Some Fun

Okay, so my most recent posts have been about how busy and boring life is. I can't say that's much of a surprise, but I can say that there is some fun in all of it.

Recently I've been playing a new video game called Uncharted 2. It's about a treasure hunter looking for a legendary eastern jem. It's the video game equivalent of a blockbuster triple A movie and it looks like a corss between National Treasure and Indiana Jones. It is amazing, I love the story, graphics gamepaly, witty chit-chat and everything. The one thing I don't like is that I've been playing it too much (a few hours every few days is too much right now) and my brother can't get his copy of the game to work, so we haven't been able to play together.

I also just recently met up with my old friends again (the ones who used to be at my grade level). We hung out, played games, went out for pasta and watched Stargate Universe, a new continuation of the Stargate series and currently the only television show capable of holding my attention. I've given up on effectively ewvery other series. But back to my friends, it was genuinly fun, something that's been hard to come by with all my school and other work.

Television isn't the only thing that's lost it's grip on me. I'm not as into junk food and I'm reading less. Two out of three of those I should just be thankful for. The third is kind of bad, but it probably has to do with my lack of time at night and none of my books catching on. I was reading the Alchemist, but it got too cheesy with omens and such that it feels childish and not in a fun way. I'll look out for smething better to read, like something new in the Ender's Game or Discworld series, but that will only be once I have time and money.

Oh, right, I forgot; in preperation for live in uni, I'm living off of tips as opposed to paychecks. This means I can get my priorities straight while saving up against student loans. The downside is I can't buy every fleeting interest like before (not that I did). Sadly it also means I have to save up before I can buy better gloves to keep my fingers from freezing in the lowering temperatures and for my graphing calculator for pre-calculus. I'd also like to say sorry to anyone serving me at a restaurant in the near future, buy those dollars I'd usually put to your excellent service are in short supply.

Getting back to fun, I've also gotten in some manga. I ordered some stuff online from Japan. Four books cost me nearly a hundred dollars, as compared to their Japanese price of five canadian dollars (luckily this was before I started paying with tips). Thankfully, three of them have turned ut to be good so far. I got the latest Fullmetal Alchemist volume, which is always a pleasure to read, even with the complex science and military talk. Genshiken is decent, I'll probably read through it if my Japanese pick up again. Rookies is atarting out well, it was suggested by my history teacher and is entertaining without feeling too much like GTO. Naruto was the black sheep. I usually get it because it's easy to read, but it's dying on me and I don't have the patience to wait for it to get better, which I don't believe it will (no, I don't believe it だってばよ！). Once I get my schedule straight I'll see about getting back into my Japanese. I want to start at Ghost in the Shell, but that'll be a while yet.

As far as anime goes, I've only watched a few episodes in tha last few months. I've been trying to hunt down something of quality. I got through three endless eight before I left Japan and Haruhi behind. I'm not interested in most new series, I'm mostly going back. I went through Golden boy, which was great for quality but got to be almost pornographic, even by Japanese standards by the end. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, it just wasn't what I was looking for or expecting. I then watched some of the old Lupin the third, and I finally understood why my old classmate wanted my to call him Rupan (Lupin in Japanese), he does look just like him. It's a fun show but it's just a "heist of the week" show. I saw the first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam, and while I think it's better than the new series, I've just seen too many of those robots.