My cell phone now has Black Stones and Trapnest charms!
Stephen Colbert's first campaign speech. Say what you want about his "fake" campaign, but how refreshing is it to watch a presidential campaign speech in which the yelling and jovial crowd hasn't been brainwashed or isn't laughing to be polite?
Not much to say about tonight's episode of Heroes, except: Yay for speaking Ukranian! Yay Caitlin for saying, "I'm gonna kill the bitch," and boo Claire.
Not a whole lot happened this weekend, which is when Madison college students celebrate Halloween. On Saturday, Anime Club had its annual Costume Contest. It was a good time. Anime Club seems kind of bittersweet. None of my close friends go any more, and the total population is less than it used to be. Still, I don't know what else I could do to make it better by myself, so I'll try not to compare this year to others too much, in terms of attendance. The Club itself actually feels like a club, though. Socializing is occurring on a much better basis than it ever did before, so I'm proud of that. Anyway, so we had our annual costume contest. I didn't take many pictures, but what few I did are here. I think a few other people got some better pictures of Antoine and I, along with two other people who cosplayed Mayama and Yamada, from the same series.
Also! Two really good series won the vote, Lovely Complex and Black Lagoon. I had seen about 7 episodes of Lovely Complex, and am excited to see more, and have heard a lot about Black Lagoon. Anime Club is better when we watch good anime, for obvious reasons.
After Club, Antoine and I walked around State Street (but not actually on it: Boo to $5 to walk on a public street!). There were some interesting costumes, but overall there are much fewer people than there were my freshman/sophomore years here (35,000, and it used to be 80-100,000). I always thought that the rioting that occurred was lame. Not on the part of the students, but on the part of the police, who would arbitrarily start walking down the street around 1:30 or 2am and telling students to leave. Students, mostly drunk and not from Wisconsin, would say, "No," and then get tear-gassed. Useless, lame, etc. And now there are just tons of cops everywhere, and kind of a lame atmosphere. We heard an announcement through speakers asking people not to have open bottles, and to please enjoy their time on State Street, and also spotted a group of 15-20 cops standing on the same street corner, with blue/red blinking lights on their shoulders. It sort of felt like we were in a sci-fi movie.
I raked the yard and then mowed the lawn yesterday, and I think I'm still exhausted from it. Also, it's kind of freezing in my room. :(
Mostly, I'm just really damn tired. Going home this weekend. Lots of stuff to do before then. Still wishing I could cuddle in bed all day and read stacks of books and manga.
Not much to say about tonight's episode of Heroes, except: Yay for speaking Ukranian! Yay Caitlin for saying, "I'm gonna kill the bitch," and boo Claire.
Not a whole lot happened this weekend, which is when Madison college students celebrate Halloween. On Saturday, Anime Club had its annual Costume Contest. It was a good time. Anime Club seems kind of bittersweet. None of my close friends go any more, and the total population is less than it used to be. Still, I don't know what else I could do to make it better by myself, so I'll try not to compare this year to others too much, in terms of attendance. The Club itself actually feels like a club, though. Socializing is occurring on a much better basis than it ever did before, so I'm proud of that. Anyway, so we had our annual costume contest. I didn't take many pictures, but what few I did are here. I think a few other people got some better pictures of Antoine and I, along with two other people who cosplayed Mayama and Yamada, from the same series.
Also! Two really good series won the vote, Lovely Complex and Black Lagoon. I had seen about 7 episodes of Lovely Complex, and am excited to see more, and have heard a lot about Black Lagoon. Anime Club is better when we watch good anime, for obvious reasons.
After Club, Antoine and I walked around State Street (but not actually on it: Boo to $5 to walk on a public street!). There were some interesting costumes, but overall there are much fewer people than there were my freshman/sophomore years here (35,000, and it used to be 80-100,000). I always thought that the rioting that occurred was lame. Not on the part of the students, but on the part of the police, who would arbitrarily start walking down the street around 1:30 or 2am and telling students to leave. Students, mostly drunk and not from Wisconsin, would say, "No," and then get tear-gassed. Useless, lame, etc. And now there are just tons of cops everywhere, and kind of a lame atmosphere. We heard an announcement through speakers asking people not to have open bottles, and to please enjoy their time on State Street, and also spotted a group of 15-20 cops standing on the same street corner, with blue/red blinking lights on their shoulders. It sort of felt like we were in a sci-fi movie.
I raked the yard and then mowed the lawn yesterday, and I think I'm still exhausted from it. Also, it's kind of freezing in my room. :(
Mostly, I'm just really damn tired. Going home this weekend. Lots of stuff to do before then. Still wishing I could cuddle in bed all day and read stacks of books and manga.