I can safely say that I've made it through the con withdrawal phase, and now I am back once again to being a fully (or as close as I can get) functioning member of society. I've got some big projects coming up that have demanded my attention, and I've been able to have fun with each of them. I'm writing a fifteen page term paper on anime and its Western appeal for my Japanese Media class - I get to study anime and get credit for it - what could be better? I've got NaNoWriMo 2007 coming up in a few days, and prewriting is well underway. I've joined the sanctuary choir at South Main and will be singing with them starting this next week - it feels good to be back in a musical setting. Plus, I've wanted to get back into training my voice because I've had some sudden aspirations (delusions of grandeur?) to become an anime voice actor myself. I'm starting with all the amazing resources I have available to me - private voice lessons at the Shepherd School, enrolling in a couple of theater classes next semester, singing at South Main, and it will go on from there. From what I've heard, it's a tough road and a tough job, but I figure if there's a time where I'm going to start going for it, now is the time!
Sunday gave me a little bit of an anime fix after the con. After church, I met up with a friend of mine and we went over to the Houston Zoo to meet up with the Houston Cosplay Scouts. As it was a halloween-themed celebration day, everyone, including staff members, was in costume, so we didn't feel out of place at all. It was an absolute scream - going around and looking at all these different creatures, and realizing that they probably thought we looked as strange as we thought they did. Fun fun.
I got an e-mail just now that put me in a REALLY good mood. Go here to check it out.
halotournament.rice.edu
Aside from the front splash page, I made this site! I'm really proud of it. Isn't it pretty?
I had a little bit of a scare earlier today. On Friday I switched my computer over to the new Mac OS X Leopard. It's a great system and I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I ended up having to erase my hard drive in order to install it - apparently there had been something wrong with it the whole time I've owned it. Anywho, I moved all of my important files to my external hard drive (which took two hours over firewire - lots of stuff) and erased my drive. Today, I went in looking for my notes for my classes, and they weren't where they were supposed to be. I didn't necessarily 'freak out,' but I did start to panic a little bit - those were all my notes for the entire year. Luckily, I found out that I had simply placed them all in the wrong folder. PHEW! After a quick prayer of gratitude, I got on with my work.
(I know I'm going out of chronological order here, bear with me) Friday night, several friends and I went to the Hobby Center in downtown Houston to see Avenue Q, the broadway musical. For those of you who don't know the show, it is basically Sesame Street (with puppets) for people 18 and over. I don't want to give too much of it away, but suffice it to say that it was an incredibly funny show and we really enjoyed it.
This weekend saw one of the biggest events of the Rice University social calendar - NOD. The Night of Decadence. It is a party hosted by Wiess college, and it is the only Rice party to ever make the Playboy Top 10 College Parties List. Needless to say, I was nowhere near Wiess college that night. Do not want. Instead, the same group who I had gone to see Avenue Q with the previous night all got together and went out to Fuddrucker's for some gigantic burgers, then we came back and played Balderdash. I'm certain that this was a far better use of our time.
Saturday afternoon was another big event - the third annual Fast Warp Super Smash Brothers Melee Tournament. For those of you who don't know the game - it's basically just a game where characters from many different video game series come together and fight each other. It's been a really popular game for all ages for years now, and the new version should be coming out before next semester. I helped to set up and run the tournament, seeing as I am the secretary of Fast Warp, Rice's gaming club. We had a good time, and the tournament was really exciting. Apparently, it may fall to me to set up next year's tournament, seeing as we're losing a lot of good seniors this year. Scary!
Well, that's about all to report for now - gotta go get some dinner before class tonight. Have a great halloween!
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