Research Paper

Sigh...it's finally Friday. Took long enough to get here.

So I'm in school and I got the final piece of my research paper graded before the final turn-in Monday. I was told I need 3 more sources, and one of those must be an interview. I'm trying to figure that one out. The other two I can just get off the internet, so I ain't too worried. Other than that, I just need to double the length of my paper. Sounds like a joyous time I've got ahead of me. A girl in my class told me that her paper is on an 150 line poem...I got friggin' Ivanhoe. It's a 400 page novel! In my school's library (which is all we had access to on "research days"), there was only one author who wrote two or three of the critical essays that I'm using as sources...and my teacher wants more "variety" to my quotes. I also have to double the length of my paper without turning it into a book report (which is what half my class has done). The glories of the internet: I should have this done with two or three hours of work; as opposed to the week I spent reading books filled with critical essays of 19th century European literature that only had snippets of anything Ivanhoe related. My compliments to Paul de Gategno. He's helped me by writing relevant materials about nothing except Ivanhoe...but my teacher won't let me use his book as my only source.

The awful timings of the step-by-step due dates were terrific also. I'm so glad that our school library is open all the time...oh wait, it's bloody not. By the time I get out of band in the afternoon, that library is more closed than a buffet to a fat guy. So I had to make due with the limited notes I had...which weren't enough. Ah well, at least it's over. But wait, it's not! My teacher just handed us a sheet on an "Oral Report" based on our findings of our primary source (that would be Ivanhoe for me), so I get to stand in front of my class and tell them all what Ivanhoe has done for me (queue the lightning and solar eclipse). Luckily, I'm pretty good at the whole -summarizing incredibly long and detailed things into 3-4 minutes of nonsense with no preparation while shaking because of my hatred for public speaking- thing.

So...wish me luck, I'll be having fun I'm sure. Peace Out!
Grade: TBA

Death Note

Mmmmbuddy, Death Note has come to Adult Swim on Saturday nights. It's a pretty complex little mystery anime, and it's not so much action-packed, yet it is extremely well written and intelligent. I own all the manga in English and watch the anime in Japanese as it was coming out. I'm pretty stoked that it is now in English on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. It's replacing new episodes of Bleach...which ran out of English dubbed episodes apparently, ah well.
Anyways, Death Note is a mystery anime for the most part- like I said. It's about an extremely smart high schooler who finds a notebook with the power to kill anyone that he has seen the face of and whose name he has written down. He decides to use this newfound power to cleanse the world of evil and become the deity of his new world. Unfortunately, the police are after him and even the genius detective, L, has developed interest in taking down this unknown invisible serial killer. I highly recommend checkin' it out. The animation and music is terrific, and while there aren't any fight scenes, it's definitely got terrific intellectual duels between two conflicting sides of justice.
Rating: A

Take Off!

Hallllllrighty! Guess I'll start this puppy off by introducing my loser self. I'm just a southern guy in the band in my school. I'll be talkin' about everything from anime to video games to school, and I might even talk about myself every now and then (the humanity!!!). Wish me luck and leave me a comment if you deem this blog worthy.