This week I had a some time off from my master thesis. I've come to a point that the text is pretty much done (in my opinion anyway). I just need to create the appendix and sort out the lay-out. That meant I had more time to draw this week! So I managed to create a small buffer for SoL and add some new pictures to the galleries. My to-do-list is finally starting to shrink a little!

Well, I survived the trip to Essen. Don't ask me how. At least I didn't have to drive there myself. We (all the Dutch researchers) carpooled together. Before we went, I had to pick out an outfit, of course. So I went with classy brown jeans and a mint-colored top and jacket. It looked classy, especially together with my brown leather shoes. But wouldn't you know it? I didn't have any matching socks! So I spent 10 minutes digging through my closet to find matching, or at least neutral (white) socks. When I couldn't find any, I had two options: 1. Change my outfit, or 2. try to find socks that more or less approached the right color. I didn't really want to change my outfit, so I wanted to find suitable socks. The problem was that the most suitable socks, which best approximated my minty-brown (mint-chocolate?) outfit were...
Purple... with pink and cream stripes...

So I wore those socks anyway and hoped for the love of all that was good, that my pants would cover my socks anyway. Unfortunately, life can be cruel. I don't know if my pants have slightly shrunk in the laundry or something, but they certainly didn't cover my festive socks. So I stuck my feet far beneath my seat and hoped nobody would notice.
When we arrived in Essen, all the other researchers there were all German. And they were speaking a lot of German. In fact, they looked at me (who really sucks at German) as if they had never heard someone speak English before. I was the only one to present my paper in English too. Most of the discussions were in German. Lunch (which was HUGE, by the way) was in German. Even the cityscape was all German, and we weren't really all THAT far from the Dutch border, let me tell you. So yeah, felt a little lost.

But I survived to tell the tale! And update the website, of course. I got two new fan art pictures, which were part of an art trade. I've also uploaded the Girafarig tutorial. Boy, that thing was HARD!

Seriously. I do. Stupid master thesis... I also got volunteered to present a paper during a symposium in Essen (Germany) next Tuesday. That's not a typo; I really got volunteered. Oh well, I guess it'll get be out of my room for a day, so whatever. I don't think I've ever been in Essen either. *Sigh* Anyway, there are three new pictures in the galleries, most of which were on my to-do-list on the status page, so I'm glad they're done:

Time flies! It's June already. I'm still working on my master thesis, but I hope that will be done by about the end of this month. Hopefully, this will leave me with a decent summer vacation, unlike last year...
Bad memories...
Anyway, there are two new sketches in the galleries and I've received a fan art picture, which was my prize for winning one of the contests, I entered a while ago: