Happy Halloween. I’m going to a party at a friend’s place. Going as cookie monster, sort of an outwards appearance of what my soul really is. I’d show you a picture, but I only have the material and the plans and am making it Friday, so you’ll have to wait until Monday.
Wednesday I plan to paint ALL DAY. I am very excited and working hard to get everything done today so i won’t have to think about it tomorrow. 🙂
Had a fun weekend. Went out with friends Friday night. Saturday I perused the farmer’s market before getting a coffee and setting down to write for a couple hours at the library. Later, just before it began raining, I even got some racquetball in. Sunday I went and saw “Dead Poet’s Society” on the big screen, which is such a lovely film. Then I spent a relaxed evening fiddling with reference photos for a new painting and coloring Little Dee pages.
Oh, and Friday, on my way out, I figured out how to form my next comic project together. I found the glue for it so-to-speak. That was exciting.
The jet pack was my Chekov’s gun. 😉
Listening to T.H. White’s “The Once and Future King,” and I’m enjoying it much more than I should. The mournful love between the characters, the desperate desire to avoid war.
I need my days to slow down. It has been non-stop and I can’t seem to get caught up on all the extra stuff so I can get caught up on the other stuff. But the residency was mailed off, and the grant application is now ready to go. Almost.
I still ate okay today and played racquetball. Remember that lesson, kids! It’s important to take care of yourself.
And I had some cookies. Because that’s important too.
Spent the weekend doing some fun things. Went for a walk with a friend. Got material to make a Cookie Monster costume for Halloween. Ate cookies. Played racquetball.
I also finished compiling documents for an art residency as well as an art grant — so keep your fingers crossed.
Stweart and I (mostly Stewart) are still puttering at the site. Next is to build individual directories for each comic. some layout stuff. See if we can convince WP to let readers click on the comic to navigate to the next strip. Good stuff. Thank you for your patience.
Spent some of the day working on a grant proposal, and some on a residency proposal. Worked on a freelance job, and got some coloring done. Still feel out of it. I need toothpicks to prop open my eyelids.
The site is coming together though. Stewart C. Baker (fiction and poetry writer, check him out at Infomancy) has been working hard with the brilliant support of Corey here and there too. Yay!
The current plan is to have the main page show ALL the comics, and then have unique directories for each project. If you have any thoughts of functionality or design you think would be good, don’t hesitate to shout out.
I am nearing the end of my trip and I’m winding down. Feeling tired and brain-soggy and missing my routine diet, my routine exercise, my sweetie, my cats, and my bed.
Which leaves me with no idea what to blog about. 🙂
Today, in Olympia WA I stopped in ONE of the best comic stores I’ve ever been in, Danger Room Comics, where I got to have a lovely conversation with Frank who ranks me as one of his most difficult to please customers EVER. Man-o-man do I remember him always trying to find something both to my taste and that I’d never read. But “The Rabbi’s Cat” and “Isaac The Pirate” I have to credit him with. Rock on, Danger Room.
The only true enemy in a competition, is one who says that competition is dumb.
Had a good weekend visiting more friends. And I’ve been getting a lot of work done on this trip too, since it seems most of my friends are working M-F 9-5. One of the things I love about my job is that it fits in my backpack.
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I’ll be at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, OR this weekend, table #526. Come stop by!
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I’ll be at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, OR this weekend, table #526. Come stop by!
I had a good weekend. I painted (can’t show you because it’s a gift), saw Ralph Nader speak, made a huge pot of soup. A bit quiet (and lonely) with my sweetie away traveling, but it’s a good chance to get ahead on work, and the cats are happy to distract me as much as possible.
