Classes are set for next term, and I’ve spoken with the teacher about the possibility of being out of the country with no warning for three weeks if work sends me to Germany. She’s OK with this, so it looks like I’ll be knocking out another 8 credits during Spring term – WR227 and ENG104. I’ll have my 8 credits writing accomplished and have my first “A” list class done for the Arts & Letters section of the degree.

This term is wrapping up, and not nearly fast enough in my book. Math continues to go quite well – I scored a 98/100 on the last exam, and at this point I’d have to do really poorly on the final not to get an A. Speech, well, it’s something to be endured and when I’m done with it there will be a checkbox checked on the degree checklist and that’s all I really ought to be caring about.

I do have some sympathy for any teacher who’s in the position of teaching a mandatory class. Fortunately, I’m almost done attending mandatory classes so it will soon cease to be a problem for me – I’ll be able to get on with the business of taking classes that are full of people that don’t HAVE to be there. If you are a fully graduated college student and the last sentence made you laugh and say things like “oh, if he only knew…”, please do not share. Currently I am enjoying my ignorance.

Da Capo Season Season episodes 10 and 11 were “introduce wacky new characters you’ve only seen in the OP and in cameos” episodes, and I’m betting that 12 will be the same way before we get the clips show and get in to the actual plot. It wouldn’t be so painful if they weren’t Aisia episodes. I’m sure she has fans, but… look, I put up with the nekomimi maid and the banana loving robot in Da Capo, but the Inept Witch Wannabe is just a little severe – it’s one of those archetypes that deserves to be forgotten.

I should be watching some of the commercial DVDs that have piled up instead – speaking of nekomimi, I have two unwatched DVDs of Tsukiyomi sitting on the shelf staring at me, and that’s only the tiniest tip of the iceberg. The how-can-I-resist-for-this-cheap? anime has really been piling up.

As an example: It took me two nights to watch the Di Gi Charat disc I bought, and that’s less than an hour long!

huh. we’re back to nekomimi. For my next comment I will mention a show with no nekomimi.

Now all I can think of is shows that have at least some nekomimi content. They’re even in Welcome to the NHK.

I recently re-watched Akira. That has no nekomimi. I just can’t ever really seem to like it. I bought the first DVD release because I got seduced by the cool tin case, and I bought the DTS reissue because Right Stuf was selling them for 10 bucks and it was anamorphic and, as mentioned, DTS, and every once in a while I watch it and hate most of the characters and … well, anyway, it is nekomimi free. As far as Otomo films go, I’m more of a Roujin Z fan… in fact, now that I’ve remembered how fun that is, I’m kind of vexed that it’s almost 1 AM because there’s no way on earth I can watch it and still function at work in the morning.

More evidence of actual progress with my Grand Getting My Stuff In Line project, I encoded two whole VHS tapes of stuff to MPEG2 today, which leaves only a whole lot to do. Still, I’m certainly not adding tapes, and I am subtracting them, which means that the trend is positive.