Adam Arnold has spent his days writing and sleeping ever since he left a nightmare of a job working tech support. In fact, Adam has so much time on his hands now that he spends every waking minute on the Internet. What does he have to show for it? A new webmanga at over at Gomanga.com called Aoi House and an ever increasing collection of Diet Pepsi cans clogging his desk and floor. At least Animefringe's February issue looks damn spiffy.

Andrew Chanthaphone has been stuck at work for ages and seems to have no luck with hard drives. Prepping for another bodybuilding show again this year. Wow, meathead anime lover! Looks forward toward another inexpensive valentines day (cause he has no girlfriend). All the sudden he's became a chef and is cooking some kick ass dinners.

Chris Istel spends his days crying because of his low amount of anime-purchasing money, taking pictures of the mounted deer in his friend's basement, and raising Gold Chocobos in Final Fantasy VII... When not doing these things or watching anime, he's sitting around listening to the Garden State soundtrack and reading manga. Gunbound is also once again becoming a massive time-consumer. When outside, he snowboards.

Janet Crocker has just got a career-ish job, working with special needs kids. *cue the awww!* Hopefully, she can still keep her double life as an avid anime watcher and manga mass consumer secret. Oh, screw it. Manga and anime can be educational too, right? Besides, a better job just means more money to support my habit...er, hobby. One good thing about my job: lots of spare time on the clock and reading is even encouraged! Yay!

Joe Luscik has recently gotten some good news with his brother now being newly employed. This means that now he can try and grub money off of another person to purchase anime -- namely the great, but pricey Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex special addition. Also with his girlfriend being in Austrilia for the semester, Joe will need lots of money to mail gifts to the other side of the world. In between trying to get cash, he's been attempting to run and make this last season of track respectable.

Lesley Smith has been suffering from Newtype USA withdrawal and is about to return to the wonderful world of studying. When not learning shorthand or making iTunes playlists, she is watching Ah! My Goddess and playing the Japanese version of Project Zero 2: Crimson Butterfly. Despite completing it twice without a guidebook, she has yet to complete the Ghost List. Her only foray into the outside world this month has been to walk the dog once a day into the nearest town to beg the librarians to give her books for her journalism course.

Maria Lin is dreaming up an anime that depicts the high-speed, take-no-prisoners world of underground New Jersey Ska. She thinks it would be like Beck, but with less Engrish and more sax. If that doesn't work, she'll add some bar-hopping vampires. Not one to be outdone by cuteness, she's showing off her pooch. "Make me happy," he says. "Give Maria manga!"

Patrick King wishes he could spend more time reading manga, watching anime, and writing about it all instead of working double overtime on a project for the USPS writing uber-secret software. However, he's trying to rig it so that he can import stuff for free from Japan...or perhaps ship himself there whenever he gets a sorely needed break from his Java death march.

Shannon Fay has been snowed in a lot lately, which has given her lots of time to catch up on her anime watching and manga reading (that is, when the power's still on). When not reading manga or shoveling snow, Shannon likes to watch Asian movies such as the Infernal Affairs trilogy and anything else starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. Shannon's rabbit in the Chinese zodiac, which is only brought up as an excuse to use the really cute bunny pic you see here.