I am in Japan!

Ingrid and I arrived two days ago on an overnight flight, and so here we are. The flight was awful. Between the two of us we only had a couple of hours sleep on the 10 hour flight, after a hard week of working late and missing sleep. My younger sister Emily (who is currently here for a year on university exchange) picked us up at ( Read more... )

The title's exciting, but this post likely isn't! Sorry to dissapoint. I'm typing out an update because I'm procrastinating. I have a buttload of work to get through, and I am also hyper from the sugary goodness of coke and a bit of impulsive exercise (the reason for the shortness of breath). I have a bit of ground to cover with this post so I'll ( Read more... )

It sucks being stuck at work. I don't really know what today is all about, but I would like to have had the chance to find out!

I've been thinking ( Read more... )

I have spent the last 3-4 days producing a piece of work that has really stretched my skills and forced me to learn a great deal... more than any single brief this year, possibly even last year, has done. For a long time now I've wanted to learn how to use photoshop to colour a line art image in a way that looks very slick and pro, but after an ( Read more... )

I just spent the last two and a half hours uploading 22 pics on my deviantart account, Nekobakagaijin. Please take a look!

This last term has been hellish. After a Christmas "Break" that involved a great deal of stressful learning how to work at a bookstore-type stuff, at the start of the new year of study I attempted to hit the ground running but ended up doing the artistic equivalent of being pasted on the pavement. I wasn't really ready for the workload or the ( Read more... )

I am at work in a bookstore in Balmain, slightly bored, and very tired.

I'm sitting in the best net cafe I've ever seen. They have a huge library of rental manga and DVDs, as well as areas providing massage chairs, darts, billiards, air hockey and pachinko. Ing and I have hired a private booth and we are both almost happily typing away (we'd be happy if the keyboards here weren't so weird, and stopped reverting back to ( Read more... )

Two days ago, I was bitten by a hamster ( Read more... )