"But losing isn't anything."

So, I'm a bad, bad blogger. By all rights, I should be updating every few days, boring any hypothetical readers I've yet to drive away out of their skulls.

Well, perhaps not the last, but I could have at least told you about the remarkably freakish weather we had at the beginning of the month.

What I can give you is an update on the last entry.

I won!

Not the grand prize, but first runner up, which nets me a copy of the Revolutionary Girl Utena Movie, which I already have, but that's beside the point.

Usually whenever one of my creative endeavours is selected for something besides mockery, I end up wondering "Just how bad were the other options?!"

Looking over the competition, some of them are quite good, and I kind of think the third in line should have placed higher (or lower, depending on how one reads the order they're presented in), but I definitely can't argue with the first place winner. Much better than my contribution, which gets by more on technique than substance, or even style, in my opinion.

It really does feel quite good to be awarded something on merit. Even if part of me still considers the judges' standards to be too low, and I had to find out that I'd won via a chance visit to the related Toonzone discussion forum instead of actually being informed, as I thought I'd be.

I just hope the DVD doesn't get lost in the mail.

[0] Words of wisdom from Charlie Brown, in response to "Winning isn't everything".