additional note...(ficage)

For those mildly interested, I have a few old Slayers fanfics re-htmled and uploaded to Ainself, as well as my FF8 fic that I started-but-will-not-finish. Look here if interested...

Majo

Piccie linkage update, for those who care...

I really ought to keep up on these things...^^; There's a lot of links but most of them are to different versions of the same picture, so don't get too excited...

The Tango pic is now mostly colored to my satisfaction. Much thanks to Yanagi-san for getting me the tablet that made coloring possible, for without it I surely would've gone insane and killed the computer...Below are some different versions for your perusal.

Mostly Finalized version *w/highlights*

Mostly Finalized version sans line art *with highlights*

First draft *sans highlights*

And for Fruits Basket...

Kyou and Kagura *pencil version*

Kyou and Kagura *inked*

Kyou and Kagura *colored*

Miscellaneous...

Zach expressions page

Gen and Zane

Whew...I think I got them all...

Now off to get something productive done, school-wise...

Majo

Not quite home...

*Computer crashed therefore everything I wrote for this went bye-bye. Will attempt it again for the sake of posterity...yeah, right.*

Tis been a rather nice weekend so far, despite my misgivings at the beginning of it. My brother had returned home for Veteran's day weekend, but alas, I could not follow him. I had a test on Friday that required I be present (of course, unless I can somehow be two places at once I'd HAVE to be there to take it...) so no home time for me. Add that to the fact that this would be the first weekend since the beginning of this year that I didn't have someone to spend it with (my brother and I amused ourselves on weekends by going out to eat and shop together for things we need), I was in a rather doom and gloom mood.

Fortunately for me, things did not turn out quite that bad, perhaps better, even. Friday night was cold and it rained sporatically, but some old friends that were currently rooming together invited me over for dinner. Lured by the prospect of non-cafeteria food, I accepted. Their apartment was small and cozy, warmly furnished, and welcoming. It wasn't quite home, but I had the feeling it would be the closest I can get here. The company was the same; all of them friendly, though I didn't know all the other people they invited. The food was strange and familiar at the same time, something that was distinctly non-american, yet a mish-mesh of the different asian cultures we all belonged to. The chinese-styled hardboiled tea-flavored eggs was the most familiar, adding laughter and discussion to our conversation as much as it did taste to our dinner. Besides the how of making it, we also talked about the funny things we remembered in conjuction to the simple food. For some reason all of us had the eggs before. There was also a dish of cold chicken, along with raw cucumbers and a special sauce. It reminded me of the type of dish my aunts loved making, but my mother disliked, and despite the host's insistance that she still needs to improve, it was still very very good. Another dish of peppers of every color, along with pinapples and walnut, was completely new to me, but delicious and healthy nonetheless. The last was a stir-fry of tofu and three kinds of mushroom, much appreciated and enjoyed. The people in the cafeteria can't seem to make tofu and mushrooms, whether together or by themselves, properly. The rice was flavored with chicken broth during the cooking, much to my amazement, and I fully intend to try replicating it when I get the chance.

We talked about anything and everything. School, classes, life after college, jobs, other countries, computers, anime, japanese, and why God must have been an engineer. Afterwards we digested and drank tea, then took out the dessert that two of the invited had brought, tiny perfect cakes and tarts from a french bakery on the northwest side of campus, accessible to those lucky enough to have cars and money. We sampled each carefully, saddened by the need to cut up the perfect things in order to eat them, but found each as delicious as they looked. Our hosts had a lively discussion on the virtues and drawbacks of symmetry as we tried to divide equally despite not having an even number of people present. It was all in all, very fun.

I was the first to arrive, last to leave. After all the others were gone I was shown the Halloween pictures of my hosts, while they attacked me with questions regarding shopping for a TV, a topic with which I was unfamiliar with. I did the best I could, and then we made plans to go to Japantown the next day. I left them, full and content, and promptly returned home, even the rain obliging me by holding off until I reached the dormatory's perimeter. I called my brother. I wrote. I doodled. I didn't go to bed until 4am the next morning, then was up by 10am to prepare for the trip to Japantown. It was a fun Friday-Saturday.

Saturday at San Francisco got me lunch, crepes, and two items high on my to-get list, now that the weather has turned cold. I now have a delicious looking fleece scarf and a nice pair of gloves. The scarf is not edible by any means, by delicious I meant the color. It is horizontally striped with a pale pink, light coffee, and chocolate brown. It reminded me of the cakes we used to get from the asian market, square blocks of soft cakes layered together with frosting, strawberry, coffee and chocolate flavored, their colors exactly matching the scarf. It is my very first purchased scarf, those knit by my grandmother fall under a different category. I'm rather fond of it.

And now it's almost full dark, and while I'm not really hungry I know I should go eat before the time is up. The last day of the weekend is wrapping up...twill be the day of vacation tomorrow. I look forward to it.

