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Yay, antibiotics! I got one of those 5-day courses where you take two pills on the first day (azithromycin[sp?]) and they seem to have worked, so I went to the anime club last night.
So, as of this morning I officially no longer wake up and go into coughing fits when I breathe deeply. And there's no more green snot to cough up. Now all I have to worry about is my normal, generalized unfitness.
However -- just so there's no silver lining without a cloud -- I talked to my parents a couple of days ago, and it seems they caught the bug while they were visiting me. :-( Oh well.
Back to the other news, since I was feeling well enough again I went out to the KoP anime club last night. It turns out it was "pick a new series to watch" night, which happens a couple of times a year.
For this special meeting, each of the members plays 5 minutes of a prospective series they have, and when everyone's finished everybody in the club gets a ballot and ranks the selections 1 to n (with 1 being the highest) and then through some kind of statistical analysis or other sleight of hand the two with the most support get added to the lineup for upcoming meetings.
The top selection was a series called "The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi," an interesting show set in a contemporary Japanese high school about an energetic yet eccentric girl (Suzumiya Haruhi) who is seeking "Aliens, Time Travelers & Espers" (she's quite serious). It's told from the point of view of the poor put-upon guy who sits in front of her in class at school.
I saw this series at MangaNext (the show is adapted from a manga) and it's a lot of fun. It's told out of chronological order to make it more engaging, and the very first episode begins in media res a-la the original "Record of Lodoss Wars" OAVs so you're introduced to the whole lineup of characters at once before you find out how they came to be together.
Forget what the runner-up was... might have been a show called "Kiddy [or Kitty] Grade," which seems like a light sci-fi adventure. May be fun, may be not. It didn't seem to be anybody's first pick, which is where the miracle of statistics comes in.
Afterwards was the club's bottom-half-of-the-night feature, Potluck, where people bring in stuff that's more or less stand-alone (a movie or a collection of shorts) and we watch whatever it is until ten o'clock when the meeting ends. Initally the group had selected the "Escaflowne" movie but the picture was so blocky and pixelated on the DVD we gave up after several minutes of vocal disbelief at how truly bad a commercial product could be. Whoever released it should be ashamed of themselves.
After that we picked the original "Project A-ko" movie as an alternate selection since it was the only thing short enough to finish before 10 PM. People got a laugh out of it, especially those who had never seen it before. Someone even commented that the mecha animation was better than some of the contemporary stuff they'd been watching lately. General consensus was that a lot of the more recent stuff seems too much like most of the other recent stuff. Weirdly, I had been thinking about an AMV concept earlier that day (Madonna's "Into the Groove" if you're curious) so I voted for "A-ko" to give me a chance to re-familiarize myself with the footage again.
After the meeting most of the people went home but a few of us de-camped to the local 24-hour diner to BS for a while. Was most annoyed to find out I couldn't get a milkshake (waitress all was kind of like "Why would you want a milkshake anyway when it's so cold out" which I don't see as being a helpful attitude when telling a customer they're not getting what they want) so I had to pick something else, and over-ate as a consequence (burger and cheese fries, when I'd already had three pieces of pizza at the meeting earlier that evening) and felt bloated the next morning/today.
So that was my day yesterday. Oh, and I went to the post office. :-)
So, as of this morning I officially no longer wake up and go into coughing fits when I breathe deeply. And there's no more green snot to cough up. Now all I have to worry about is my normal, generalized unfitness.
However -- just so there's no silver lining without a cloud -- I talked to my parents a couple of days ago, and it seems they caught the bug while they were visiting me. :-( Oh well.
Back to the other news, since I was feeling well enough again I went out to the KoP anime club last night. It turns out it was "pick a new series to watch" night, which happens a couple of times a year.
For this special meeting, each of the members plays 5 minutes of a prospective series they have, and when everyone's finished everybody in the club gets a ballot and ranks the selections 1 to n (with 1 being the highest) and then through some kind of statistical analysis or other sleight of hand the two with the most support get added to the lineup for upcoming meetings.
The top selection was a series called "The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi," an interesting show set in a contemporary Japanese high school about an energetic yet eccentric girl (Suzumiya Haruhi) who is seeking "Aliens, Time Travelers & Espers" (she's quite serious). It's told from the point of view of the poor put-upon guy who sits in front of her in class at school.
I saw this series at MangaNext (the show is adapted from a manga) and it's a lot of fun. It's told out of chronological order to make it more engaging, and the very first episode begins in media res a-la the original "Record of Lodoss Wars" OAVs so you're introduced to the whole lineup of characters at once before you find out how they came to be together.
Forget what the runner-up was... might have been a show called "Kiddy [or Kitty] Grade," which seems like a light sci-fi adventure. May be fun, may be not. It didn't seem to be anybody's first pick, which is where the miracle of statistics comes in.
Afterwards was the club's bottom-half-of-the-night feature, Potluck, where people bring in stuff that's more or less stand-alone (a movie or a collection of shorts) and we watch whatever it is until ten o'clock when the meeting ends. Initally the group had selected the "Escaflowne" movie but the picture was so blocky and pixelated on the DVD we gave up after several minutes of vocal disbelief at how truly bad a commercial product could be. Whoever released it should be ashamed of themselves.
After that we picked the original "Project A-ko" movie as an alternate selection since it was the only thing short enough to finish before 10 PM. People got a laugh out of it, especially those who had never seen it before. Someone even commented that the mecha animation was better than some of the contemporary stuff they'd been watching lately. General consensus was that a lot of the more recent stuff seems too much like most of the other recent stuff. Weirdly, I had been thinking about an AMV concept earlier that day (Madonna's "Into the Groove" if you're curious) so I voted for "A-ko" to give me a chance to re-familiarize myself with the footage again.
After the meeting most of the people went home but a few of us de-camped to the local 24-hour diner to BS for a while. Was most annoyed to find out I couldn't get a milkshake (waitress all was kind of like "Why would you want a milkshake anyway when it's so cold out" which I don't see as being a helpful attitude when telling a customer they're not getting what they want) so I had to pick something else, and over-ate as a consequence (burger and cheese fries, when I'd already had three pieces of pizza at the meeting earlier that evening) and felt bloated the next morning/today.
So that was my day yesterday. Oh, and I went to the post office. :-)