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Jan. 26th, 2008 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppet*folds face into hands and groans* See, world, this is why I need home internet: so I can know about hugely important Anime Iowa related meetings before what I can only assume is an hour into the meeting itself. (On that note, Pat, if this sort of thing happens again and I don't send a response e-mail by 8:00 pm Friday, c-could I maybe get you to give me a call about it? 'Cuz yeah. *now has study buddies during normal Friday computer hours, f-fail*)
In other news, I spent money yesterday! Lots of it. More than I would have liked. The frugal person in me is totally having buyer's remorse right now. The fangirl in me, however, does not care in the slightest. After having spent probably two hours trying to find specific new manga titles in Waldenbooks and Barnes & Noble, I had finally given up and just bought the second Avatar season three DVD at Best Buy while it was 1/3 off the regular price. (Sadly, the NickBuck from the previous DVD had expired at the end of December, so it was only $10 instead of $9.) It was with a resigned air that I headed back home in the snowfall, finally remembering on the interstate why I kinda liked driving in the stuff in the first place (it was like I was floating out there, guys *_*).
That ended my spending for a while - but only until after study buddies, at which point I met Dad at Prairie Lights for a ride home and decided to browse for a while. Imagine my surprise when I found the first volume of Next Exit (which I had rather wanted, but didn't have the guts to search out individual magazines for) on the racks of our nice locally-run bookery. Continuing my search - faint hopes bolstered by the completely unexpected find - I managed to dig up all three other volumes of manga I'd been faintly hoping to find earlier in the day (Strawberry Panic, Voiceful, and First Love Sisters, all as translated by Seven Seas). I left the store an additional $50 poorer, but four books richer.
Then I proceeded to read them all last night before getting any sleep. Failure, me. Should've stretched it out a bit more. Ah, well. At least I have Avatar audio commentaries to look forward to. (For the record: Strawberry Panic still needs to win me over 100%, though I do agree with Erica Friedman regarding the adaptation, esp in regards to how Nagisa refers to herself; Voiceful was a little less yuri than I expected/would like, and the author also acknowledged it; and First Love Sisters was absolutely winning and adorable, would re-read.)
And now I'm going to scurry off in hopes of downloading another episode of OoFuri somehow before the lab closes (unlikely, I just downloaded two from MU (they're up through episode 17 now, holy crap o_o)).
In other news, I spent money yesterday! Lots of it. More than I would have liked. The frugal person in me is totally having buyer's remorse right now. The fangirl in me, however, does not care in the slightest. After having spent probably two hours trying to find specific new manga titles in Waldenbooks and Barnes & Noble, I had finally given up and just bought the second Avatar season three DVD at Best Buy while it was 1/3 off the regular price. (Sadly, the NickBuck from the previous DVD had expired at the end of December, so it was only $10 instead of $9.) It was with a resigned air that I headed back home in the snowfall, finally remembering on the interstate why I kinda liked driving in the stuff in the first place (it was like I was floating out there, guys *_*).
That ended my spending for a while - but only until after study buddies, at which point I met Dad at Prairie Lights for a ride home and decided to browse for a while. Imagine my surprise when I found the first volume of Next Exit (which I had rather wanted, but didn't have the guts to search out individual magazines for) on the racks of our nice locally-run bookery. Continuing my search - faint hopes bolstered by the completely unexpected find - I managed to dig up all three other volumes of manga I'd been faintly hoping to find earlier in the day (Strawberry Panic, Voiceful, and First Love Sisters, all as translated by Seven Seas). I left the store an additional $50 poorer, but four books richer.
Then I proceeded to read them all last night before getting any sleep. Failure, me. Should've stretched it out a bit more. Ah, well. At least I have Avatar audio commentaries to look forward to. (For the record: Strawberry Panic still needs to win me over 100%, though I do agree with Erica Friedman regarding the adaptation, esp in regards to how Nagisa refers to herself; Voiceful was a little less yuri than I expected/would like, and the author also acknowledged it; and First Love Sisters was absolutely winning and adorable, would re-read.)
And now I'm going to scurry off in hopes of downloading another episode of OoFuri somehow before the lab closes (unlikely, I just downloaded two from MU (they're up through episode 17 now, holy crap o_o)).
