entertainment

First, the books I've read recently
reading list


And now i have netflix which means I've been getting a lot of anime lately, let me give a rundown

Chevelair D'Eon vaguely based on real historical events and a person in the prerevolutinary days of France. D'Eon in real life was a cross dresser. In the anime he's actually possessed by the spirit of his murdered sister and like the titles says he's a knight. It's very interesting. I'll be looking forward to volume 2 (i've been getting one vol. of each selection so I can sample)

Witchhunter Robin - I had found the back half of this series in a used bin in IN and it was boring but my flist loved it. Well after seeing #1 I do like it better (horrid voice actor in English for Robin) Basically they hunt down errant magic users and Robin herself does use magic (unlike her new companions).

Rurouni Kenshin set in the Meiji period it's part sword's action adventure melded with romantic comedy. It doesn't really work much for me (I know my Flist adores this). It's okay. They gave Kenshin an even more annoying speech eccentricity than he has in the manga.

Gunslinger Girls rather disturbing. Young (and I do mean young) girls who are dying from sickness or injury are turned into cyborg assassins under the control of their male handlers. It's creepy but interesting.

Slayers: return I thought this was something else, something i had seen when I was in Madison so it's been about 10 years...It wasn't this. This was easily one of the worst anime I've seen in years. It's badly drawn. It did have a plot. A ludicrous one but it was there...and worse the two main characters were so obnoxious. They're demon hunters/witches/who the hell knows what in it for the money, two women, one so big boobed you don't know how she stands up. She also has a laugh like a halloween witch bred with a donkey. Run from this. Somehow it earned 3 1/2 stars on Netflix. Gah.

D.N.Angel was one I had heard a lot about but I think it's too 'young' for me. The main character is 13. And apparently all his relatives are wizard/thieves and in him is Dark (a taller more handsome young man with black wings) and whenever he thinks about the girl he loves he turns into this creature. It's so odd. my REAL problem with this is the girl in question is so unworthy of anyone liking her that I just can't feel sorry for anyone in this.

Samurai Deeper Kyo almost wished it was as perverted as it sounds. This is another sword adventure where Demon-Eyed kyo is somehow melded with another young man, a rather perverted little pharamcist (i think) and of course everyone wants a piece of Demon-Eyed Kyo. I might get the next one just to see...

Get Backers This i liked a lot. They're both two unusually powered individuals (with lousy money sense) one has the ability to make you have nightmares at a glance and he has a super strong grip and the other is like a human electric eel. What do they do? If you lost something, they get it back. Has a jazzy sound track too.

(and yes I should be talking about the first day back but I'm tired so tomorrow)

Lending a helping hand

With all the negatives going on with LJ, it's nice to see something positive happening, positive in the sense people pulling together to help someone through devestating times.
mjules and marenfic brought this to my attention. fire_fic, what is it about? Here's a snippet from the user info Renee Green is a hard-working single mom with six boys ranging in age from 16 to 1. On August 13, 2007 their home and all their posessions were destroyed in a fire -- leaving them with nothing but their precious lives and the clothes on their backs. Every single thing belonging to Renee and the boys was destroyed. School supplies. Clothing. Shoes. Appliances. Toys.

Everything.

There are the confirming news reports available on the communities user info. I've done things like this for fandom_charity in the past and my flist has been generous so I thought let's try this again. Here's my entry if you'd like me to write for you. let me write for you Let's see if we can help out. I don't know sweptawaybayou who set this up for her friend but a big thanks to her for doing this. As for me, I'm not setting limits on donations since I have an flist that spans young, broke college students up to retirees, give what you're comfortable with.

wow

you totally know you're rural when the bank's digital sign invites you to stop in and vote for the best pig in Jackson...

Started back with the faculty meeting and well, I don't want to say a lot about that for my own safety. But tell me why I can't say no? I'm now involved with like three or four new projects including: being recorder for a committee I was assigned to; dual credit biology course team teaching with local high school profs; faculty improvement of high school teachers. The dual credit one means I have to make tests for THEM too. GAH! Why? Why?

Okay i know why I can't stop volunteering
1. looking good/indispensible to current employer
2. looking even better to future potential employers
3. i like helping
4. I'm totally controlling and don't like having something out there I don't have some kind of control over.

And speaking of future employers...one of the jobs I applied for just got back to me saying they needed to extend the deadline for application because they need a few more applicants and did I still want to play? Did I want to send an updated CV. YOU BET! I have one class and three new projects to tell you all about. And I'm also looking to spearhead a faculty time exercise program at the pool.

and if you missed the charity writing project I just signed up for, please take a look. Thanks.