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well I've decided this: I'm going to try one more time to convince him, then I'm leaving. Exams are coming up and I don't want to waste my holidays trying to suck up to him. He could have used my skills, but now...
That's pretty good. I usually start out with my preferred attacker and see which of my other pokes cover the majority of the other person's pokes since most of my pokes are fairly versatile. I think it is a matter of personal style or approach.
Sunday doth approach.
Again, no stress but I'm releasing without you (perhaps I will edit in your part or perhaps it will be saved for a future issue, your choice) by Sunday.
Hope your break is going swell
Don't stress about it. Even if they don't go in this one they can fit in the next one, but something tells me my week is going to be so busy that it'll probably be released this weekend anyways. Also I'm still working out the details with TRC.