Lists of Things I've Seen or Read

Anime
.hack//sign
12 Kingdoms
Black Butler
Bleach (most of it)
Blue Exorcist
Cowboy Bebop
Dragon Half
Escaflowne
Fruits Basket
Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
Ghost in the Shell (1st Season)
Hetalia (currently watching)
Kino's Journey
Mushishi
Natsume Yuujinchou (currently watching)
Outlaw Star
Princess Tutu
Read or Die OVA
Tiger & Bunny
Tsubasa
Ultramaiden Valkarie
Utawaremono

Anime Movies
Blue Submarine 6
Cardcaptor Sakura
Castle in the Sky
Escaflowne
Howl's Moving Castle
Kiki's Delivery Service
Metropolis
Naussica and the Valley of the Wind
Ponyo
Princess Mononoke
Return of the Cat
Spirited Away
Tokyo Godfathers

Manga
Bleach
Blue Exorcist (currently reading)
Dragon Eye
Dragon Half
Eden (1st 2 books.  Don't read.  Bad stuff.)
Escaflowne
Fruits Basket
Fullmetal Alchemist
Kuroshitsuji (currently reading)
Magic Knight Rayearth
Matantei Loki
Natsume Yuujinchou
Tsubasa

Cartoon Series
Avatar the Last Airbender
Kim Possible
Magic School Bus
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
Star Trek

TV Series
Babylon 5
Big Bang Theory
Crusade
Dr. Who (currently watching)
Farscape
Firefly
Moonlight
Sherlock
Star Trek DS9
Star Trek OS
Star Trek NG
Supernatural (1st 14 episodes, didn't catch my interest.)

Plan on Watching Someday
.hack//G.U.
Battlestar Galactica original
Danny Phantom
Ghost in the Shell Season 2
Kino's Journey Movies 1: Life Goes on, and 2: The Land of Sickness
Legend of Zelda cartoon
Millenium Actress
Naruto?
Paprika
Stargate
Star Trek Voyager
Steins;Gate

Plan on Reading Someday
Dragonball Z
Mushishi
Scott Pilgrim


Please note lists are incomplete and will be updated regularly.  Last update 18 December 2012.

Smash Brawl!

So this weekend I had a party with a couple of friends.  Both of these friends have served missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints so were out of the loop on what was going on for 18 months, so we've been watching movies together that they've missed (well, one of them missed, the other was quicker at seeing some of them).  So far we've watched Megamind, Ironman 2, and on Friday we watched Avatar (not the airbender).  We watched the extra-extended one, so that it would have some new stuff for the friend who had already seen it four times.  It was so much fun!  My one friend was already freaking out about how awesome it was when we were only ten minutes in, and during the big battle she said, "Animation is so addicting!   Who needs ecstasy when you have CG!"  We all laughed and decided that was going up on our quote wall.  We put up a large piece of paper in my life drawing class to write our silliness on.  So far it's mostly covered with quotes from me... we need to change that!

We also played Super Smash Brothers Brawl on my Wii.  My one friend hadn't touched it since her mission and thought we would totally beat her... she beat us every brawl.  I decided to practice so I would know what I was doing the next time we play, which will probably be this weekend.  I've gotten to the point now where my husband and I are almost evenly matched.  My favored character is Pitt, although I really want to play Link.  Maybe when I get a bit better I'll try Link out again.  Although, my one friend despises Link and Peach because of how other people used them in the past.  However, for some reason she feels like helping Pitt, which could be to my advantage.  I really stink at flying back up onto the stage if I fall off.

Anyway, just thought I should update this a bit more often.

Odd out

I Used to Wonder

I used to wonder how authors could crank out stories so quickly.  When I wrote my first (currently unfinished and failed) novel I spent three years on it, mainly during the school year, and I only managed to write about 108 pages and struggled with the ideas.  Now I'm writing again, and happily I've found my muse.  I'm writing a completely different story and have over 135 pages and I've only been working on it for roughly two-ish months off-and-on at least once a week, and I have plenty of ideas and it's a much stronger piece.  I also am brimming with ideas and concepts for a sequel or two.  I am amazed how four years of maturity and educational training can make such a difference!  It's brilliant!

Get educated people, it lets you think better, even if it might seem boring at the time.

And so Spring Term has Begun

And it is busier than I expected.  I am taking Advanced Life Drawing, Doctrine and Covenants 2, and Character Design!  The Character Design class is lots of fun, I really enjoy it, but it's a little more work than I was thinking for some reason.  Life drawing is also being more work than expected.  The terms are so short!  Everything is crammed into such a limited time frame!  I don't have much else to say right now other than that.

A week of painting and writing

Well, finals week has begun!  I've already taken two of my tests and I take another one today at 2:30.  I still need to study for it, I'm nervous about it!

I did not get into the BFA this time around, but they encouraged me to apply again in August.  I hope that means I'm pretty much guaranteed a spot, but I know if I make effort to improve I'm sure to get in, right?  I'm meeting with one of the teachers about it today, the other two I'll try to meet with when spring term starts, maybe next week.

I spent all day yesterday and part of today writing in my novel.  It still needs an  official title.  Right now the working title is The Story of Chookery-chun, the Cursed Wizard.  Although, I'm not sure if Chookery is a wizard or a sorcerer.  I need to figure out the difference and then figure out which he is.  It's fun to write again!  I feel like I've been starved for a long time and have finally been granted access to an all-you-can-eat buffet!  I've written 63 pages so far in manuscript format (in about a month's worth of time, it's been very spread out), which is more than half the length of the story I worked on in high school for roughly two years but never finished.  I am so excited!  I want to get it all written and try to get it published by the time I graduate.  That would be fantastic!  Maybe I can get it written by the end of the summer?  I don't know.  Written, maybe, but probably not finished.  It will need editing, a lot of it.

And the rest of the time this week I will spend painting!  All of my illustration projects are due by nine in the morning on Thursday.  Then my family and I are going to have lots of fun doing stuff in the local area. It's going to be great.

Anyways, I should go study!

-Odd out