Hey All
Hope you all had an enjoyable holiday! I did, sort of; when I wasn't sick or assembling IKEA furniture, I was stuffing my face, visiting people/family, and smothering my dog lol. Now I hope to be back in the submission game, although the schedule might change a bit. I often go home to the family on weekends now that I live close to them for a change, and rarely have the time to draw whilst I'm there. So I usually start something Sunday night and try and finish up Monday/Tuesday. Until I get my afterwork activities settled, this may change again, but for now that's how it stands.
Anyway, I now work at the Ottawa General Hospital looking at cancer (more of the lung than anything else) and neurodegenerative diseases (Huntington's and Dimensia it looks like), which can be related by the protein I'll be studying for the next 8 months; the twist it it's not like any other protein I've ever seen, and convential analysis won't work on it, so we gotsta improvise LOL. So it should be interesting and challenging, and may wound up in another publication for me too!
Now, on the anime side of things, I got my hands on the Haruhi movie and Gundam 00 movies, both on blu-ray, and they look amazing! The Dissapearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is so ridiculously well animated its crazy, and the story kept me in suspense and did a very good job at keeping us confused just as much as Kyon is in the film. I plan on getting the english version if/when it comes out, since Crispen Freeman as Kyon is just too good to pass up, and adds that much hilarity to the mix. Contrary to most critics, I actually enjoyed A wakening of teh Trailblazer (Gundam 00), since it did a decent job at explaining a few holes in the plot and why the alien were out to get people on Earth. It was also well animated, but not nearly as much as Haruhi, but noticeably better from the TV anime. The soundtrack was also great, and the battle scenes are done in true 00 fashion. The epilogue, however, seemed more like an afterthought as it shows pretty much NOTHING about the rest of the crew except Setsuna, and the line "To cut a path to the future" was used WAY too much, but ah well, I've watched it twice in three days (and want to watch it again lol), so I hope that says something; it really brought out what I liked about the series, telepathic particles aside:P
Video games-wise, I play occasional SCII, but I have been HOOKED on Dissidia: Final Fantasy a full year after I bought it lol; maybe news of a sequel re-sparked my interest in the game?
