So, here we are on the last day of BEDA. I don't know why I feel a little sad. I know I'll be blogging once every week from now on, and that's a better schedule than once every day, but here we are, at the end.
Today was the Wolves Anime Club Easter Meet. Seeing as I needed to be there, and my funds are limited, I had to think of something cheap a couple of weeks ago, and ended up deciding on a picnic in West Park. I didn't think the weather, or the turn out would be anything to marvel at, but as I approached Asda, I noticed that there were quite a few people there. And more people carried on showing up.
We wandered Asda for food and I ended up buying giant turbo billion bubbles cause I knew for a fact that everyone finds bubbles either fun or annoying, and two bottles of Mr. Kon Ice Tea (which is my new favourite thing to drink). I found Iain, Lewis and Lee sat outside, and slowly, people started appearing out of Asda, so about an hour later than planned, we ended up walking to West Park.
Lewis went to his house to pick up some inflatable beach balls so that we could get some games going off. When he came back, we managed to get a hilarious game of 7-aside volleyball going that was totally in my teams favour because of the wind. Not like we kept any kind or score, or had any kind of rules.
After we had a break, we played British Bulldog, which was so much fun. Chris got me after he managed to get someone else. And then we all decided to go for Lee, and the face when he realised it. He was shouting "Fuck off" as he attempted to run off, but we got him in the end. And then he said "three headed giant" and it was hilarious. Micheal won that in the end.
We had to relax for a while after that, but it was nice. Me and Iain had a lot of cigarettes, and I got to see all of my friends. I actually feel like crying when I think about it to be honest. It was just such a lovely time. We had the quiz, which was a lot harder than I'd first thought. I was on a team with Iain, and I was terrible. We kicked a ball around for a while, and then played British Bulldog again. It was kind of fun.
That's where I'm going to leave it today because I can't even be bothered to talk about the crap that happened after we left. I pretty much own Lewis and Iain at Blazblue though~
While the Royal Wedding was taking place today, I was travelling around 70 miles from home to rehearsals. I think the dedication hurts a little too much.
My dad picked me up at 10 this morning, and this was the first time I'd seen him since Christmas. I forget how much I love my dad, really. Seriously, not even funny how often I forget that. I get on with my dad so well, and he's so awesome with helping his only daughter out in her time of need. We had a really long conversation about the situation in Japan, because he's the parent that understands my love of Japanese culture. Actually, he's the one that got me interested in Japanese culture.
We tried to find a McDonalds, and the satnav was telling him to go three miles back in the other direction, and when we managed to find one going in the right direction, it took us a while out of our way. And we got lost, which is what always happens on these journeys for us.
He was actually a proper legend about it all, and took me to Iain and Lewis' house so that I didn't have to carry that amp 1.6 miles because it's a beast. I actually nearly cried when I said goodbye to him. I know he'll be picking me up in a month because he's amazing like that, but I wish I saw my dad more often nowadays.
But anyway, back to the story of today. The reason I was taking my Marshall up to Iain was because I'd pretty much decided to 'lend it to him indefinitely' in his words. Which basically means I'm giving it to him because he's an amazing guitarist, and he'll make use of my baby. I haven't owned a guitar in like 3 years or something like that - or at least one that plugs into an amp. Plus I like making people happy, and giving him that was possibly the happiest I've ever made anyone.
While I had gone there to practice, however, it seemed that Ben was throwing a small BBQ, so we couldn't really practice. Seth was there, and he wanted to play on Portal 2, but then a few more people got there, and we practised like two songs. And then we had a few bits and pieces to eat, but I was feeling beyond lame because of these anti-depressants. As soon as I took the second one, I sort of curled up into the corner of the sofa and just felt like, so bad. I'd had a couple of side effects in the morning, like when I got out of bed I fell over because I was ridiculously light headed. These were just mentally making me feel a lot worse.
Me and Iain eventually ended up outside in the backyard, smoking and talking about how crap my tablets are, and he was trying to get me to ring NHS Direct because he could tell how bad I was actually feeling. Eventually, we settled on ringing my mum and asking her opinion on it. So I've decided I'm not going to take them until I get home, which is after all the end of year stuff, so I should be okay to drink in like, a couple of days I guess.
After everyone had disbanded from the BBQ, we decided we should get a bit more practice in, and we rehearsed one of the songs with so much energy and it was the best time we'd played it, and it was so, so much fun.
So today has been super busy. I've spent a grand total of an hour in my room, because I've just got back from Iain and Lewis' and I need to sleep. And as soon as I wake up tomorrow, I'm pretty much out. I'm going to miss alone time.
Today has been a massive, massive test of how much energy I can survive off of during a busy day. Well, initially, I only had to go out with Simon, but then I got myself a doctors appointment and ended up going out for a meal with my grandparents, but more on that as it comes.
It might sound, y'know, stupid, but this was the first time I'd been to my doctors on my own. This actually sounds ridiculous considering how many doctors appointments I've had in my life with my health going down hill when I was 11. But basically, the whole story is, I go to the doctors, get let in straight away and he prescribed me some anti-depressants because of how low I've been feeling lately. I can't drink for 4-6 months really, according the 'avoid alcohol' part of the instructions. Which is not what I wanted as I'm fairly sure there will be a lot of end of year shit going off, and whatever else. The side effects look, like, terrifying as well. Whatever, that's 7 out of 9 women in the family on those now.
After that, I had a two hour gap where I watched more Soul Eater before Simon arrived so that he could pick me up for café! The one thing I hate about Wolverhampton is that I have never found a place that does a chip cob. Not even a sub-standard one. I've never seen one and that irritates me. So I enjoyed my chip cob and Pepsi while we talked about what was happening in our lives. Although, for me, it's been all about the rehearsing and feeling sad about things. I wish I could have been more positive.
Then we decided to walk around the shops afterwards, which is what we always do. And if we don't go to the shops, we always go to Sutton Lawn. It's like a tradition, and I'm not sure why. We always end up in card shops, and B&M. I really never figure out why. There was a surprising lack of friendship cards which made me sad, because some of them were hilarious. I bought Simon one once saying "True friendship is to feel the sun from both sides" because it was just so funny.
This whole two paragraphs sums up two ours of an afternoon with Simon quite nicely. Though it ended with me sat in the back of his car writing out his birthday card for next Monday which I'd completely forgotten about until he mentioned it.
As soon as I got in, I decided to ring my grandma and grandad. It turns out they've been worried about me for months, and when my grandad answered the phone and asked if it was me just after I'd said hello in this surprised voice that he does nearly made me cry. I feel like I've kind of taken advantage of the fact that I have an amazing family. My grandad isn't doing so well lately. Apparently he gets dizzy quite a lot, and my grandma keeps making comments like "we won't be around forever" and even though it's only a few hours ago that I saw them, I feel like I miss them more than I ever have in my life.
We went to the Badger Box for a late lunch and I told them about my band, and they convinced my dad to give me a lift back up to Wolverhampton tomorrow because I need to take my very heavy 80wt Marshall Amp up to Iain for the gig and the thought of carting that around Birmingham New Street was enough to make me want to cry.
My grandma gave me a good lecture, and I was home by about 6:30. I watched TV with my mum and Derek for a while, and now I'm here, writing this very speedily as I need to sleep so, so desperately because y'know, I have to leave the house at 10 tomorrow to get back to Wolverhampton. It's going to be fun I guess.
So today, I played on WoW until 3am, went to bed, woke up at 4pm and I have no idea what is wrong with me and why I insist on sleeping so much. I went to my sisters house because she's not feeling great, and I looked at all of her wedding photos and met her cat, Socks. Such a lovely cat.
We talked for a while about the new years party and how Lee and Helena's most recent party ended in disaster. And we talked about a few other things, and gypsies seemed to be a running theme. I have to admit, although I hate Kirkby now, I do miss my family, especially my sisters.
Allan gave her her birthday presents that he'd gotten for her, because she was feeling rubbish, even though it's her birthday tomorrow. He must have spent a fair bit on her, because she ended up with a huge bottle of Calvin Klein perfume and a beautiful necklace. You know when you see those couples that you just know make each other so happy? Rebecca and Allan are just one of those. I know a couple of others like that as well. Just makes me a bit unhappy if I'm honest.
I'm finally out of Un'Goro Crater, so I'm probably gonna hit up WoW for another couple of hours and then get to bed because I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning about my meds and crap, and I'm seeing Simon tomorrow afternoon~! I'm so excited for that, you have no idea.
While I'm writing this on the train in Wordpad, I guess I don't really want to think about last night too much because I had the worst nights sleep in ages, and ended up googling rain sounds in an attempt to relax me, and it worked like a charm. But I'm exhausted, and I'd actually rather watch all the scenery go past me than write this because this is the first train ride I've had in a good long while.
As I write this, I'm going past a bright yellow field with horrific looking gray clouds overhead, so after I finish this short post, I'm going to text Derek and ask him to bring a jacket to the train station.
I should also point out this is probably the lightest travel I've ever done on this journey. I only have my backpack and my laptop bag, when usually, I have some form of suitcase to amble around Birmingham New Street with. It's kind of refreshing, but I'm only going back for a couple of days before I'm back in Wolves with practice and Easter club stuff. I have to carry my amp back too, which will be the worst thing in the world in my opinion. Blugh, need to rest.
