November 08. 2004 20:51

On a happy mood today

I love life! It may be frustrating sometimes, but I still love it! ^_^ Sometimes I wonder how I can be so positive all the time, but somehow it's natural. Of course, most people just see the frustrated or stressed or otherwise unhappy side of me, because I tend to be happiest when I'm alone. I thought I'd make a list of the things I love so I could cherish them even when they're not around. It mostly consist of things of nature or certain times of day, but I won't start writing it here, 'cause it'd be too long. But the way it was dark outside just now was one of those things and it made me into a very happy mood.

I just got a letter with the rest of the money Mum and Dad had when they left here, and a service coupon for Kansai Airport. They were so cutely taped to a cardboard that I couldn't rip them off ^_^ I'll just save them for a bad day.

Yesterday I searched out some dieting information and found a very nice table that counts what you should eat, and it made me realize how awfully little fibre there is in what I eat. (The other problem is calsium, but I can't really help that, because there is no lactose-free milk here and I haven't found many milk products.) I thought I'd make an effort to eat as much fruits and vegetables as possible when I'm at home, preferably nothing else than them and a little something for dinner. I get a good meal at school, so that covers most of what I need in a day, then I just have to fill in the things I'm missing at home. Or that's at least what I've figured. I've never been that strict about any diet attempt I've had, it just isn't that important to me, but now that we have an agreement about this with friends, it's more of an issue of honour to make it work ^_^ (And I'm still slipping because I don't take it seriously.)

I never really wrote that script yesterday, but when I went to bed, I tried to remember anything that happened in my childhood or with my nephews that'd make a story. After a while I remembered about the girl that lived next door to us for a while when I was a child, and how Mum said I packed my bag ready and wanted to go with the family when they moved away. Of course I couldn't, but the girl gave me a heart-shaped pillow when she left. I don't really remember this, this is only what I've been told, but I thought it'd make a great story, so that's what I presented to the teacher today.

I was aware that I didn't have page planning ready like I was supposed to, but I had forgotten that the first thing the teacher asked me to do was character designs. So, when I presented the idea, she had to remind me about that, and I felt a bit bad for that. I did them, but drew the neighbour girl a bit too old, and the teacher had to point that out, too. That made me really feel stupid, because I knew she looked too old, but somehow didn't think to correct it. It didn't matter in a character sketch, or something. (And how stupid is that? It's supposed to be the heart of the character!)

I also did the page planning at school and showed it, and I ended the story very sadly because that's what felt right to the memory. (It almost made me cry when I was drawing the page plans. Though that's mainly because I'm a cry-baby ^_^) I would've liked to keep it sad, but that's not really what a children's story should be like, and the point of this project was to make a children's story, not a comic about a memory. So the teacher told me to make it a bit happier, and I agreed. What I didn't especially like was the way she said a suitcase didn't look right with a child. Even though that's true, this is a part of the memory that's very clear, and changing it feels very wrong. When I was a child, I had a small red suitcase, and I used it all the time. But I know this would mean nothing to anyone who reads the finished comic, so there's really no point for the girl to have a suitcase. Even though I really hate to change that little fact, I'll have to make it a backpack because it's for the best of the story.

After doing all this planning at school I was really tired, but the lovely air outside refreshed me quite a bit. I thought I wouldn't have the energy to do anything else today, but now I kinda feel like I could write a little more of that NaNoWriMo manga, or do a little more of that web project, or update my website. Of these three, the first is the one I would gain most of, the second is the one I should be doing, but the third is the one I most feel like doing. And because I've worked so hard today and yesterday, I think a little playing is okay ^_^

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Came back to this. I just wanted to say there's something wrong with my electronic dictionary. I've had for less than a month and suddenly the screen is all black. I thought it was because the batteries died, but it didn't lighten up when I changed them. It's really bothering me, that thing was expensive... I have to take it to some store if I can. I bought it from Tokyo, but maybe I can return it here. Maybe it was because I had it on almost non stop for nearly 20 hours when I translated that doujinshi...

And oh yeah, that brings to mind that I got quite a strange email yesterday from someone who got the emails I sent to the SangoMiroku mailing list and thought I was sending them straight to her. I can imagine how puzzled she must have been when she got those messages from an unknown person, but I'm surprised she didn't catch the mailing list name in the header. Well, I replied to her and cleared it out ^_^