November 30. 2004 21:09

Off-hand entry

I guess I really should write something before it's a week since the last entry... I guess this lack of entries just tells about how busy I am. I'm in real trouble with the wagashi manga thing, I still haven't finished even the script. The children's manga is doing okay, mainly. Because I don't have a board of my own to use when I'm watercolouring, the teacher said she'd bring hers and let me use it until the end of the semester, and she gave me extra time until the end of the semester because I'm a "special case". (I'd really like to do it in time, though, I feel quilty because I'm holding everyone down and getting special rights. And I really like that project.) But the wagashi manga, that's a mess.

I'm not the only one in trouble, though. Dion never even got to the "hands-on experience", so he doesn't even have a clue of what he's supposed to be making. He planned to just let it slip, not do anything, but the teachers caught him today and now he has to do something. He's going to the that hands-on place (I dunno what I should call it, really) with one of the group members (Akiko, in fact) sometime this week and then he has to come up with something.

I felt ashamed at class because I was only writing the script when everyone else was already drawing their stories, and because of that I couldn't concentrate, so I packed my stuff and told the teachers I'd go work home. I've been trying to write the script ever since I got here, but I'm still too anxious to get it going... And I keep sidetracking. (I was depressed when I left school so I got a Maple Roll from the cafeteria, which resulted in furious counting to keep my diet somehow balanced... And other stuff like that.) I've got the basic plot decided, but right now it feels like just boring depiction of how to make wagashi. I need to make it more interesting, somehow, but I'm just not into it now... If only it was drawing, drawing is easy, but the planning state is always a pain with a more difficult manga...

Maybe I should just let it be like that. I'll just make a boring manga... Maybe it'll get better if I just start the next step and think as I go. Bleah.

I was supposed to write about my Sunday, but I'm not into it now, and writing the whole story would take too much time... Anyway, I never had that "lying down" part in the end, I spent too much time shopping, but that's okay. I spent some time in cafes, so I got enough "lying down". I bought a lot of socks, there are so nice over-knee socks here, spent a lot at Book-Off again (got more Inu-Yasha and some CDs, and then CLAMP no kiseki volume 1 box, which I've been wondering about since I got here... Now I know it contains 3 chess pieces and a "portfolio book" about one of CLAMP's manga. Collect them all sort of thing.), got 1000 yen worth of coupons from this lottery thing they had at Book-Off (get tickets for receipts), bought that Minna no nihongo 2 set and did some souvenir shopping. Finally got a magatama, one of those comma shaped power beads. Ate a lot of tasty food, some of it unhealthy but some of it healthy, too. Couldn't get this month's Visitor's Guide, couldn't take the dictionary to be repaired (no need, actually, see below). Spent a fortune on non-used Maaya's Nikopachi and Shounen Alice CDs. I can't understand why I kept from buying them until this late, though, when I listened to them I remembered again how good Maaya's music is. It's the only music I've bought this far that I really love. And as you know, I've bought quite a lot of music. (I got bored of listening the same songs, I think, so I haven't felt like listening to Maaya for a while. That's probably why I wasn't in a hurry to get more. A mistake. Now I got into it again.)

That problem with my dictionary, by the way, it was not a problem after all. The contrast adjustment had just got turned to darkest... I feel really stupid now, having spent this long with it, wondering why it doesn't work and trying to figure where to return it to... Sigh. But now it works, at least, I'm really happy about that. Didn't have to go through some long returning process.

Miyazaki's newest movie is out now. I wanna go see it. I wonder if I'll have time. I wanna go see the third (or is it fourth?) Inu-Yasha movie, too, when it comes in December. Shrek 2 DVD is out now or soon, but I'll have to wait until Finland until I get to see it.

And I wanna go buy that Tsubasa ~Reservoir Chronicles~ wall calendar from Gamers. I love Tsubasa art. I don't like CLAMP's older style, but I love the Tsubasa style. I left the store without buying it, then realized it was just stupid because I wanted it, and tried to go back, but it had already closed. Gonna get it right away the next time I'm downtown.

Tomorrow is a new month. I got some christmas decorations from the 100 yen store and assembled my paper christmas tree. I wanted to make a set of christmas calendar drawings to put on my site again this year, but with all this school work there's no chance. I hate being hurried with a creative process.