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I am thinking about talking about this on artists_beware because good lord. This guy named Reon wanted to work with me really super badly... Does he know my LJ name? Well, if he's reading, he should read this and maybe he'll see why artists turn him down.
In early spring this guy suddenly noted me on DA praising my Suicide Consultant story, which is nice, but then he started bragging about how he's an accomplished writer and wants very much to work with me, which is too bad for him because I typically work alone. I very politely turned him down saying I like to write as well as draw, and if I ever collaborated, which is unlikely, it would be with someone else living in Japan. I thanked him for his interest, and he in response said he understood but hoped we could stay in touch. Nice guy, I thought...
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I am having a hard time getting to sleep, and it's been like this for weeks. I am just never tired, and I've been staying up until the sun comes out and waking up in time for lunch. Last night I was able to go to sleep at 2 am and wake up at 7:30 like a normal person. I said hello to my bird, started laying out some pages to work on, and then my PMS cramps crippled me. I took some medicine and laid down next to my dog playing iPad games and then fell asleep an hour later. Woke up at noon. I was so close to fixing my sleep schedule... Ended up doing very little art today. Hero wanted to go to the mall, and we spent the rest of the day there picking up supplies, food, and a Robocop shirt for $14. I just had to have it.
I also had to have the two blocks of feta cheese andthe jar of fake feta cheese for over $26 all together. I honestly think all my hard work buying the tiny packs of fake feta cheese has paid off because this is the first time they had larger packs, let alone full on blocks of REAL feta cheese from Greece. They are rewarding my dedication to sheep cheese by upgrading their stock, and I feel I must buy it. But what really propelled me to buying two instead of one block was the fact the expiration date was my birthday. It was FATE.
Krispy Kreme came to my town, and Hero and I were pretty grossed out. I had forgotten how insanely sweet they are. Bleh! When we finished our donuts we immediately bought bottled water to wash the sweet out.
Something excellent happened; Hero had noticed that the Magic Bullet display was gone at the mall and tried to be an ass and promised me he'd buy Magic Bullet for me "if they have it", knowing I'd get excited and then be disappointed. Turns out they had just moved the display one aisle over, so when we saw it I exclaimed he had to keep his promise. So I've got a Magic Bullet mixer being delivered this week. Hurray! My current mixer overheats way too easily and can't handle mixing meat, and once the bottom twisted off and pasta sauce went everywhere.
Looking over this, I realize how sad my life is. Oh well.
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Stabbing yourself in the hand with an art knife fucking hurts.
Also, my husband is entirely unprepared to handle emergency bloodshed. Blood was pooling in my hand and the first thing he brings out are band-aids. Currently it's wrapped in a red towel with a bag of ice... I think he put every single ice cube in the tray inside a tiny sandwich ziplock bag. Kind of cute, but if we have children he's going to need to learn some simple first aid. Definitely glad we have antiseptic around but I'm dreading it. This will hurt, I stuck half of a three centimeter blade into my palm.
And how did I do that? I had an itch and forgot I was wielding a knife. It happens when you are a fucking ape.
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My sleep schedule is way way off. Hero didn't get home until 10 last night, so we didn't eat until almost midnight. At 1 am we were discussing his business and then got in a really stupid argument over small packet pricing (since we were talking about magazines, I said pricing is by weight only, and for something that size it is, but then Hero was like "what if you wanted to send a piece of styrofoam that's the size of a piano? That's not just a couple of bucks! You're being unusually dim today" so then I left the room because mmmkay WTF). I went into my room and worked on Dreamweaver on my web layout. Holy goodness, Dreamweaver used to be this completely unreliable program ten years ago, but now it is MAD helpful. Especially since I don't know CSS... apparently frames and tables are more or less something of the past and now it's all this new fancy code. Since I want to learn it, rather than have the software do all the work I imported a simple layout off the web and I'm playing with it. I ended up playing with it until just before five am, when my dog, who won't go to bed unless I go to bed, kept trying to get me to go to sleep with him.
