This is my personal journal. People who are interested in my fan fiction should visit presencedear_fc. People who are interested in my shoujo scanlations, please visit garden_in_blue. People who are interested in my yaoi scanlations should visit my website. yourpresence only contains downloads, so please do not use it as a source of information. Please click the "news" tag on my website ( Read more... )

Wow, I can hardly believe the last time I posted was 2010. To be honest, I'm not sure what I'm doing here again. I was thinking about some of my Lj friends recently and wondering what had happened to them, particularly Amy, Ariadne, Barbara and Laura. I'm not even sure they are still my "friends." Maybe I've been removed due to my long absence. I ( Read more... )

I'm so excited about my class this session. Again, I only have four students (so far) but they are the best! They all caught on quickly for beginners, and, even more important, they take direction well. It's so wonderful to have students with an awareness of their bodies and the ability to grasp the concepts you're trying to explain. They even ( Read more... )

I didn't get home until 10:30 last night which meant (after taking a shower and answering email) I only had a half hour for translating before my mandatory bedtime. I didn't fall asleep until 2 again, so I'm beginning to think this attempt to go to bed early is silly. I'm very tired today. When I got to work, one of my colleges said, "Your eyes are ( Read more... )

*yawn ( Read more... )

Yesterday, two of my translations were released in scanlated form. One of them, of course, was Carp. I'm going to withhold comment on this for the moment ( Read more... )

I'm having a slight panic attack, which, of course, means "write a post." ^__^ I got the information for one of the projects I've been working on today. This is a high profile emergency thing that we're doing extra fast because someone high up in the company wants it. Well, it turns out the data they sent me is wrong and they will have to redo it, ( Read more... )

I've been having nightmares about scanlating. Well, not exactly nightmares, but bad dreams none the less. I took a nap yesterday morning, and I dreamed that I took up a project about the wacky adventures of high school students, drawn in a "popular, but not-my-taste" style. (Let me point out, I intensely dislike manga about the wacky adventures of ( Read more... )

Friday is not supposed to be stressful. I'm supposed to be happy that tomorrow I don't have to work (and I don't have to teach) and I can sleep late and wear pajamas all day and read cheesy Japanese comics ( Read more... )

I was so excited about SYTYCD tonight because one of the guys did his solo to Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." His solo wasn't the best, but I was like, "OMG! There's Hawaiian music on prime time TV!" I use his song, "Kaleohano," as a warm up in my class ( Read more... )