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I wanted to post this last night, but the net was in major BitComet rebound and was being difficult. So here it is the next day....

Thanks to a post in fanficrants, I learned that Claymore--MY Claymore--is being turned into an anime. By Madhouse, no less: http://www.ntv.co.jp/claymore/

It will probably start in April, when the new tv season begins. You can bet I'll be all over the fansubs. Now if only Bones would animate Skip, my life would be complete.

To celebrate my mom's birthday, today we drove to Dallas to see the Body Worlds exhibit, which is displays of plasticized bodies for medical study and science purposes. Wow. I took the longest to finish at 2.5 hours, 30 min after Oneechan and her BF exited, and a full hour after my parents. What can I say?? It was fascinating. I was worried about being nauseous, but I was fine. It must have been the lack of blood. My favorite display was of a woman kneeling with arms outstretched above her, two birds taking off from her hands. Very beautiful, and one of the very few women in the display. The rest were all boys. It was sold out, and jam-packed with visitors. BTW, strollers should have been forbidden. Various moms kept using them to force their way through crowds and lines. Very rude and annoying.

Afterwords we ate dinner at On the Border--I ordered a chimiganga for the first time in years. Me bad. On the way home, we stopped at Borders so I could use my Holiday Savings before they expired. I had $10 saved up! So I entered the store armed with my manga list and a desire to buy. ^^ Lucky me, they were having a sale on Viz books--buy 3 get one more free. So I bought 9 books total. ^^V Bring it On v4 (okay, this one is a mahnwa published by Ice Kunion), Far and Away v5 (I'll never catch up...), Naruto v12, Ouran v8, Red River v15 (I'll never catch up with this one, either...), Tokyo Boys and Girls 3-5 (this finishes the series for me. For once!), and Vampire Knight v1. I drooled over more Bleach, From Far Away, FuruBa, Hana-Kimi, Hot Gimmick, Red River, and Tramps. I also pondered Godchild and it's prequel manga, whose name currently escapes me since two people whose opinions I respect really enjoy them both. And I myself did like Godchild while it was in ShojoBeat. Oh yes, and I drooled over the Hana-Kimi art book. :D~~~~~ This purchasing trip was rather fortuitous, as they had everything I really wanted except Punch v2 and Kaze Hikaru 3. I asked, and they sold their 2--that's it! D= --copies of Punch 2 on Dec 26th. So at least I didn't miss them by a couple of hours or something. That would have irked. But thanks to my Holiday Savings and that great Viz sale, I bought $90 worth of manga for only $60. Waiii! And the cashier was very cute and friendly. :3

I was glad I could go manga shopping, as my spare time will vanish come Clay and The English and I will not be able to afford to lose 2 hours on a manga shopping trip. When will they descend?? Only the Manga no kami know....and yes, this is really on my mind b/c I know how hellish it will be.

S2m will not be in a good mood until The English is finished. Thank Suzaku it's the last issue. ><

But I did give myself the day off in regards to work today, so any pages I complete put me ahead of schedule. Yay!! Except this stupid marriage form in Nana keeps cropping up! It's almost as bad as all those fireworks explosions in the first chapt of this vol!! GRAAAA!!!'