Babylon was good by the way, I'm just too exhausted to write about it. But I'll say Scott is probably my favourite person to dance with ever.
Although I didn't see Todd today, I did get the chance to see Kris, and we're going to Babylon later. In fact, I said I'd be ready in 10 minutes about 9 minutes ago. We played on Soul Calibur 4 a lot, and it was awesome. I'm looking forward to going out even though it's a bank holiday, it's probably going to be rather dead, but whatever. I get to go out before I go home tomorrow. That's all I have time for right now, so I have to go.
With everything just happening this week, I've had so, so, so much anime to catch up on because on Friday, AnimeTake went a little mental and everything came up at once, including the last two episodes of Madoka Magica (Oh my lord, finally) and episodes of C, Ano Hana, A-Channel, Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai, Gosick, Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi, Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko and on Saturday, there was new Deadman Wonderland and today there Ao No Exorcist, Hanasaku Iroha, Dog Days and Nichijou and I still had Steins; Gate from Tuesday or Wednesday.
Like a boss, I managed to catch up with all of it, and I'm proud of myself, and I've watched a couple of episodes of Persona Trinity Soul too.
Seeing as I haven't done anything else today, I'm happy. Oh, and I caught up with the Bakuman Manga. 129 Chapters, baby.
I should take this chance to actually say what my favourites of the season are so far. I love C. C is just so clever, and beautiful. I can't wait to see where it's going. And Ao No Exorcist is just amazing, and the kind of Shounen anime I've been dying for since I finished Fullmetal Alchemist. It's just so good.
My least favourite is Nichijou. Although it's getting better because of Shraishi Cat, it's still just not my kind of show. It's a terrible slice of life in my opinion.
That's all I have. Meeting Todd tomorrow is looking less and less likely.
The weather yesterday was beautiful while we were in town, but turned to shit when we got in and suddenly there was a thunderstorm overhead. We practised a little, and then Rock Band got busted out. I cannot get 100% on those Mayday Parade songs on Vocals. I always, always get 99% and it's annoying.
I met a cool girl called Michella I think, who was into awesome music, and liked The Hunger Games. No one I know likes those books that much. So we talked about how we liked Peeta more than Gale, and about the casting. There was a massive Harry Potter discussion in there as well, but I left that because Harry Potter is one of those things that I never got into.
Me and Iain went off for a chat towards the end of the night because Lewis had pissed me off to the nth degree, and I won't mention what I said, but Iain was super understanding about it all. I don't know how things are going to pan out, at the end of it. But being drunk, and having that conversation really, really made me think about a lot of stuff. So that's more stuff I have to deal with I guess.
Me and Todd might be meeting up on Monday, which would be really nice, but since we both realised it was a bank holiday, I'm not gonna hold my breath. It would be so good to see him. We've been keeping in touch like we did over summer lately and I miss him.
Ugh, I'm suddenly empathising with Wako a lot more too. I still hate her though.
Today I went out to town with Iain and Lewis. It was supposed to be just me and Iain, but Lewis came along anyway. I don't quite know why, considering it was supposed to be an excuse for me and Iain to bond a little more, but whatever.
We were shopping for my stage outfit which required tights, a white vest top, hair dye, and accessories. The tights and vest top were acquired in Primark for about £4.50, the hair dye was from Superdrug because no where else has the colour that I use, and I got accessories from Rowfers, but I don't think I'm going to wear any of those on stage. I've decided that me and Iain need to go to this little shop that sells the coolest Steampunk stuff ever that was closed because we'd ignored it being a bank holiday completely.
All in all, I had a nice time, and I'm currently at Lewis and Iain's house waiting to rehearse a little before guests start arriving. God knows who's coming, seriously.
I'm terrible at these things being before midnight. I usually go to bed quite early in the morning, like 4 or 5am, and I forget that I have to post at a reasonable time for it to really count as blogging everyday in April.
But I'm here, just to tell you I had band practice, and it was about as productive as usual. We needed a decent practice today because Ben's having himself a house party tomorrow, which takes up our rehearsal space. Regardless, I'll be going to said party. Gnapgnapnothingtosay.
My day has just been practising like a mother. Seriously. That's all. Oh, and Iain tried to fix a guitar. We need that guitar for G-Day. That guitar still doesn't work.
You know, because of Luke, I managed to kick serious arse in the Magic 8-way we did. But first, I should start from the beginning.
After I wrote that blog last night, I was utterly defeated in the first game we had, coming in 7th because Alex, Paul's brother poisoned me, and I had no idea what was happening. But at the same time, I had myself a lovely vegetarian pizza, so I wasn't disheartened for too long.
Eventually we started actually watching anime, because massive Magic games, I have learnt, can last for absolutely ages. Regardless of that, it was fun. So we all settled down into the comfy sofas, and less than comfortable bar stools and started to finally watch the show. And then a fire broke out just next to the train lines and we were distracted by that for ages. That was, uhm, interesting I suppose, and it delayed the anime watching a little, but whatever.
After we got to like, episode 6 or 7, we decided to have a break and play another massive game of Magic. We got Luke out of his room, although he was just downloading Portal 2 and he joined in, making it the 8 of us again. This game was awesome for me. Luke saved my Planeswalker Chandra Nalaar (Cam's mum, apparently) and I managed to do 10 damage to Lee and all of his creatures. I'll never pull that off again, but whatever. I came in 3rd that time, and I left because I was gagging for a fag, and I think Cam won all in all. But 3rd is a lot better than 7th.
Then everyone got tired, we watched a couple more episodes before I made tea for everyone and then I decided to leave. I didn't even go to sleep when I got back, I just kind of lay in bed and just thought about how much fun I had with those people, and it made me sad that we don't have long left of being able to hang out in Cam and Luke's place. I don't think that I really realised until then how much I'm going to miss Cam. And I didn't really realise how much I missed having Chris a bus ride away until then.
This one will have to be super, super, super quick because I'm in Cam's room quickly typing this before we start a massive game of Magic The Gathering and we start watching Sengoku Basara. We haven't marathoned anything in a really long time, when I talk about full series anyway, so I'm really excited about watching this, on Blu-Ray no less.
Cam's been helping me learn Magic, so I'm slowly getting the hang of it, and when I finally have the money, I'm going to invest in a red deck. Red decks are fun to play with, not like I have a lot of experience but you know. So that's literally all I have the time for today, I'll tell you the results tomorrow. Wish me luck~
So I go onto the forum today, after posting my proposal to keep club going for a few more weeks, and Yahoo Bot had replied to me. Actual Yahoo Bot, making kind of awesome suggestions. And it obviously knows far too much about club, as it wrote:
Providing we have 2 and half weeks spare, I think watching Letter Bee would be a good idea. From what I can tell, a majority seem to love the series and would be a first in club to watch an entire series in club time. That said, if you miss a day, that is 5 episodes that you have to catch up on. If we don't do this, I think it would be good to have marathon sessions and watch it over the space of 2/3 sessions since this does seem like a good anime to watch together.
The other suggestion I have is to have people bring in anime, but instead of just watching the first episode, watch 2/3 since not all animes can have the greatness that they are in the first episode and I know myself that I did not like some of my top ranked animes episode 1s (gurren lagann is a very good example of this since I didn't really start getting into this by episode 8).
My last suggestion I have is to have a bit more break time and have some club activities. These don't have to be anime related but will give people time to socialise. Even bringing in some sort of board game could be fun and a chance to have a good laugh before we all go different ways for summer.
Since I came up with the last two ideas while writing this post, I am going to say I do like my "Bring in a game to play" idea and I am now going to push for it (and no, I will not push for trading card games since I can do that on Wednesdays).
What the hell, Yahoo bot? Since when do you know about TCG on Wednesdays, and how to you know about the breaks and how club actually runs? What the hell is this? This has pretty much been my day.
While Iain and Lewis are playing Wolfmother songs, I realised that I hadn't made a blog for today, and I'm having to type on the shittest keyboard in the world. Yay. So it's not going to be a long post.
While I'm doing BEDA, when Lewis insists on doing songs we aren't playing at the show, it does give me 4 or so minutes to write quickly when I forgot to do it earlier. But at the same time, I'm kind of like "oh my god, can't we practice our setlist?"
We're starting to run out of time. So I'm getting increasingly annoyed with the fact Lewis seems to get distracted so easily. I mean, it's an hour-ish for me to walk to and from rehearsals, and it's getting to seem like it's a waste of time.
Now that I've finished the Bakuman anime, I've decided that I'm going to start catching up with the manga. I'm slowly getting there, but it's a massive 128 chapters long as it stands. And the panel that I've put along with this post is possibly my favourite.
I wish there was some kind of interesting stuff for me to write here, but with my life at the minute being constant rehearsals, I actually don't have much to say.
I've been talking to Chris a lot more lately as well, about Bakuman. He's still my best friend from University, and I enjoy talking to him. I forget to go on MSN a lot, so I don't often talk to him, but the Bakuman thing has kind of given me an opportunity to actually do that.
I have a couple of interesting things coming up this week, like the Sengoku Basara marathon with a lot of people who I never get to see anymore, like Paul and Alex I think.
