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Summer school starts tomorrow as does work. I will be working monday - wednesday, 3pm - 10pm in BRNG B281 or whatever that large group of labs is called down there.
Other than that, not much is happening I guess. I've got drill this weekend. So, I'll be heading towards old Danville, Japan at around 7am Saturday morning...
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In case you don't already know, on Wednesday Ally, Steve, and I went to Detroit, MI in order to attend a "lecture" by Shinichiro Watanabe, director of popular anime Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. It wasn't so much a lecture as a panel discussion followed by a Q&A with the audience. On the panel were a professor of Japanese culture at MIT, an anime review columnist, and the guy that runs AnimeFest in Texas (whom also acted as the interpreter). Photos were forbidden, but he did do a signing afterword where Steve got a Cowboy Bebop boxset signed for his brother, Ally got her Cowboy Bepop "Spike" shirt signed for herself, and I got a sheet of paper signed for Steve. The photo of Ally's shirt with the signiture is in the photo album.It was quite an exciting event. We sat in the front row pretty much directly in front of Watanabe and the panel. The professor was long winded pretty much about everything including the questions asked to Watanabe-san which made for difficult translation and discovery of the actual question within his little speech. The anime columnist only asked two questions, the latter of which was pretty much discarded after Mr. Watanabe wasn't sure what the question was, and the professor said it would be hard to answer and proceeded asking a new question. The AnimeFest/interpreter guy's questions were much more concise and to the point.
The audience questions pretty much sucked. It started out with an old man asking if what we had seen (the first episode of Samurai Champloo) was going to be made in to a TV show and if it would be shown in the United States. Of course, the making of that series is already completed and I believe is still currently running on Adult Swim. The other ones weren't much better, but I guess the best one of the bunch might have been about how Samurai Champloo could be bringing together two quite separate groups of people--anime enthusiast's and hip-hop people--with it's choice of music. Which it seems to have attracted quite of few of the hip-hop loving people.
On Thursday, we spent an hour trying to find The Breakfast Club, which supposedly serves the best french toast in Detroit. And it was indeed very good. After that we went to Windsor, Canada and Ally mailed off a post card, we ate at the Canadian equavalent to Krispy Kreme, and got some Canadian candies before returning to the United States. On the way back we stopped at Wizzywig in Ann Arbor to see what cool sorts of anime goodness they had. Ally bought several figurines from the Tsubasa series, a Full Metal Alchemist purse, a little blue enemy guy from Dragon Quest (for Bryan), and a cool tri-level pen(cil) holder with two little pigs on it. Monokuro boo.
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Night, night.
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