In honour of the new year [and because I was bored, and Gremlin did it first], I restarted my Animal Crossing: Wild World town.

A while back, when I was thoroughly hooked on the game and could think of nothing else, I would mentally compose blog entries from the point of view of my character in the game. Today's would've gone something like this:

I got sick of Nowhere, so I decided to move. Also, I was so sick of being me that I deleted myself and got a new face.

Podsixia [my new home] is...a lot like Nowhere. Except it's like Nowhere when I first moved there. Same crappy little store, same empty Museum, and goddamnit, same fucking raccoon. What'd he do, clone himself? I can't get away from him.

As usual, he made me do a whole bunch of work for almost no money [no actual money, anyway, just a lousy thousand bells off my mortgage -- and I miss my big house, but not the roach infestation I came back to after my six month vacation].

Part of that 'work' was meeting the other residents -- some strange dayglow frog with a workout fetish, a freakish native american totem pole with a female name that starts with A, and a goat.

At least my house is on the far edge of town, away from everything. It makes it easier to hide the bodies....

At least I got the freakish black bug-eyes this time. It makes the mental storyline of my character being a crazed serial killer that 'moves people out' and sends letters saying they've moved out so much easier to believe....

While I was thinking about resetting the game, I noticed that I have way too many Nintendo DS games for my clever Altoids Gum Tin Carrying Case idea. I've filled three of the things, and that doesn't include the Max Media Drive I got last year...because that's somewhere that's else. Gremlin has it.

Unfortunately, nobody seems to make nice little wallets for DS games that carry more than the average gum tin.

From the land of random: I got an extremely late birthday card today, included in a package that contained the recent National Geographic -- the one with the Dracorex hogwartsia [who's responsible for that one?] on the cover. Unfortunately, the supplemental wasn't in the magazine.

The card was cute, though. It's got this precious little orange tabby kitten in a jeans pocket. I can't read half of what's written in it, but I think that was expected.

Anyway, have a very wonderful NoMailDay [and a delayed service day in general -- my trash doesn't go until Wednesday], and...I'm going to try very hard to get these damned suckers right on this one drawing I've been working on since before I got this wonderful new wacom.