Today brought my thirty days' notice about Casual Job getting back underway. Good to know! As always, there's a bit of dread because there's no knowing how long it'll last or what the days will be like, but traditionally the spring work is easier (in terms of hours per day) than the autumn work and lasts longer. *knocks wood ( Read more... )

People's Anime News Network listings came up on Twitter yesterday, so I finally knuckled down and updated my own (I've had one for a long time, since someone added my adaptation credit for Phantom Dream a while ago, but I felt weird about adding my own stuff, so until last night that was all that was there). It's over here, if anyone wants to take ( Read more... )

scruloose and I aren't celebrating either of today's holidays, but happy Valentine's Day and happy New Year to those who are!

(I find it hard to think about Valentine's without hearing Mitsuishi Kotono singing out "Happy Valentine's, Kyo-kun!" in my head. scruloose humors me when I sing it out myself, because that's the kind of dorks we are. Possibly I should watch ( Read more... )

As usual when I disappear for a month or so, I've been reading LJ/DW regularly and just haven't had much to say or much time to say it in. Last week my current stint at my casual proofreading gig came to an end, and the timing while I was working there was such that during the really heavy workweeks I happened to not have any freelance work, and ( Read more... )

I'm still not in the habit of talking much about the titles I adapt, so I haven't commented on most of the various reviews of Zone-00 vol. 1 that I've seen floating around, but every time I've seen someone mention how confusing it is I've wanted to say, "Just so you know, it gets a lot less confusing in volume two. A lot less ( Read more... )

I have my copy of Fruits Basket 23! But here's the problem: my habit is to tell myself sternly that I can't sit down properly with a new volume if I don't get enough work done (or whatever). And this week has been utterly insane, so while I've been working every day (and am way ahead of my deadline), I haven't been getting as much done as I want to ( Read more... )

Via lilrivkah: An xkcd book is in the works! (Finally!) I try to be environmentally friendly, I really do, but I'm nowhere near ready to abandon hard-copy books.

Melinda Beasi has a nice post on the benefits of many reviews providing different perspectivesTonight I'm thinking about retaining Japanese terms in manga. I'm currently adapting vol. 4 of ( Read more... )

Professional note: for anyone who reads Shinobi Life vol. 2, there's a credits mix-up in the first printing. (I don't know if/when it'll go back to print, but editorial is aware of the error, so I assume it'll be fixed if possible.) Despite what the book says, I did the adaptation, and I believe it was translated by Lori Riser, who translated vol. ( Read more... )

It always takes a little while to get myself on track for a new book. Usually an evening or two. I hope that won't translate into a day or two when I'm spending full days at this instead of squeezing in what I can between supper and sleep. (But then, it's not entirely unsurprising that it's taking me a while, since this book* involves an entirely ( Read more... )

Tonight's a revision night, and I'm sort of staring at my script and reminding myself that one of these days I'll be comfortable enough with the formatting to not have to think so hard about it. I keep trying to make them clearer and clearer (I suspect they're fine anyway, but I want them to be perfect, y'know? ^_-), which means I usually format ( Read more... )