Before & After & Inbetween

My doctorate thesis is eating my life kind of fierce. As in about the only time I notice anything past the TeX-files and its pdf-compilation is when I have to run around doing the chores that can't be postponed until after it's done (like shopping for foodstuff - no, I'm not nerdy enough to survive on pizza deliveries (though I am tempted to try, thank you)). Story writing is postponed until (a) afterwards or (b) my muse throws a fit and comes after me with something long and deadly. Whatever happens first.

Anyway, yesterday's first shopping race brought me face to face with something I managed to overlook ignore up until now (despite allergies): ( Spring & its pretty trees )

And h_san made this beautiful fanart for the Dekagram gallery:

(eclectic selection)

( don't click if you expect tourist stuff )

A long-time reader, who doesn't want to be given credit, recently went spot-sighting in the area of Tokyo where I made up Seishiro's house to be.
Given that I invented it in 2005 (before Google Streetview!) based on a Falk city map of Tokyo (1:15000), the findings are almost scary...

( see three large images for yourself )