PoT, Wolf's Rain, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
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thistlechaserWatched five eps of Prince of Tennis, including one that has sealed my love of the series: A whole ep from the cat's POV! Aie! How perfect! And Kaidou likes cats and is willing to play with them? (And blushed again?) Okay, I love you! (I really expected him to hiss at it and that it'd do the same back to him.)
Despite my hatred of giant fighting robot things (other than Escaflowne), I downloaded Mobile Suit Gundam Wing on Feral_Beavers's recommendation. I made it about a minute into it before having to turn it off. I'll probably give it one more chance before deleting it.
Wolf's Rain... such an odd series. I don't like the story and it has major leaps (holes) in logic, but I can't delete it and I keep going back to it and watching an ep every week or so. The animation is beautiful and the voices are wonderful, and I like werewolves... I just wish it didn't otherwise suck.
Will complete the evening with more PoT once I can concentrate on the screen again. I actually wish there was something on TV tonight, I'm having trouble concentrating enough to keep up with subtitles/plotlines. Need more sleep.
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Christmas is coming (duh), which for most/many folks means a holiday bonus at work. At my company it means... fruitcakes. That's right. We've not gotten a raise in three years, and the only "bonus" we get is a fruitcake one a year. I kept last year's in the fridge for six whole months before I threw it out. It's actually more insulting to get a fruitcake than to get nothing.
Oh, but good work news! I'm now three-quarters vested at work! See, when you get hired they say to you: You can get X number of this company's stock for Y dollars per stock (a good price), but we want you to stick around, so over four years you'll get fully vested, a quarter of X number a year. So as of now, I can buy a few hundred shares of my company's stock for just over $10 a share! Sounds good, right? Too bad it's currently worth about $2... So yay! I have the right to buy a few hundred shares at $10 and sell them for $2 each! Woo! Yay! Go team! Dinner's on me! ...no, wait...
Despite my hatred of giant fighting robot things (other than Escaflowne), I downloaded Mobile Suit Gundam Wing on Feral_Beavers's recommendation. I made it about a minute into it before having to turn it off. I'll probably give it one more chance before deleting it.
Wolf's Rain... such an odd series. I don't like the story and it has major leaps (holes) in logic, but I can't delete it and I keep going back to it and watching an ep every week or so. The animation is beautiful and the voices are wonderful, and I like werewolves... I just wish it didn't otherwise suck.
Will complete the evening with more PoT once I can concentrate on the screen again. I actually wish there was something on TV tonight, I'm having trouble concentrating enough to keep up with subtitles/plotlines. Need more sleep.
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Christmas is coming (duh), which for most/many folks means a holiday bonus at work. At my company it means... fruitcakes. That's right. We've not gotten a raise in three years, and the only "bonus" we get is a fruitcake one a year. I kept last year's in the fridge for six whole months before I threw it out. It's actually more insulting to get a fruitcake than to get nothing.
Oh, but good work news! I'm now three-quarters vested at work! See, when you get hired they say to you: You can get X number of this company's stock for Y dollars per stock (a good price), but we want you to stick around, so over four years you'll get fully vested, a quarter of X number a year. So as of now, I can buy a few hundred shares of my company's stock for just over $10 a share! Sounds good, right? Too bad it's currently worth about $2... So yay! I have the right to buy a few hundred shares at $10 and sell them for $2 each! Woo! Yay! Go team! Dinner's on me! ...no, wait...
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Date: 2003-12-11 07:08 am (UTC)And yay for 3/4ths vestedness! Dennis is in about the same place. Of course, there's that little matter of the stocks being worth about $70 less per share than they were when he started, but oh, well. Market's gotta turn around sometime, doesn't it?
And FRUITCAKE? That IS insulting. You'd think they could at least get you something useful. In fact, fruitcakes aren't all that cheap (unless someone's making them from scratch, and even then, the ingredients can be pricey) and it'd be less expensive to give everybody a coupon for a free Jamba Juice or a Starbucks gift card or even just a nice bag of Pepperidge Farm milano cookies or something.
Hey- happy belated birthday! I've been out of the LJ loop for a couple of days and saw the posts trumpeting birthday wishes and thought I'd add mine, albeit sadly after the fact!
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Date: 2003-12-11 07:28 am (UTC)Aren't they great? And would you believe the show claims that they're all 12-14 years old? I fell down laughing when I heard that, as almost all of them look very high teens to low twenties.
Funny, but for all a number of us hate sports, it's the sports animes that we love the most. I suppose they work for the slashers in us -- nothing like sports to get a bunch of guys together a lot!
Market's gotta turn around sometime, doesn't it?
Yes, but the question is how long from now? And will my company still even exist now if it does turn around?
Okay, that was two questions...
fruitcakes aren't all that cheap
They have a special deal with some bakery company, so they get them a lot cheaper than normal. And yeah! I'd much rather have a card or a mug or even a bag of cookies!
Hey- happy belated birthday!
Thank you! :)