I actually realised that I move out next month, and there are still a lot of things that I haven't had the chance to do. I've definitely experienced a hell of a lot more than last year, but I just don't think I'm ready for this year to end, because so many of my friends are leaving, and I can't imagine what it's going to be without them. Ugh, I think about this far too much.
Save for watching a few episodes of Code Geass, I'm pretty much done with my chairmanship. I still have a few more meetings left, and the last one, we probably won't watch any anime, but just mess around. I'm getting more and more terrified about the prospect that a lot of my friends will leave and they aren't coming back.
The first thing we finished was Bakuman, and now I can be excited about October and season 2 coming out. Then we finished Tegami Bachi, and then end got the exact reaction that I'd hoped for. Where people gasped, a lot. And Squid Girl, which was the wrong mood completely for after the ending of Tegami Bachi.
After that, it was off to Lewis and Iain's with Lee because he had some friends coming over for a very different experience with a disposable BBQ. One of their friends, Eve had just quit his job that he hated, and decided to set his work shirts on fire. He was giving speeches about how you should never do something that you hate, and strive to do something that you love. That kinda hit home for me.
We practised a little, but more over, Iain showed me his piles and piles of make up and then we decided he was going to try something that I could use on stage if I wanted to, and proceeded to do my make-up from scratch. The only problem was the foundation he had was a little dark for me, but it was again something so impressive to come from him it was amazing. He plays guitar, draws well and nearly went into the Make-up Artist career. When my bluetooth on my phone isn't acting up, I'll put a picture of what my make-up actually turned out like.
So today was the last J-Soc until September and Rachel's Uniform night out for her 21st birthday in a few days. J-Soc was actually the most fun that I've had since I started going. The word of the week was Sayonara (or Goodbye) and Laura decided to use up whatever was left in the prize box.
So I won two special prizes for the Hello Kitty competition which I actually intended to lose at quite badly. I'm glad I didn't win one of the main prizes though, which were £10 Wagamama vouchers that I wouldn't be able to use. But I did win a booster pack of Duel Masters cards, a set of chopsticks, and for shouting out "Hard Gay" I won a booklet from a CD, but not the actual CD.
We had a group photo, which I'll possibly cherish forever. And then Laura told us about 5 yen coins, and how they bring good luck, so when you go to Shinto shrines, you're supposed to donate 5 yen coins. Apparently they're considered lucky because 'go' is the word for five. The hyphenated word, "go-en" in Japanese happens to translate to "good luck," "karma," or "fate."
She gave us all necklaces with a five yen coin attached to it and said that she wished us luck for the future. This was about the point when I had to leave, so I said my goodbyes and left for Rachel's birthday night.
I had a great night to be honest. It's been the first night in ages that I've been out in Wolverhampton, and I didn't drink too much (according to my standards. I was too drunk to be let back into Babylon. Where the hell were these bouncers on my birthday when I was legless?) But I didn't spend all that much money. I don't think anyone bought me drinks. I had a lot of Rum and Dr. Pepper at Richard and Michelle's, I had a double Vodka and Coke at Lorenzo's, even though I only paid for a single, at Hogs Head me and Scott had a bottle of Rosé between us, I had a VK apple at Babylon, and I don't drink at Planet any more cause I'm not that rich.
Nothing special really happened. It was just a really good night out. I was sad when Michelle had to leave. I talked anime with Varun for a while, and me and Michelle will have a day watching anime at some point. Need to arrange that >>
I've been saving this post for such an occasion. I actually have rehearsals again in two hours, and I've only been awake for about an hour, and thus far with my day, I have watched the new episode of Toriko, re-watched the first episode of The World God Only Knows II, and eaten a spicy Korean noodle cup (I had three of these yesterday, they are my new favourite food.)
So I actually don't have all that much to post about. So I was saving this for one of those times. Last year, I quite often posted pictures of my growing manga collection and things like that. Last year, I evidently had far too much money. This year, rather than that, I've been collecting little things from places and people that mean something to me, and I made a kind of collage on my wall out of all of these things. So I thought I'd show you that, and talk about a few of my favourite things on there.
I guess this is just kind of the view of everything, along with the set up I have for WoW playing and anime watching. I think I was watching King Of Bandit Jing when I took this. Yeah, there are a shit tonne of wires, but I actually need them all, which is not fun. So we'll go for the next photo I guess.
There's a load of things on there from when I went to Propaganda in Birmingham, because I just found a shed load of leaflets and things in my pockets the next day. I have Japanese sweet wrappers on there from the Christmas present Claky got me two years ago, two Walkabout wristbands, the remainder of my wristband from The Cup at Planet, those giant red numbers that were stuck on me on the morning of my birthday when we got back from Lorenzos, two oragami pandas from Lewis, a drawing of a panda from Tom, my valentines post card from Claky, as well as the giant Pikachu that he sent my ID back with. There's the ticket for Mayday Parade and The Maine, which me and Todd went to in September, a bus ticket to his house, Star Wars Attax cards from Telford Expo, Monopoly money that I found the morning after a night out stuffed in my bra, my ticket to see Scott Pilgrim at Bently Bridge, a few Amecon things, the tattoos I forgot to use on the Halloween bar crawl, and the Pantsu that Lee made out of stickers at Fresher Fayre.
This is the last little bit of the wall, and it has my Telford Expo Ticket, a drawing that my mum did for me, hidden under that bit of shelf, leaflets from Propaganda again, J-Soc cards (they're everywhere), my sisters wedding invitation, and lastly, the drawing of Sugata from Star Driver that Iain drew at Manga night.
I just find it nice to be able to look up and just see all of these memories from the past year, and remember all of these people who have made a massive impact on my life. It's sad to think that in just over a month, I'll be moving home again for Summer. I have no plans for this summer. I wish I was going to Download, and I wish I was going to Ayacon, but I can't get that much money. I guess this is the adventure of life.
Today was actually the last official Monday of my chairmanship. It's been a day of a lack of sleep, and tearing up. So we finished Chrome Shelled Regios - which was pretty good - Star Driver - which had everyone in a state of 'what the fuck?' for the rest of the meeting - and The World God Only Knows, which has the best ending ever, as far I'm concerned.
Me letting go of chairmanship is getting harder and harder because I feel like I haven't done enough. I haven't tried hard enough to make club a better thing over all. I know we've had a shit load more meets outside of club than last year, and we've got t-shirts on the way. We now have two mascots, called WAC-Chan and WAC-Kun, and we've had fan-fiction competitions. And sponsors. We have a tonne of those.
And Laura made an end of year video, which I'll share. It has a bunch of inside jokes, but for the most part, it's just a video of parts of the year, from just being sat in club, to Blazblueathon II.
I have no idea why I'm the thumbnail, so don't ask.
I actually have rehearsals again tonight. And every night this week in fact, aside from Thursday. So that's where I must go.
The new season list is just producing some amazing shows, and seeing as it's Sunday and I have nothing else to talk about, I'm going to talk about anime again.
So far, my favourite show of the season is probably Dog Days. It reminds me of MAR, has my favourite seiyuu in, and he voices a character from Cornwall of all places. But that being said, I also really enjoyed A-Channel this weekend. It's really actually looking like something special in the way of Slice of Life. Not as special as Lucky Star, but still, something special.
The first episode of Steins;Gate was just, I don't even know. I'm so glad I managed to finish ChAOS;HEAd before this season started. It was incredible, and I can't wait to see more of it.
On the other end of the scale, Nichijou is something that isn't right for me, I don't think. It's supposed to be like Azumanga Daioh, which was the worst thing I've ever seen. I'm going to carry on watching it regardless, because it's 20 minutes a week of bedtime watching.
So anyway, I went to band rehearsals yesterday. We pretty much have two songs that we managed to practise a shit load, but I have the problem of singing to deal with, and my throat feels like it's keeling over because I think I may have over used it last night, so I'm going to go back to bed and watch anime, and drink tea.
My friend Todd has a tendency to send out text jokes, and I got one at like, 2am that made me laugh quite hard. It was:
"My friend set me up with a blind date last night. I knew she didn't like me from the start, cheeky bitch kept her sunglasses on all night! And who the fuck brings their dog?"
I don't know why it made me laugh so hard, but I managed to choke on what I was eating, so replied with:
"I was eating and chocked when I read that. Thanks for the laugh xD x"
And then the reply, really, really got to me.
"Aww, i'm happy to hear your eating. You never used to, that's why."
And then I thought about it. We used to live really close to each other last year, and I miss him being around. I've invited him to the gig that we're doing next month, so hopefully I'll see him then. I have to run anyway. I have band practice.
I feel like I've been both fortunate and unfortunate. I've had the opportunity to do some absolutely fantastic things with the anime club, both this year and last.
Because of this society, I got to experience my first anime convention, my first expo, I've been to countless gaming parties, marathoned some of my favourite animes with some of my favourite people, I met Chris Patton, and the guy who played Neville in the Harry Potter films, stay in London with my best friends, found out about some of the most amazing shows I've ever had the pleasure of viewing and made some of the coolest friends I'll ever meet in my life.
Today was the club elections. Only Jon really ran, so of course, he got the chairmanship. Which I'm happy with because he has some awesome ideas for club, in the form of monthy marathons and showing new season shows. I did show the new season stuff, in the form of Bakuman and Star Driver, and those shows are awesome, so I'm happy with that.
