Kame No Tabi (A Turtle's Travels)

Ok, I wasn't going to post about this, but it's been almost 3 days since it happened, and it still irks me. Grrrr.

( Stuff about work )

Oh yeah, I *AM* working on NYCC 2010 entry (I know, I know, I'm really late) I should have it up by next week. :)

First the bad news. Contrary to what the CCI guide and website says, Peter Laird will NOT be at comic con international 2009. He says so here (scroll down to PL's fourth comment if the link takes you to the top of the page)
Sadness.

But to cheer you all up, here is an awesome TMNT pic I found:



Isn't it perty? I could watch it for hours ...

BTW, what *IS* a bookplate? and what does "tipped in" mean?

EDIT:

Tipped In: A separately printed illustration, etc., cut to the size of the leaf of a book and pasted along the inner margin of the appropriate text page prior to gathering. Such an illustration is said to be a "paste in." Tipping is a time-consuming, and therefore costly, aspect of book production. (Source)

Bookplate: A bookplate is usually a label pasted into the front of the book-- sometimes it says "this book is the property of: " and then you write your name on it. (source: cynlee)

Just a quick update on life, as none of these things are really related to one another.

1. I feel like such a heel because I was kissing on my girlfriend, soliloquy last night and then she wakes up this morning with a cold sore and she's never had one before. I feel around my mouth and sure enough, I have one open canker sore and another beginning of one. ARGH! I GAVE MY GIRLFRIEND HERPES! :-O (I know, I know, TMI and GROSS) I feel like such a jerk and a bastard, though :(

2. Saw the ending of "Battle Athletes Victory" last night. STOOPID ENDING! argh. I dislike the end of this anime almost as much as I dislike the ending of shaman king or the NONENDING of Inuyasha. I think I will rewatch the 6 episode OVA "Battle Athletes" tho, so I can see if Anna's "secret" is discussed or if I'm mis-remembering the anime. At least it's only 6 episodes of torture if it's craptacular.

3. Jennifer (soliloquy) is the most AWESOME girlfriend EVER. She bought me a year subscription to the game site I frequent, pogo.com! Here is a link to my profile It is AWESOMENESSS!! Do any of you out there play? I was so happy when she got me a paid subscription (even tho most of the games are free/adsupported) Now I can hang out in the same rooms she does all the time! :D

4. Amazon is being a dork today, as it has been doing since last thursday. Now I could deal with the not autofilling descriptions when I list a book for sale, but now it won't let me list AT ALL. ARGH. So I basically am UNABLE to do my job (list books for sale) and to make it worse, I've finished almost all the little menial tasks I save for when amazon or half.com is being douchey (ie, straightening books, fileing, emptying garbages, vacuuming, etc...) Thus, this is why ya'll get this long LJ entry from me. Joy of joys. THE BOOK SELLING FUNCTION WAS NOT BROKE, AMAZON! WHY'D YOU TRY TO "FIX" IT?!? *grumbles*

5. Jennifer and I are part of a weekly bowling league. On Saturday night, at league, I had a miniature mikey action figure with me. Jennifer was being super silly that night and wanted mikey to play in the ball return. Sadly, she has bad aim, and she accidentally threw him into the chasm where the bowling balls come out of. YIKEZEZ! NOOO!! MAI MIKEY!!! The dude who works there retrieved him for us, grumpily grumbling the whole time. Poo on him. He just didn't see the humor in it. ;)

ARGH.
This Book weirds me out. I sure hope that "robert standhardt" is a pen name. Cuz if you're born w a last name like standhardt and then become quadriplegic, then you KNOW someone up there is messing with you. ;P