paint the sky with stars

Last night's shift was actually less eventful/interesting than I would have thought. I was working with Scott, who is about my age and the assistant manager of the store and also my Tim Horton's crush =P He's fun but he's never done nightshift so I didn't really know what to expect.

It was fun (though it was a very clumsy night, which is apparently due to us both being water signs...Scott is REALLY into astrology, which is weird for me since I've never met a guy who was into it that much). Luckily it wasn't too crazy, despite being Saturday night. But we really kind of did our own thing most of the time.

One really nice thing however is that because he's an assistant manager, Scott doesn't get tips. So I took home $8+! Yay money! I was going to buy a drink at Starbucks, but the bus was there and so I didn't because I don't like Starbucks that much.

So, I'm hopefully going to be able to sleep okay today. I'll try what worked yesterday again.

Oh, also, I'm loving xxxHolic Kei (the second season of the anime). While it still isn't very well drawn, it's very fun when you have it in addition to the manga (because the order of events is SO messed up in the anime). AND...I read vol 5 of Tsubasa and actually quite liked it. Best volume so far from the series (and not just for Himitsu PB fun, though I was amused to see Elden (Fai is totally ruined by Elden), Cameryn, Amaerya, Norman, and Julian running around).

Okay, that's all for the time being. Off to enjoy myself for a bit, then off to bed (and hopefully I'll stay there for 8 hours happily).

Alright, I think my stomach is feeling a bit better, enough that I'm going to try to have some food because I'm hungry :[

On the plus side, I've been relaxing and catching up on my anime-watching. Oh the evilness of Ouran 25! I'm so sad that it's the second-to-last episode too ;_; And xxxHolic 22 ended on an evil cliffhanger, but luckily I have 23 so I can watch it after food.

I've been watching a lot of xxxHolic today, eps 12-15. I'm trying to catch up with the current release of it and Ouran Host Club...and maybe Blood+, if I can, though it's been going for a lot longer @_@

I think Watanuki is finally growing on me. Some of his spaz attacks still seem a bit extreme/charicaturish to me, but they are getting better. I'm sad that his development is being rather screwed up though, since they anime is tinkering around with the order of events from the manga so much. I must read more of the manga...when I have money. Hahaha.

New plans are in the works to see Kate before the summer is over...I'm going to book off the weekend of the 26-28. Last weekend of the summer. I'm hopeful that the previous weekdays will be full of enough work that I won't feel like I've missed out...the chances of this are decent, since once you start picking up shifts they like to keep giving them too you and we've had a LOT of turnover with people going back to school/quitting/etc...

I can't believe how close the start of school is. It's so exciting!

Watched ep 7 of xxxHolic.

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So, I've finally reached the vol 4s. Yay. I've seen them for both xxxHolic and Princess Princess. Both have been deleted, since while I did enjoy them, I can't see myself wanting to watch them again.

I still have major issues with xxxHolic's art. OMG the proportions ;_;

Pretty sure Host Club will also be deleted, while as I've said before, Blood+ is going to stick around.

Once I finish the vol 4s (still need Host Club and Blood+) I will take a look at Honey & Clover and see what it's like.

Watched more Sailor Moon with Margaret, it continues to be really fun, though again not something I need to watch again, unlike the S and Stars seasons which rock (yay Outers). Kunzite finally appeared, hurrah! Still having trouble with Zoicite as male.

And Nephrite is SO going to the Special Hell, but Mamoru will go with him to keep him company.

Since I have been killing time while WoW installs itself REALLY SLOWLY (and tries to tell me that I don't meet the system requirements, even though my computer tells me that I do...very strange) I watched ep 3 of xxxHolic and ep 11 of NANA.

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Anyway, WoW is up and running, but I want to defrag the computer first since I've been getting/deleting so many files.

So, I've been on a downloading spree for anime, checking out a whole bunch of new series: Honey & Clover, Candidate for Goddess OVA (this one is pretty much only because of my Lark PB), xxxHolic, Princess Princess, and Ouran Host Club. I plan to watch the first episodes of all of them, see if I like them, and then play catch up until I reach the current point it's at in Japan (except of course for Honey & Clover, which is finished).

So I just watched xxxHolic vol 1. It seems interesting enough, I've actually read the first half of the first manga (at the anime club's manga night) and thought it was really good. I also have read vol 1 of Tsubasa, and thus am sad that the anime of xxxHolic has eliminated the crossover, though I suppose it does make sense, since it wasn't made at the same time as the Tsubasa anime.

I really don't like the opening much, so when I watch more, I'll be skipping that. It's just rather boring and the song isn't that great I don't think. Also the character design for Watanuki is a bit...odd. His arms and legs are just far too long and his head is too small...I think he looks like a daddy longlegs XD But I knew that the animation wasn't supposed to be the greatest going in (and if I can enjoy things like Fushigi Yuugi and Sailor Moon...then I know I can get past that XD). Yuuko's two helpers (Maru and Moro?) are also getting on my nerves. So I am suspecting that this will not be the first of the series that I watch. But I do want to watch more of it because it does sound interesting. And I definitely intend to read the manga more.

One thing however that I did rather like was the decision to have random passersby be pretty much outlines, rather than detail. It's a really interesting look.

Oh, and Yuuko does rock!

All and all I'm really not that impressed with the CLAMP anime, with X-TV being the exception because OMG I LOVES IT! I can't stand Chobits, Tokyo Babylon is okay but should have been made later, when they could have actually done the ending, I haven't heard the most wonderful things about Tsubasa, since apparently it deviates quite a bit from the manga (though of course, that's the problem with any anime made before a manga is finished...so it's probably true in the case of xxxHolic too). But I will give this a shot. At least I haven't read the manga so it might come off better than it is XD

Also, apparently NANA has been slated for 50 episodes at the moment. Which is pretty long, but since the manga is long and still going, it does make sense. I still hold out hope that the manga may finish before the anime, and thus the anime won't have to make stuff up.