Part 1 of this crappy analysis is here.

Now that we've got a full field of finalists, we have to wait until Saturday, when everybody goes head-to-head one more time for European pop domination.

( Cut for music videos of crappy Europop... )

Alrighty, just one more round on Saturday - the finals - and then we have to wait another year for crappy music. Or we could just listen to the radio and hear a lot of it. That, too.

This is one of those things that's aimed at nobody in particular, just at my life. I've become super-frustrated with one aspect of my life lately and I'm working on changing it, so here is a rant about myself.

( Cut for therapeutic wank... )

Again, this is aimed at nobody but myself. I'm just frustrated with myself for doing too much for other people and not enough for myself again. It's a bad habit that I need to stop because I'm not very good at taking care of myself because I'm so focused on taking care of the rest of the world.

I know I'm an American and what I think about these songs really doesn't matter, but whatever. I watch Eurovision even though I can't vote in it.

Let's start off by talking about the ten songs that made it through to the finals, and after that I'll talk about the songs that didn't make it through because they were crappy/strange/etc. The ten that made it through were pretty predictable since they stood out from the rest of the field by being listenable.

( Lots of videos under here... )


And that's it for today! I'll do the next round on Thursday after that's all done - and then I'll wrap up the final on Saturday!

They've asked to do a background check on me and checking my references and stuff.

I'm going to have a job, guys! It's not much, but it's a real job!

This silly ask blog has just received its 149th question.

I'm really not used to things I do being liked, like, ever.

This is so surreal.

Now I'm going to go and write a game recap and work on the webcomic and stuff.

I just realized I haven't introduced any of you to the cast of the webcomic and I'm bored and waiting for my stomach to feel a little better so I can try eating (it feels a bit like food poisoning - am I ever going to catch a break here?). I guess the best way to go about introducing everyone to you is by posting their character sheets here and whatnot. I keep debating whether or not I want to make an ask blog for the webcomic - Ask Rogue Squadron gets a disturbingly large amount of questions (and I'm horribly behind on it due to all my recent illnesses and other mishaps).

I hate that I'm so behind on that, by the way. I was doing really well with keeping up with it until all these issues happened.

Anyways, there's a Facebook fan page for the webcomic, which I'd really appreciate people liking because it'll help to spread the comic around a little more. You can like it here.

And now...character sheets!

( There are sixteen of them. My apologies. )

And there we go, that's everyone! A lot of them are old friends, but there's quite a few new people in there, as well, so feel free to let me know how you like the new folks!

Too many things have happened. Some are good, some are bad, but all are overwhelming.

Seriously.

I think the best way to go about this is making a bullet-pointed list, since this has just gotten ridiculous lately.

• Got bronchitis.
• Had residual fluid in my ears due to the bronchitis.
• Recovered health and celebrated 23rd birthday (LOL OLD), then went to an information session for Pratt SILS.
• Did most of Pratt application.
• Went to see Donald Glover in concert with cherrycoloured. Received concussion from idiot crowd surfer slamming into the back of my head. Photos and videos are here.
• Recovered health and got sick again, likely from picking up the copy of Motor Trend in the doctor's office when having concussion examined. Well, they shouldn't have put a Bugatti Veyron on the cover, then.
• On Tuesday, Chase's brakes failed on a double-apex turn. He oversteered on me and although I was able to mostly pull him out of it, he still ended up halfway on the meridian. If I hadn't known the proper driving technique to get the car to turn sideways, I would have flown over the meridian and onto the highway, facing what could have been certain death. Top Gear legitimately saved my life because that's where I learned the technique.

And here we are. Chase is currently in the car hospital, but he's going to make a full recovery. That car is a tank. After finding out he wasn't totaled yesterday, I made him a Facebook fan page. Tomorrow, I have a job interview for a real job - as a historical interpreter (i.e. tour guide). It's not much, but it's the first step in my professional history career, so I'm super-excited and hoping that I can land the job!

I guess I'll end this post with a photo of my tank and I. We've been friends for five and a half years now.

So I've got a webcomic now. It actually has been going for nine weeks so far, and I'm going to draw week ten's installment on Sunday because that's the day I've devoted to working on it.

I reused a lot of the SOFT girls for this and brought in some new people. Now they're historians in New Jersey, and they still get to be total geeks and do stupid things. They're basically themselves still.

Anyways, you can go and read it by clicking on the banner below:

I figured I'd just go down the list of conventions I'm definitely going to be at this year just in case anyone on my friends list will also be there - because then we can meet up. And that would be pretty fantastic.

• MangaNEXT: February 24th-26th in East Rutherford, New Jersey
• AnimeNEXT: June 8th-10th in Somerset, New Jersey
• New York Comic Con: October 11th-14th at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, NYC

Those are my three definites. I'm only going to be selling at NYCC this year as far as I know, but I'll be helping out cherrycoloured and mydarkloard as they sell this year. Buy their stuff - it's awesome!

In addition, if the fates allow, I may be at Otakon this year, but that's uncertain so I don't really know if it'll happen or not. Also, the convention of my dreams, Star Wars Celebration VI, would be magical if I could get there, but I don't have the funds to get myself to Orlando at the moment (unless everyone who asks questions on the Ask Rogue and Wraith Squadrons blog made a fund for me or something insane like that). Someday I'll get there and meet people and sell art and gab wildly about Rogue Squadron with people. Someday.

So...yeah, that's basically it! Are you going to be at any of these cons? Let me know and we can rendezvous!

One week ago, I created an ask blog for Rogue and Wraith Squadrons of Star Wars fame. Their stories were a major part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe in the '90s.

One week later, and they've been asked 52 things. Fifty-two. I didn't expect this blog to be as popular as it is. I'm stunned. Really, really stunned. But I'm thrilled that I've finally done something on the internet that's popular/liked! It makes me feel strangely good about myself.

So far, I've gotten through 45 out of 52 questions, with 44 of those being posted right now (I just finished one and haven't scanned it in yet). I'm having tons of fun with this, and it's all because the followers are really interacting with the characters and being awesome.

Does anyone know if there are any other Star Wars ask blogs or if I'm the only one? I'd love for there to be more because there are so many characters that would give amazing answers to everything.