Funny is Family Guy in German, as we proved today in anime club.
So, things I've been up to since I've been addressed as Mr. Presdient.
We had a club in the hub deal last Wednesday, which meant that we set up a table in the hall and promoted recruiment for the Anime Club. So another person and I brought a bunch of manga to display to catch people's interest, and I also brought the Dai Gurren flag to be hung from our table, as well as the Bitch be trippin' Balls badge I got from Acen. We actually got a lot of people interested in anime, and just as many to actually come to meetings. We have a skyrocket of attendance now, and it's fantastic. One really cool dude who's not a member, but is a staff member who stood at our table for about twenty minutes just talking about anime and manga. He popped in the meeting today, and the room was full of people who weren't there for the event so they didn't know who this random middle-aged black dude was doing in the room until I walked in from a quick errand.
"Melvin! What's happening?"
"Oh hey man, you got some weird anime playing..."
Unfortunately, last Wednesday was also the day a massive shit hit the fan. Of shit. Luckily, I was able to resolve it with everybody pretty quickly, but still, a wrinkle on my forehead. Two things happened: Our advisor was informed that her hotel room cost for Acen will not be coming out of school funds allocated for advisors (free money), but out of our club's budget (not good), and secondly, the amount of self-generated funds (money we fundraised) was about one hundred dollars less than what I calculated it to be, due to false information at the beginning of the year. Within one day, we're in a bit of a hole.
Fortunately, the advisor's hotel room coming out of our budget was false information, so that's no longer a problem. And I also spotted where I went wrong as treasurer that caused a one hundred dollar miscalculation, and smoothed that over. There was also a bit of an email war that was started when the VP told the advisor that I was gonna talk to her about a cheaper hotel (the advisor room totaled 380 dollars for the weekend. Fuck that! That's more than our two rooms at the Hyatt combined!) and the advisor got rather upset. It was pretty funny though; when I walked into her office to talk to her after everything had been resolved, she said "I'm pretty upset with you right now, and really offended." This turned out to be a misunderstanding, and when I left after about ten or fifteen minutes, she was yelling out the door "Thanks for coming, and again, I'm sorry!!!"
The next issue I face is a poorly scheduled Brawl doubles tournament next Tuesday. Hopefully that'll turn out well.
I went to a friend's rock gig in Dekalb over the weekend, but that was mainly an excuse to go to a friend's house to party. I'll disclose this much: I woke up eventually. That is all.
But yeah, that was an awesome time. My dad probably thought so too; I was sitting in front of my pc the next day and he walks in,
"Did a friend ride in the car last night?"
"No."
"Oh. Well...did you piss anybody off?"
"...no, why?"
"Somebody drew a penis on the windshield."
"Ahhhh...."
I'm just suprised I didn't notice it on the way home.
I finished watching the regular season of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I liked it a lot, and I still have to watch the latter two movies (I skimmed through the first, since it's just a recap.) I kinda want to buy the manga, since they expand more on Kaworu's character a bit more, who is totally badass. I didn't like the last two episodes though, since it was nothing but massive, poorly strung together philosophy mixed in with lame animation. Which is easy to understand, since they had budget cuts due to tax evasion, but still, it was lame. But I suppose that's why they made the movies.
I caught a glimpse of Durarara!! in anime club today (I was in and out of the room, running around a lot) and just thought, "I really like that anime's artstyle." I asked a new member next to me what it was, "I think it's like Rudaradara or something..." Then I remembered some people on theO talking about Durarara!!,
"You mean Durarara?"
"Yeah!"
So I watched the first three episodes before typing this monster, and plan to watch the next two. It looks pretty cool, and the two main characters seem to represent the bipolarness in everybody. I know I have it. The side that is reserved and edge of the crowd, and the guy who is rather excited and animate. I'm so bouncy when I'm around friends or in anime club or such, that if you saw me standing around at a canoe race where I'm so much more silent and nonchalant you'd probably think I took half a bottle of sleeping pills. Anyway, can't wait to watch the rest and follow it's release.
For those who didn't see this in The Watercooler, here's a little something I made really quick.
I had to stop playing it after about the tenth time in Anime Club today because they were laughing so hard cookies were falling out of their mouths.
And if you want to see a really messed up first episode of an anime, watch Ladies VS Butlers. If I see anybody cosplaying that at Acen, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to punch them really hard.
And Star Ocean 4 International is on my counter in it's Gamefly package, but I can't play it 'cause the TV is being used... :(
Oh, and if Fasterisk is reading this, I got Bitches Brew on vinyl. It sounds pretty freakin' good.
Oh yeah, and I made a card after watching some Evangelion, but it got rejected for some reason or another...
-Ryu
