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feeling: cautiously hopeful
listening to: THE SOUND BEE HD - Eien
Well, I was right... summer of 2011 is shaping up to be interesting...
First of all, I didn't talk about it much before since we weren't ready to announce anything, but two of the girls I've worked with on band tours over the years and gotten to be good friends with, Tiffany and Reiko, and myself decided to start a new J-rock centered promotion/marketing/sponsor team. For a few months we talked about it, then after banding together over various points of discontent with the area of the scene that we've been working in for years, we started having meetings, making plans, digging up necessary knowledge and resources, and getting some things solidified. Of course, the first round of plans didn't quite go as we'd hoped... but we decided to at least start throwing our name out there where people could find it. We made a webpage, Twitter and a Facebook, for starters - mostly just to have them made and add to them later. We added little mentions of our project to our Ameba and mixi profiles. That sort of thing.
Well, for a few weeks everyone was preoccupied by other things and we didn't achieve much forward motion... but then, out of nowhere, we were contacted by an up-and-coming band with aspirations of performing overseas and wanting our help. And, heh... the scramble began. @_@ Now we're in that tricky stage of trying to find them a venue... all as we're still constructing plans for a handful of other events we hope to bring together by this fall...
I just really, really hope this all works out. I know we're capable of doing what we've set out to do, but the American visual kei scene is an increasingly tough industry...
Anyway, on the personal front, I got an email the day before my birthday from a job prospect I had forgotten I'd applied to. More than a year ago I had sent an email to Crunchyroll, that anime streaming site that went legal a few years back and gained licensing rights to subtitle and release anime through its site commercially, to ask if they had any openings. After a few months went by with no response I had given up... then, 13 months later, they actually replied after all. Over the next week or two all the paperwork was done and I was set up with all the contacts and materials I'd need, and now I'm officially a professional anime subber. The pay isn't much, and it'll be even less after taxes since it's an independent contractor gig, but it's a start... and it's bound to be a lot more interesting than translating car part manuals and junk.
Of course, my parents aren't as excited about it as I and the few people I've told about it are. They're supportive, but it's impossible to miss the disappointment in their voices and faces when I talk to them about it. Parents will be parents, I guess... never truly satisfied or proud until I get something full-time and paying at least $20 an hour with full benefits. No matter how bored and stressed and depressed and unsatisfied it would leave their kid for the rest of their life.
I'm trying to be optimistic, anyway. It's about all anyone can do, right?
So... my present dilemma is that I'm tired but not sleepy. I've been trying to get back into the bike riding routine I started last year, since it actually helped a bit then and I gained so much weight over the winter it's rather depressing. Well, I couldn't ride yesterday because I got my first assignment from Crunchyroll in the afternoon, then right after that I had to take off for the evening because I'm helping out this week at the family church's vacation bible school, and by the time I get home from there it's pretty much dark already. So today I really wanted my ride before I had to leave for the evening... and I made the mistake of going out to ride through the FREAKING FIRES OF HELL. I swear, this kind of heat and humidity should be illegal. I barely managed half an hour, came back in feeling like I might pass out until I chugged a huge bottle of water and a glass of iced tea, spent the evening surrounded by 50 kids and one giant headache, STILL needed another glass of water and two of iced tea before I stopped feeling parched, then fell asleep here in my computer chair for I don't even know how long. So after all that, now I'll be up all night... great.
...Come on, -----con and -------con and Anime -----, respond to us pleeeeease... orz
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 7/13/2011 02:16:00 AM
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