Have been doing some more digital work, stretching my legs in Photoshop and vector programs. You can see it on the art blog:

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In related news, my MacBook Air has been incredibly slow lately. Is it the heat or the workload...?

So many of my favourite anime series revolve around the twin concepts of 'loneliness' and 'friendship'. More precisely, almost every anime I've seen from the simplistic to the weirdly convoluted hinge on the idea of 'connection'. Sometimes it's more 'you are like me', but often it's also 'I did not expect to find this common ground with someone so ( Read more... )

Have started on the graveyard shift at Unscrupulous Workplace. It gets really hard around 4-6, when people at the earlier night shift are leaving and you've done your work and your body is trying to get you to sleep ( Read more... )

... Nouveau is bloody well spelled Nouveau. It is NOT spelled Novo, Nuvo, Novu or any 'adorable' variation your tiny minds can come up with. And when you fling it headlong into a list of products named after various historical means of communication, it becomes VERY obvious that One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others ( Read more... )

Wow, I've been away so long LJ got a new look while I was gone...

Have been faffing around on Tumblr and the SRS ARTZ blog when I am online, but I've mostly not been online. Had 2 holidays in a row and got into a scheduling snafu with the second one, which set me back at work while also putting me in disgrace with my normally very sweet new boss ( Read more... )

So someone limped up to the bookstore counter on a crutch and demanded my attention and I had an awful moment when I saw his face looked as if someone had ripped it off. Then I had another awful moment in which I tried to contain my horror for fear of offending him. Then I recognised his hair and saw his friends behind him and realised one of my ( Read more... )

Today someone asked for binoculars at 7pm, and he wanted them immediately. What on earth for? (The moon was really amazing tonight. Connection? Or am I the only one who thinks that way ( Read more... )

What's the name of that toasted bread-type Asian snack with the yummy paste in the middle? I think there's a similar cartoon character that angelthorn showed me once. The Korean store near my work is selling them 3 for a pound, and I may be growing addicted...

I am going to staff this event from Wednesday! AND I have been allowed to go in COSTUME!!! :D ( Read more... )

On the 25th of this month Blackwell Books will be hosting this eventI signed up to staff it. :D ( Read more... )

"Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets"--Francis Bacon ( Read more... )