Turns out Hero must have stayed up late working on his website plans because at 9 am I heard him wake up, laugh, pick up his phone, and call work apologizing for not being there. He normally leaves right before 8 am so he was unusually late. I'm always late, but it's a rare thing for him. I don't think he realized I was going on less than four hours of sleep, though, because he tackled me and kept trying to talk to me. Then he said I was making some sort of Down's Syndrome face and by then my bird started going NUTS. So Hero left, and I grabbed Boo's cage half in a stupor and took him in next to the bed and set his cage down, opened the door, said good morning, fed him, and then went to bed with the cage door open. So he fluttered down to me and Buster (who was also in zombie mode from lack of sleep) and we all three took a nap for three hours. I have made fun of people who sleep with their birds, but it was surprisingly nice. Buster was curled up around my tummy and Boo pressed up against my face, putting his beak right under my nose so my breathing would hit his head, and he sat kind of like a chicken and slept that way. Never seen him do that before, but it was pretty cute, and the poop was minimal because he wasn't constantly eating. I always expected he'd climb onto my face and poop in my mouth while I slept, but he was very courteous with his defecation.
Unfortunately, I think I became his girlfriend after that because he seriously won't stop calling me. Even as I type this from the other room he's called out to me nonstop for an hour while I ate lunch. I'm still pretty tired, but I have a sugarless Red Bull in the fridge and once I do a little more work on my layout I will probably bring Boo into my room, SHUT THE DOOR and every door leading to it, and put on a movie while I tone more pages. I'm using more tone than I thought I would... but I've noticed I am actually just as fast toning by hand as I am toning digitally. How weird is that?
I'm really looking forward to showing this comic to editors on Saturday. Hero took off work to man my booth while I go talk to editors. Using my new comic method really works for me so far-- I've even gone in and added some more backgrounds and fixed facial expressions I didn't like before, etc etc. I like doing MOST the work by hand and then digitally correcting things. I also really like doing the sound effects digitally, but then again this isn't a SFX heavy comic... I just hope the end product looks good!
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http://www.ogawaburukku.com
BAM. I made enough money to buy three years' worth of domain and webspace! Hero is going to probably use part of my server to start his website. Not sure what he's doing, but after the event on May 5th I am going to start setting up a website for my art and for FaLLEN. Well, two, actually. I'm close to needing to order more business cards anyway, so this will be good to have on there. I know Japanese people look at my English DA site and go "Waah, cannot read!! Retreat!!!"
Whew. This feels good. Back to work.
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God I was lazy today. I slept on my neck funny and didn't want to hunch over any art, so I mostly wasted the day... I just bought some Red Bull so I could finish a commission before I went to bed. I just craved the caffeine burst.
Yesterday the girls and I went out for karaoke and burgers, which was a lot of fun. I think we're gonna have a ninja turtles marathon sometime soonish because Alex has never seen the movies. Of course we will have to order pizza, too.
Boo is doing really well with his feathers clipped. I like that he no longer panic flaps into my face at the slightest disturbance.
I just found out my bowling manga will be published in Fance before being published in Japanese or English. How wild is that? With that in mind, I decided to reread my old Samurai Rodeo story today. Good lord, there were like... NO backgrounds. How the hell did I get an editor in 2009?? I think I need to compare manga over the years to see how I've improved and make a comparison chart. When I'm feeling blue I can look at it and see how I've improved.
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My bird for the past week has taken to spazzing out on my desk and suddenly flying into my face. I don't like it. He also keeps flying over to me and landing on the keyboard, which has more than once hit a button that deleted whatever I was working on on the computer. When he flies he tends to screech, and it's driving me nuts. I was thinking about how Hero would do in July when I'm gone and feeding my bird for me. I doubt Boo would try to escape, but if he did I could see my husband not knowing what to do. Sooo I decided maybe just for the summer Boo's wings should be trimmed so that he can't fly upward. He seems to be the kind that constantly molts, so I think his feathers will grow back by August anyway.
