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rheanna27 just sent me a kick-ass SGA comic script so I'll be over here, happily pencilling. I'm so excited! :O)

SGA linkage:

springwoof has a very pretty, very image-heavy post: Things I Liked Best About SGA, Part 3: The Spaceships!. So beautiful. So cool! Not to be missed.

I signed up for a French refresher course (gulp). I'm really more interested in working on my Japanese, but I plan to go to the annual comic festival in Angoulême next January, and I found a blog post by an artist who was there, which confirmed a) it's totally awesome and b) you totally need at least rudimentary French.

I've started to read through all my French bandes dessinées (well, I'm halfway through the first) so I won't make a fool of myself in class next month - I signed up for the one that said "had at least two years of French" which I have, only that was over 20 years ago. I can only hope everybody else's will be just as rusty. Right now I could order a baguette, that's pretty much it. All I can do is read French comics, I assume because the pictures carry half the story.

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Yeah, the colloquial language and puns and such make some French comics harder too. In my school you could pick between French and Latin in grade 7, and then in ninth grade the crazy overachieving people who liked languages (i.e. not me) could pick Italian or Spanish (I think) in cooperation with another school, and then in 11th grade you could pick French or Latin up again if you had the other before, and then there were some optional offerings starting in 11th grade too, like you could learn Arabic, which I think was rather popular because a bunch of people already knew it from their Koran classes so they had a headstart (even with the classic vs modern spoken issues and such), and hoped for an easy good grade.