I know I'm a little late to the party (by about two months), but I just found out and my inner fanboy was squealing because Bee Train is making a Blade of the Immortal anime. But then I looked up some of the concept art and wow, Bee Train is really not doing Samura's manga justice by a long, long shot.

It's been forever since I had a caffeinated beverage for any reason other than to support the two all-nighter's I've pulled so far this semester, so I guess it's no surprise that I forgot that Diet Pepsi was caffeinated and drank a ton of it around midnight.

So I pulled an all nighter again, but this time it was by accident and it's going to throw me off big time.

Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni is supposed to be really good, but I only got through one episode before I couldn't stand it the last time I watched it. I have a pretty good idea what it's about, and I'm totally in the mood for something psycho, so I thought I'd give it another shot.

So. Moe-sounding voice actresses. Why the hell do they need to have moe voice actresses!? That's pretty much the entire reason I can't watch a lot of anime now, including Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni. The super-girly high pitched squeaky "no one actually talks like this"/"I was molested as a child"/"only a pedophile could love me" voices that moe characters have annoys the shit out of me.

I guess it's not the end of the world. I could always just turn off the sound, since there are subtitles and stuff.

I may be the only person in my LJ friends list celebrating as such, but just in case, Happy Singles Awareness Day.

So, it's 5 days in to school and I'm already behind on everything. My social life, my academic life, my professional life. I'm totally awesome at this 'life' thing. Fortunately I'm not *much* behind, though. *grin*

So what's going on? Frankly more than should be going on. I'm not going to bore with all the details. And I'm not even going to bore with some of the more interesting details *laugh*. For now, I'll just describe the 18 credit hours of classes that are keeping me so damn busy.

ENGL 391 - Advanced Exposition and Argumentation - Lots and lots of text reading, research, and writing in this class. It looks like it will be fun, though. Everyone in the class is willing to participate, and the teacher is enthusiastic about her subject. Our first paper is a restaurant review. Isn't that cool?

ENGL 371 - Intermediate Short Fiction - Unlike 271, 371 is a tiny class with only 16 people. I'm kind of on the outlying part socially, since at least half of my class, not including me, bonded in the winter session of 271. The net effect is that the class much more intimate and relaxed than 271 was.

CMSC 433 - Scripting Languages - Hood is not the worst professor I've had at UMBC. His style is the standard lecture-project-exam style that I've found unengaging in all my other CMSC courses, but he's a much better lecturer than many professors *coughYeshacough*. The course material itself looks pretty easy, since it seeks to give a baseline proficiency in scripting languages in which I am already baseline proficient. Ben, Ryan, Josh Bass, and Joey all somehow managed to land themselves in the class with me, so there's a good selection of friends for me to sit with *grin*.

CMSC 435 - Computer Graphics - Yeah, I already took this twice. This time I'm going to make sure I actually do the work. On time. I'll skip the praise for Olano, because as amazing as he is, I probably won't spend much time listening to him and more time just doing the projects.

CMSC 451 - Automata Theory - Since this came up a lot in 471 and 473, it'll be nice to get a better base in this theory. It also doesn't seem too hard. Yet. Probably never. The lecture isn't horrible, though I was shocked that Stephens uses overhead slides. ZOMG. I have to take notes!

CMSC 487 - Network Security - Fuck this class. No, really. I think the material of this course would be very good for me professionally, but to say that the professor was unengaging would be an understatement. I spent the class teaching myself cartoon anatomy and then promptly dropped the class...

...and went to CMSC 491W - Wearable Devices - ! Much more interesting to say the least. Anthony put it much better than I could right now. A very cool subject matter, though.

I'm going to make an operating system and call it PotatOS.

Everyone will want to add the extra E to make it PotatOeS, but that would make them wrong, and I would make fun of them.

On the internet.

I'm happy. For the weirdest reason. Because it's so improbable that I could fuck up my life any more than I already have that only thing I can do is maintain status quo or unfuck myself.

I just wrote all the crap I should do on my whiteboard in the sloppiest handwriting I could manage. The weird thing is, when I look at it that way, it seems so manageable! I'm hoping to erase everything on it by Sunday night.

Say what you like, but I don't think that Talk Like a Ninja Day would be as cool as Talk Like a Pirate Day.

I'm going absolutely stir crazy. The only visible evidence that I even have roommates is that I keep finding dirty dishes (sometimes my own dishes made dirty by roommates) left in the sink or on the counter, coleslaw rotting in the drain, full trash bags at my doorstep, and the constant stench of weed wafting from my roommate's door from his late night get-togethers that happen when I'm trying to sleep.

I'm getting seriously pissed. Maybe if I actually saw these guys, I'd at least be able to complain to them about it.

While the cleavage-revealing chainmail bikini concept is unrealistic in that it offers poor protection against attacks, I think people may be underestimating the in-combat benefit of distracting males.