Nopy's Blog

The past two weeks have been very busy for me so I have not been able to update this blog as much as I’d like or even make comments on Twitter and reply to emails. Real life can be a real time killer. The good news is that most of the things I had to take care of are done so now I can get back to my regular activities. Unfortunately, I have a long list of emails to get back to, hundreds of unread articles in my feedreader, and an unhealthy backlog of anime. So if anyone’s wondering why I haven’t responded to something, I just haven’t gotten to it yet.

I’ve also noticed a large increase in the number of spam comments being submitted here. I used to skim through all of them to make sure legitimate comments aren’t deleted, but it’s gotten to the point where I can’t take it any more (200+ spam comments per day = too much).  As of now, I am no longer looking through any comments marked as spam. I know some real comments accidently get flagged as spam, so if your comment doesn’t show up after a day or two, it probably got deleted. To avoid being marked as spam, don’t leave comments with excessive links or use blacklisted words such as swears and the names of certain products.

As for the future, since I’m no longer in school, you guys can expect more anime posts from me because I’ll have more time for more series. I’m also planning on getting back into making AMVs (its been 7 years since my last one), and finally learning how to draw. Figure reviews might increase too as I have more money to spend now. In a nutshell, you’ll be seeing more of me starting next week for a year, or until I decide it’s time to start looking for one of: a house, a new job, or a serious relationship :)

It’s almost midnight on a thursday, and I think I finally appreciate how much screen and desk space I have. In the 2 weeks I have 2 reports, 2 assignments, and 65 sketches due, as well as 2 midterms and a speech I need to do. Right now I’m working on one of the reports and things are going to much faster than last year. The main reason is because now I have a 24″ monitor in addition to my 19″ and I also have a laptop now. Having my report on 1 monitor, reference material on the other, and notes on my laptop makes looking up information and writing my report at the same time so much easier. Having such a large desk also helps as I can also check some printed notes or books ^.^

So if any of you find schoolwork or work to be too time comsuming, I suggest getting another monitor and a larger desk. So much work gets done much faster (unless you have anime playing on one of the monitors).