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Last night was surprising and pleasantly so.

Skipping Baronial Council, I elected to go on IRC and talk with my friends. N-chan was there and said she loved the new chapter of Lady Killer. Happy me! I would have been satisfied with a "does not suck too badly" verdict. Then, after the chat session died down (or, more accurately, after my connection froze and kicked me off) I wandered out to the living room and did a fanart and a half. The first is of Kiba from Wolf's Rain, and the second is Subaru from X. Subaru I'm still working on the outline sketch. I need to run over to the discount art supply store today and pick up a pen, a brush, and a bottle of ink for Kiba, since I'm not sure where mine have disappeared to. For Subaru, I'm going to write in a poem from the Kokinshu, I think by O no Komachi, which translates roughly to "if it were not for this memento, there might be a hour when I did not think of you." I need to find my original of the poem, though. Am pondering if I should stick with my usual colored pencil work, or be bold and try something new.

Also got the garden bed half-bricked yesterday, and my father and I just got back from Home Depot with the rest of the needed bricks. Mom and I will be going to pick up dirt this afternoon....

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For the third story in "His Name" series:

(1) Consider how much of Hikaru is Hikaru and hoe much is based on Sai.
(2) Tackle Hi/Aki dichotomy--Hikaru is naturally gifted at, and fell in love with, Go. Akira? Trained probably since birth, considers Go a "way" (as in bushidou, iado, etc)... but does he truly love it as Hikaru loves it? Explore.
(3) Contemplate current manga level/style of interaction between Touya and Waya. Decide how time and events have altered this interaction. Finish the bloody kitchen scene!

In other (non-fanfic) news, I hauled and set many more brickish things today, then went with my mother to purchase a cubic yard of topsoil and shoveled and hauled and dumped it into the brand-new raised bed that I MADE ALL BY MYSELF. Go me. Inner dimensions approximately 4'x6.5'x1' above ground level. Tomorrow I get to put plants in it. I should alse check on my volunteer tomato plants (2 so far) and my volunteer sting bean plants. In any case, all this physical labor leads self to the inevitable results: ass hurts, back hurts, hand dry, face probably sunburnt. But tomorrow I get to put plants in it! [This thought somehow seems to be worth repeating, as well as worth the pain.]