My good friend
Thomas
drawn July 19 ’05
posted for May 31, 2007
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Here’s Thomas, my wonderful violinist friend: quiet, nice guy, beautiful violin sound, and he likes basketball, skiing, and sports cars as well. I managed to draw him while he was watching some other people at CYMC play cards in the school foyer. This was his first year at CYMC, and I wish he’d started before (just I think his teacher wouldn’t let him, and he did say he found it gruelling even this year with all the quick learning). He also, along with Ben and Anthony, helped me perform the first movement of my quartet! By the way, I finished the expo of the third movement, so that should be skimming the e-mail channels pretty soon.
And perhaps I ought to say that this is supposed to be Thomas. It really only vaguely resembles him. He has brown hair, and I think grey eyes.
I’m getting good at running, I think, despite the fact that it’s rather hot out! I ran even more than yesterday and I felt just as untired. The temperature… it’s about 21 or 22 degrees outside (inside it’s 25 right now) and that’s not counting the sun or the wind. Today I didn’t pause so long by the duck pond, so I didn’t bother getting the ‘peaceful moment’ thing like yesterday, and my internal MD player kept going – it’s doing the Passepied from Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque, which I played this morning. Right now it’s doing the Minuet of the same source. Also, I met someone walking his dog at one point and then I met him again 2/3 -3/4 of the way around, so I went quite fast!
And I’m getting pretty certain that people are looking at me. I guess I look good. Now I just need to keep my face from turning red (read ‘purpley’) with heat.
I’ve stuck up a bunch of new chapters of Eirika’s story; I’d like to point out (if I haven’t already) that it’s completely unedited from the first typing, and also that a lot of the beginning text is lifted straight from the game: I had not yet gotten into the habit of making the story ‘my own’ besides the pairings and little deviations and descriptions and things. I began doing this later on in the story, about past Port Kiris or something. So it’s not the greatest story, but it improves imperceptibly towards the end. Also I have to make a small change near the end, and at this moment, I can’t remember what it is… I hope it comes back as I think it made sense.