With Plucky I figured clipping his wings is what made him evil, but Boo almost never bites and never at the intensity he did. So we're trying this out. So far Boo doesn't know what to think, and he hasn't come out of his cage much. But for the past week he's also been really... REALLY... obsessed with this bell I put in his cage. It's weird because up until recently he didn't really play with it much, and now it's his favorite toy. To the point I think he prefers it over me ;_; Not sure if it's because it's spring and he's decided that it's his mate, or if he's mad at me/afraid of me. Just now, he came out onto his "deck", which is what I call the plastic door when it's open, but when I turned around to see him he dashed back into his cage. He's been like that for a few days. I had to catch him a couple of times in mid flight, which he hates, and inspect him because he'd been chewing on his feathers or needed his nails trimmed... and with the added wing clipping he's not my biggest fan at the moment. At least he's not biting. I just hope he doesn't stay obsessed with his cage because I get jealous pretty easily :p
Now I can't tell when he wants out. Plucky would jump out of his cage regardless of whether he could fly or not, which got him injured a lot, but aside from Boo forgetting he couldn't fly first thing this morning (which was sad because he was flapping toward me), he's not a risk taker. I'm hoping this will build trust eventually... if he turns psycho, we will all know why. On the plus side of things, he's learned to sing "Happy happy joy joy" before he just throws out random "joy joy boy boy happy boy"s. It's ADORABLE.
As for my husband, he's been a brat lately. Friday he wanted to see that movie Battleship, which I have NO interest in seeing. But Thursday night I asked what time he wanted to go Friday, and he said "When we wake up"... He wouldn't give me a time and said he didn't want to look up movie times. So the next day I'm reading something while he slowly wakes up at 11 am and I ask him to look up movie times while I take a shower. He then tells me he wants to see the movie starting at 1 pm! It drives me nuts that he can't give me enough time to get ready. I had something I needed to mail out that was very important and I had to scramble to get clothes on and find the address, etc. I asked Hero to next time check the times a little earlier, and you know what he told me? "Why didn't you get the letter you had to send out ready to send yesterday?" I printed it out, but I didn't have an envelope-- so then he says "Why didn't you ask me for one?" I didn't know he had an envelope! If he had one, why didn't he give me one when the night before I was looking through a stack of envelopes going "Darn, all these envelopes are labeled 'resume', I need plain envelopes!" Why can't this man ever say he's sorry? We got to the bus stop at 12:30 as the bus was pulling away, so I asked if he wanted to see the next movie at 6 pm. "No, I'm done for today. Screw the movie." So he's mad, and I'm secretly happy that I don't have to see it and that I can work on my projects at home instead. I apologize to him and he says "Don't worry about it." He never apologizes to me for not checking the time, and then getting pissed when he gives me less than an hour to get showered and ready to go. I am not a spontaneous person!
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
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Thanks to you guys who advised me to get the new printer. Your wisdom proved sound because it came in yesterday and it is awesome. I think the quality is about the same as my last printer, despite using less ink, but when I realized I could print onto thick B4 manga paper I was pretty ecstatic. I am having an internal battle with myself about whether or not I should print out my story without tones onto the B4 manuscript paper and THEN tone it traditionally and have something to physically hand to editors. I miiight have enough tone to tone this if I go light, but I would have to start over... I made so many small digital changes to some pages I would HAVE to print these out if I did them traditionally. I am seriously considering it since I am not really pleased with how these digital tones are looking.
The printer is HUGE, though. Couldn't get the box it came in through the hallway.
I was able to curl up inside of it, though.
Later Hero took a pic of Bus and me when I fell asleep watching a shitty Steven Seagal movie. Bus fell asleep because if I'm asleep, he can't help himself. BUT LOOK AT MY DOG. He is the funniest sleeper ever.
