For anime class, I worked with my group on Neon Genesis Evangelion (presented today), an old anime series that came out around 1996. I never thought it would be so thought-provoking. When I got into anime around the same time as getting cable in junior high, I knew about NGE, but I never started it. And I had to made time to finish 26 episodes in order to do my presentation. Two weeks, but really 4 days, to watch 26 episodes. It was worth it, in a way. Our presentation was mostly on Judeo-Christian symbolisms in the animes, but there were definitely some psychological issues that the series dealt with, one main one being the value of self. Anyway, I'll leave it at that. It was a good anime, but a quite unexpected ending that wasn't really an ending to the storyline. But in a way, it is. haha.
Oh yeah, at the beginning of the week, we found out our checks for the February rent got lost in the mail and never reached our landlord person, Betty. But Betty didn't e-mail us or let us know that she didn't receive it at the beginning of February (we're good at sending our checks in before the new month starts), so we didn't know she didn't get it. So she called my roomie, Ari, last week and said we didn't get our checks in and she's about to take it to the legal department (what the heck?!). So we had better get our checks in TODAY (which was Mondayish). This makes one more reason for me to feel good about leaving this apartment complex this year. Also makes me feel like telling others not to rent this place because the landlord person is mean. I feel like she puts blame on us if anything goes wrong and makes sure that we understand that we are in the wrong. Things happen and we're okay with dealing with solutions, but just blaming someone for something won't get things done. In fact, it could make things worse. She's just lucky that we don't have the time to fight her, as we found out with our fire incident. Whatever. We're all leaving this apartment after this semester. One further note that annoyed me was this: my roomie wrote a check for the whole rent because Betty had insisted she needed it that day, but Ari couldn't find our on-site landlord-ish person and the building manager wasn't in until late that day, so when Ari told Betty that she would get the check the next day, Betty said "oh, that's fine" in a nicer tone. WHAT THE HECK
And I'll just put in this week so far. The residents here all got an e-mail from Betty saying how she was shocked to see the gate propped open and front doors taped shut rather than locked. As a result, people will be punished if they did not properly close the gates and doors. But the thing is, the buildings are being cleaned and painted right now (which they didn't let us know until this week in an "as you can tell, we're doing renovations" e-mail), and yesterday, the workers propped the gates open with cones. It wasn't us.
I saw this over the weekend and went "????!!! who died?" And then saw workers around. As for doors being taped, I didn't see any in my building, but who knows. I really don't think threatening someone will give the kind of results one plans/wants to get.
and whatever. I had a great weekend last week~ Linty, Ari, and Joy finally had their performance with TCDance. I loved their choreography, and I think their first attempt at Mulan was a success. Instead of just having dance after dance after dance, half the show was specifically Mulan, in dance form. Awesome. Loved it. Enjoyed it. Made me wish I still danced, kinda. I do wish I were more flexible though. Hopes on yoga.
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