I look at my work schedule, and think geez, I have no time. Then I look at my tumblr and think man, I have more than enough time. It’ll be nice not having a piece of paper to tell me how much stuff I can’t do for the next month.

        That being said, I have my AP english exam in a little over two weeks. No meeting about that today, because our teacher got food poisoning :( Sad, but we read A Modest Proposal for our “exam,” which was fun because I read it as a kid and loved it. While I was debating the economics of breeding children as livestock, others didn’t seem to understand because they probably only read three sentences before giving up and skipping half the words.

        As far as that exam goes, wow, I am so unprepared. Why? Well, I don’t have an essay ready to go for every potential topic they could ever pull out of their asses. I’m not really a deeper meaning kind of person, and I can’t read a book and go “oh hey a tree got struck by lightning, THAT SYMBOLIZES A CATASTROPHIC BREAK IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP HOW BRILLIANT.” I mean, really? Yeah, I get it, but I don’t know that’s going to happen yet! By the time it does happen, I don’t remember the tree in the first place! I could probably put together a decent essay about a tragic hero, or a character that’s a foil for another character, and other things like that where you can see it without having to read a five hundred page book twice in the same sitting.

        I’ll probably sit down with the list of essay topics they’ve given over the last 40 years and jot down ideas for each, so I have a general idea. No, I’m not fucking kidding. That’s a bare minimum of effort for this, and if I’m lucky might help me scrape out a decent mark D: It’s not like I’ll fail, judging by the failed essays we read, but… How well can I honestly do writing an essay, with a time limit, on a random subject?

        @vael: Episodes 13-16 of Baccano! were added to the DVD release after it aired on TV, but I dunno, I’m not sure it would have felt as complete without those episodes. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s perfect and nothing could be better, but complete is a good word for it. Complete in its incompleteness, I guess. The way it manages its characters is what I want for my story when it gets finished in the far off future, but replace immortality with killed-somebody-and-got-a-new-identity.

        Speaking of Baccano!, I dunno when it’ll be localized, but the same studio is doing an anime of another series of light novels by the same guy called Durarara!! Obviously, it is superior thanks to the extra exclamation mark. Aside from that, it’s on episode 14/24 in Japan, but they’re going to add extra episodes for its DVD release too. It has a black man who runs a sushi shop (this is really weird for Japan), a butler who throws vending machines, and a female headless horsemen who rides a motorcycle instead of a horse. Sound exciting yet?