Anime/manga club idea and supply request

This request is from puppleball, a friend of mine who is a teacher at a middle school in Garlands (part of the Dallas metroplex):

I can't post to livejournal right now (plus you have a larger friends list than I do) since the school blocks it. Would you mind posting up a request for me? Several students have approached me about starting an anime/manga club. I'm trying to get them to tell me what they want to do exactly, the goals of the club, and while they are being a bit dodgy, one of the main goals is just being able to get together and draw manga. Could you post a request for book/material donations for me? The how to draw manga books or anything that might be useful to these kids. The club will be either a before or after school club opened to any student (6-8 grade). I'm also in search of things to do with the kids during this time. Structured tasks to help them with thier drawing, added with anime viewing. The viewings I need recommendations for. Remember kid appropriate 11-14 year olds. People can email me at my puppleball [at] comcast [dot] net address (using my school address will catch things in the filter) and mail anything up to the school:

Sam Houston MS
Attn: Shirley Soto
Science Department
2232 Sussex Dr
Garland TX 75041

Lemming time

A very quick moment to post a meme, then I HAVE to FINISH THIS STUPID DATABASE BY 4:00!!

( I am totally all about this as an epitaph )

Lemming, twice

OK, I'm posting again, BUT I GOT THE DATABASE CONSTRUCTED too bad it won't talk to the script, though.

[ edit: Just realized this sounds like the survey the graphic leads to is what I was working on. Nope. I took a break from the database above, which is (heh) a survey, but it has to do with the librari I work at, to do the survey below and post the graphic. ]




BACK TO WORK.

Memeage!

Just finished reading a book and need time to sit and process, so I'm doing stupid Internet quizzes, including that trick-or-treating one.

( In which I came out slightly better than last year )

And ....

( LOOK AT MY CUTENESS, YE MIGHTY, AND PH33R!! )

Bookage, again

Got rachelmanija's memoir All the Fishes Come Home to Roost from Amazon.com today (I had a Grand Plan to pre-order it from Borders and spike the sales a bit there, but then Mom phoned and said she was ordering a copy and would I like her to order a copy for me while she was at it, and ... well, the hell with her sales, free book XD)

And I, uh, just rocketed through it in two hours. Yes, rachelmanija, months and months of your toil, all finished in TWO HOURS! XD

It's a good thing that I read it that fast, actually - the faster I go, the more I'm engaged in it. I'll have to reread it to get more details - right now it's mostly a blur of bizarre people and horrific abuse. Er, for the, like, three people on my friendslist who don't know who rachelmanija is, this book is a memoir of her growing-up years on an ashram in India - her parents wigged out and moved to India when she was seven - and it's blackly funny, despite (and in some cases because of) the horrific bits. Go to the link and read more about it. :)

Random factlet - Steven Brust has just got hisself a Livejournal - skzbrust

And speaking of rachelmanija again, she recently posted an essay all about first lines in books and stories and how important they are, which is why I immediately thought of her when I picked up another of the books I checked out from the library and the first line was:

The woods were silent, other than the screaming.

And in other news, the History International channel is starting to run a British reality series about people trying to live as if they were in the Iron Age, in a re-created Iron Age settlement, and ... dude! I've been to that one! We went to it on a field trip in my Celtic World class when I was doing a semester abroad in Wales, at Trinity College in Carmarthen. Nifty!

Those are all the random things on my brain right now and I must GO TO SLEEP because I am TIRED.