Week in Review: June 9 – 13, 2008

Okay! This is my first regular content post. Wootness and whatnot. >_>; So this is probably what to expect in terms of regular updates go. I’ll talk a little about work and my internship process, and I’ll talk about the anime I’m watching and the manga I’m reading. If something big happens or I just feel the need to rant, I’ll just post them as needed instead of saving them for my week in review.

My internship can pretty much be described as ‘more of the same’. Of course, you don’t know what ‘the same’ is so I’ll explain it a little bit… accounting and paperwork. >_> That sums it up. In the morning, after the mail and packages from the post office gets dealt with, I start my paperwork. I file the previous day’s work – the register/stamp/deposit sheet, FedEx and UPs reports, and department postage charges – and also enter them into various Excel spreadsheets. At the end of the month, we get a charge report for general charges from the business office (that we work to make sure our accounts balance) and we issue charge reports to all the departments that sent mailings through us so they know how much they spent for their own bookkeeping. Sound boring? It is. >_>;

I’m a little dissapointed that I don’t really feel like I’m training to be a manager for this job. I know I am, a lot of managment IS paperwork. I was hoping to be in a little more on the decision-making process. Sometime this summer I’m supposed to be creating (or at least helping to create) a guide to the mailcenter services that’ll be disbursed to all the faculty offices, but we’ll see if that actually gets done.

Okay, on to the anime! I finished watching Outlaw Star in between the Netflix I was getting. Aisha naked, hah! Too bad it was in the middle of an episode that was more or less a joke – aside from the Caster shells, but even the aquisition of them was a big joke. The end was a little trippy, and I was hoping for a more romantic final scene. Gene just needed to cup Melfina’s cheek, mutter something romantic, and lay a long kiss on her lips. But no, he had to pull on her cheek and turn it into a joke. Bah. >_>

For Netflix, I’ve been watching Full Metal Panic, and and I got through disc 4. I’ll be having disc 5 waiting for me on monday and maybe even disk 7. That’s right, you read it correctly. For some stupid-ass reason, Netflix isn’t carrying disk 6. So I’ll be missing three or four episodes. Hopefully it won’t be too overly important, but it probably will. The season is starting to approach its close, afterall. Anyway, the whole mecha competition between the ditzy Captian and Melissa was a riot. I knew it was too much to ask to see one of them carry through with the punishment. I would have been right there with Kurz when he got his face stomped on because he requested the punishment to actually happen when it was all over. Come on, they’re both hot, though the Captian has a huge cute advantage and I don’t like smokers/drunks so much.

The big up-side to my internship is that I’m staying with friends during the work-week. Friends that love their anime and manga. So I’ve been going through their manga collection whenever there isn’t anything else going on. I read the seven volumes they had of Chibi Vampire already. Cute story, some good inter-personal drama toward volumes 6 and 7. Its a little predictable though, because it was easy to tell that the two main characters would hook up at least for a while.

I’ve also made it into volume 10 of Negima. I’ll tell you something! The manga is soo~oo~ooo much better than the anime (at least what I’ve seen of it). The anime was kinda stupid and silly. Sure, the manga is like that too at times, but the story is a lot better than the anime. In the anime, Negi was like ‘Oh, noes! You know my secret! Now I have to kiss you before this retarted frog and this stupid cat fluffball find out that you know it and turn me into a chupacabra.’ It was cute for a while, but after the whole class started to find out, I just faceplamed and turned it off. I love how the manga keeps you in touch with Negi’s mentality through the process. He’s a little kid, but he’s carrying a huge load in his shoulders. Sure, he and the classmates get into some comic mischief from time to time, but that weight is always looming over the horizon.

Well, I think that about does it for this week. Thank you for making it this far (if you actually read what I had to say. Lord knows I would have skipped half of it if I was an outside reader. >_>;). If you didn’t actually read it.. well.. at least you gave me a pageview or something. Thanks for that, then. *thumbs up* Well, see you next week!

Tags: accounting, anime, full metal panic, intern, internship, managment, manga, negima, outlaw star, work