Manga and hair color on Sequential Tart

I'm back from Philly. I will post seperately on those adventures, although the photos may have to wait until I finish the roll of film.

sequentialtart has its own LJ now. I found an interesting four part article by Margaret O'Connell called "Why Is Manga and Anime Characters' Hair All the Colors of the Rainbow?", discussing the difficulties in determining hair color in manga series. (I maintain my old fan days of JEM prepared me for the multi-hued characters of manga and anime, although I never had any trouble accepting Max or Miriya's hair colors. I was just weirded out seeing Pizzazz with green hair in the flashbacks.)

Overview
part 1:
part 2: Otherworldly Shades
part 3: Blonds are Trouble
part 4: When Is a Blond Not a Blond?

For those of my flist who don't know, JK Rowling has an official site. Some of the info is creating the usual waves and wank.

Philly by way of Dulles

My new temp assignment is set for two weeks currently, ending on the Thursday before Memorial Day, so I can still go off for MediaWest. Somehow the wires got crossed on my actual hours, but I have been moved back to an earlier time. I was beginning to think I was going to start working later and later. The job is standard library work with some odd quirks. I'm used to large libraries where the mail is delivered several times a day. I'm used to having a stack of hand delivered dailies that have to go out immediately. In this new place, the mail is delivered once around noon. Instead of the constant barrage of new work, I may get a small trickle. Which is fine. I may wind up with some special projects, depending on my boss' whims. The one librarian was actually quite excited when she saw my HTML skills on my resume, because she prepares the daily web alerts. My boss, however, wants me to get the serials stuff under my belt before he'll let me do the fun stuff. It's just Homesite with a little formatting and cutting and pasting. Maybe he'll see how quickly I pick up the other stuff.

The commute is much shorter, which is a blessing. I'm really tired of transferring thither and yon. Now if the pay could just be a little better…

( Taking the steps of Philadelphia... )

( Air & Space at Dulles )