And Lee is Vice-Chair for anime, and I'm treasurer. As soon as the years over, I become one of the club Banchettes. It's a female Bancho. So I'm treasurer for two societies now. Which is wicked.
Anyway, I have WoW time back, but it's like, 9:44pm and rather than dick around on WoW for hours, I'm actually going to get myself ready for bed and y'know, watch anime and sleep, and possibly dick around on Pokémon a little like I did at 5am just to get stuck in a battle with Cynthia that I can't be bothered to finish. Yup. Okay, too tired.
Though it's getting to the time where I'm handing over anime club and stepping down as chairman, I guess I sort of get to soften the blow a little bit by becoming treasurer for J-Soc, and hopefully anime tomorrow. I was voted in as treasurer, Gabriella was voted in as Vice, and Megan as chair. Apparently, if we last longer than 4 months, we'll be the longest running all-female staff of a society ever.
Today has actually not been that bad, regardless of the drama. My mum and step dad found out that I'm not a student anymore, and were actually kind of cool about the whole thing once I'd explained it. If it wasn't for Derek (my step dad for those of you not in the know), I would be in so much more shit because my mum would not have taken it lightly.
I went into J-Soc, and told Chris, who, aside from Cam is the only person in Uni who has met my mum, and his first words were "Oh shit" or something to that effect. So I'm aware I don't look my best in this picture, but it's expected.
I also text Todd a fair few times today, and we've said we're gonna meet up at some point before the end of the year. That would be awesome, because I haven't seen him since the day after his birthday in October. I'm hoping I might be able to persuade him to come to the end of year party next month, not going to be surprised if he doesn't, but I can hope.
That's all I have in me today. No change in the numbers, so I won't bother posting them until tomorrow.
Manga night was seriously very little fun. I have no money, and now I'm aware Tegami Bachi 4 is out and I don't have it. But Iain did draw a picture of Sugata from Star Driver that he was going to throw away, so it's now stuck on my wall. Cam won the quiz, Laura won cosplay, I'm proud to be the chairman of WAC sometimes. I only managed to score a shitty one point on that quiz because the questions were dumb, and about Yaoi I'd never even heard of.
We've started band practise now, and actually managed to get down a song in a night, which was pretty impressive as far as I'm concerned. However, watching someone chart drums is ridiculously, soul crushingly boring.
A possible summer job opportunity is around somewhere, with pretty good pay. I need to apply for it, but me, Lewis, Iain and Ben are possibly going to apply together. I need that money. I need Ayacon.
Anyway, today was TCG and TCG Elections. I'm ridiculously glad that Lee managed to get chairman for next year. I'm hoping he can get more people into playing Pokémon. I'm going to learn how to play Weiss Schwarz at some point. Tomorrow is J-Soc elections, and on Friday are the anime elections. I'm still going to be chairman until September, but we'll find out who's going to be chairman on Friday.
I've been so lately, I've hardly had time to watch any anime. I'm watching Metal Fight Beyblade as I write this, but Megavideo is sure to just deny me anymore in about 20 seconds. My plan is to finish at least two series a week, so I'm going to get on that, like, now.
I'm running out of time. I'm going to meet Luke and Jon in like, 5 minutes. Don't say I'm not dedicated. When I get back tomorrow, I'll go into more detail, but here's a picture of me and my good friend Iain from last night~
I actually had a great time in club today. A really, really great time. I worked out that I'm going to be finished with official club next Friday. I don't lose my chairmanship until September, but next club will be elections and I'm actually wondering what on earth I'm going to do with my time next year.
But I ended up dropping King of Bandit Jing in what was possibly the first proper chairman thing I've done yet. 2 people out of 12 were interested in seeing it. I can't justify keeping a show on and marathoning it to that degree when 2 people want to see it. Which sounds crappy for those two people, but at the end of the day, everyone else was dreading this shit coming on.
So that's dropped, and we watched an episode of Star Driver. So now we're upto 23 which is where the major shite starts going down. And we have 3 episodes of Chrome left, and 3 episodes of The World God Only Knows, which means that finishes in time for people who love it to catch the second season which starts in about a week and a half.
This is probably majorly boring for people who don't go to club, but it's pretty much all I do with my time. Tonight I'm going over to Lewis' to smoke rollups, get drunk off of rum and Dr. Pepper because everyone else is barcrawling it up, and sort out a set list of songs for this end of year gig that we're playing, and we're going to start rehearsing sometime this week. Which means my anime watching time gets cut down by about 90% for the next month or so, but whatever. I'll go now anyway. Manga night tomorrow too~!
As it's the last Star Driver Sunday that there will ever be, I'm not going to say anything really besides Star Driver is amazing, the ending was phenomenal and I'm going to miss it more than I can say. It's been an incredible 28 weeks since I started watching this. I still don't like Wako though.
What a beautiful sky.
Yeah, it is.
We may not see this sky again, but someday we’ll see an even more beautiful one.
Usually weekends are kind of anime-filled for me, but I felt like changing it a little bit this weekend. I have a favourite actor/singer in Japan called Yuya Matsushita, and I found this J-Dorama that he's in called Quartet so I've been watching that today, along with Zombie Loan and a couple of one-shots from the Young Animators Training Project.
Oh, and I also got a few more photos emailed to me from my sisters wedding.
I actually had a rather long phone call with my mum about half an hour ago, and we were talking about Jaden and Ethan, and the chickens, and how my mum wants me to go home over Easter. I don't know when I'm supposed to go, or how I'm supposed to get there, but I guess I'll just have to see if that happens. It's actually rather likely that we all managed to pick up some kind of Gastric Flu at the wedding because I've not been feeling 100% for about two weeks, and my mum and Derek are the same. Yay for us?
Seeing as I haven't actually done all that much today, I can't really stretch this out. But I will just shove in a picture of Yuya Matsushita, seeing as he's like a theme for today or something. Saying that, I've just listened to a few of his songs, watched a J-Dorama with him in, and y'know, found this picture.
Plus I want to get this post over and done with just incase the subs to Nichijou or Dog Days appear.
Pokédex: 93 Completed Anime: 178
Oh, yes, I'm also enjoying Tumblr a great deal at the minute. If you're interested in seeing pictures I like, which is all I use it for, click here.
Today, hasn't actually been all that bad, bar the end of it.
I started today by seeing Kris for the first time in a week. It was only for about half an hour, but it was nice to see him for a while. I came back and watched a tonne more Welcome to the N.H.K! I think me marathoning that show was possibly a bad idea. I feel bad for Satou, as nothing seems to go right for him. And other aspects of that show just hit far too close to home. It was an awesome show though.
When I got up in the morning, I went to see Chris. I haven't really spent any time with Chris lately, but it was really nice to see him. He's the outdoors-y type, so we ended up taking some time out of my room and going to West Park. It was nice, the weather could have been much better, but it was nice to just be out of my room, and not at someone elses flat or a club room. That's pretty much where all my time goes nowadays. I don't really have much to look forward to in that respect.
Then we went to club, but I had to do chairwoman things seeing as the room we have booked was being used for a speaking exam of some description, so I had to dash over to the SU, and look for Neil who wasn't in, the woman who he shares his office with was no help, so I had to search for Alex, who luckily managed to change the room last minute. I suppose it means I'm doing a decent job of being chair now. I wish I could have been better before.
Then we had Bakumarathon. Which was four episodes of Bakuman straight after one another and it was probably one of the most enjoyable things I've done in club time. I'm enjoying Bakuman so much, and looking forward to seeing more of it next week.
I actually only have four weeks of proper chairmanship left, and it's strange to think how quickly it's gone. Next week is another catch up week, and then it's the same as always the week after. We'll have three episodes of everything left. I'm actually running for treasurer for next year, where Jon will be the chairman, and Lee will be vice. I'm also running for treasurer for J-Soc.
Over the past few weeks, I've enjoyed being chairman. I suppose it's because the shows I picked are actually going somewhere. I'm hoping Jon's going to pick some decent stuff too. I think I've made my mark by being the first female chairman for the anime society who's seen the year through.
But this also means I'm lumped with the kettle over the weekend, which means I've had to carry back two of the kettle bags, my bag with the external hard drive in it, along with my notebooks and make up, and my laptop bag. It's rather annoying that no one wants to help me out with this. Luckily Jon and Ed were there to help me carry my stuff the majority of the way. I'm throwing down an ultimatum next week where if I have to take the kettle bags back on a Friday, I won't bring the kettle in in the future.
This is just club stuff really. It's how it goes, being chairman and all.
So anyway, I'm not going to track my WoW level for a while. I'm actually out of prepaid time on WoW, so I can't really play on it, so there's not going to be anything interesting happening in that respect. So instead, I'm going to go with the number of completed animes I have, along with Pokédex numbers. At least for this month.
Back to watching something. I don't know what yet, I seem to have no more Gosick downloaded.
I’m Ebbie. Twenty years old. British. Born on January 13th. I’m an otaku.