Majo-the-long-winded-and-suddenly-philosophical

Today it started raining...

Or maybe it was last night, but I wasn't outside last night so I couldn't tell.

So far it's not too bad, at least when I have to be out and about. Light drizzles, here and there. But right now it's really dark and gloomy outside, and the wind is shrieking and the rain is coming down...yeah. And my roommate and I noticed the pine almost right outside our window. It's one of those funny ones that remind you of teenage boys...tall and skinny and rather ungainly looking. So when my roommie came in today, she immediately went "WHoa!" and surprised ME.^_^ The wind was making that teenage pine lurch rather dangerously, we thought, back and forth, back and forth.... But we comforted ourselves with the thought that it was too tall to crash into our window. Maybe someone on the 5th or 6th floor would have the pleasure, if it ever came to that.

Last night the hall association people were supposed to have potstickers. Apparently the first batch was gone in 60 seconds, and no one made a second batch. I was disappointed, to say the least. And now even the prospect of eating dinner is a bit iffy, because it's raining and I'm sans-umbrella. I feel rather sorry for my brother, who would be traveling in this weather. Come to think of it, I hope he got on the plane all right, I think I'll call home later to make sure.

Today when I was walking home, I went in the little pathway between Wheeler and Barrows, where there's a nice little wooden bridge over Strawberry Creek and then a slightly uphill walk flanked by a small building and a bunch of leafy trees. Now that isn't really special in any sense, except maybe to me, who's more or less used to seeing only pines (My house is flanked by two giant pines, as are most of the other houses on the street. Our part of the state is bordering on desert-weather, so leafy trees don't grow very well). Today I had to be careful, because it rained and the leaves were all over the ground, making it a bit more slippery. But it was pretty cool, looking down, at all the leaves. There were ones bigger than my hand, and tiny little ones, red ones and green ones and perfect ones and muddy-stepped-on ones. It kind of reminded me of people. Hm, what an odd thought. And the weather was kind enough to not start drizzling until I was nearly at the dorms.

That's all I want to write for now, I think. Hmm....Maybe i'll go make some tea....the weather's certainly fitting for it. *looks at half-finished chilled coke* Baka majo

Chopsticks

Mood:
I learned something new today. You see, I've always believed that chopsticks almost made the perfect universal utensil.^_^ Up till now I thought it can be used to eat practically anything, except maybe soup and steak. But today....I had sushi for make-up-lunch and yogurt...but I didn't have a spoon for the yogurt. So chopsticks can't be used to eat yogurt either. (not that I actually TRIED...would've probably gotten it all over myself...)

What else? Oh, not much at all...Did a piccie of Kyou and Kagura from FB....Gonna link it later after it gets on the other server so that Angelfire's roadblocks won't be a problem. Must do homework....actually DID homework, finished it, even. Just me and my anal retentive way of doing things dictate that I must now finalize/neaten about 10 pages worth of scratch work into the final product that I'll turn in to get a whopping check minus, check, or check plus on. *Sigh* Sometimes it ain't easy being me.

Muse is still gone, though the slack is now being taken up by the random original characters I have floating in my head. I think I'm just going to keep nodding and smiling, and pretend I don't hear them talking.

Room needs to be cleaned, but I'm still waiting for the sudden and irresistable urge to hit me before I actually do anything, because otherwise I'll just get distracted. I am already distracted, actually...

Is there anything else to day? I feel strange because during the day I see so many things and think so many strange thoughts that I want to put down in writing somewhere...and by the time I get back I forgot it all^_^; Iyaa......

AHHHHH! KANJI QUIZ TOMORROW!@_@ That's what I forgot...^^;

study now...ja.

Majo

Ugh...

Mood:



I'm cranky from having drank two cans of coke and coming down from the inevitable caffine high. I did my japanese homework but I couldn't finish it. I started my econ homework and can't even get past problem one. The net was, pardon my language, seriously fucked up today.-_-; I wish I had a 'tired AND angry' icon...

Anyhow, still indecisive over everything. Everything still is, more or less, blah. Muse is dead...or at least, AWOL, which means it's quiet inside my head, and my attempts to relieve pent up frustration with drawing doesn't work, period. Gee, I'm bitching, aren't I?^^;

Anyway....pictures. These will be linked from Ainself.net, which is where I'm in the process of making an archive for all my old goodies.Here's to hoping them linkies WORK...

Summer school uniforms

Hatsuharu

Haru again, colored

*crosses fingers* here's to hoping no roadblocks or other ker-plunks...

Will go now to check. Ja.

Majo

Time for the quiz!

Which Fruits Basket Character are you?


I'm Haru!^_^ He used to be my fav!^^ Still is on the top three....^_^ I love Haru!

Majo