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So it’s 3:30 on a Wednesday afternoon, and I’m in the grey area between out of school for summer and one last final that’s mostly a joke. One of my group members from the 80Y project called me earlier- apparently the site that we had to upload our project to is nowhere near sufficiently stable, and consequently lost the comic book that we wrote. We’re trying to contact the professors, and things should turn out relatively okay in the end, but I swear I’m going to fucking cry if this ends up hurting our final grade. buuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh

Aughhh

So it’s the last week of spring quarter, and I’m pretty wiped out. I’ve been averaging one paper a week for the past four weeks, and I have a comic book and two more papers due at the beginning of next week. But at least next week is the last week of the quarter and I get summer break after this where I can kinda relax.

I haven’t really been doing much actual drawing outside of what I have for school (I still need to edit the comics I did over spring break), but I was able to come up with a bunch of ideas and stuff for when I get drawing time over the summer.

I ended up watching “Inception” with some friends last night, and it was pretty cool. Eventually I want to write a full story-comic kinda like that. Maybe when I finally finish with UW or get to the point where I would feel comfortable rebooting it as a serial with more of an overarching plotline than bored twentysomethings looking for things to do and/or make fun of.

Where I am now

Alright, so it’s the last night of spring break before I go back to school. I tried to get 18 comics done in eight days. I managed 17, and ran out of steam and ideas tonight. I posed these 18 comics to myself as a challenge- can I go from zero to full-steam with little/no warm-up, creativity-wise, and do I have the stamina to keep up two to three comics a night? I also did this little challenge as a way of forcing myself to keep busy/happy so I don’t crash after shit ending to shit quarter. I crashed once for one night. I guess I got close, but close isn’t good enough. Hopefully I’ll be able to get one more done tomorrow before I head off to Santa Cruz. The good news in all of this is that now I have basically all of August done, and Spring quarter hasn’t even started yet. Well, hopefully I’ll get my drawing mojo back at some point, but yeah.

Final Post 2010

So it’s New Year’s Eve. Dresden Dolls are playing in San Francisco, but I wasn’t able to get tickets, which is kinda a bummer, and I’m in San Mateo where there’s not really anybody to hang out with, which is also kinda a bummer. This evening has actually been pretty good though. I went to a classy Italian restaurant with my parents and had a classy meal, and then I came home, watched a few episodes of Doctor Who and got some drawing done. I wrote out a comic about confusing Kandinsky and Toucan Sam, made a desktop background for download from The Quill, and did a Holiday Present comic for my friend Julia. I wish I could talk about that comic, but then that would be running the risk of ruining the surprise. But it is super neat. You know, maybe it means I’m a boring person or that I’m doing it wrong, but somehow I feel like I’m enjoying my NYE just sitting around drawing (especially doing comics for people) and watching Doctor Who more than if I was out doing stuff with people.
You know, life is pretty good.

Prost.

Needle In The Camel’s Eye

So it’s Christmas Eve. My parents and I already exchanged gifts, I think it’s safe to say everybody is extremely satisfied with what they got.
For some reason there’s just a lot of stuff buzzing around in my head. I had a migrane earlier today, which kinda sucked, but right now my head doesn’t hurt and the room isn’t spinning around too much. I’ve also been watching the show “Twin Peaks,” which I find quite enjoyable… I’d highly suggest it to fans of “Doctor Who.” Also, I’ve noticed that stuff that I watch/read tend to make it into my comics as obscure jokes, like a few of the recent comic-script-things that I’ve written have hidden/esoteric references to “Twin Peaks,” “Goats” (the webcomic), and as usual, “Dune.” Also been doing a lot of drawing which is, you know, totally a big surprise. I’m about 1/3 of the way through a plot arc about dating and Strip Risk (the board game Risk, but with stripping), and I have a few ideas as to what to do after that. I’ve also done holiday gift comics for Darlene and Kendal, still need to do ones for Julia and whomever else I think of… They’re pretty neat.
Next week I think I’m going to both the second part of the Musée d’Orsay impressionist exhibit at the De Young and a Sharks game… That should be exciting.

Blogdump

So apparently my life is a teen drama.
A couple of my friends got together (like as a couple) the other day, which I think is great (and I also don’t really care that much), but apparently it’s sending like crazy drama waves through that portion of my friend group. Ugh. I don’t know how like four or five people can be so bad at relationship stuff that it manages to drag pretty much everybody else in the group down with them.
Drama bores me. Singleness 4 evar.

Tea, Drawing, and Talking Heads

Man, I could get used to this.
Ran into some cartoonists’ block, but that’s cool… I’m like over six months ahead with UW, and have some holiday drawings for various people piling up, so I’ve been sipping my mom’s berry flavoured tea, working on the most epic surprises of the drawing sort that I wish I could talk about but can’t, and listening to the Talking Heads. Man, winter break is pretty neat.

So Apparently AC/DC is Good Drawing Music?

I wrote out a few comics the other day, so I’m drawing them while listening to “Back in Black” by AC/DC… It’s pretty neat, and I dunno, I guess now I’m old (or mature or whatever) to actually appreciate AC/DC’s music. I mean, after listening to the first few songs of “Black in Black,” I can totally see why my friend Logan is so into AC/DC. I also listened to “LP” by Ambulance LTD for the first time earlier this evening, and somehow it was the exact kind of album that I really wanted to listen to at the time. Apparently my friend Julia knows my taste in music better than I do. Speaking of friend stuff, I should prolly work on holiday gift comics for people. I’ll do that tomorrow/when I’m done with the comic I’m working on now.