Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 11:29 pm
I got bored at work (Big surprise) and I drew some more fanart for my Bored of the Rings fansite. I should hopefully have it finished and posted soon. In the meantime, I went and posted Chapters 15 and 16 of my Escaflowne Thumbnail Theatre (as well as did some general re-tweaking and streamlining of the site.) I also, once again, stayed up waaay later than I had intended to. Damn. If only the plant I worked at had a second shift for Office Drones like myself. I'd be so happy...*Sigh*.
Thursday, January 2, 2003 - 12: 10 am
Well, as some of you may have noticed, we're online again. I still haven't decided what to do about my BOTR site (my friend the Queen of Swords suggested I could strike a deal with Amazon.com to hawk the book from my site for money, which would most certainly come in handy when it comes to buying more bandwidth.)
Some of you may have noticed that I haven't gotten around to posting a Hamlet update for this week. I'm sorry. The reason for this has been, in no small part, due to the holidays, to my current listlessness, and to the deal I struck with my little brother to exchange several of videos in my anime collection for several of his Playstation 2 video games. (Tell me, could there be a bigger time-waster in this world than video games?...other than drawing fanart of and writing fanfiction about video game characters...) Speaking of fanart, the fanart gallery in the BOTR page sure looks empty. Now that people are starting to pay attention to that particular section of my site, perhaps I should do something to make it..well.. spiffier... Hmm.
Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 8:58 am
Okay, I think I'm slowly starting to figure out what happened here. It seems my website traffic has spiked unexpectedly in the last couple of months. The reason for this? My Bored of the Rings fansite, which, apparently has been experiencing some unexpected popularity as of late. (Well, I don't suppose with Tolkien-mania sweeping the country right now, that it should've been all that unexpected, but still, I was ill-prepared for it.) My webhost tends to allot bandwidth on a monthly basis, so when the month changes over tonight, I should be online once more, although I'm wondering what I should do about the BOTR page, seeing as how it gets ten times more traffic than the rest of my website. (Ah, the dangers of creating mainstream webfeatures. I suppose I should be thankful I never made a webfeature based on anything having to do with Harry Potter...)
Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 12:43 am
What? My bandwidth limit's been exceeded? Why here? Why now? WHY ME???!!!!!
Monday, December 30, 2002 - 12:58 pm
Ugh. Well, I've learned ONE thing: If you ever find yourself having disturbing symptoms of some vague, possibly serious illness, you'd best pray they don't manifest during a holiday week. The doctors at the local clinic are only seeing patients on an emergency basis, and while what I have may be upsetting, it doesn't appear to be life-threatening. Not at the present moment anyway.
I see that once again, I forgot to write a rant for Elder Star. Oh well. I'll try and see if I can't scratch out something by tonight. Although I wouldn't expect it to be brimming over with sunshine and cheer. (But I suspect you've learned by now that if you want such things, here is not the place to come).
Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 4:56 p.m.
*Sigh*. I've figured out my New Year's resolutions already. #1--Always check to see what damn resolution my printer is set at BEFORE I scan anything. #2--Always resolve to just re-scan whatever damn hell thing I'm working on at a higher resolution rather than trying to boost it's size in Photoshop and redraw all the jaggier-looking edges. #3--Relax. Just fucking relax. Of all the resolutions I've just mentioned, I fear #3 is going to be the hardest to put into practice, as I feel it's success hinges on my leaving my job at Soulless ConCorpCo Industries and taking up some differing form of employment. But as to what that form could be, I know not, and since this "recession" thing doesn't look like it's going to be winding down anytime soon, I'm thinking it would probably be a great lapse in judgement on my part if I were to just chuck Soulless Yet Decent-Paying Job in order to run off and pursue my dream as a Person Who Earns a Livable Wage Through the Actual Use of Her God-Given Artistic Talents. Besides. Now would probably not be a good time for me to lose my health insurance as I'm currently experiencing vague yet disturbing symptoms of a As-Yet-Undefined and Possibly Serious Illness. One no doubt brought about by stress caused by my working for Soulless Corporation. Which I MUST work for in order to get the health insurance I need to treat Vaguely Defined yet Possibly Serious Illness. And so it goes. On and on. A vicious cycle. Damn. Why couldn't I have won the Christmas Powerball Jackpot instead of some damn millionaire?
Sorry. Just letting off a little venom because none of the things I tried my hand at today seemed to meet with any success. And because I have to go back to work at Soulless Corporation tomorrow with Unsympathetic Co-Workers. And because it's too frackin' cold outside to spray-paint the armor I'm working on and because my joints hurt and because I'm sick and tired of always being sick and tired. I tell ya. If this day were a Christmas Gift, I'd have to send it back. With a grenade attached.
