Wah, what're we going to do on the blog?

So, life is busy...  On top of the class shit, I've got several things going on.  I'm rearranging my room, making room for a new computer desk, another figure display case, and hopefully another bookshelf.  Tonight I'm going to take measurements and draw things up in paint to see what all I can fit, tomorrow I'll prep and make room, then Sunday I'm going to Ikea.  An added perk is that I'm going to pick up a chair that won't make my back feel like absolute shit after a few hours.  In terms of WOW!scans, we've picked up a little help here and there, and things should start running a little more smoothly again here shortly, which makes me happy as a bifurcated mollusk.  Also, Sakuracon is in two weeks...  I have a room at my favorite hotel for that con (the Sheraton, it's a really nice hotel and it's directly across the street from the con, kicks the shit out of any of the others I've stayed in), get to see a friend I haven't seen in like a year, I'll have room at home to pick up new figures, and it'll be the first con I've attended since starting WOW!scans, so I'll be browsing the doujin vendors with a totally different mindset this year.  Should be fun.  On top of that, the fact that Sakuracon is only two weeks away reminds me that Fanime is only a month and a half away...  first trip out of state in a while, first time seeing several online friends and WOW! compatriots in person, first non-WA convention, a full week vacation in a place where the weather isn't perpetually shit.  That should be even more fun!  I'm more than willing to kick it with any of y'all who will be at either con, I'll probably say something on the WOW! blog about which bar I'll sit at on Thursday or Friday night for Sakuracon.

Well, life tends to have it's ups and downs

So, a little mostly un-wow-related life stuff, and then some ranting and explaining, and some news.

The first two quarters I was down here at Evergreen, the classes always had plenty of room, so I felt fairly comfortable waitlisting classes this quarter...  that turned out to be a terrible idea.  Apparently, due to budget shortfalls, they decided to let in an unprecedented amount of transfer students this quarter, and didn't bother to make room for them by adding more classes.  So, at the end of last week, I was at wit's end, scrambling to get into classes, even if they weren't the best fit with my area of study, so that at least I'd end up at full time status and get my financial aid for the quarter.  Things eventually kind of worked out, I'm taking enough credits now, but my schedule is pretty fucking terrible.  This impacts wow stuff in two ways - first, I'm still on the way out of being in a shit mood, and I'm not terribly productive when I'm in a shit mood.  Second, it'll probably take a week or two to figure out where translating fits into this new schedule.

Alright, so here's two things that bug me about people who read our scanlations (I love our fans, I really do, but come the fuck on).  First:  if I anticipated your question and answered it in a blog post already, do me the fucking favor of reading it rather than asking the same shit over and over.  Second:  if you don't like one of our series, I really couldn't give a flying turd in space less.  I love to hear about it when you do like something we're working on, but telling me which series you don't like just sounds like a passive aggressive way to whine that other things aren't coming out as quickly.  TL;DR, I love NEEDLESS, it isn't slowing anything else down, and if you still have an issue, I'm all out of tissues for you.

So, despite my bad mood, I haven't been entirely unproductive...  I haven't gotten much translated, but we've rearranged things and Kaichu! should be getting a lot more attention now, which I know is good news for lots of people.  We also picked up someone who's going to work on an amazing surprise for you guys that'll seem like it came out of nowhere.  On top of that stuff, we've got raws for a future project in the mail, raws for some upcoming doujin projects in the mail, and I've been getting us a bit ahead of the game in terms of scanning raws.  Even when I'm not directly working on a translation, I personally can spend 6 hours in a sitting getting other shit done for the group and still not make a dent in what all needs doing.  Anyway, more later, class is starting.

Life, WOW!, and Everything

So, if you've been paying attention, you may have noticed that our releases come in spurts now...  What happens is that we get some stuff close to release and then i end up coordinating all the release stuff and don't have time to translate that night (or those nights, in the case of the past several days).  I guess it's fine since we're keeping up a pretty decent pace, but I thought it was interesting how the dynamic has shifted lately...

Also, I'm going down to my campus today to sort out my classes for this quarter, so we'll find out how busy I'm going to be and how much scanlating time I'll have left over pretty soon.  Other than my 4 credit Japanese class, I honestly have very little idea what i'm going to end up taking this quarter, so it could go either way.

/tr/ is back up.  I'm kind of surprised that they didn't lose their posts this time around, since apparently it was hard drive failure again.  In any case, I'm glad it's back, since a lot of freelancing anons gather there and scan/translate/etc, and I'm not really sure whether they would easily find a new place to congregate.

IS is a lot of fun for a generic harem, and as with all generic harems, I've taken a much stronger liking to one or two of the girls in the show.  Somehow I've lucked out, and the bros at kibitou4life (http://kibitou4life.wordpress.com/) have similar tastes, and have been scanlating lots of France and Germany doujins.

