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This is the first time I've been on a computer since Thursday. Busy busy.
I finally got a reply from UCC about my transcript. As I expected, Penn sent out the physical copy the day I applied for it and I got it within a few days. UCC didn't do anything until three weeks after I made the initial request, when I wrote in to ask what was going on, and it turned out they hadn't redirected the request to the coordinator for international students. Once that happened, it was another week before I finally got the PDF copy, almost a month after I made the request. Literally every class I went to at UCC started late, and the Irish school year doesn't start until September, so I'm not surprised. But I'm glad I put in the request so early.
I went to another Anime Chicago Anime Sampler yesterday (and brought along a bunch of homemade shiozuke tsukemono). My list from last time ended up being pretty accurate--I'm watching Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight right now as I type this, and the only anime in the top five I listed there that I haven't seen is Sirius the Jaeger. I'm not going to list the anime I saw yesterday because there were fewer of them and I didn't care about as many of them, but I did find some I wanted to see. Even another isekai which looks like silly fluff (転生したらスライムだった件, Tensei Shitara Suraimu Datta Ken, "The Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime"). Sometimes fluff is good.
There was someone at the sampler who I chatted with for a bit but who had, well, poor social skills. He was constantly interrupting what I said with his own thoughts, or suddenly changing the subject. He later asked for my number, and I felt a little bad when I didn't give it out. But only a little. Part of the reason I don't talk much in large groups is that I don't want to interrupt anyone, and having someone do it to me repeatedly is probably the easiest way to make sure I never want to talk to you again.
Chicago finally has kaitenzushi restaurants, and on Friday night I went out to one with![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
meowtima. Much like with Japanese festivals, I'm kind of an asshole about Japanese food in America--I used to go out for sushi all the time and nowadays, well, this is the only time I've gone out for sushi in a couple years, though maybe that's just living in the Midwest--but I was mollified when I got there and found out that there was a $21 all-you-can-eat option. We both took that, and in addition to the maki on the rotary belt, the all-you-can-eat option came with a supplementary menu with soup, salad, noodles, and nigiri. Which is good, because almost all of the maki were treif, with shrimp, crab, or eel on them. I got a bunch of nigiri, a couple of the maki I could eat (mango and cucumber and salmon), and I was pretty satisfied. The sushi was okay at best, but it was worth it at the all-you-can-eat price. We'll be back.
I guess one could even go there for all-you-can-eat ramen, too, since there was ramen on the menu. I saw a lot of bowls of ramen being taken out from the back. Why kaedama when you can get a whole new bowl?
And now I'm hungry. Lunchtime.
I finally got a reply from UCC about my transcript. As I expected, Penn sent out the physical copy the day I applied for it and I got it within a few days. UCC didn't do anything until three weeks after I made the initial request, when I wrote in to ask what was going on, and it turned out they hadn't redirected the request to the coordinator for international students. Once that happened, it was another week before I finally got the PDF copy, almost a month after I made the request. Literally every class I went to at UCC started late, and the Irish school year doesn't start until September, so I'm not surprised. But I'm glad I put in the request so early.
I went to another Anime Chicago Anime Sampler yesterday (and brought along a bunch of homemade shiozuke tsukemono). My list from last time ended up being pretty accurate--I'm watching Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight right now as I type this, and the only anime in the top five I listed there that I haven't seen is Sirius the Jaeger. I'm not going to list the anime I saw yesterday because there were fewer of them and I didn't care about as many of them, but I did find some I wanted to see. Even another isekai which looks like silly fluff (転生したらスライムだった件, Tensei Shitara Suraimu Datta Ken, "The Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime"). Sometimes fluff is good.
There was someone at the sampler who I chatted with for a bit but who had, well, poor social skills. He was constantly interrupting what I said with his own thoughts, or suddenly changing the subject. He later asked for my number, and I felt a little bad when I didn't give it out. But only a little. Part of the reason I don't talk much in large groups is that I don't want to interrupt anyone, and having someone do it to me repeatedly is probably the easiest way to make sure I never want to talk to you again.
Chicago finally has kaitenzushi restaurants, and on Friday night I went out to one with
I guess one could even go there for all-you-can-eat ramen, too, since there was ramen on the menu. I saw a lot of bowls of ramen being taken out from the back. Why kaedama when you can get a whole new bowl?
And now I'm hungry. Lunchtime.
