I bought Beyond Good and Evil today, cheap. Hoping it will be fun.

.... though I have yet to finish FFVIII, after.... what? One and a half years of playing? I played Kingdom Hearts in the middle there, and then didn't remember anything of FF, and had to start it all over again. Now I've played it to disk 2, and somehow stopped. The last time I got to disk 3. Don't know what's wrong with me.

It's raining. Water. It's not snowing. Spring is here! Woohoo. It's not pitch black starting from four thirty in the evening. NO, it takes at least until seven. Rejoice.

And yes, I am talking about the weather.

So what am I doing this grey, but still strangely light Sunday, when the streets of the city centre have gotten rid of all the snow, and are brown again? I am... working! (You've heard that before, haven't you?) The thing is, the place I'm working in has a bit of a hurry with that character chat - the deadline is next Tuesday. There's many extra people helping, and I've been working this weekend, full day. But for those extra hours, I get paid. Which is good, since I have almost no money on my bank account at the moment.

The bad thing is that I completely missed (yes, also forgot) the local anime night. It began this Friday at 6 PM, and ended Saturday 4 AM. I forgot, not to mention I would've been really tired at work yesterday, if I had went. Sigh. Too bad.

But it's been fun working here. Because of this big project, everyone is keeping busy. Everyone isn't always in the best of moods because of the hurry, but that's ok. I haven't been even asked to do the dishes once, even when they pile up in the kitchen (yes, I always wash my own right after using), or something, although I am "just" here on work practice. Instead, they give me real work to do. Yay for that.

What else? I'm very busy at the moment, what with having two essays to write for Thursday. I had planned to write them this weekend, but then the work came up. I also have to come up with a little speech for Japanese class. It would have to be somewhat ready for Tuesday, so that our teacher can correct the worst mistakes before I have to give the speech, the Tuesday after that. Gulp. I'm planning to talk either about Gackt or Fruits Basket.

They began showing Firefly here three weeks ago. So far it has been fun. Too bad that every decent series seems to be cancelled, sooner or later. Don't know what's up with that.

Anyways, back to work!

Ok, and here I am! And what I have been doing is... (drum roll)... working! How exciting!

So, two weeks back our work practice period in school began. To my surprise, I had managed to find a "real" job for myself, so I didn't have to stay at school and participate in some projects there. Real job in quotation marks because I don't get paid, this being just work practice.

Anyway, for the past couple of weeks I've been working at this place that does comics, mascots, animations and various other things for companies. What I have been doing is drawing clothes for this character chat for TV. The chars look quite realistic, and thus there is quite a job in drawing their clothes, especially when the same trousers are needed 13 times (walking with 6 frames, walking with 6 frames from the back + standing). Whew.

When I wrote to this blog, I usually did it when I was in school, but I can't do it at work. I work in the same room with the company employees (3 of them), and I don't want to appear lazy by surfing in the web. And during the evenings, at home, I'm tired or then the idea of blogging has just completely slipped from my mind.

That was it. Not that exciting, huh? As I said in the comments of my earlier entry, I'd love to change this blog into a weekly competition "Guess what Maija is doing this week?" Then the answer would always be something as exciting as "Washing her hair!" That'd be fun...

Lately I've begun to read more - perhaps because going into work somehow leaves me less burnt out than going to school, or because the days have become longer. Also, it appears that if one borrows just one book from a library instead of a huge pile like I used to do, one actually gets things read. *gaspshock* I've been going to the library once a week now, borrowing just one book, or two or three comics, then returning them the next week and borrowing some more. I usually read the whole book during the weekend, or some of it during my bus rides to work.

Whoah, that's the time? The season 6 finale of Buffy starts in 25 minutes! Yay!

That's all, folks.