beat kotor2… female, light side.

sigh

My vote’s on the first one, if you’re trying to decide which one to pick up. I could have done without whole character arcs in this one.

still, the gameplay and music and story, such as it is, was enough for me to play to beat it, and i don’t have tons o time for games these days.

so, there you go.

Here’s a link to some great fanart and fancomics for the game:Lots of spoilers in it though, so be warned.
http://aimostudio.com/swkotor/index.htm

http://tubertarian.com/kotor2missingcontent.php (sound files and text files on the deleted parts)

Lots to say, but I have to jot it down quick, otherwise it fades away.
Two weeks ago, hosted a party of about 15 people who had gone to the Chicago Auto Show on Friday. The usual raucous bunch drank and partied, and everything turned out ok. Though at one point I had to dissuade one of them that no, they could not take our 2 gallon of milk down to the basement to someone who had been bet they couldn’t drink it in an hour, Saturday night. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of that ‘challenge’, but it always ends up with at least one person puking. Then we went to bed around 4, hoping the place would still be standing when we woke up. (and it was, and they cleaned the kitchen.)

The rest of the weekend was great though, we had bacon and eggs and cinnamon rolls and biscuits for breakfast, cooked up by pal Roofer. (Well I did the baking) And Saturday night, my mom brought by a turkey that she had cooked for us, with some stuffing. It was all carved up for us, and there was enough for all fifteen some people, and was a nice change of pace from the pizza call that usually goes out. Lots of Halo 2 and Halo 1 were played, as well as a bit of silly Eyetoy experimentation.

Last weekend,
Spent Saturday on publicity and history of Studio Antithesis, partially by checking my old journal entries. Everything blurs together, and we’re trying to get a better handle on when we did things. We also updated the Studio Calender with some birthdays and tenative Con dates. (Acen, Anime Iowa) Maciek colored the cute chibi’s that Allie made for us. Then he turned them into Buttons (pictures forthcoming)
We also printed and/or dated all reviews we have for S.A.T. and put them in a portfolio.

This week
Finally got my teeth cleaned (flash smile). I surprised dental technician, ‘Your teeth aren’t that bad at all’, likely due to the fact that I had actually followed my dentist’s suggestion from last month that I increase the flossing. (which also helped keep my gums from being overly sensitive while being clawed at during the cleaning)

I took yesterday off, partially due to the awkward time for the dentist appointment, but also due to the fact that Wednesday night I really felt weak and sick, and not fun. But somehow, after sleeping in, I was actually feeling really well. Especially well after the great dentist appointment which was far less pain and time than I thought it would be.

I didn’t even waste my time, I vacuumed all but two rooms in the house, windexed three mirrors, emptied two trashcans and did two loads of laundry.

I removed a bookshelf from the bedroom(to be used downstairs for dvd and games), and put together a little circle table to hold my lamp and alarm clock. All the junk on the bookshelf was then reappointed, to the guestroom bookshelves, or to the art room.

I hope my neighbors didn’t mind the 2 min vacuum job, really late at night, I did before putting the circle table in place. But I just couldn’t put things back in place without it, the dust had gotten thick in that corner.

I still ended up with time to defrost the chicken, and cook said chicken and make the cressant rolls and then later to make cinnamon rolls (leftover bag of premade from the party, but needing an hour to rise in the oven before baking), and to play a few hours of Harvest Moon on the Game Cube (my husband bought me a new memory card!).

Mini-college reunion
Originally uploaded by Metahari.

In the middle of a long party weekend, where we had about 15 people over, I snuck off to hang out with 5 UW-Pville alumni at Kim and Maciek’s place. Ace and Jess (former college roomates)had flown in from Seattle, and Dan and Becky and Chris had driven. It was so awesome to see them all. I really do miss these people, and while it’s nice we can connect online, it’s really great to be able to see them all face to face.

There were, of course, funny student stories from Chris, interesting work stuff from Ace (who wears an ipod to work, at a place that would rather he didn’t ) and wedding news from the Roqs pair. (Sounds like it’s coming along nicely)

It was a nice afternoon, to sit in the sunlight, pet the cats and nostalg. I hope to see all of them soon.

Year of the Rooster
Originally uploaded by Metahari.

It’s late, but I finished my Illustration Friday art! yay!

Happy New Year!

Dad was in early for an xray today, and the results were great!!!

His last xray had all sorts of tumors in his lungs, including a constellation of little dots all over, too numerous to count.

Today, none of those little stars of cancer were visible!!! And the larger tumors seemed to have shrunk 17-27%!!! This is great news. Dad is on a special small scale treatment trial, and it seems to really be working. These kind of results are hardly ever seen, especially after only the first round.

The doctor cautioned that the people running the trial may want another xray in about 4 weeks, if they don’t believe the data, but as far as we can tell the treatments are working very well.

I’ve been so zombie today, and now I’m really happy, but also spinning emotionally.
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We have a whole slew of people over for the weekend, they are currently over at the Chicago Auto Show. The house is mostly clean, and I’m looking forward to an evening of illustrationfriday, and maybe putting up some of my college anime posters in my art room.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.

Just about now, my father is getting xrayed, to see if the chemo treatments he’s been having, have been working…

If they have, then he gets another chemo treatment like normal.

Art night was fantastic last night, we had a full house of people over at ’s. At one point in the night we had two people pencilling pages, and two people inking pages, for three series total. That was very cool. Ray and Carlo talked writing. I also had a couple people notice my new hair, I have streaks of burgandy and a purply red in my hair right now. (Though I adore the brigher red streaks enough that I may go back in a couple weeks to get all my hair that color)

I got the full page 10 of Tabloid Roulette laid down on the page, loose pencils which I’ll be working on tightening up, after I do the loose pencil layout for page 11. I’m trying to work a bit faster, so doing two pages at a time. Happily, I think I’m getting faster at laying things down. I’m also very happy with page 10, I get to draw a lot of our Angry Rocker Chick panels, and that’s always fun.

I need to pick up the pace too, because our studio may be having a coffee shop art show, and I may need to have a full 4 pages down for that. (and our next Antithezine)

Aly has drawn chibis of some of our studiofolk, which is cool, though we only got to see the one she did for Ray, and it’s awesome.
showed off his new Apple Shuffle, which is darn cute.
Also, Joan saw the Grimm influence of my Balance piece right away (Swan Brothers), which made me happy.

We really have a great group of people in our Studio, many of us still surprised we are really working on comics/manga.

This is going to be a great year.