So...

Well, we caught up on NEEDLESS already...  Spring Quarter starts this coming week, which gives me mixed feeling on where WOW!scans stuff is at.  I'm frustrated that Koiz and Gief are being lazy, but it's also nice that I'm ahead on scripts stepping back into being busy.  Ugh.

This shit's really good:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mg7tvangf1xglgn

I ordered the Senjougahara figure (you know which one) since both HLJ and GSC are donating to disaster relief, so I can feel a little better about spending 100+ dollars on a piece of plastic.  This reminds me, I REALLY need to clean my room, reorganize a bit, and buy another display case.  I've got 29 figures outside the cabinet I have already, and Senjougahara on her way.  It's time to go to Ikea, for sure.  Also, Black Gold Saw arrived today...  She's nice, but she really serves as a reminder than I need to find Dead Master, since I missed out on preordering her.  I really don't want to pay out the ass on auction sites, but having BRS and BGS and no DM just isn't right.

Brief update since I am excite

We're picking up NEEDLESS.  Yes, that NEEDLESS.  Also, it's an outside translator, so it doesn't add to my personal workload.  So fucking stoked.  That's all.

A scanlation life has ups and downs

Treat this as half status update and half bitch/brag session, since that's what it is.  Mei is still in typesetting, and I'm getting antsy since it's a good chapter and I love that series so much...  can't blame Koiz for taking a few days though, it's a typical 40 page chapter :/  Anal Angel chapter 4 is translated, and the cleans/decensoring are done already, so it should be a fairly short wait on that release too.  We've got a joint project doujin release coming soon too, with Kusion from UTW/[gg] making a guest appearance as TLC.  I love doing joints, I love having people from other groups lend us a hand, and I love the feeling of community that comes from stuff like this, and I always feel like WOW!scans has actually become a legitimate part of things when we work with a big name like this.  It isn't really an e-peen thing or anything, it's just that feeling of accomplishment, knowing that we somehow made it from where we started to being a "real" group.  In other, more depressing news, /a/ had a string of about 800 posts about Houkago Play, one of the joint projects that I don't particularly enjoy working on and that keeps falling through the cracks.  I feel bad, but on the other hand I do this for fun, and being insulted for taking my time on a series I don't enjoy is kind of lame.  The other interesting thing is that there's a few people willing to work on translating the series - but they don't want to make any committments, they don't want to contact the editors to give them the translations, and they only want to do certain chapters out of order...  I'm really depressed and frustrated over the situation, and now I really feel like I HAVE to sit down and force my way through a chapter of HP soon.  I think I may make an official drop announcement after that chapter, depending on how much I hate the process of translating it this time around...    Maybe one of these other people will commit to something once I'm not on the hook to scapegoat when releases are slow.

What's going on, baby, what's goin on

So, finally had a chance to sit down and translate again.  That means new Mei no Naisho within the next few days, depending on how quickly koiz gets it typeset.  This chapter has what a lot of people were demanding - male love interest, another trap, all that jazz.  Also more misunderstandings and Sera being the coolest character ever.  Honestly, I don't think it comes across on a casual read through, but spending as long immersed in each chapter as I do, Sera is hard to read - on the one hand, she's a pervert and a cunning bitch who likes to see Fuuka squirm, but on the other, she's the only one who sees right through Mei and makes sure she gets the support she needs.  I'm thinking we may get more Sera backstory down the road, she's a pretty complex character for the amount of screentime she gets.  Reversible! is somewhere near 50% done in TL, and it's already cleaned, so anticipate that fairly soon as well.  The joints with Hachimitsu are all in his court, we've done our side on them.  DEB joints, I'm never 100% sure what's going on, but hopefully Suzunone should come soon...  No comment on the 4koma joints, I'm aware I'm being a piece of shit on those.  My next project is going to be Anal Angel, since people are getting pretty impatient for that already.

Life is going pretty meh for me personally.  I think the adjective that fits best is 'lukewarm.'  Nothing much specific to comment on, good or bad, and I'm not in a particularly good or bad mood either.  I'm becoming better friends with some people, which is nice, and some people have shown their fucking annoying sides and I'm getting a little distance, which counterbalances the former.  All-in-all a boring past few weeks.

I've been playing SMT:Devil Survivor before bed lately, it's a pretty fun game...  I'm not sure why I didn't give it a try sooner, for some reason I thought it wouldn't be any good.  No comment on the earthquake, other than that it's annoying that all the worst anime of the season are on regular airing schedule while Reitaisai 8 got cancelled, fucking up all the music releases :/