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Here are two pictures of this strange place in "winter":

 The oaks (???) in the park have held onto their leaves the longest.

Some flower thingy. After this one I saw rats in the park yay!

Whoops! Suddenly it's my last weekend here before Christmas!
I've been learning so much during the last month. I've drawn some backgrounds on some serious business animator paper and tried to get myself to understand what traditional Western animation styles might have to give to me. There are some things indeed, but I'm still taking baby steps. Quite surprisingly, I've learned a lot about using Premiere and After Effects! I seriously never thought this would be a thing, but I can actually touch them now and not scream and run away as they explode my work. Totally patting myself in the back here, pats all around!

I only noticed it was our Independence Day on the sixth because I was relayed this fact on the previous night. I never thought about it before but I realised that the UK does not have a day for independence, and this is... I don't know what it is and I don't really know if it makes any difference but I feel... well, it must be different celebrating things like "that one time we sent people to die" and not have it mean something as big as independence. I suppose those kind of things are always supposed to mean that the sacrifice was worth something but I do wonder what exactly. They have the fifth of November here though (which I didn't know was a real thing until I came here) and a Remembrance day for the WWII (which is more like Remembrance week if you ask me), when all the old people wear paper poppies on their chest. It was quite cool, almost like seeing a secret society forming around you spotting all those poppies on people in the street and on the bus and on the tube.

I'm still working on the HS title sequence, and with some urgency since I can't go to the school computers to work on it on Sunday?! Goddamn you English students who do not come to school on Sundays. So yeah, I need to draw loads today and compose the whole thing tomorrow. AAAAAAAA! Due to this haven't really got much done on our music video thing. To anyone who might be reading this, I'm sorry D:

Also I have a Christmas meal coming up with the GameSoc people on Sunday. Exciting. Also also also.

I've seen 30 episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena in three days. I love internet streams.