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Today is definitely a blah day. Not with the weather--actually this is the 2nd day of clear lovely skies--but in regards to my energy level. Work today is grinding along slowly...perhaps I shouldn't have started with a pink page. :P Anyway, today I begin to revisit Honey 5.

Yes, Honey 5. Which I finished lettering in December of last year. Here's how it happened: I was going over my financial stuff when I happened to notice I never invoiced for Honey vol 5. *headdesk* In my defense, I know exactly how that came about. I don't invoice for a book until it's completely finished, all the way through corrections and uploading final tiffs back to Viz. Right? Well, last December technically I DIDN'T finish Honey 5 b/c we were missing four pages. I dunno if they were lost in Japan or cyberspace or whatever, but the pages never appeared and replacements were never sent, so I couldn't letter them, so the book was never completely finished. Thus, I didn't invoice for it. As the weeks passed, I forgot to ask if the missing pages had been sent at last, then finally forgot about it.

Until yesterday. With repeated *headdesking* I asked SE2 if I could invoice for Honey 5 almost a full year late and told her why this happened. Namely...the missing pages. Come to find out, she forgot about them too. (I'm not alone!) So she went on a quest, finally got her hands on the pages, and sent them to me.

The real fun thing is these are omake pages, and Honey omake are always nasty. Worse than Nana omake nasty, which are nasty in their own right. Wheeee! At least I'm finishing the first half of Honey 10 a few days early, which means I can tackle these four pink Honey 5 pages before I start Honey 10.2. *sickly laughter*

This is all my own fault. :P~~~~~~~~ I wonder if anyone at Viz would have noticed the missing pages. I checked and there aren't any page numbers in the pages that follow those that were missing, so maybe it really would have slipped beneath the radar. But now we'll never know, since HEY, S2M WOULD LIKE TO ASK FOR HER MONIES NOW. Hah! But the missing pages are listed  in the table of contents, so perhaps my asking was good in that it earned us some extra time to deal with them. You know, no last minute revelation as the GN was being finalized for printing. I might be whinging about the extra effort involved, but as always I'd rather letter them than let someone else do it, so :P on me again!

Conclusion: I think it's safe to say Morita-sempai is NOT my patron saint. *snicker* If you have no idea what I mean, then go read some Honey! *poke poke*

Osu, minna! Meet my newest default icon. ^^V Me likey. Another self-portrait, of course.

It's been a while, so here's a shigoto update. ^^

That's it for now, minna. Time for me to get cracking on some extra Honey pages! Oh yes, and I decided my new keyboard is named Tsuwabuki. And I've already dropped him. But just once. ^^;;;

"Her" in the subject being me!! Sorry I haven't been posting or reading my flist for the past several days. Lots of stuff seems to have happened while I was out, and I owe a good dollop of comments. Please forgive my silence! It was for a legitimate reason, I promise. V.V

It's been a real struggle to make the page quota every day and finish my prelettering, as well. Thankfully last night I finished the first chapter of New Title 3, and since I have no more script for it and won't for at least week with some luck, this means I can hopefully clear my Nana and Naruto backlogs before more script arrives. I'm relieved to say at least I've been very diligent about keeping up with the two very-tight-deadlines on Honey and Skip.

Anthy has been doing her best to seduce me away from work, but I've been able to resist until pre-lettering was finished. (This is why my LJing dropped. When I would normally LJ, I've been drawing instead. *guilty--but not too much--smile*) I do have fruits of my labor to share, but not juuuust yet. I'm roughing out a comedy doujinshi to celebrate Anthy's arrival, and I'm going to wait until the whole story is sketched out before I post it as a WIP.

As a quick shigoto update, Claymore 12 is completely finished and over YAY, Honey vol 7 is just under half-way lettered, Nana 14 is a fourth-lettered and full of fangirls, including one who reminds me of myself. Really! Only I'm not that elegant. O.o Naruto 38 is a third-lettered, New Title 3 I already mentioned, and Skip 15 is almost half-way done.

On a Skip note, this volume develops a new character we met in vol 14 who I find very intriguing, even if he is a bit of a bastard. It's fascinating to see someone that isn't afraid of the Grudge Kyokos, which is why he makes my ears prick. My my my....even if he DOES look like Nakago, who I've completely reviled for over 10 years. *shudders*

And now, work calls, as always. Though it's time for me to go outside and run. Eh he heheh.... --;;;;

(Another one of my new icons cuz it's purty.)