I love anime, manga, video games, Pokémon, Vocaloids, Madina Lake, pyjamas, Bones, Tauburn, pandas, N, vodka and coke, larger and black, Richmond Menthol Superkings, Wolves Anime Club,
Nottingham Rock City, Babylon, Luxray, Luxio and Shinx, Yen Press, Tegami Bachi, Tattoos, Travis Touchdown, World of Warcraft, Shounen Jump, Brad Swaile, Converses, oversized jewellery,
Photoshop, Gendou, Gaia Online, cosplay, conventions, plushies, pillows, figmas, Japanese sweets, Momiji, Persona 4, Yuya Matsushita, Kuroshitsuji, Nintendo, Link, Studio Ghibli, autumn,
Tumblr, Scott Pilgrim, drawing and Disney films.
So, here we are on the last day of BEDA. I don't know why I feel a little sad. I know I'll be blogging once every week from now on, and that's a better schedule than once every day, but here we are, at the end.
Today was the Wolves Anime Club Easter Meet. Seeing as I needed to be there, and my funds are limited, I had to think of something cheap a couple of weeks ago, and ended up deciding on a picnic in West Park. I didn't think the weather, or the turn out would be anything to marvel at, but as I approached Asda, I noticed that there were quite a few people there. And more people carried on showing up.
We wandered Asda for food and I ended up buying giant turbo billion bubbles cause I knew for a fact that everyone finds bubbles either fun or annoying, and two bottles of Mr. Kon Ice Tea (which is my new favourite thing to drink). I found Iain, Lewis and Lee sat outside, and slowly, people started appearing out of Asda, so about an hour later than planned, we ended up walking to West Park.
Lewis went to his house to pick up some inflatable beach balls so that we could get some games going off. When he came back, we managed to get a hilarious game of 7-aside volleyball going that was totally in my teams favour because of the wind. Not like we kept any kind or score, or had any kind of rules.
After we had a break, we played British Bulldog, which was so much fun. Chris got me after he managed to get someone else. And then we all decided to go for Lee, and the face when he realised it. He was shouting "Fuck off" as he attempted to run off, but we got him in the end. And then he said "three headed giant" and it was hilarious. Micheal won that in the end.
We had to relax for a while after that, but it was nice. Me and Iain had a lot of cigarettes, and I got to see all of my friends. I actually feel like crying when I think about it to be honest. It was just such a lovely time. We had the quiz, which was a lot harder than I'd first thought. I was on a team with Iain, and I was terrible. We kicked a ball around for a while, and then played British Bulldog again. It was kind of fun.
That's where I'm going to leave it today because I can't even be bothered to talk about the crap that happened after we left. I pretty much own Lewis and Iain at Blazblue though~
While the Royal Wedding was taking place today, I was travelling around 70 miles from home to rehearsals. I think the dedication hurts a little too much.
My dad picked me up at 10 this morning, and this was the first time I'd seen him since Christmas. I forget how much I love my dad, really. Seriously, not even funny how often I forget that. I get on with my dad so well, and he's so awesome with helping his only daughter out in her time of need. We had a really long conversation about the situation in Japan, because he's the parent that understands my love of Japanese culture. Actually, he's the one that got me interested in Japanese culture.
We tried to find a McDonalds, and the satnav was telling him to go three miles back in the other direction, and when we managed to find one going in the right direction, it took us a while out of our way. And we got lost, which is what always happens on these journeys for us.
He was actually a proper legend about it all, and took me to Iain and Lewis' house so that I didn't have to carry that amp 1.6 miles because it's a beast. I actually nearly cried when I said goodbye to him. I know he'll be picking me up in a month because he's amazing like that, but I wish I saw my dad more often nowadays.
But anyway, back to the story of today. The reason I was taking my Marshall up to Iain was because I'd pretty much decided to 'lend it to him indefinitely' in his words. Which basically means I'm giving it to him because he's an amazing guitarist, and he'll make use of my baby. I haven't owned a guitar in like 3 years or something like that - or at least one that plugs into an amp. Plus I like making people happy, and giving him that was possibly the happiest I've ever made anyone.
While I had gone there to practice, however, it seemed that Ben was throwing a small BBQ, so we couldn't really practice. Seth was there, and he wanted to play on Portal 2, but then a few more people got there, and we practised like two songs. And then we had a few bits and pieces to eat, but I was feeling beyond lame because of these anti-depressants. As soon as I took the second one, I sort of curled up into the corner of the sofa and just felt like, so bad. I'd had a couple of side effects in the morning, like when I got out of bed I fell over because I was ridiculously light headed. These were just mentally making me feel a lot worse.
Me and Iain eventually ended up outside in the backyard, smoking and talking about how crap my tablets are, and he was trying to get me to ring NHS Direct because he could tell how bad I was actually feeling. Eventually, we settled on ringing my mum and asking her opinion on it. So I've decided I'm not going to take them until I get home, which is after all the end of year stuff, so I should be okay to drink in like, a couple of days I guess.
After everyone had disbanded from the BBQ, we decided we should get a bit more practice in, and we rehearsed one of the songs with so much energy and it was the best time we'd played it, and it was so, so much fun.
So today has been super busy. I've spent a grand total of an hour in my room, because I've just got back from Iain and Lewis' and I need to sleep. And as soon as I wake up tomorrow, I'm pretty much out. I'm going to miss alone time.
Today has been a massive, massive test of how much energy I can survive off of during a busy day. Well, initially, I only had to go out with Simon, but then I got myself a doctors appointment and ended up going out for a meal with my grandparents, but more on that as it comes.
It might sound, y'know, stupid, but this was the first time I'd been to my doctors on my own. This actually sounds ridiculous considering how many doctors appointments I've had in my life with my health going down hill when I was 11. But basically, the whole story is, I go to the doctors, get let in straight away and he prescribed me some anti-depressants because of how low I've been feeling lately. I can't drink for 4-6 months really, according the 'avoid alcohol' part of the instructions. Which is not what I wanted as I'm fairly sure there will be a lot of end of year shit going off, and whatever else. The side effects look, like, terrifying as well. Whatever, that's 7 out of 9 women in the family on those now.
After that, I had a two hour gap where I watched more Soul Eater before Simon arrived so that he could pick me up for café! The one thing I hate about Wolverhampton is that I have never found a place that does a chip cob. Not even a sub-standard one. I've never seen one and that irritates me. So I enjoyed my chip cob and Pepsi while we talked about what was happening in our lives. Although, for me, it's been all about the rehearsing and feeling sad about things. I wish I could have been more positive.
Then we decided to walk around the shops afterwards, which is what we always do. And if we don't go to the shops, we always go to Sutton Lawn. It's like a tradition, and I'm not sure why. We always end up in card shops, and B&M. I really never figure out why. There was a surprising lack of friendship cards which made me sad, because some of them were hilarious. I bought Simon one once saying "True friendship is to feel the sun from both sides" because it was just so funny.
This whole two paragraphs sums up two ours of an afternoon with Simon quite nicely. Though it ended with me sat in the back of his car writing out his birthday card for next Monday which I'd completely forgotten about until he mentioned it.
As soon as I got in, I decided to ring my grandma and grandad. It turns out they've been worried about me for months, and when my grandad answered the phone and asked if it was me just after I'd said hello in this surprised voice that he does nearly made me cry. I feel like I've kind of taken advantage of the fact that I have an amazing family. My grandad isn't doing so well lately. Apparently he gets dizzy quite a lot, and my grandma keeps making comments like "we won't be around forever" and even though it's only a few hours ago that I saw them, I feel like I miss them more than I ever have in my life.
We went to the Badger Box for a late lunch and I told them about my band, and they convinced my dad to give me a lift back up to Wolverhampton tomorrow because I need to take my very heavy 80wt Marshall Amp up to Iain for the gig and the thought of carting that around Birmingham New Street was enough to make me want to cry.
My grandma gave me a good lecture, and I was home by about 6:30. I watched TV with my mum and Derek for a while, and now I'm here, writing this very speedily as I need to sleep so, so desperately because y'know, I have to leave the house at 10 tomorrow to get back to Wolverhampton. It's going to be fun I guess.
So today, I played on WoW until 3am, went to bed, woke up at 4pm and I have no idea what is wrong with me and why I insist on sleeping so much. I went to my sisters house because she's not feeling great, and I looked at all of her wedding photos and met her cat, Socks. Such a lovely cat.
We talked for a while about the new years party and how Lee and Helena's most recent party ended in disaster. And we talked about a few other things, and gypsies seemed to be a running theme. I have to admit, although I hate Kirkby now, I do miss my family, especially my sisters.
Allan gave her her birthday presents that he'd gotten for her, because she was feeling rubbish, even though it's her birthday tomorrow. He must have spent a fair bit on her, because she ended up with a huge bottle of Calvin Klein perfume and a beautiful necklace. You know when you see those couples that you just know make each other so happy? Rebecca and Allan are just one of those. I know a couple of others like that as well. Just makes me a bit unhappy if I'm honest.
I'm finally out of Un'Goro Crater, so I'm probably gonna hit up WoW for another couple of hours and then get to bed because I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning about my meds and crap, and I'm seeing Simon tomorrow afternoon~! I'm so excited for that, you have no idea.
While I'm writing this on the train in Wordpad, I guess I don't really want to think about last night too much because I had the worst nights sleep in ages, and ended up googling rain sounds in an attempt to relax me, and it worked like a charm. But I'm exhausted, and I'd actually rather watch all the scenery go past me than write this because this is the first train ride I've had in a good long while.
