I'm in Japan....really!

Holy Christ. Adsense is worthless. Honestly, it is. I know I don't beg you guys to click the links in the ads, and by all rights I don't expect you to or even think you should. But suffice it to say I get enough page views where I think I should have earned more than 6 cents in the past two months. I might add some more ads to the site in other relatively inobstructive locations, but if you guys are against my whoring out let me know and I'll uh..not...do...that.

I've become insomniac. I got 45 minutes of sleep last night, then struggled through classes today. Then napped for 2 hours after classes. Which was a stupid move, cause my body usually registers me one sleeping period in 24 hours, so I probably won't get to sleep tonight. Ah well.... It's not like I have 4 classes in a row tomorrow.

Oh wait..... But that's the only time that's happening again. I'm going to all the classes tomorrow so that I can determine which ones to drop on Monday. Hell, I might drop all my non-language ones. I shouldn't, but I'm still WELL over the minimum credits for the whole semester. So I can do what I want. It's like I'm abusing the Japanese school system! Which the Japanese themselves do, incidentally. Most of the time the grades don't actually matter as much as the name of the college you went to. So it's kinda like name dropping except with your academic career. And it WORKS. That's also sick and wrong.

For anyone that hasn't caught on yet, I pretty much leave my away message on 24 hours now. Unless I'm doing stuff like tweaking my computer. Then I tend to take it off or just log offline. So for anyone curious just...message me. And if I'm around then I'll get back. I'm usually on between 9am-1pm EST, so go for that. But I pop on in between classes, so you might win the Roshi lotto and luck out.

Anyways, in the vein that I also serve to entertain, I'm going to start adding actual CONTENT to the blog instead of just ranting about things. Oh, there will still be plenty of ranting, don't you worry. Possibly some rambling as well. A couple of anecdotes even. But I've got some stuff that I've been thinking about adding, and I'm thinking of starting a project up to start redoing an old comic I used to do that I'll possibly post here. Probably on Wednesdays. We'll see.

Along that train of thought though, here's a Youtube link. Alouette as sang by the Boycezone, a Welsh Max Boyce tribute band that plays in honor of their local rugby team. For some reason this video amuses me immensely. For those of you who don't know, the song alouette is about kids pulling apart a lark and naming the body parts as they do so.

We here at Abroad or Two Blogspot and Operandi do not condone violence against animals.

We do however find animal violence hilarious when set to epic music. As evidenced by this ferocious ninja rabbit battle. It's so adorable that you'll laugh til you bleed.

Wait... that doesn't make sense...

Ah hell.

On another note, if you've ever been interested in drawing in an anime style, or any style at all really, do not ever pick up this book. It's been agreed in group discussion that this is the sole worst thing that could ever happen to someone who wants to learn to draw. A notable review:

If your children are in any way serious about being good at drawing manga - or drawing, period - this is NOT the book to buy for them. I can only assume books like this come about because some clueless publisher has a 13 year old daughter who "draws anime", because this is not up to what any sane person would consider publishable "how-to-draw" book standards. Anatomy? Not important here, not even stylized anatomy. Proportions? What are these "pro-por-ti-ons" you speak of? This book sure doesn't know. It disturbs me that so many how-to-draw manga books are illustrated by people who, frankly, need one of these books themselves. Don't doom your children to hours of failure and frustration.

This book is absolutely awful. Look elsewhere.

If that doesn't scream "Buy this book" then I don't think anything will.

I'm off to fight crime now. Mountain crime. Yeah...