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Question: I am still kind of working on cleaning up my comic tones before I print them all out. I went with a friend to hang out in Akihabara yesterday and I just happened to see a printer/scanner by Epson (my favorite brand) for $300 that accommodates scanning AND printing at A3 or smaller. Currently my model only works with A4 size max, so when I scan my B4 manga I have to scan them twice and put them together. It's an extra thirty minutes I have to do, and sometimes they never quite match up right. If I get this printer, I wouldn't have to go to convenience stores to print. The cost is like 7.3 yen to print an A4 sized paper, so I don't know that it would be a huge difference in printing cost, but I think it would be easier to correct mistakes and overall it would just be easier to work from home. When I looked at these sized scanner/printers a few years ago they were $600 at the absolute cheapest, so now they are considerably more affordable. Plus, they are now wireless, so Hero could use my scanner from his computer, and I could move my scanner away from my desk and have more work space. That would be ace.
I have that much in my paypal right now thanks to two recent jobs, and a self-publishing artist even recommended it for other artists on a budget in an Amazon review. But money is awful tight. I've got rent for next month covered but I am pretty sure I will need to start thinking about a Kickstarter fundraiser or something if I want to be able to keep working on art and such. If I had $3000 I could probably work at least through summer and still have my bills covered. But for now... do I get a $300 scanner and printer that would make life a lot easier for my art business? Or do I suck it up and keep working with what I have (which is, to be fair, a great printer, but it does not print at the size I need it to print and having to manually piece my art back together isn't a lot of fun)?
I had a translation project that kept me pretty busy for most of last week... it was the hardest manga I've ever had to translate. So many times I had to ask Hero to explain the dialog and Hero was like "Brooke, this isn't Japanese. This is a made up language. These characters aren't having a conversation, they are just talking in this made up language. Why do you always get senseless manga to translate?" An example of the "just talking" would be one scene where a woman is telling a guest about how her husband died going off to WWII when her daughter was four months old. In the middle of this long monologue, the patron turns to the daughter and asks "So does that make you Year of the Monkey?" and she's like "No, I'm a sheep." And then it was back to the mother talking... and I have no idea what the relevance of that line was. The whole book was filled with random segments and the worst segues I've ever seen. In that same story, the guy pounces on the daughter, as if he's going to rape her. The next panel they are sitting at a table talking about the sex they just had. So wait, it was consensual? They had sex already? There was nothing to indicate a lapse in time. There was a story about a farting corpse (so not as funny as it sounds), a girl who started her period (in fact, the whole book was named after her "red flowers"), a possibly racist story about a second-generation Korean family... I told myself I wouldn't accept anymore work like this for such little pay, but I need the money, and he at least gives me plenty of time to work and doesn't make me translate all the sound effects and every single sign like my previous employer. And he gave me an extension, so he seems reasonable, which is nice. The next story doesn't look nearly as hard...
My bird has learned to say "happy happy!" because so far that's all he's picked up from the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" song I'm attempting to get him to learn. So he runs around bobbing his head going "happy happy happy happy bird!" I've finally found a way to work with him in the room-- put him in his cage, turn my back toward him, and wear my headphones. He seems happier just with having me in the room, and I don't have to worry about him getting in my way. Right now I'm working on a large commission that seems like it will be fun and working on a Soulcalibur picture that will either be hardcore or lackluster, depending entirely on how I color it.
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I went with Hero to buy a new pair of glasses since the metal on the nosepiece of my old pair was giving me a rash. That and they'd seen better days... Anyway, glasses don't look very good on me in general, but we found a black pair with lime green on the insides.
Bus jumped up in front of the camera. He's been so needy since I got home.
I bought my favorite magazine's Spring issue and was rather surprised to see my artwork in it! I had forgotten I'd submitted art in early January, haha. Too bad they don't list web URLs... I'll have to see if I have something to submit in the next issue.
