Old Archive - May 4, 2004

Hey, everybody. Me again.

'Cause of the nature of this site, and the new posts every now n' then, I'm gonna post some of my old columns from my website. (sniff) Goodbye, hawkbatdesign.com.

5/4/04

Yeah, just another Tuesday.
Think I have Pneumonia again. Took me a while to get out of bed, even though I had a meeting to go to at noon. And I've been hacking flem like it's going out of style. And sneezing, too. Luckily, I'm not sneezing all over something when it happens.
So, enough about me.
Wait. This is about me. Huh.
Anyway, just watched some Azumanga Daioh for a few days. I have no idea what it is about this show, but it's one of my favorite anime series now. Right up there with Bebop and FLCL. Well, FLCL is a recent addition as well, and there's only six episodes, compared to Bebop and A.D.'s 26 each. But there's nothing wrong with it! It's graphic at times(FLCL, that is), and the themes are always adult-oriented, but (crap, am I getting off-topic. I'd better wrap this up quick.) in conclusion, these are series that are good.(there.)
Later in the day, after the first meeting, Jack, Blackie and I went to (insert generic discount bookstore name here) to scout what we want to put in the bookroom when it's done. To begin with, we checked series availability on our competition's shelves, and they had quite a bit of DragonLance, which we have a lot of as well, so, bases covered. We ruled out getting novels of Buffy, Mechwarrior, Babylon 5, and Star Trek(at least for a while), and chose to add some Mystery(some gray-area stuff, like psychic detectives and things). Then we noticed they have quite a manga selection(larger than ours), so we added that to the list. And their Horror section was mixed in with the regular fiction, so we're going to keep ours separate.
After our recon mission, we ate at (insert chain mall family-style restaurant), and discussed Blackie's previous DM weirdness. I won't go into much detail because there's a lot of subject matter. Anyway, it was all about her group trying their damnedest to derail.
The actual meeting was good, because for most of it, it was just us three, then Mr. Manager man sorta interspersed every few minutes 'cause he was busy. Mark quit on Sunday, but it wasn't a surprise. We knew it was going to happen either before or after that Sunday's meeting. Yeah, either we have too many meetings at once, or we have none for a long time. Crazy.
Went for a walk with Devorah, my neighbor, the one with the insane cat, who tries to kill me. Kinda weird, 'cause this one character in Azumanga Daioh has the same experience with one cat every day. Tries to pet it, be nice, y'know, but gets attacked. Funny, but sadly relatable.
Haven't seen the season finale of Tru Calling yet, but I recorded it. Just saving it, I guess.
Just noticed how much a background song on Inu-Yasha sounds like the Star Trek battle music from that episode where Kirk has to fight Spock. Speaking of unrelated things, who likes Muk-Luks?