I started school, I had no idea about religion. I went to elementary school in Canada, and Canada, as part of the British Commonwealth, has the Anglican Church as its state religion (that's Episcopalian for the Americans that read this). Every day in school the classes said the Lord's Prayer (I understand this has since changed), and I was exempt because of my mother's resquest. Of course, the other students noticed and asked me why and I was introduced to religion (specifically Christianity) through way of questions like "Don't you believe in God?" and "Don't you go to church?" As I got older (and moved to California) in school they would teach about the different religions, and I learned more practical knowledge from friends and their parents, for example, saying grace before dinner (who knew the food had to be blessed as well as cooked?).

I really have no personal understanding of religion. Anything I know about religion has always come from an external source. This makes things a little strange in philosophy class because the professor always compares the theories to Judeo-Christian doctrine. In a way I'm learning more about religion from this method than philosophy.
19 September 2002 CE 2:42 pm
This space avaliable for rent.
Once again we have proven that I should never be allowed to get bored. I now have a livejournal. Yes, you are seeing that right, it does say "bob the trout". Yes, it is very yellow, not out of perverted thoughts that yellow is a good layout color, but rather I'm evil, bored, and decided that yellow matched Tanaka-sensei's...head (or is that fish? no matter). And my other two icons are also very, very special. Despite the livejournal existing, this continues to be the real blog, and that will be a collection of inanity (that is spelled correctly, if you don't know what it means, look it up). Not that this isn't a collection of inanity, but the ramblings here tend to be longer and have slightly more direction. The lj will probably end up being my running fic commentaries, as opposed to me ranting at Kristi on IRC. Quite honestly I prefer the flexibility of doing all the coding myself here to using the templates. Sure, you can't leave comments, but most of you reading this should be able to find me online, and if you can't, well, there's an email address hidden somewhere in this wicked knot of pages. Besides, I prefer my audience to be captive, bound, and gagged.

On another note, people on ff.net are in fact either stupid or masochistic or, or, SOMETHING BAD I DON'T KNOW WHAT. You remember that stupid thing I wrote and posted on ff.net on a dare? It's linked at the bottom of the page, but since I don't trust you all to find the link or remember, click here. I have positive reviews from real people on that thing. Only two of them, but STILL, the whole idea of the thing was that it was intentionally bad. Steph and Tommy thought it was a great joke and left the first two reviews, Ka yells at me not to waste time on the thing, I left myself a review saying that its okay to tell me the fic sucks, and then one of the remaining three people is some friend of kya/ka. That leaves 2 people that genuinely cared enough about that thing to leave comments. GOOD comments. What the HELL is WRONG with people?

New picture as tends to go with me archiving. In case you haven't noticed I tend to use the pictures as a way of spreading a little info/joy about manga I read that other people I know don't. This time, the picture is from Naru Taru by Mohiro Kitoh published in japan by Kodansha. The picture is scanned from the color plate in volume 6. The girl in the pic is Shiina (the main character) and the thing she's riding on is Hoshimaru. The story itself is somewhat like Evangelion with a twist of X-Files, and a traditional mythological base rather than Judeo-Christian. There's children with special abilities, government investigations and interests in the children, and violence with some (disturbing) sex scenes. While the plot itself has very dark tones to it, the art tends to be fairly light, and there's a general feeling that somehow things will probably work out. Naru Taru has been translated into English by Studio Proteus as Shadow Star and is published by DarkHorse Comics.
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