Right after I made my last post, I headed out to Roppongi for a training meeting. The director and producer for Pop'n Press are so nice, giving me a lot of feedback and training. (Of course this means that I'm not very good yet, so it's a double-edged sword), but I am very grateful for their help. We really want our program to get into prime time broadcasting one day! I will do my best!

After that, though... yesterday I went to the dentist. No worries there, I was just supposed to get a cap on one tooth. But therein lies the problem.... the dentist was closed for two weeks because of the holidays, and during that time, the same tooth started hurting a bit here and there. It turns out that I have an infection!! I even floss, but it never seems to do me any good. So, instead of getting a cap, I was drilled into and put on antibiotics.... and it involved more pain than anything I have felt in my entire life!! So much pain all night that I went to an emergency dentist in the middle of the night, sure that something was wrong! It turns out that this is one of the most painful kind of infections in the whole body, and it should lessen up considerably, but there was nothing they could do beside medicate it and wait for it to heal.

OMG I wanted to gouge out my tooth with an ice pick!!!!!! OW!

I did sleep on and off during the night, but even though the pain today was only about 10% of yesterday's, it is still just barely manageable. I have been studying my script and sleeping or eating most of the day, and from now I'm going to go ahead and get back to drawing.. as long as the pain doesn't come back!

I kinda just want to sleep, but it's honestly hard to sleep. T-T

My next post will be related to art! Promise! (Yay! It's about time!?)

Happy New Year!
あけおめ！

Well, this is a little bit late, isn't it! ( Read more... )

Passion. Passion, passion passion! That is what 2010 is going to be about for me! Passion in love (I hope!), work (YES!), life, and everything else! ( Read more... )

Well, I guess that I'd like to start out the new year by making some resolutions!

☆ Make a lot of new friends!
★ Bring some close friends to visit me in Japan.
☆ Find at least one love (whether it works out or not!)
★ Buy a new dSLR camera
☆ Make my pro mangaka debut!
★ Start writing a book
☆ Tone up my body so that I feel totally comfortable in a bikini!
★ Get back into Capoeira
☆ Go to Thailand (several reasons, will tell why after I come back!)
★ Skyrocket my japanese level!
☆ Go canyoning (finally!)
★ Post in my lj more (I will!)
I think that's enough! Of course there are a lot of more things that I want to do, but first and foremost I am putting my career on high!

And you? Anyone share some of the same resolutions as me?

A quick post from England, and a Happy New year to every one!!!

Been having a great trip, Got to hang out with my family and some old friends from back in Yorkshire who are doing great (Local TV News star!) This holiday has been filled with all the things I miss most about this country... Food flavored like flowers, my mums roast potatoes, English and European frippery, and of course a quick trip to Laduree.

So many tasty treats, and accessories setting my new 2010 style off on the right foot (with 5.5" heels), and gold orbs a plenty. Dusty picked me up a lovely Vivienne Westwood wallet and the most perfect perfume ever! After that I decided to take my spending and Xmas holiday money out for the VW purse I've always wanted.

Took a trip to the V&A at last and blew my mind with the opulent gems, and clothes from centuries past. 

It's almost time to come home now, now I've been picking up new inspiration and drive to take home with me, and determined to make a real splash with 2010!!!

Wednesday
10:00pm (aka now) - Packing!
11:00pm - Asleep

Thursday
7:00am - Getting ready for work
7:30am - Leaving the house
8:30am - Arriving at work
6:30pm - Leaving work after being called in for a nice cushy 10 hours overtime (my check next week is going to be awesome, which will nicely make up for the check after that being rancid due to working, like, one day next week)
8:00pm - Arriving in Bond outfit (suit and fedora are all I could pull off) for MAGFest New Years Eve party

Friday through Monday
NERD PARADISE

Monday
5:00pm - Back home, probably. I may spend the next few days doing post-con hanging out with some people from OverClocked ReMix who live in the area though.

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All this is basically to tell you guys that I doubt I'll be on the net at all from now until Monday night, so everyone have a happy New Years. Here's hoping I'll come back home to the gift of my Fantasy Football team having won our league's Super Bowl. :P

SEE YOU NEXT MISSION YEAR

It's actually kind of funny... I consider Full Moon wo Sagashite one of the best shoujo animes ever made (certainly in the top ten and my personal top five), and I completely worship the author, Arina Tanemura. She has GORGEOUS art these days, even if her stories are not all that, Fullmoon aside. (As anyone reading Sakura-hime Kaden will know) But even with all that, I have never read the manga. I guess because when the anime came out, there was no english version of the manga available (there is now) and I couldn't read japanese. So the other day, I found the entire series in a used bookstore for 800 yen.. and of course I had to pick it up!

I've only just barely started (read vol 1 this morning, but have to stop there because there is just too much to do), but I remember now why I loved the anime so much. The manga is stunning, and honestly one of the reasons that I want to work for Shueisha so badly, and be published in Ribon, is that I could therefore be her (friendly) rival. I just adore her artwork so much!! I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but Tanemura-sensei, here I come!!

Anybody who hasn't seen/read Fullmoon, I highly recommend it! I cried so hard at the end of the anime... seriously bawled! I hope I feel the same at the end of the manga, when I finish. ^^