Last night I started watching Haken no Hinkaku, a Japanese drama about temps. It'd been recommended by Time magazine's website, which is how it came up on my radar. I'd downloaded all ten eps before leaving for Japan, but was reminded to actually watch them by a post on d_boys that said Yuu Shirota, a member of the D-Boys, was on the program. Curious to see which actor he was, I looked up his wikipedia entry and skimmed through it.

Is it just me, or was the role of George Ikaruga in Ultraman Moebius possibly designed with him in mind...? Not that I think Daisuke Watanabe did a bad job by any means (I quite like him and find him, via his blog entries, to be friendly and personable). But still, the suspicion is there.

I like the show, BTW, and powered through the first five forty-five minute episodes last night, and watched number six this morning. If I can finish the last four tonight, I can call it finished and burn it to disc. I'm watching it raw, BTW, which means I'm likely missing a good deal of the subtext, but I can live with that, and watching raws helps my Japanese more than watching subtitles.

Mwa. Wonderful Husband is sick. :(

Didn't get to bed until just after midnight last night, but did get the pieces cut out for a cloak and jacket I want to make. Well, except for the lining--I'll rummage through my fabric stash after work, but I'm suspecting I will have to run to the fabric district on Saturday and pick up lining fabric. They're both a deep deep dull navy color, probably a linen/cotton blend--votes for lining color? Wonderful Husband voted maybe a pink, I thought maybe a stormy blue-gray (if I'm trying to be subtle) or a red, but no color combo has sprung out at me yet to say "ooh, ooh, pick me, pick me!" In any case I'm pleased with my fabric estimation skills. Got exactly both patterns out of the yardage, with only scraps left behind....

I also finished off my second set of Regency short stays and wore them under one of my Regency dresses last night, trying to decide if I'd cut them right or not this time. I think probably I did, but I want one more evening of wearing them to be sure of the comfort level. This time with the chemise underneath, to see if that helps any. I have lining and interfacing cut out for one more pair, so I'll probably make those as well, and then try the Mantua Maker 1810ish corset pattern that Liz has, to see if longer stays would work better for me for this period or not. Not like I don't have the fabric to do so. *eyes wall'o'fabric* I am pleased to report, though, that I'm starting to get better at hand-sewing eyelets. ^_^

And I rewatched disc ten of Kamen Rider Kuuga last night while laying out pattern, shooing the cat out of the way/off the pattern/off the fabric, and cutting. I'd forgotten it had one of the slashiest moments in the series--one that Godai wasn't even there for! But, yeah, Ichijou in hospital [though not for long, stubborn man that he is], having been beaten up by Ra'Baruba'De, talking about this dream he had about Godai... this series is doing as good a job of making me want to improve my Japanese as Ultraman Moebius is. Save that Moebius, being the one I'm translating, is actually working toward that goal.

Gacked from HICBC's website, proofed by sandpanther, and actually ON TIME this time, here is

( Moebius 45 )

Right knee stopped being tweaky today, so of course now left arm is taking up the slack. I can't figure out what I did to either one, either, so it's intellectually annoying as well as physically irritating.

Finished the Regency dress tonight, finally marking and stitching up the skirt hem. Poked at the patterned silk noil I thought I had eight yards of (ie, just enough for two dresses if I did everything right and pieced the linings) and discovered I in fact have just seven yards. So plans for that fabric will have to go under consideration for a while. If I'm good and remember it, I'll get Wonderful Husband to take pics of me in the Regency tomorrow and post them. For now I'm calling it a night.

Oh. Have not done this week's Moebius summary yet... um. Will do it in the morning, missing the "hasn't aired yet" deadline. Tired and brain too fragged to do translation right now.

Another offering in the far-flung future of the Alliterative Arc stories.

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Again gacked from HICBC's website and as always edited by the glowing-eyed sandpanther, here is

( Moebius 43 )

Again gacked from HICBC's website and as always edited by the feral, wheeling sandpanther, here is

( Moebius 42 )

Squeaking in just under the "it hasn't aired yet!" wire, gacked from HICBC's website and as always edited by the inestimable sandpanther, here is

( Moebius 41 )