As I write this, I'm going past a bright yellow field with horrific looking gray clouds overhead, so after I finish this short post, I'm going to text Derek and ask him to bring a jacket to the train station.
I should also point out this is probably the lightest travel I've ever done on this journey. I only have my backpack and my laptop bag, when usually, I have some form of suitcase to amble around Birmingham New Street with. It's kind of refreshing, but I'm only going back for a couple of days before I'm back in Wolves with practice and Easter club stuff. I have to carry my amp back too, which will be the worst thing in the world in my opinion. Blugh, need to rest.
Babylon was good by the way, I'm just too exhausted to write about it. But I'll say Scott is probably my favourite person to dance with ever.
Although I didn't see Todd today, I did get the chance to see Kris, and we're going to Babylon later. In fact, I said I'd be ready in 10 minutes about 9 minutes ago. We played on Soul Calibur 4 a lot, and it was awesome. I'm looking forward to going out even though it's a bank holiday, it's probably going to be rather dead, but whatever. I get to go out before I go home tomorrow. That's all I have time for right now, so I have to go.
With everything just happening this week, I've had so, so, so much anime to catch up on because on Friday, AnimeTake went a little mental and everything came up at once, including the last two episodes of Madoka Magica (Oh my lord, finally) and episodes of C, Ano Hana, A-Channel, Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai, Gosick, Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi, Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko and on Saturday, there was new Deadman Wonderland and today there Ao No Exorcist, Hanasaku Iroha, Dog Days and Nichijou and I still had Steins; Gate from Tuesday or Wednesday.
Like a boss, I managed to catch up with all of it, and I'm proud of myself, and I've watched a couple of episodes of Persona Trinity Soul too.
Seeing as I haven't done anything else today, I'm happy. Oh, and I caught up with the Bakuman Manga. 129 Chapters, baby.
I should take this chance to actually say what my favourites of the season are so far. I love C. C is just so clever, and beautiful. I can't wait to see where it's going. And Ao No Exorcist is just amazing, and the kind of Shounen anime I've been dying for since I finished Fullmetal Alchemist. It's just so good.
My least favourite is Nichijou. Although it's getting better because of Shraishi Cat, it's still just not my kind of show. It's a terrible slice of life in my opinion.
That's all I have. Meeting Todd tomorrow is looking less and less likely.
The weather yesterday was beautiful while we were in town, but turned to shit when we got in and suddenly there was a thunderstorm overhead. We practised a little, and then Rock Band got busted out. I cannot get 100% on those Mayday Parade songs on Vocals. I always, always get 99% and it's annoying.
I met a cool girl called Michella I think, who was into awesome music, and liked The Hunger Games. No one I know likes those books that much. So we talked about how we liked Peeta more than Gale, and about the casting. There was a massive Harry Potter discussion in there as well, but I left that because Harry Potter is one of those things that I never got into.
Me and Iain went off for a chat towards the end of the night because Lewis had pissed me off to the nth degree, and I won't mention what I said, but Iain was super understanding about it all. I don't know how things are going to pan out, at the end of it. But being drunk, and having that conversation really, really made me think about a lot of stuff. So that's more stuff I have to deal with I guess.
Me and Todd might be meeting up on Monday, which would be really nice, but since we both realised it was a bank holiday, I'm not gonna hold my breath. It would be so good to see him. We've been keeping in touch like we did over summer lately and I miss him.
Ugh, I'm suddenly empathising with Wako a lot more too. I still hate her though.
Today I went out to town with Iain and Lewis. It was supposed to be just me and Iain, but Lewis came along anyway. I don't quite know why, considering it was supposed to be an excuse for me and Iain to bond a little more, but whatever.
We were shopping for my stage outfit which required tights, a white vest top, hair dye, and accessories. The tights and vest top were acquired in Primark for about £4.50, the hair dye was from Superdrug because no where else has the colour that I use, and I got accessories from Rowfers, but I don't think I'm going to wear any of those on stage. I've decided that me and Iain need to go to this little shop that sells the coolest Steampunk stuff ever that was closed because we'd ignored it being a bank holiday completely.
All in all, I had a nice time, and I'm currently at Lewis and Iain's house waiting to rehearse a little before guests start arriving. God knows who's coming, seriously.
I'm terrible at these things being before midnight. I usually go to bed quite early in the morning, like 4 or 5am, and I forget that I have to post at a reasonable time for it to really count as blogging everyday in April.
But I'm here, just to tell you I had band practice, and it was about as productive as usual. We needed a decent practice today because Ben's having himself a house party tomorrow, which takes up our rehearsal space. Regardless, I'll be going to said party. Gnapgnapnothingtosay.
My day has just been practising like a mother. Seriously. That's all. Oh, and Iain tried to fix a guitar. We need that guitar for G-Day. That guitar still doesn't work.
You know, because of Luke, I managed to kick serious arse in the Magic 8-way we did. But first, I should start from the beginning.
After I wrote that blog last night, I was utterly defeated in the first game we had, coming in 7th because Alex, Paul's brother poisoned me, and I had no idea what was happening. But at the same time, I had myself a lovely vegetarian pizza, so I wasn't disheartened for too long.
Eventually we started actually watching anime, because massive Magic games, I have learnt, can last for absolutely ages. Regardless of that, it was fun. So we all settled down into the comfy sofas, and less than comfortable bar stools and started to finally watch the show. And then a fire broke out just next to the train lines and we were distracted by that for ages. That was, uhm, interesting I suppose, and it delayed the anime watching a little, but whatever.
After we got to like, episode 6 or 7, we decided to have a break and play another massive game of Magic. We got Luke out of his room, although he was just downloading Portal 2 and he joined in, making it the 8 of us again. This game was awesome for me. Luke saved my Planeswalker Chandra Nalaar (Cam's mum, apparently) and I managed to do 10 damage to Lee and all of his creatures. I'll never pull that off again, but whatever. I came in 3rd that time, and I left because I was gagging for a fag, and I think Cam won all in all. But 3rd is a lot better than 7th.
Then everyone got tired, we watched a couple more episodes before I made tea for everyone and then I decided to leave. I didn't even go to sleep when I got back, I just kind of lay in bed and just thought about how much fun I had with those people, and it made me sad that we don't have long left of being able to hang out in Cam and Luke's place. I don't think that I really realised until then how much I'm going to miss Cam. And I didn't really realise how much I missed having Chris a bus ride away until then.
This one will have to be super, super, super quick because I'm in Cam's room quickly typing this before we start a massive game of Magic The Gathering and we start watching Sengoku Basara. We haven't marathoned anything in a really long time, when I talk about full series anyway, so I'm really excited about watching this, on Blu-Ray no less.
Cam's been helping me learn Magic, so I'm slowly getting the hang of it, and when I finally have the money, I'm going to invest in a red deck. Red decks are fun to play with, not like I have a lot of experience but you know. So that's literally all I have the time for today, I'll tell you the results tomorrow. Wish me luck~
So I go onto the forum today, after posting my proposal to keep club going for a few more weeks, and Yahoo Bot had replied to me. Actual Yahoo Bot, making kind of awesome suggestions. And it obviously knows far too much about club, as it wrote:
Providing we have 2 and half weeks spare, I think watching Letter Bee would be a good idea. From what I can tell, a majority seem to love the series and would be a first in club to watch an entire series in club time. That said, if you miss a day, that is 5 episodes that you have to catch up on. If we don't do this, I think it would be good to have marathon sessions and watch it over the space of 2/3 sessions since this does seem like a good anime to watch together.
The other suggestion I have is to have people bring in anime, but instead of just watching the first episode, watch 2/3 since not all animes can have the greatness that they are in the first episode and I know myself that I did not like some of my top ranked animes episode 1s (gurren lagann is a very good example of this since I didn't really start getting into this by episode 8).
My last suggestion I have is to have a bit more break time and have some club activities. These don't have to be anime related but will give people time to socialise. Even bringing in some sort of board game could be fun and a chance to have a good laugh before we all go different ways for summer.
Since I came up with the last two ideas while writing this post, I am going to say I do like my "Bring in a game to play" idea and I am now going to push for it (and no, I will not push for trading card games since I can do that on Wednesdays).
What the hell, Yahoo bot? Since when do you know about TCG on Wednesdays, and how to you know about the breaks and how club actually runs? What the hell is this? This has pretty much been my day.
While Iain and Lewis are playing Wolfmother songs, I realised that I hadn't made a blog for today, and I'm having to type on the shittest keyboard in the world. Yay. So it's not going to be a long post.
While I'm doing BEDA, when Lewis insists on doing songs we aren't playing at the show, it does give me 4 or so minutes to write quickly when I forgot to do it earlier. But at the same time, I'm kind of like "oh my god, can't we practice our setlist?"
We're starting to run out of time. So I'm getting increasingly annoyed with the fact Lewis seems to get distracted so easily. I mean, it's an hour-ish for me to walk to and from rehearsals, and it's getting to seem like it's a waste of time.
Now that I've finished the Bakuman anime, I've decided that I'm going to start catching up with the manga. I'm slowly getting there, but it's a massive 128 chapters long as it stands. And the panel that I've put along with this post is possibly my favourite.
I wish there was some kind of interesting stuff for me to write here, but with my life at the minute being constant rehearsals, I actually don't have much to say.
