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I'm too lazy to upload them to Photobucket as well, so I'm just posting the DA links =3 It's kinda late, I should go to bed so I'm not a zombie librarian tomorrow


Afraid to see by ~yoru-yume on deviantART

Scraps, so no preview image

http://yoru-yume.deviantart.com/art/dokushou-144513953

http://yoru-yume.deviantart.com/art/Even-though-you-won-t-let-me-144513578

Night<3

Having just finished 3 years of university with the aim of becoming a qualified librarian This made me laugh so hard...panel two, so so true...

Is at work placement yey -_-

I'm really not doing anything...I'm supposed to be supervising the circulation desk, but there's nobody here...that's what you get for doing placement in a TAFE library after the semester is over...so basically it's mind the desk but do whatever you want so I'm bumming around on the internet and drawing...oh and occasionally helping out students, but there's been like 2 students in the last hour, so really I don't have to do anything.

Siiigh I could be actually doing work and actually getting paid...damn placement...the library I work for is right next door too...that's just adding insult to injury XD _{and confused people who are all like "heeeey don't you work at THAT library *points out window* why are you here???"}

Ok I might draw or something now, thank god I bought my sketchbook with me. I would read fanfiction too, but I think that's probably not a good idea on a workplace pc...

I stole this meme of DA...the point was to write the first thing that comes to mind at each letter(though I think the responses where supposed to start with the letter...anyway)

( Alphabet Meme )

You'll notice there's a lot of colours there. Actually, I could give you a colour for every letter, and this tendency is even stronger with numbers and kana(though the kana colours are normally quite closely related to the letters they would be in romaji). Some of these associations I can't even explain, it just is...

At last, the finished costume! I wore it to the Madman cosplay festival, but these photos were actually taken afterward at my house, by my mum XD.

( Ashura~ )
Also on Deviantart

For some reason, the elf ears I have as part of my Ashura costume gave my mum the giggles very badly this morning...though coupled with the fact I was wearing a wig cap, it probably looked very strange. I also amused several Saturday morning motorists when driving to pick up rowr_paintbrush and her sister.

I drove us to the con...it was awful XD I generally don't like driving much anyway, and it was quite warm, and I followed the wrong GPS directions, and then there was all the stupid roads that I couldn't do a right hand turn when I really needed to do a u-turn to the right, or the roads that didn't let me turn left when I really needed to turn left. Melbourne, I hate your roads, and this is why I prefer public transport, despite the uh...quality that it is. Or someone else to drive haha

Not much really happened at the Madman con, but I did enjoy seeing the finalists for the national cosplay competition. My favourite was the Pandora Hearts cosplayer(lol I've not seen the anime, but I liked her costumes and skit best), but I thought that the Laputa cosplayer's costume was amazing...she cosplayed as the giant robot from Laputa:Castle in the Sky! The Code Geass cosplayer might have been interesting, but I didn't actually see any of it because I was sitting near the back and she seemed to be kneeling for most of it?

Seeing the cosplayers today makes me want to try entering the nationals next year...but the skit part gets me...heeey any good ideas in which I could play flute? I'm used to playing music in front of people at least...XD

Charging my camera was a wasted exercise, I took about 3 photos and they didn't turn out...why the bad lighting? Armageddon Expo was the same...

Though as to not disappoint, I got my mum to take some photos of me in costume when I got home, after quite a scary drive home...ahhhhhhhh I don't want to think about it XD

The photos turned our quite nicely except-

I still had the fluro green bracelet thing on from the con and it looks really bad...hopefully I can edit it out of something...also, my internet is going ridiculously slow atm, uploading the photos would be a pain...it's bad enough just trying to check my email D=

I will try and post the photos soon though, even if I have to leave them as is

So not up at 12.30am doing last minute cosplay stuff D=

My wig makes me want to cry, but the rest of the costume is done =3

I'M GOING TO BED NAO
_{after I find my camera charger...}

Urrrrh sooo hot...and it's only November...I really dread what's to come if its already like this...at least I only have to put up with it for 2 months, and then get to freeze my butt off for 2 months in Europe and Japan in January^^

I had my first day of a 3 week work placement, I've never been so bored in my life. Seriously, I think I fell asleep at the computer...I was supposed to be reading circulation manuals, but was tired and had a headache from the heat, and sleeping badly last night. I thought it would be a brilliant idea to try an style my wig at 10.30 on a Sunday night, and I could smell the hair spray all night.

