"Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet."
...it was listed as a Chinese Proverb. I had to.
Hey all.
So I noticed that the post being nudged out of this page when this post goes up is dated the 21st of March. From last year. Hmmm, gee...really slowed down, haven't I? *goes back to look at what he last posted*
I guess I'll go in kinda random order. For the girl-I-like thing, I asked her out (on Valentines Day of all days. Nearly committed seppuku for such cliche-ness) and she said yes. Since then, we've been on one date, hung out a few times...and for the past three weeks, I haven't seen her at all. Really depressing and demoralizing. Every time I'd ask her out or meetup or anything, something would come up or she'd call it off at last minute. I've been giving her a lot of space 'cause I know she just got out of a bad relationship and is taking things slow (not even considered boyfriend/girlfriend yet, still in beta stage), but still...I'm kinda over sensitive about this since I'm so foreign to it, and a bit worried. So that's constantly been on my mind.
I haven't been watching too much anime lately, not sure why. As in, entire series. I've watched a bunch of episodes in club and a few movies (Summer Wars and Paprika are teh shet btw) but nothing in entirety. I plan to watch all of Bakuman and Pandora Hearts, but that's it so far.
A few weeks ago (damn, I think a month by now...) was Anime Milwaukee, which was a blast. Went there with Carney and our club mates Ryan and Sam, and met up with Schultzie. Debuted my Russia cosplay. That was actually a very hastily thrown together Paint it White! (the movie) version of Russia, since my coat for his standard outfit isn't done yet. So I'm glad that worked out well. I went as Dr. Insano the next day, but I was so tired that I wasn't even in character, which was a shame since Doug Walker was there. I went to his panel, and every now and then he'd look at me and yell "Insano!" and I'd be like "AHAHAHA-ok I'm done." Oh well. I met him again later that evening in the game room and played him a round in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, where I totally RAPED him. He's like, the worst Fox player ever. Made me lol. Met Katana and her company briefly at lunch, and then never saw her again, lol. It was a pretty small con, so there wasn't a whole lot to do, but still a lot of fun. Carney and I are gonna head down to Anime St. Louis in less than a month, and two weeks before that is the convention at Kat's college. I've caught the con bug, and it is awesome.
Been playing massive amounts of Super Street Fighter IV. Originally played it just to troll as Bison, but now I main Guy. My fingers ache from combos.
Immediately following the disaster in Japan, I came up with the idea for Anime Club to do a charity thingymajiggy to send money to Red Cross. I ordered a shit ton of red rubber wristbands that say "Nippon Banzai!!" on the front and a heart with a Rising Sun inside of it on the back. I'll be receiving 500 of them. My goal is to send over $2,000 to Japan, so I'm pretty pumped for this.
My parents bizarrely are no longer getting divorced. I know I should be relieved, but I'm not optimistic enough to not believe that it's only a matter of time before the bomb blows up again. In any case, I really want to get away from both of them. Living with them has not been healthy for the past...many years, and I find myself constantly searching for opportunities to be self-sufficient.
Acen is sending out panel approval/denials this week, and I'm really anxious. I was told a while back that panelists get their badges free, and in my quest to forever save Anime Club money, decided to submit a panel. It's entitled "Emotion vs. Logic: Behind the Knightmare" and focuses on topics of morality in the series Code Geass. Some find this boring, some find this fascinating, some think it's gay, I don't really care, it's gonna be great. If I find out that it gets accepted, I'm going to be going into such a Code Geass frenzy, and I'll be bleeding Knightmare frames from my eyeballs. SUCH. DEVOTION. Unfortunately, a few of my friends have promised me that they'll come to my panel and troll the shit outta me. So that may or may not be fun. Who knows.
Um. There is so much more that's happened, (and I think I say that in every post) but there is no way that I'm gonna try to cover it all. This post is long enough, thank you. So, I'll leave with the club's new theme song. And dance. And everything.
THIS IS MY KITTY MR. KRINGERPANTS, THE MOST CUTEST KITTY IN THE UNIVERSE.
-Ryu
