Ohhh! There's a Tales of Vesperia manga out: [link]

I was pretty psyched about finding this, because I probably won't be getting the game any time soon. It kind of makes me sort of maybe want to get an X-Box 360, though (and there seem to be a lot of really good games on the 360 anyway)...or a PS3 since there might be a port for it too (hahahaha but it will be years before we can afford anything like that). The art's actually pretty good, and I promise it's not Fire-Emblem-manga lame. I'll probably going to end up fangirling over Yuri. I seem to have a Thing for the pretty long-haired guy characters with friendly dispositions. Estelle looks like she's going to be a bit boring, the typical diminutive, sweet-natured Protagonist's Love Interest.

Holy crap my school's orientation start tomorrow (are we slow or are we slow?) I'm so nervous. I feel certain that I'm going to get lost on the way there DESPITE only having to turn right as soon as I get off the Metro and then just going straight, and despite the fact that there are signs everywhere practically screaming directions in your face. I'm seriously the most directionally retarded idiot on the face of the planet. I even got lost on my way to work yesterday, and just the day before my mother had been going over the bus route with me.

btw, here are the things I still need to buy from my laughably extensive freshman supply list! Dig this: pen holder, single-edged razor blades, padlock, sketchbook, file folder, paper, Butchers Bowling Alley wax, canvas bag/toolbox, mineral oil, utility knife+blades, sanding block/rubber/wood, sandpaper, fine steel wool, medium steel wool, coarse steel wool, twist drill bits for metal, wood, and plastic, 12-inch hacksaw blade, screwdrivers, rubber gloves, canvas/leather gloves, C-clamps, aviation shears, eye goggles, dust masks, and ear protection.

And that's not even half the stuff we need, but everything else is covered in the $300 supply kit I already ordered (would have been $500 but if we order as students we get a merciful discount). Jeez. I was talking to a friend the other day who's going to Parson's, and she was all, "Oh man catering to my supply list cost me almost $200, it was crazy!" I was like. Dude.

The really glorious part of all this is that the sheet tells me that we're supposed to bring EVERYTHING on the sheet to our first day of class. When I saw that I was like "UM HELLO ARE WE SUPPOSED TO RENT A PICK-UP TRUCK TO GET ALL THIS THERE OR WHAT." But I've just talked to ~RyadicalEdward and apparently this is all a lie. So. Yeeeah. Haha, I need to find one of those crazy old locks I used during my high school gym years so I don't actually have to go buy a new one.

I strongly suspect most of the stuff I listed will be used for Resources, which is, to my exceeding fortune, the first class I will be taking when I start attending class on Wednesday. Argh. And I don't even want to take Resources (because ummm I honestly would rather not have to do anything involving hacksaws). But you know. Whatever.