I've been runing around in circles

[austin_dern]

Yesterday some food and cold medicine came to S$8.70; I offered a ten and the cashier asked if I had exact change (I often do). I didn't, but I had a 20-cent piece, and got back a dollar coin and a 50-cent piece. Today some food came to $9.30; I paid with a ten and yesterday's 50-cent piece, and got back a dollar coin and a 20-cent piece. I feel like I'm not making any progress.

With digital cable came Animax, an all-anime channel. What's on it? The rough schedule:

• Cute Kids with Magic Tokens Have Fun Doing Stuff For Their Friends, a 65-episode series.
• Pleasant Young Adult Guy Suffers Rather Than Admit Crush On Interested Young Woman, episode 4 of 846.
• In Ruined Far Future Earth Annoying Teens Squabble, 13 episodes.
• Incredibly Sexy Android Women and the Clueless Men Bumbling Around Them, second series.
• Obnoxious Young Adult Guy Becomes Less Insufferable For Devotedly Interested Young Woman, episode 7 of 26.
• Pro Soccer Player Coaches Kids' League Team, 32 episodes.
• In Ruined Far Future Earth Mystical Beings Stop By, 39 episodes.
• Cute Kids Guide Animals/Robots/Robot Animals/Others Through Fights To Save World, fifth series.
• Can These Teens Stop Arguing And Save The World? 52 episodes.
• Genial Young Adult Guy And Android Woman Unaware She's Key To The Whole World: A Romance, 13 episodes.
• Obnoxious Buxom Women On Same Future ``Team'' Endlessly Squabble, third series.
• Eight-Year-Old Girl Lives Pleasant Fantasy With Help From Strange Mystical Friend, 26 episodes.

I really like the last as Twin Spica, about a girl in Space Academy. The opening includes her looking over a Gemini capsule.

Trivia: Every even integer larger than 46 is the sum of two abundant numbers. Source: Lure of the Integers, Joe Roberts.

Currently Reading: The Great Science Fiction Stories 6: 1948, Edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H Greenberg.

Comments

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

But Seinfeld wasn't a romantic comedy. And Dave and Maddie really took less than a season to start dating, or something, and maybe two to get married; Sam and Diane started dating -- they gave us some payoff, at least -- by the end of the first season, and we had permutations of their relationship the whole first five years.

Still in all cases there's a point where there's just been enough of guy accidentally letting slip that it has occasionally crossed his mind that it would potentially be a pleasant event if perhaps she were to care to go with him on a date, and she giggles and nods, and then he panics and jumps up the telephone pole and apologizes and says such a thing was never on his mind and then hides underneath the mattress cursing his foolishness. You want them to just get on with it already.