I just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. Yay! It’s fun, and a lot nicer than 2.3 was. If I have some free time tomorrow I might fiddle around with it for a while. Maybe my blog will change a bit during the week.

I was adding some tags to old posts and going back through the old artwork… man it’s amazing to see how crappy a lot of that stuff is. Oh well, it was a good learning experience. I actually got to sketch a bit with Hitomi today, which was nice. It’s been ages since I had time to draw, even though I didn’t really accomplish anything special.

The new “year” starts this week, so my schedule will change a bit. Overall it’s a pretty good change, I think. My classes are a bit bigger this year, which means less repetition. That will give me a bit more free time at work to prepare for lessons, which should equal less stress and therefore more ability to come home and relax, and hopefully paint. We’ll see.

I ordered a bunch of DVD’s a long time ago… Late January? Early February? Around then anyway. They finally arrived earlier this week. Seinfield, Monty Python, Stardust, The Great Yokai War, and Escaflowne. That should keep me occupied for a *very* long time. Very good.

This week, in addition to starting my new calendar, I have 2 drinking parties to go to after work. Drinking parties are generally looked on as more of an obligation here than a way to unwind, it seems. Everyone has to go to them, even if nobody wants to, and nobody is ever willing to admit that nobody wants to go. It’s like a duty. Fortunately, I don’t mind them one bit.

Also very exciting is the fact that this week my Fiber Optic Internet will finally be set up! People will come in on Wednesday morning to hook me up. I hope there are no extra snags… I feel awful not having a good internet connection. I’m lucky that I was able to make this update tonight!