Nicer Paper

Helloooh! I'm sorry for the absence -- I practically had no life for the past 4 days because of school and work and everything in between, but I'm back now. Yay!

And by the way, for the reason mentioned below, I can't really sell most of my originals, but I would be happy to sell prints!

60 Hours

Ever since we started watching this show, what little social life I had has all but perished. And I promise I'll shut up about The Wire ... as soon as we're done with all five seasons.

Important phone calls

The only people who call my phone are my parents and G. My parents are in Japan and I now live with G, so . . . yeah.

What social life?

I'm on a posting spree!

I just came back from a fun and inspiring talk about Tove Jansson--the author of the Moomin books. Did you know that Moomin achieved worldwide fame after the animated series aired in Japan? Unfortunately Jansson herself didn't have too much to do with it---by then (70s or so), she was kind of tired of the fame and demanding work schedule, so she'd let her brother take over. He ended up continuing the Moomin comic strips for 16 years---much longer than Jansson herself (7 years).

Anyway. For Jansson and other artists and writers, working from home is the best way to have a non-existent social life. This goes for us translators as well.

According to Alex Noriega, one of my favourite online comic artists, this is freelancing:

(http://stuffnoonetoldme.blogspot.com/)

Also check out Matthew Inman's (of the famous Oatmeal comics) comic on

(http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home)

It pretty much says it all.

In other words, I need to find a part-time job that gets me outside of the house.