Oh yeah, forgot to mention. My comic The Fool can no longer be found in geocities. It's here. School gives us homepage space, I use it. No adds, no crappy "hourly data transfer" limits. Gah, I hate those.

What? Why didn't I put the pages to the school's space in the first place? Because I'm stupid, that's why.

Wow. Two entries on the same day. This is a record for me!

Alright. Should come up with a character to model for my 3ds Max course. It should be something simple enough so that I can get it ready by next week's Thursday, and at the same time something nifty enough so that I actually feel good doing it. It can't have fingers - that much I've decide. I won't do fingers. Or hair. Only crazy people would start modeling hair in the week time span with 3ds Max, especially if they only have as much experience as I do.

Nanowrimo kick off party here at Turku tomorrow. Can't wait, though I haven't quite figured my story out. I still don't know who is the murderer in my story. It is the story of a band (no name yet). The main character is the new singer after the first singer gets murdered. There's also two guitarists, a basist, a drummer, the manager and her assistant. And there is some magic. I'm having mixed feelings about this, since I don't know much about being in a band (simply having seen Gravitation doesn't count, I think ^_~)and the life such people lead. So I'm just going to downplay that side a bit and focus on the characters and their relationships, spiced up with concerts, rehearsals and interviews. Now if only I could find the murderer and his/her motivation among these characters. I had a few ideas of people who are mixed into it, but aren't the actual murderer. I'm running out of characters.

Maybe it just turns out to be a suicide. Or an accident. (...do I suck?)

Next Saturday it's on. Trying to get something written in the midst of the Halloween parties. And you guys there at Washington D.C., do not forget your Nano duties amongst all that fun.

Trying to figure out how to use a drawing tablet I have borrowed from my friend. Did a few sketches yesterday, the first that actually looked like something like my drawings. Still, it's even harder to get the proportions right (especially eyes the same size!) with a tablet than it is with normal pencil...

The snow has melted. Hallelujah.

It's coooold. And we have snow (well, at the moment, after it has snowed, we practically only have stupid ice on the streets). Seriously, this isn't fun. Snow at the end of October? -10 degrees of celcius at the end of October. Something is wrong with the universe.

At least I have a nifty new black wintercoat. ^_^

See, Tiina, I am writing.

I finished Kingdom Hearts last week. It is a really nice feeling when you manage to play through a game. Not to mention that the game was too pretty! Especially the ending. Sigh. *And* especially the hidden secret ending! That was so cooool. I want to see it again, but then I would have to play through the last boss once again. It isn't that hard, but it would take an hour. Just to see those few cooool (yes, the word actually has that many 'o's) minutes.
(You get the secret ending if you lock all the worlds, gather all the dalmatian puppies and win all the tournaments.)

I got into a bit of a power gaming frenzy with Kingdom Hearts, I have to admit. I just had to gather all the twelve items from the clock tower and synthesize all the weapons (I had Ultima Weapon, yeah!) with the moogles. I didn't beat those voluntary bosses, though. I tried to beat Shadow, but it took too long. I hated it when I kicked his ass slowly for over half an hour and then always died over something stupid. I think I will still try to win Sephiroth, I have an earlier save just so that I can try that. I get halfway through, but then he does that nasty halo-attack thing that drains all the mp and leaves one point of hp. *_* And then he hits me once and I die. Gah.

My next gaming project will be Final Fantasy VIII. I was at disc three when I started to play Kingdom Hearts about six months ago. ^_~ I am slow. I hope I can still remember what I'm supposed to be doing. Then waiting for me are Shadow of Memories, Shadow Hearts, Shenmue I & II, Grandia II, Skies of Arcadia, Vagrant Story, etc. Yes, I do have something "better" to do, and that's why it will take me AGES to play through them. At least I'm a happy camper 'cause we have a working Dreamcast.

I'm also very happy about some manga news. Next year, Viz will start publishing Angel Sanctuary and Tokyopop will have Fruits Basket. I can't wait! ^_^ I want them all now! At least Furuba will probably come quite quickly, but it usually takes Viz really long to put out to those albums...

Btw, the korean manwha Under the Glass Moon (published by Tokyopop) is just beautiful. I want to draw like that! The first album was great, but the characters sometimes had these really scary and ugly expressions. But issue two... I didn't think it was possible to draw any more pretty than in the first album (+ there was only one scary face - perhaps the artist will get rid of that habit completely in the next album, I hope), and I still can't understand how the artist has managed to become better in between two albums , but... man! I'm having a beauty-seizure. All that Kingdom Hearts and Under the Glass Moon will be the sweet death of me.

Oh, some real news: I will do the illustrations to a Finnish role playing game that will be freely distributed. It's this guy's project who contacted me on the basis of my Elfwood scifi gallery. There are people all over Finland working on the game. I will do the character classes. I would like to do some space monsters, too, but we will see. ^_^ I've done nothing yet, but if you understand Finnish, you can visit the rpg's site here.

This was such a geeky entry.