Bottom right, yellow and black pic. I got a nice little comment as well!
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I slept all day Monday, I worked all day Tuesday, went to work Wednesday for my last day (and after all my mistakes they still want me to come back in August, ha!), worked all day yesterday... so my little break was a pretty short one. Got a pretty big commission in to work on after I finish my last commission, which I should get done pretty soon. A sexy J-Rocker with bloody bandaged wrists lying in a wheel chair... it's not the normal thing I draw but I think it'll be fun. I'm still not caught up on messages, and I'm giving me a few more days before I go through and fix the pages I don't like for the Suicide Consultant. I just need to not look at it for a while, haha. I want to finish this last commission, do a pic for my art book (fan art, so work-related-ish but still something I want to draw), and then next week start this next commission and finish a translation I need to do as well as start uploading finished comic pages, fully toned. I'd like to see an editor either late next week or early April. For now, it's kind of nice to work in color again!
You know what's also nice? Cooking. I have been cooking up a storm-- a delicious storm-- all week and I am loving it. I made breaded baked chicken legs that was awesome and lasted two days, I made hummus (of course!), and last night I made a kickass mushroom cream soup and mega baked potatoes because they had decent sized potatoes that were decently priced and perfect for baking. Since I'm used to much smaller potatoes I under-cooked them a little, but with the special meat sauce, the cheese, and the yogurt toppings they were still pretty good. Had leftovers for lunch, and I have no complaints. We also went to Fridays to celebrate my last day of work and just because I wanted something not McDonalds for a change... They have this steak bolognese sauce pasta that is pretty amazing, but it's a limited time menu. Glad I had it before it was gone, since I won't be able to afford going back for a while. I think I'll have Hero bring home fast food tonight, though, since I'm in an art mood.
The season premiere for South Park was so unbelievably lame, but it more or less met my expectations because every premiere episode is shitty. I didn't laugh, I didn't expect to. But holy crap, this week's episode was EXCELLENT. I laughed so hard that near the end when I FUCKING STARTED TO CRY it was really unexpected and embarrassing. If there's a dog and an old person, I cannot help but cry. Seriously, I'm hard-wired to cry at shit like that, no matter what the source may be. Iams senior dog food commercials make me cry! I HATE BEING SO EMOTIONAL. But this was a great episode, and I think it captured the feel of the series from a few years ago when it was more consistently funny.
But Korra? Hmm... don't know where I stand on that.
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It's 12:14. I was supposed to be at Haru Comic City three hours ago...
...I think the locomotive ran out of steam. I'm going back to bed. I just can't function anymore.
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
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Since I've gotten a few messages, yes, earthquake, but no, not that bad. Unless you ask my bird, who shot out of his cage and banged into walls flying panicked in the dark because he thought he was going to die. I really need to fix the door on his cage...
Derek, I will answer your email this weekend. I have to wake up early.
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Saturday, March 10th, 2012
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It takes two Red Bulls to keep me wired enough to work through until morning. I realized I should probably get the cover done BEFORE the weekend just to guarantee it will be delivered on-time, so yesterday I started working on the Suicide Consultant cover with hardly an idea in mind. So because of that it took all night, and I was rockin' out to my ipod while deciding what color my characters' eyes should be. But at 7 am I finally went OMG TIRED and died, so when my bird started SCREEEEEEAMING at 8 am I went into my room and screamed right back at him. "SHUT UP OR I'LL PUNCH YOUR BEAK OFF!!!" because yeesh. He shut up, at least. I'd been worried about him because I went in the other day and he had blood on his head from rubbing it too hard on branches (molting season sounds awful, glad I'm not a bird), but he's been getting better. I think he was mad at me this morning because he probably woke up just as I was going to bed and was like "bitch, you gonna just ignore me? Nuh-uh, it's play time, get your ass back in here, mammal!" He will sometimes screech if he thinks I'm ignoring him, and sometimes I screech back because ignoring his bad behavior (and Plucky's for that matter... and Buster's come to think of it...) has NEVER WORKED. Pet manuals suck.
