A call to my anime-literate friends: anybody know anything about a tv series called ‘Gatchaman’? Apparently it sometimes also goes by ‘Battle of the Planets’ and when I watched it on Cartoon Network about ten years ago, it was called ‘G Force.’ Something brought it to mind last week, sending me on a google search for a nostalgia trip. If you really want to laugh at me (heck, I am!) take a look at the clip labelled “The Original.” Apparently I knew it very well at one time… I had a wierd sensation of almost knowing the next line. Very funny. Anyway, I wondered if this was a series anyone else was familiar with/enjoys/hates with the passion of a thousand suns/garlic. Clearly I saw something in the story ten years ago, but would I see anything worthwhile about it now? Always an interesting question.

‘Tis the month for visitors here! Pug was here last weekend and my dad and brothers will be here on Saturday. *glee*

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Brutus:
Remember March, the Ides of March remember:
Did not great Julius bleed for justice’ sake?
What villain touch’d his body, that did stab,
And not for justice? What! shall one of us,
That struck the foremost man of all this world
But for supporting robbers,–shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes
And sell the mighty space of our large honours
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.

- Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, IV iii

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Check your calender, everyone - YES, it is 3-14. Eat some pie and remember:
A: What’s the area of a circle?
B: Pi r squared.
A: Nooo! Pie are not squared! Pie are round, brownies are squared!

Tip for the day: McAlister (as in our auditorium) has ONE ‘L’ - not two. Ooops. Pauper Players’ site reflects this fact.

Quote of the day:
“They’re so hard to get on the black market!”
-Jen on babies and how expensive they are.

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Spring term is off with a bang. It seems like it’s been much more than a week since we came back! I woke up this morning thinking “Hmm, Friday. How do Fridays go again? Oh yeah…I haven’t HAD one yet this term.” Geesh.

I’m taking 17th century lit, the follow-up to the 16th century course I took a year ago, so I expect it to be fun. I also have an astronomy class for my last required science (yay stars, I hope!) and an interdisciplinary course exploring the history and philosophy of the liberal arts. It’s team-taught by a neat group of people (three of the four are profs I’ve had before), and it’s a small class (about 15 of us), so I hope it will be interesting, too!!

I’m also doing some behind the scenes work for Pauper Players’ show, Ragtime - props, web design (comments welcome!! And yes, if you look hard enough, there are pictures of me in there.), and putting together a program for before the show that will briefly explore some important issues of the time that are important to the play.

Follow up:
I won’t be in Atlanta this summer.
And I did re-read Leroux’s original Phantom and quite liked it this time. All a matter of expectations! Would recommend it.

Oh - I knew there was a reason I’d meant to update a long time ago… A few gems from a very giggly evening at the end of spring break:

“That came close to making sense. You should work on that.”
-Elf to Pug

“I’m going to speak Klingon now, and then it’ll make sense when you don’t understand it.”
-Liz

“I don’t want King Arthur to come back”
-Elf, seemingly out of the blue.

“You don’t like Katie, do you?”
     “Well, she threw herself at me!”
-Pug and Elf, during a game in which pieces landing on the same space must challenge each other…or something.

Had anyone been recording us, they would have sworn we were drunk. No alcohol was involved, however, and only minimal caffeine. Whoever knew Clue was so rife with innuendos?! I’ll never look at those weapons the same way again…

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