Hello all, I want to wish you all the people of a Christian faith a merry Christmas, all Jews a happy Hanukah, and if you are an atheist then have a great Tuesday. LOL :P I hope that you all get what you want for Christmas since I know that I did. I only got one present but the present that I got is SO COOL that I couldn't have asked for something more. **drum roll** I got a MacBook Prowith Leopard customize with: 2.6 Hz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 DDR 2 SDRAM 2x2GB, 200GB Serial ATA Drive @7200 rpm, and a glossy widescreen display. I also got Microsoft Student Teacher Edition 2004 and Final Cut Express 4 (this one is to make movies and stuff like that). Over all I'm really pleased with my new laptop. Now I just have to get used to using a different OS since I've always used Windows and I still don't know all the stuff that this MacBook Pro can do but the Apple stores give you free tutorials so that you learn how to use your Mac. So that sums up what I got for Christmas. :D
I also want to say sorry for all the unions that I've abandoned in the last few months. I know that I've demoted in some unions and I totally understand since I would have done the same thing. Hopefully, now that we have 2 laptops at my house I will have more time to log in and post since I really miss talking to all you guys and gals. The last few months have really busy for me, I was in my first semester of college and it was a lot harder that I thought it would be. It was hard having work and school and all this other stuff that was going on in my life. Next semester I've made my schedule so that all my cla$$e$ are in the same day or at least not all over the place like last semester. The thing that really screwed me up last semester was that the scholarship that I got picked all my cla$$e$ for me and I didn't have any say in the schedule, so this time around I have a little more flexibility. Next semester I will be taking a total of 14 credit hours and my cla$$e$ will be: Math 1010 (I forgot most of the stuff that I learned in high school so I have to take this stuff again :P), Film 3210 (according to the cla$$ description this one will be at 1AM on Monday nights, hopefully this isn't true :cry: ), LEAP 1100 (this is a cla$$ designed to help students that come straight out of high school and it focuses on Humanities), Ethnic Studies 3920 (we study stuff that has to do with racism and stuff like that), and last my US Economic History 1740 (don't really know what this one is about). Except for my film cla$$ I think that I should do really well next semester :D.
I've been watching a lot of Anime since it's about the only thing that keeps me sane. (not really, but I have to have an excuses for watching Anime :P) I finished watching Ergo Proxy (which was very good, but very confusing and I still don't get what it's all about so if someone could help me in this department I would really appreciate it) and many others. Some that I've gotten into recently are: 009-1, Witchblade(mature content), and Hell Girl. These are all really good series and I recommend that you watch them, but Witchblade and 009-1 are for a more "mature" audience. I'll give you guys a little summary of all three just so that you guys know what it is about.
009-1 (it's pronounced "double-o-nine-dash-one") and it takes place in the future where the Cold War never finished and it's a constant struggle between the East block and the West Block. The East block can be described as a harsher place to live since people can't say what they want and it's more or less a communist country. The West block is a more liberal place to live and people can do what ever they want with out feeling oppressed. But the thing is that freedom only exist for those that are wealthy, everyone else works for them and the are not as "free" as they things they are since the chances of them getting out of that way of life are very slim. There is an agency the "double zero agency" and their job is to find people that have the potential to be spies and train them to be the best and collect information for the West block. The spies are all females (if they weren't then almost no one would watch this :P) and after they are done with their training they get an operation that makes them into cyborg (I think this is the correct word, half human and half machine). And that is the basic over view of the series; I still haven't finished it so I don't know how it will end.
Hell Girl is a series about a girl that makes pacts with humans that desire vengeance on people that make them suffer. Each episode is it's own little story about how a person is being tormented by someone and then they contact Hell Girl to take him or her to hell. But in exchange, when that person that ordered Hell Girl to take their enemy to hell also goes to hell when they die no matter how good the behave for the rest of their life. I've only seen the first disc, but I hear that the first few episodes are repetitive but that later on the story gets more interesting. I really like this one because it shows what people are willing to do in a situation of desperate need, but then again this might not be such a bad thing.
And finally there is Witchblade. Witchblade is a huge series that expands across manga, comics, and now an anime TV series. Each is set in it's own universe and I don't know that much about the universe of Witchblade but I've been reading up in the net about this series. Apparently the Witchblade is an artifact that was created since the beginning of time that has the power to destroy or protect the world. The Witchblade fusses with a host and it become part of their body, when they are about to face a really powerful enemy it makes more armor for the wielder and vice versa. The only thing is that only women can fuse with the Witchblade some are Cleopatra, Joan De Arc (I think that's her name) and many more. I even found out that Excalibur is a part of the Witchblade, the story says that Excalibur is a shard of the Witchblade and if they where to ever come to touch the Witchblade would absorb Excalibur. I really like Witchblade; but it contains material for a "mature" audience, so watch it at your own risk.
This is pretty much everything for now, I'm sorry for writing such a long blog. :P I hope that I can log in here more often but in case you want my msn just PM me and I'll see if I give you my email. Either way, thanks for reading.