I've been talking to Chris a lot more lately as well, about Bakuman. He's still my best friend from University, and I enjoy talking to him. I forget to go on MSN a lot, so I don't often talk to him, but the Bakuman thing has kind of given me an opportunity to actually do that.
I have a couple of interesting things coming up this week, like the Sengoku Basara marathon with a lot of people who I never get to see anymore, like Paul and Alex I think.
I actually realised that I move out next month, and there are still a lot of things that I haven't had the chance to do. I've definitely experienced a hell of a lot more than last year, but I just don't think I'm ready for this year to end, because so many of my friends are leaving, and I can't imagine what it's going to be without them. Ugh, I think about this far too much.
Save for watching a few episodes of Code Geass, I'm pretty much done with my chairmanship. I still have a few more meetings left, and the last one, we probably won't watch any anime, but just mess around. I'm getting more and more terrified about the prospect that a lot of my friends will leave and they aren't coming back.
The first thing we finished was Bakuman, and now I can be excited about October and season 2 coming out. Then we finished Tegami Bachi, and then end got the exact reaction that I'd hoped for. Where people gasped, a lot. And Squid Girl, which was the wrong mood completely for after the ending of Tegami Bachi.
After that, it was off to Lewis and Iain's with Lee because he had some friends coming over for a very different experience with a disposable BBQ. One of their friends, Eve had just quit his job that he hated, and decided to set his work shirts on fire. He was giving speeches about how you should never do something that you hate, and strive to do something that you love. That kinda hit home for me.
We practised a little, but more over, Iain showed me his piles and piles of make up and then we decided he was going to try something that I could use on stage if I wanted to, and proceeded to do my make-up from scratch. The only problem was the foundation he had was a little dark for me, but it was again something so impressive to come from him it was amazing. He plays guitar, draws well and nearly went into the Make-up Artist career. When my bluetooth on my phone isn't acting up, I'll put a picture of what my make-up actually turned out like.
So today was the last J-Soc until September and Rachel's Uniform night out for her 21st birthday in a few days. J-Soc was actually the most fun that I've had since I started going. The word of the week was Sayonara (or Goodbye) and Laura decided to use up whatever was left in the prize box.
So I won two special prizes for the Hello Kitty competition which I actually intended to lose at quite badly. I'm glad I didn't win one of the main prizes though, which were £10 Wagamama vouchers that I wouldn't be able to use. But I did win a booster pack of Duel Masters cards, a set of chopsticks, and for shouting out "Hard Gay" I won a booklet from a CD, but not the actual CD.
We had a group photo, which I'll possibly cherish forever. And then Laura told us about 5 yen coins, and how they bring good luck, so when you go to Shinto shrines, you're supposed to donate 5 yen coins. Apparently they're considered lucky because 'go' is the word for five. The hyphenated word, "go-en" in Japanese happens to translate to "good luck," "karma," or "fate."
She gave us all necklaces with a five yen coin attached to it and said that she wished us luck for the future. This was about the point when I had to leave, so I said my goodbyes and left for Rachel's birthday night.
I had a great night to be honest. It's been the first night in ages that I've been out in Wolverhampton, and I didn't drink too much (according to my standards. I was too drunk to be let back into Babylon. Where the hell were these bouncers on my birthday when I was legless?) But I didn't spend all that much money. I don't think anyone bought me drinks. I had a lot of Rum and Dr. Pepper at Richard and Michelle's, I had a double Vodka and Coke at Lorenzo's, even though I only paid for a single, at Hogs Head me and Scott had a bottle of Rosé between us, I had a VK apple at Babylon, and I don't drink at Planet any more cause I'm not that rich.
Nothing special really happened. It was just a really good night out. I was sad when Michelle had to leave. I talked anime with Varun for a while, and me and Michelle will have a day watching anime at some point. Need to arrange that >>
I've been saving this post for such an occasion. I actually have rehearsals again in two hours, and I've only been awake for about an hour, and thus far with my day, I have watched the new episode of Toriko, re-watched the first episode of The World God Only Knows II, and eaten a spicy Korean noodle cup (I had three of these yesterday, they are my new favourite food.)
So I actually don't have all that much to post about. So I was saving this for one of those times. Last year, I quite often posted pictures of my growing manga collection and things like that. Last year, I evidently had far too much money. This year, rather than that, I've been collecting little things from places and people that mean something to me, and I made a kind of collage on my wall out of all of these things. So I thought I'd show you that, and talk about a few of my favourite things on there.
I guess this is just kind of the view of everything, along with the set up I have for WoW playing and anime watching. I think I was watching King Of Bandit Jing when I took this. Yeah, there are a shit tonne of wires, but I actually need them all, which is not fun. So we'll go for the next photo I guess.
There's a load of things on there from when I went to Propaganda in Birmingham, because I just found a shed load of leaflets and things in my pockets the next day. I have Japanese sweet wrappers on there from the Christmas present Claky got me two years ago, two Walkabout wristbands, the remainder of my wristband from The Cup at Planet, those giant red numbers that were stuck on me on the morning of my birthday when we got back from Lorenzos, two oragami pandas from Lewis, a drawing of a panda from Tom, my valentines post card from Claky, as well as the giant Pikachu that he sent my ID back with. There's the ticket for Mayday Parade and The Maine, which me and Todd went to in September, a bus ticket to his house, Star Wars Attax cards from Telford Expo, Monopoly money that I found the morning after a night out stuffed in my bra, my ticket to see Scott Pilgrim at Bently Bridge, a few Amecon things, the tattoos I forgot to use on the Halloween bar crawl, and the Pantsu that Lee made out of stickers at Fresher Fayre.
This is the last little bit of the wall, and it has my Telford Expo Ticket, a drawing that my mum did for me, hidden under that bit of shelf, leaflets from Propaganda again, J-Soc cards (they're everywhere), my sisters wedding invitation, and lastly, the drawing of Sugata from Star Driver that Iain drew at Manga night.
I just find it nice to be able to look up and just see all of these memories from the past year, and remember all of these people who have made a massive impact on my life. It's sad to think that in just over a month, I'll be moving home again for Summer. I have no plans for this summer. I wish I was going to Download, and I wish I was going to Ayacon, but I can't get that much money. I guess this is the adventure of life.
Today was actually the last official Monday of my chairmanship. It's been a day of a lack of sleep, and tearing up. So we finished Chrome Shelled Regios - which was pretty good - Star Driver - which had everyone in a state of 'what the fuck?' for the rest of the meeting - and The World God Only Knows, which has the best ending ever, as far I'm concerned.
Me letting go of chairmanship is getting harder and harder because I feel like I haven't done enough. I haven't tried hard enough to make club a better thing over all. I know we've had a shit load more meets outside of club than last year, and we've got t-shirts on the way. We now have two mascots, called WAC-Chan and WAC-Kun, and we've had fan-fiction competitions. And sponsors. We have a tonne of those.
And Laura made an end of year video, which I'll share. It has a bunch of inside jokes, but for the most part, it's just a video of parts of the year, from just being sat in club, to Blazblueathon II.
I have no idea why I'm the thumbnail, so don't ask.
I actually have rehearsals again tonight. And every night this week in fact, aside from Thursday. So that's where I must go.
The new season list is just producing some amazing shows, and seeing as it's Sunday and I have nothing else to talk about, I'm going to talk about anime again.
So far, my favourite show of the season is probably Dog Days. It reminds me of MAR, has my favourite seiyuu in, and he voices a character from Cornwall of all places. But that being said, I also really enjoyed A-Channel this weekend. It's really actually looking like something special in the way of Slice of Life. Not as special as Lucky Star, but still, something special.
The first episode of Steins;Gate was just, I don't even know. I'm so glad I managed to finish ChAOS;HEAd before this season started. It was incredible, and I can't wait to see more of it.
On the other end of the scale, Nichijou is something that isn't right for me, I don't think. It's supposed to be like Azumanga Daioh, which was the worst thing I've ever seen. I'm going to carry on watching it regardless, because it's 20 minutes a week of bedtime watching.
So anyway, I went to band rehearsals yesterday. We pretty much have two songs that we managed to practise a shit load, but I have the problem of singing to deal with, and my throat feels like it's keeling over because I think I may have over used it last night, so I'm going to go back to bed and watch anime, and drink tea.
My friend Todd has a tendency to send out text jokes, and I got one at like, 2am that made me laugh quite hard. It was:
"My friend set me up with a blind date last night. I knew she didn't like me from the start, cheeky bitch kept her sunglasses on all night! And who the fuck brings their dog?"
I don't know why it made me laugh so hard, but I managed to choke on what I was eating, so replied with:
"I was eating and chocked when I read that. Thanks for the laugh xD x"
And then the reply, really, really got to me.
"Aww, i'm happy to hear your eating. You never used to, that's why."
And then I thought about it. We used to live really close to each other last year, and I miss him being around. I've invited him to the gig that we're doing next month, so hopefully I'll see him then. I have to run anyway. I have band practice.
I feel like I've been both fortunate and unfortunate. I've had the opportunity to do some absolutely fantastic things with the anime club, both this year and last.
Because of this society, I got to experience my first anime convention, my first expo, I've been to countless gaming parties, marathoned some of my favourite animes with some of my favourite people, I met Chris Patton, and the guy who played Neville in the Harry Potter films, stay in London with my best friends, found out about some of the most amazing shows I've ever had the pleasure of viewing and made some of the coolest friends I'll ever meet in my life.
