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So much to do in so little time

October 4th, 2008

I have a midterm on monday for woman studies, one on tuesday night for sociology. I have a personal response paper due on wednesday for anthropology which is like 20% of my final mark. On the bright side, the rough draft for the essay is done. I just need to go over my friends suggestions and do some minor editing.

So two of my suitemates (K and L) were in K’s room last night between 3ish and apparantly they left the door unlocked. Some people apparantly walked into our suite, went into our standup freezer, took pizza (that some of my suitemates had just bought!), and some other stuff from our fridge like eggs. They took the egg carton that L and K share and took like 3 or 4 eggs from my carton. They also took our freezies. K and L realized what happened and chased after them, like within an hour after they left. They found our freezies in the stairwell and we got them back. Apparantly the perps didn’t like what was in my shelf in the stand up freezer. My loaf of bread that was in the front was moved a shelf up. All I have in there is perogies, pork, chicken and beef that are cut up for stirfries, shrimp ring for stirfries and 2 packs of oriental veggie mix.

I went into the hall this morning to see what had all happened out there last night and at the bottom of suite 4.3, there were white things and I didn’t know where they were. Found out later that eggs from our suite had been taken. Guess I found out where the eggs went lol.

We had another fire drill last night. Fairly early too! It wasn’t even 1 am yet lol. On the ground floor almost infront of the elevator, there was a broken jar of pickles. Glass, juice and pickles were on the floor. I really feel bad for the cleaning staff in my res. It’s generally trashed every weekend. I think this was the worst weekend though.

On the bright side, the new season of Vampire Knight starts on the 6th in Japan. Hopefully subbed versions will be appearing on youtube relatively soon.Â I finished reading the first volume of the manga this morning. I’ve reserved vols. 2-4. I’m the 6th person in line for the 4th one and I would have been 3rd for the 5th one. Which is silly so I figured that I might want to wait until I’m like the 2nd or 1st one for vol 4 before I reserve vol 5.

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More Anime

June 30th, 2008

I was watching Death Note and I do plan on returning to it after I was done with Vision of Escaflowne. I had downloaded the series onto my computer so I needed to delete it as soon as possible otherwise my computer runs slow.

Sometimes I wanted to hit the main character Hitomi. She was so selfish at times, but in a way, you could definitly see the character growth as she realizes what she’s done wrong. Another thing is like, you found your true love, you love each other but you decide to go back to your world? Dude, if I was brought to another world and found my true love, I’d stay. Go back to my world if possible to visit, but stay with him. Oh well. Anime characters tend to be stupid that way.

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Vampire Knight and Death Note

June 28th, 2008

Geeze, talk about your darker anime’s. I got into Vampire Knight last night and finished the first 12 episodes this morning. If you’re interested in it, I’ll put the synopsis of it below. It’s an ongoing anime that’s pretty new too. It started in April 2008 in Japan and the second season is due to come out in Oct 2008. I can’t wait!

Vampire Knight:
Yuki’s earliest memory is of a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by a vampire and was saved by another, Kaname Kuran. Ten years later, Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a prefect for the school with two purposes: to protect the Day class students (humans) from the Night class students (vampires) and to protect the true identity of the Night class students from being discovered by the Day class students. Her fellow guardian, Zero Kiryu, a childhood companion whose parents were killed by a pureblood vampire, is now determined to kill them all and refuses to trust them. Through a cruel twist of fate, Zero becomes a vampire himself, having been bitten by a pureblood vampire four years before, Shizuka Hiou. Kaname, Yuki’s savior, leads the group of Night class, with the help of Takuma Ichijou (the vice president).

I also just finished watching the first episode of Death Note. Here’s a synopsis so you know what I’m talking about.Â

Light Yagami is an extremely intelligent young man who resents the crime and corruption in the world. His life undergoes a drastic change when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known as the “Death Note”, lying on the ground. The Death Note’s instructions claim that if a human’s name is written within it, that person shall die. Light is initially skeptical of the notebook’s authenticity, but after experimenting with it, Light realizes that the Death Note is real. After meeting with the previous owner of the Death Note, a shinigami named Ryuk, Light seeks to become “the God of the New World” by passing his judgment on those he deems to be evil or who get in his way.

So this anime has me thinking about the age old question, “Who are we to play God?” I mean, if there really is a God then shouldn’t it be God’s right to decide who lives and who dies? How is one human to judge who is worthy to live and to die. It’s basically taking one’s private moralities of right and wrong and running with them.

According to John Austin, society cannot live like that. If everyone listened to their private morals, then everyone would have their own interpretation of the law and would choose to only listen to the one’s that they think are good. Society would descend into chaos. Laws are based on public morality (which is basicallyÂ when the majority of the sociey to agree upon something, like killing is bad) and they are there for a reason, to keep people in line. We surrender ourselves to the law in order to keep order in the world. That’s basically what Austin believes, more or less.

I think he’s right in some ways. In this case, who is Light to judge who is bad and who is good. While he is killing only “bad” people, his idea of bad might differ slightly from someone elses. Once he runs out of major villians, who’s next for him to kill? He then wants to be the ulitimate ruler of the new world. We’ve seen in history that absolute power does not work. It just doesn’t. The Sun King tried it and look how well that worked out for him.

That’s just my opinion though. Feel free to agree or disagree.