february means work! yay!
Happy February! I have come to the conclusion that Januaries are uncommonly light on work for me (based on this year and what I remember of last year). So Februaries are necessarily where everything suddenly becomes busy (aka normal) again! I persevered in my pestering, and now I have Noragami to work on!! Hooray, hooray! I also got the script for a new Yen series this morning and finished my first lettering pass for it already. (I had already done the layout since the files were available early and Yen didn't have anything else for me to do, so that sped up the process.) And I sent another pestering email to the other publisher I work for in the hope of starting on my next assignment for them soon. (I think that might also be a New Series they promised me.)
I'm finding the new Yen series quite fun and already want to read v2, even though it's all messed up and ridiculous (and shouldn't be the sort of thing I typically enjoy?). But I think the mangaka knows it's a ridiculous mess (judging from her comments at the end), and simply revels in those qualities, and that's part of what makes her work fun. I also coincidentally started rereading the book it's (vaguely) based on last night, for extra amusement.
Oh, and it blizzarded here over the weekend, so first thing this morning I spent over an hour shoveling!! I've been shoveling consistently all winter so I no longer ache after every time I shovel, but I did this afternoon! That means I grew a muscle somewhere!! :D There was a lot of snow, and it was dense and grainy rather than fluffy (though also not wet-dense, like melting snow), so even where it wasn't piled up high, it got heavy and filled up my shovel quickly. And there was so much snow EVERYWHERE that the sidewalk plows for the city must've been too backed up to get to our street yet, so I ended up shoveling a narrow path down the whole block of my street since it'd be rude to just shovel a path through my own sidewalk and expect walkers to dive into a foot of snow at the end of my property line (most people I saw out and about this morning were just walking in the street, since that at least had been plowed).
Anyway, now I have go play with Yato and Hiyori and Yukine!!! :D (I've been so starved for new work, I don't even care that I'm starting a new project at 7 in the evening. Also, Noragami♥)
I'm finding the new Yen series quite fun and already want to read v2, even though it's all messed up and ridiculous (and shouldn't be the sort of thing I typically enjoy?). But I think the mangaka knows it's a ridiculous mess (judging from her comments at the end), and simply revels in those qualities, and that's part of what makes her work fun. I also coincidentally started rereading the book it's (vaguely) based on last night, for extra amusement.
Oh, and it blizzarded here over the weekend, so first thing this morning I spent over an hour shoveling!! I've been shoveling consistently all winter so I no longer ache after every time I shovel, but I did this afternoon! That means I grew a muscle somewhere!! :D There was a lot of snow, and it was dense and grainy rather than fluffy (though also not wet-dense, like melting snow), so even where it wasn't piled up high, it got heavy and filled up my shovel quickly. And there was so much snow EVERYWHERE that the sidewalk plows for the city must've been too backed up to get to our street yet, so I ended up shoveling a narrow path down the whole block of my street since it'd be rude to just shovel a path through my own sidewalk and expect walkers to dive into a foot of snow at the end of my property line (most people I saw out and about this morning were just walking in the street, since that at least had been plowed).
Anyway, now I have go play with Yato and Hiyori and Yukine!!! :D (I've been so starved for new work, I don't even care that I'm starting a new project at 7 in the evening. Also, Noragami♥)