It was only a 10 minute nap though..I looked at the clock and it said 2.22, closed my eyes and then it was 2.35...I felt a little better after than though XD. I am very frustrated to be stuck working for 3 weeks and not being paid, when I could be working at my own job and being paid...sigh but I need to do work placement to finish my uni course...

ANYWAY the point of this post was not to whine about the heat or work placement, but to post more cosplay progress~ All the painting has been done, but there was pictures of the nearly complete painting in my previous post anyway

( pictures~ )

I have been busily working away on my Ashura(Tsubasa version) cosplay^^ It wil be for the Madman cosplay festival which is in a week and a half...I'm going to be working right up to it to get the cosplay done methinks-_- I bought the rest of the beads I wanted too^^ Originally, I went to this shop with my mother and got most of the stuff I needed but wasn't sure on a couple of things. I realised that later that what that shop had was exactly what I needed, but I really didn't want to drive and hour there and back just to buy $4 worth or beads. It turned out today I got asked to work at the library branch in that suburb, so I was provided with a good excuse to go get the right beads...-_- that, and being paid were the only good things about being asked to work at this branch...it's a branch I hate going to, and to make it worse, a the moment the library is crammed into a temporary building due to construction works...remember those portable classrooms? Yea, those...

( Anyhow, pictures )

Today, I swear, was creepy old men on public transport day.

I was on the train, heading into the city for my Japanese exam, and this creepy old man sat across from me. Every time I looked up from what I was doing(drawing of course), he'd give me this really weird smile. I got to Melbourne Central, and then had to get on a tram to get to MSAC.

The tram was packed, it was very hot, and I was unfortunately rather close to another creepy fat old man, who being a great deal taller than I was(not that that is a difficult thing) was looking down. And licking his lips. I get the kanji book out of my bag and look over that, just to distract myself from creepy man number 2. His stop was before mine so he rather uncomfortably pushes past me and says "Sumimasen, domo".The man wasn't Japanese, or even Asian looking, and after being stuck on the tram like that for 20 minutes, it just made seem 10 times creepier(though on the upside, at means he was looking at my textbook at least some of the time, and not somewhere else)

Fortunately, the trip home did not involve any creepy men. Even better, I didn't have people on the train watching me draw...they seemed more keen on sleeping. (I had nothing to do with this!)

Tonight, I should be revising Japanese for an exam tomorrow, but I am instead trying to read a forum in Chinese_{google translate ftw} so that I can download a game...which is in fact a Japanese game, but I don't think playing BL games brings me any closer to actually revising the kanji and vocabulary I need for the exam XD. _{I wonder what It would do to my Japanese teacher's brain if I asked him what a kagema was...}

I've been so productive today XD, I painted cosplay stuff, had piano, made hedgehog for a post exam picnic, and played computer games(that aren't pr0ny Japanese ones =p). I've recently rediscovered Heroes of Might and Magic(3 and 4), it's very distracting.

INGHAM CHICKEN!

Ok I might actually go do some study now...

Having gotten those assignments, and the first half of my Japanese exam out of the way today, I feel I can do fun things now^^

So as soon as I got home, I started some cosplay~ The Madman cosplay festival is in a month, and I'm going to cosplay Ashura from Tsubasa...That makes like, my 3rd Tsubasa cosplay...=O So today, I made yet another white kimono to add to the collection...I swear this is the 3rd or 4th white kimono I've made(not to mention others...I think I can make kimono in my sleep now)...this one will have purple flames painted onto it though!

And here's something I drew today while going to and from uni...

( drawing )

Yosh! I had Armageddon Expo yesterday, and now, I just have to finish this last assignment, and study for exams! I have a week...hey let's go to the beach again!

( Hehe anyway, Armageddon Expo, while not as epic as Manifest, was still fun~ )

Today at work:

Woman: Hi, I want to get a library card...
Me: Sure! Do you have I.D with your name and address?
Woman: Like my drivers license? Here...My address is on the back, but it's a bit faded.
Me: Sorry, I can't use this for I.D, the address isn't legible. Do you have anything else like a health care card or a utility bill or some sort of official letter I can use for I.D?

