My FAVORITE guys are the ones who are kind of slender, but still pretty manly, like...

or

...as opposed to the "buff" manly man, like a Kenshiro type.
 
I like some bishounen ( hello!), but they have to have a strong character and good design as well as being pretty.

My current word count is 6994, but I'll have to update that when I'm back on my other computer and do the full word count, it's probably a tiny bit higher (hopefully enough to bump me over 7k). I'm still only one day ahead, but hey, I've been busy! 
    
Yesterday we moved into our new office, which is across the lot from the main Whiskey office. We're considering referring to it as "Whiskey West," since the office is south and slightly west of the main spot. Most of yesterday consisted of building desks and chairs from Ikea/Best Buy and painting part of the wall to be a green screen (yes, we are going to have a green screen). <3 We still need a few things for the office (refrigerator, microwave, etc), but all in all things are in pretty good shape.
  
When I was waiting for my turn with the roller brush to paint, I started setting up a bunch of my figures. THEN I realized my desk is going to have to move to put up a big white board behind it. D'oh! Well, I'll just have to set them back up. Sara also got a pair of really nice figures (a Catwoman and a Batgirl) from a fan at Comic Vine, though I don't think she's taken them out of the box yet. I took a photo of my figures on Sara's iPhone, so hopefully I can share that (and more pics) later! I WOULD have taken it with my own video camera, but it was entirely out of battery since I recorded some of the building process. (Unfortunately the battery died so I couldn't get the whole thing-- sorry!)
 
Still, that'll probably come today or tomorrow, depending on how long it takes to import all the video into iMovie! @_@ 
 
I also wanted to start putting up posters (when I was in Japan Town for the Yokai exhibit and Battle League Horumo I stopped in at Kinokuniya and picked up some magazines to pull posters from-- Animedia, Animage, and Newtype, of course, although if I go back I may pick up a couple of Megami/Megami DXes, we'll see how much wall space I have).
 
If anyone else wants to donate something to decorate the new office with, feel free to mail it to us (just address it to Anime Vice and/or Comic Vine) at 1001 Bridgeway #226, Sausalito CA 94965! ;)

I kind of have the daylight savings time switch to thank for it (yay for accidental bonus hours), but I've been forcing myself to jam out words using every morning for 30-60 minutes, and so now my wordcount is 5,297-- over 10% of the target goal of 50,000 words. Hopefully that'll help sustain me on the inevitable days where I fall behind due to the usual insanity that is my life, not to mention the upcoming holidays!
 
Someone on the NaNoWriMo forums linked me to a really useful resource for the whole thing: Write or Die. I open it up in Opera and put it in full-screen mode (damn Mac Firefox's lack of full-screen mode, among other things), so I don't get distracted by other windows. If you stop typing, the screen starts to go red. If you keep not-typing then it starts to play music and sounds and stuff (starting with Hanson's Mmbop, the chorus on repeat, no joke). I've never actually gotten to that point on the tool-- I had to let it sit there intentionally to find that out. @_@;;
 
But it's amazing how just the mindset of not wanting to let down this silly little programmed tool can be in terms of making you just write. Which is always the key on this thing: just write, it doesn't matter if it's not the perfect word or the right direction for the story. 
 
That's what National Novel Editing Month is for ;)

I think I've mentioned before that I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year-- that's NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth, for those of you unfamiliar, and the idea is basically to aim at jamming out a full 50,000+ words in a single month. Some people manage to go way beyond that length, and some never get close. I've never successfully completed it, but I'm hoping this might be the year! Although for me, it'll be a success if I finish the story I'm trying to tell, even if I don't make it to a full 50k words.
 
That said, the daily target is 1,667 words (1,666.66666... words, technically). Today I reached 2,736! Let's see if this widget works...
 
Apparently not! NaNo seems to be having some problems. I'll figure it out later ^_^

It's a very quiet day today, and I mean that both in terms of news and in terms of actual volume: since John and I will be heading out shortly to go to San Francisco and visit the New People center, where they're having a special yokai exhibit at VIZ Cinema, I've stayed home from the office today.
 
After the exhibit we'll be seeing the 6pm showing of Battle League Harumo, which should be fun. Somewhere in there we're grabbing dinner, too, so this basically counts as the start of our weekend-- and we'll have some videos from the center for you up tomorrow, on Halloween night!
 
That said, I think our plans for Halloween are pretty calm. We're hoping to explore around the area a bit more tomorrow, and I'd like to get some more unpacking done in the apartment, and then we'll stay in and find out what kind of trick-or-treaters we get here.
 
Sunday marks the first of November, which is also the first day of NaNoWriMo, so hopefully I can jam out at least the 1,667 words that are the daily target (preferably more)! Though I'll need breaks, which will probably be filled with more anime and unpacking.
 
What are you doing this weekend?