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Before everyone starts telling me in the comments - Yes, i'm aware that as much as birds are cute, they are nasty. I was afraid of getting near it and afraid that I would have to go to work with Owl scratchies or worse. I was very cautious. I only tried to pull on the plastic wrap because it looked loose, almost as if somebody had sandwich-wrapped the owl's wing. It was trying to get it off by scratching. I never would have tried if it looked stuck.  I wanted to help because the owl was in the park I cross everyday to go to work... and well kids start to play there EARLY. If the plastic looked stuck, I would have just continued to work and called animal control. I'm not silly or cruel to animals. Plus I love owls.

I was still afraid this one was going to kill me. Sweet Oz. I was scared. This counts as my courageous and good Samaritan action of the week as a double-combo.

In other news. I have no life. A combination of lack of hours, travels, general geekdom and  laziness after a day of work have made is so that my art-related-work is in a horrible bottleneck of badness. I'm pretty much turning into a hermit in the next few weeks to catch up. I'll tell you guys more about that in the next post, along with a bit of an explanation about life as a part-time artist.

For now, I am AMAZED, in a bad way, at Japan again. Apparently, the ideal size for a woman over there is a size 2. Anything beyond is considered fat. WHAAAAAAAAAT! I know that asian women are smaller but, WHAAAAT? This is apparently encouraging anorexia and suicide nowadays among our sisters of the island. I'm outraged. Whenever I feel shameful about my weight (a pitiful size 8 to 10) I just read some kind of tabloid. The pure outrage I feel towards these outrageous standards and unrealistic expectations boosts my confidence. 

Ridiculous.

Lemme tell you that a size 10 character is a lot more fun to draw then a size 2. Curves are awesome. 

- Isa

EDIT : As mentioned in the comments, you should not encourage people to be incredibly thin or tell them to let it be and remain overweight. Feminism is not an excuse for laziness on unhealthiness. Perfection should be being healthy.

Really thin people don't exercise more then overweight ones. They usually try to do exercise to become thinner, and then discover that muscles actually take a lot of room. So the stop exercising, atrophying the muscles and stop eating to diminish the fat. So neither thin or fat people are necessarily healthy. What should be encourage is health, no matter what your "healthy weight" is. Because some people are naturally smaller and others bigger. And charts can determine that according to origin, diet, exercice routines and height.

Okay. I'm a bit hyper right now.
I saw a few friends I haven't seen in a while this week, mainly some old pals from Montreal and Toronto. It's so good to have a week off. But tomorrow is my last day off >_< Noooo.
Monday i'm starting my new job at Tim Hortons (and for those you keep saying it: yes, i'm aware Tim Hortons is evil, but at least it's corporate evil, which is going to do me some good after my job of small buiness ran by an ignorant evil) 
Aside from that, I have terrible writter's block right now...anybody knows how to cure that?
I also need to go finish some drawings...
I,m a bit irritated because a lot of people I know are going to the Montreal Anime Convention but nobody seems to have a little place for me to join in the car! Two of my friends are traveling with a parent going to visit her son living in Montreal. Another of my friends is going to go see her boyfriend at the same time and dosen't want me to go because i'm going to intrude on what they are obviously planning on being sex. 4 other friends are going and say the car is full and they don't want me to share it with them and/or share their hotel room. Arh!!!!! Why won't people accept me to tag along >_< I don't have the cash to pay for bus tickets and a hotel room on my own!
So i'm not going to the convention...
Here's a curse: may you all get sunburn...
One day I WILL go to a stupid convention. And if I have a damn car, i'm going to go alone...Mwer.
On better news, the little bookstore in my home town is back! It burned down with a whole mall last summer (yes, one of our malls was set on fire) and i'm in charge of the comic book section ^_^ Maybe one day i'll get a full time job there rather then just little contracts and volonteer work...At least the comic selection is really good!

Week long vacations are turning me into a big lazy monster. I've been sluging around since monday.