Woman gives me her court summons notice...@_@

She also had the most annoying little children I'd ever seen...I made sure to inform here that there was a branch of the library in her suburb. Please take yourself and your children there next time...

And I have to say wtf, why does the pressure sensitivity on my tablet only work if I have it plugged in the back usb port of my computer? I've had trouble with photoshop and the pressure sensitivity before, which was fixed with a driver update, but couldn't find the files so was looking on the internets, and came across a forum post that advised to try plugging it in the back. AND IT WORKED @_@ How simple and strange...

But hooray, for tomorrow, there is Armageddon Expo- Though I'll just be rewearing my Subaru from Manifest...I was going to make a Clow(CCS) costume, but I ran out of time to finish because of uni...the costume is half done though, so I'm going to try and finish so I can take nice photos while our trees still have blossoms on them. Oh and there is the Madman cosplay festival in a months time, so I'm making Tsubasa!Ashura for that...I've wanted to cosplay that for AGES!

Words that is...I finally finished my research project! It was only supposed to be 6000 words...but it ended up being 10,023 *dies* Presentations are also done, I'm so happy~!

I bought myself a new sketchbook after I'd done my presentation and then went home. Train was quality today...someone had left a box of knives sitting on the seat. Which I moved because I wanted the seat. Leaving unattended knives on that train line is asking for trouble...

Drew pr0n again, the other passengers were shitting me up the wall by watching me draw. It makes them go away =3

http://yoru-yume.deviantart.com/art/Public-transport-offence-140243261

Oh and there was a middle aged Indian businessman sitting across from me...Listening to Tatu...because that's not random at all...

Now I'm happily bumming around doing nothing<3 And I had cake^^

There is the small matter of my Japanese and Accounting exams left, but pfffffff

Definitely have been no fun this week. Eugh I was even doing my assignments in my sleep D= dreaming about Chinese internet memes really motivates me to get up in the morning...

Anyway I am going to clear my head of research project before I go to bed ( and spamming you with some doodles done at work/in class/on train. )

Found out today that my two major assignments are due next Tuesday and Wednesday respectively_{yes, the research project I've been trying to deny the existence of, and my 'professional portfolio'}. I think I also have speaking tests to prepare for Japanese...

Shannon is probably not going to be much fun this week ;_;

Hehe, I blame Hetalia for this...but I decided it would be a good idea to try and make 'nikujaga'(Japanese meat and potato casserole). It was in that episode where Japan was supposed to make a stew like what England makes, except he made it with all the wrong things. _{I like soy sauce a lot better than I like gravy anyway =p.}
It sounded interesting, so I looked up a recipe on the internet and off I went. The only thing I actually had to go buy was meat

( Shannon's nikujaga )

I had the oddest dream last night. In my dream, I was wandering around Tokyo, but the Eureka tower was one of the skyscrapers in Shinjuku. It confused me horribly in the dream.(Eureka Tower is the tallest building in Melbourne)

Japanese class today finds Shannon trying to remember the approximately 10 words of Romanian that she knows. We had to go around asking each other if we understood a particular language, and my classmate asked me if I understood 'romania-go'.

Much to her surprise, I did know a little.

Unfortunately most of it translates to "f**k off". Other than that the extent of it is things like stop, do not want, yes, no, cold.

That was a bit of an interesting exercise, as English isn't even the first language at least half my class...mind you it's a class of 8 people.

Yes, my day was so exciting, I even went to work for two hours after class. Why on earth the library needed an extra person on a Friday afternoon is beyond me, but I can't complain about being paid to do not much.

I did get the weird request of books on 'after death'.

"After death?"
"Yes, I need to find out what happens after you die"
Patron was kind of elderly, so I found its a bit...awkward. And of course, typing that in as a general search term brought up heaps of irrelevant items.

I did discover though, the correct Library of Congress Subject Heading for looking up life after death etc etc is "Future Life". Just in case you wanted to know.

_{There was no point to this post, I know. I'm still in research project evasion mode...I did try and sit down and do more, but it degenerated into reading about a BL game I like}