Today was the club elections. Only Jon really ran, so of course, he got the chairmanship. Which I'm happy with because he has some awesome ideas for club, in the form of monthy marathons and showing new season shows. I did show the new season stuff, in the form of Bakuman and Star Driver, and those shows are awesome, so I'm happy with that.
And Lee is Vice-Chair for anime, and I'm treasurer. As soon as the years over, I become one of the club Banchettes. It's a female Bancho. So I'm treasurer for two societies now. Which is wicked.
Anyway, I have WoW time back, but it's like, 9:44pm and rather than dick around on WoW for hours, I'm actually going to get myself ready for bed and y'know, watch anime and sleep, and possibly dick around on Pokémon a little like I did at 5am just to get stuck in a battle with Cynthia that I can't be bothered to finish. Yup. Okay, too tired.
Though it's getting to the time where I'm handing over anime club and stepping down as chairman, I guess I sort of get to soften the blow a little bit by becoming treasurer for J-Soc, and hopefully anime tomorrow. I was voted in as treasurer, Gabriella was voted in as Vice, and Megan as chair. Apparently, if we last longer than 4 months, we'll be the longest running all-female staff of a society ever.
Today has actually not been that bad, regardless of the drama. My mum and step dad found out that I'm not a student anymore, and were actually kind of cool about the whole thing once I'd explained it. If it wasn't for Derek (my step dad for those of you not in the know), I would be in so much more shit because my mum would not have taken it lightly.
I went into J-Soc, and told Chris, who, aside from Cam is the only person in Uni who has met my mum, and his first words were "Oh shit" or something to that effect. So I'm aware I don't look my best in this picture, but it's expected.
I also text Todd a fair few times today, and we've said we're gonna meet up at some point before the end of the year. That would be awesome, because I haven't seen him since the day after his birthday in October. I'm hoping I might be able to persuade him to come to the end of year party next month, not going to be surprised if he doesn't, but I can hope.
That's all I have in me today. No change in the numbers, so I won't bother posting them until tomorrow.
Manga night was seriously very little fun. I have no money, and now I'm aware Tegami Bachi 4 is out and I don't have it. But Iain did draw a picture of Sugata from Star Driver that he was going to throw away, so it's now stuck on my wall. Cam won the quiz, Laura won cosplay, I'm proud to be the chairman of WAC sometimes. I only managed to score a shitty one point on that quiz because the questions were dumb, and about Yaoi I'd never even heard of.
We've started band practise now, and actually managed to get down a song in a night, which was pretty impressive as far as I'm concerned. However, watching someone chart drums is ridiculously, soul crushingly boring.
A possible summer job opportunity is around somewhere, with pretty good pay. I need to apply for it, but me, Lewis, Iain and Ben are possibly going to apply together. I need that money. I need Ayacon.
Anyway, today was TCG and TCG Elections. I'm ridiculously glad that Lee managed to get chairman for next year. I'm hoping he can get more people into playing Pokémon. I'm going to learn how to play Weiss Schwarz at some point. Tomorrow is J-Soc elections, and on Friday are the anime elections. I'm still going to be chairman until September, but we'll find out who's going to be chairman on Friday.
I've been so lately, I've hardly had time to watch any anime. I'm watching Metal Fight Beyblade as I write this, but Megavideo is sure to just deny me anymore in about 20 seconds. My plan is to finish at least two series a week, so I'm going to get on that, like, now.
I'm running out of time. I'm going to meet Luke and Jon in like, 5 minutes. Don't say I'm not dedicated. When I get back tomorrow, I'll go into more detail, but here's a picture of me and my good friend Iain from last night~
I actually had a great time in club today. A really, really great time. I worked out that I'm going to be finished with official club next Friday. I don't lose my chairmanship until September, but next club will be elections and I'm actually wondering what on earth I'm going to do with my time next year.
But I ended up dropping King of Bandit Jing in what was possibly the first proper chairman thing I've done yet. 2 people out of 12 were interested in seeing it. I can't justify keeping a show on and marathoning it to that degree when 2 people want to see it. Which sounds crappy for those two people, but at the end of the day, everyone else was dreading this shit coming on.
So that's dropped, and we watched an episode of Star Driver. So now we're upto 23 which is where the major shite starts going down. And we have 3 episodes of Chrome left, and 3 episodes of The World God Only Knows, which means that finishes in time for people who love it to catch the second season which starts in about a week and a half.
This is probably majorly boring for people who don't go to club, but it's pretty much all I do with my time. Tonight I'm going over to Lewis' to smoke rollups, get drunk off of rum and Dr. Pepper because everyone else is barcrawling it up, and sort out a set list of songs for this end of year gig that we're playing, and we're going to start rehearsing sometime this week. Which means my anime watching time gets cut down by about 90% for the next month or so, but whatever. I'll go now anyway. Manga night tomorrow too~!
As it's the last Star Driver Sunday that there will ever be, I'm not going to say anything really besides Star Driver is amazing, the ending was phenomenal and I'm going to miss it more than I can say. It's been an incredible 28 weeks since I started watching this. I still don't like Wako though.
What a beautiful sky.
Yeah, it is.
We may not see this sky again, but someday we’ll see an even more beautiful one.
Usually weekends are kind of anime-filled for me, but I felt like changing it a little bit this weekend. I have a favourite actor/singer in Japan called Yuya Matsushita, and I found this J-Dorama that he's in called Quartet so I've been watching that today, along with Zombie Loan and a couple of one-shots from the Young Animators Training Project.
Oh, and I also got a few more photos emailed to me from my sisters wedding.
I actually had a rather long phone call with my mum about half an hour ago, and we were talking about Jaden and Ethan, and the chickens, and how my mum wants me to go home over Easter. I don't know when I'm supposed to go, or how I'm supposed to get there, but I guess I'll just have to see if that happens. It's actually rather likely that we all managed to pick up some kind of Gastric Flu at the wedding because I've not been feeling 100% for about two weeks, and my mum and Derek are the same. Yay for us?
Seeing as I haven't actually done all that much today, I can't really stretch this out. But I will just shove in a picture of Yuya Matsushita, seeing as he's like a theme for today or something. Saying that, I've just listened to a few of his songs, watched a J-Dorama with him in, and y'know, found this picture.
Plus I want to get this post over and done with just incase the subs to Nichijou or Dog Days appear.
Pokédex: 93 Completed Anime: 178
Oh, yes, I'm also enjoying Tumblr a great deal at the minute. If you're interested in seeing pictures I like, which is all I use it for, click here.
Today, hasn't actually been all that bad, bar the end of it.
I started today by seeing Kris for the first time in a week. It was only for about half an hour, but it was nice to see him for a while. I came back and watched a tonne more Welcome to the N.H.K! I think me marathoning that show was possibly a bad idea. I feel bad for Satou, as nothing seems to go right for him. And other aspects of that show just hit far too close to home. It was an awesome show though.
When I got up in the morning, I went to see Chris. I haven't really spent any time with Chris lately, but it was really nice to see him. He's the outdoors-y type, so we ended up taking some time out of my room and going to West Park. It was nice, the weather could have been much better, but it was nice to just be out of my room, and not at someone elses flat or a club room. That's pretty much where all my time goes nowadays. I don't really have much to look forward to in that respect.
Then we went to club, but I had to do chairwoman things seeing as the room we have booked was being used for a speaking exam of some description, so I had to dash over to the SU, and look for Neil who wasn't in, the woman who he shares his office with was no help, so I had to search for Alex, who luckily managed to change the room last minute. I suppose it means I'm doing a decent job of being chair now. I wish I could have been better before.
Then we had Bakumarathon. Which was four episodes of Bakuman straight after one another and it was probably one of the most enjoyable things I've done in club time. I'm enjoying Bakuman so much, and looking forward to seeing more of it next week.
I actually only have four weeks of proper chairmanship left, and it's strange to think how quickly it's gone. Next week is another catch up week, and then it's the same as always the week after. We'll have three episodes of everything left. I'm actually running for treasurer for next year, where Jon will be the chairman, and Lee will be vice. I'm also running for treasurer for J-Soc.
Over the past few weeks, I've enjoyed being chairman. I suppose it's because the shows I picked are actually going somewhere. I'm hoping Jon's going to pick some decent stuff too. I think I've made my mark by being the first female chairman for the anime society who's seen the year through.
But this also means I'm lumped with the kettle over the weekend, which means I've had to carry back two of the kettle bags, my bag with the external hard drive in it, along with my notebooks and make up, and my laptop bag. It's rather annoying that no one wants to help me out with this. Luckily Jon and Ed were there to help me carry my stuff the majority of the way. I'm throwing down an ultimatum next week where if I have to take the kettle bags back on a Friday, I won't bring the kettle in in the future.
This is just club stuff really. It's how it goes, being chairman and all.
So anyway, I'm not going to track my WoW level for a while. I'm actually out of prepaid time on WoW, so I can't really play on it, so there's not going to be anything interesting happening in that respect. So instead, I'm going to go with the number of completed animes I have, along with Pokédex numbers. At least for this month.
Back to watching something. I don't know what yet, I seem to have no more Gosick downloaded.