So I'm at work now, and I'm not nearly as sleepy as I should be. Won't be having Red Bull tonight, since I think I'll finish what's left, send it for printing, and then go to bed early so I can wake up early to do the last eight pages of the comic. The next few pages are pretty easy, so I think I can do four tomorrow at least. I pretty much HAVE to finish my comic this weekend, though, so I'd better stock up on energy drinks. No sleep for me after tonight! WEEEE!! And then Mon-Wed have to be for toning! WEE. Doing it digitally, so maybe it won't take so long. I'm keeping it simple anyway, since a lot of the comics I've been reading lately are pretty sparse on tone, and I like that. At least my underling (we need a better translation for kouhai) at work, Saki-chan, said she'd stop by my table at Comic City. Anyone else coming?
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
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Alex came over yesterday to watch a movie and to watch me screw up my manuscripts. One page took freaking all day, and it still sucks. The next page I did sucked too, and it was a really simple page. How did I screw it up? I decided yesterday was a bad day for comicking and didn't finish the other two pages I intended to do, since there was no point in pulling an all-nighter, with work the next day, when my art is shitty. Instead I'm doing that tonight since tomorrow is my day off. Hero's off too so I don't have to feel bad if my Red Bull madness is keeping him up.
I was really freaking out about printing, since all next week I have to be at this event for work, but I suddenly remembered there is a print center on-site, and as long as I have physical copies of the prints instead of data copies, the printing is only 10 yen a page. That's perfectly acceptable pricing! So I will have three days where I can work on printing (and not compete with other last-minute comickers) and as long as I have the covers sent to my favorite printer by this Monday, all I will have to do on Saturday is staple my books together! I'm ecstatic. I thought for sure I was going to be acked in the fuss. I might even have time to get a well-earned super haircut.
But of course, that means all this week is going to be me trying to push out these last eight pages without smudging anymore ink. I'm going to have time to do SOME touch-ups and hopefully I can do screen tone, but re-drawing pages I didn't like is just not going to happen.
If I could finish all these pages by Friday morning and just have toning and the cover left for Saturday and Sunday, I think I'd be home free.
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Commenting is still jacked...
Have you guys seen Scott Pilgrim vs the World? I hadn't really heard much about it but rented it the other day with Hero, who randomly wanted some movies. I tried watching it while I was working, thinking I'd have it play in the background while I inked but within five minutes it had grabbed all 100% of my attention and I did nothing for like two hours.
I've read some of the comic, and might I say this is perhaps the most faithful interpretation of a movie from a comic I have ever seen? Not including anime, this is straight up a movie version of the story, not a movie re-imagining or anything. It's amazing. It's hilarious, and holy shit it was an action movie! I had no idea. I've only ever read the sample pages on the Scott Pilgrim site, but now I want to read more. I went back and re-read some of those pages and it was amazing how close the movie followed them, or if they built on them and gave it their own twist, it still felt true to the comic.
This might also be the only time I've been accepting of a hero dating someone much younger than himself. He's 23 in the book, but they (wisely) made him 22 in the movie and his girlfriend at the start is 17. And even stranger, the girl (Knives... what a bizarre name) is probably my favorite character. I liked how everyone spent the whole first half of the movie (and comic) berating Scott for dating a high school girl, but by the end of the movie I was almost wanting to see them together. She was nuts, but he was so innocent and awkward it was hard to picture him with someone his own age. The movie says they've never even made out, so... it's hard for me to get preachy. Maybe because Michael Cera is eternally 16.
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I don't know why, but whenever I make a journal entry it looks okay, but when I go in to comment on entries in my journal the screen splits and looks really weird. It only does this on the computer, so if I access the site through my iPad it looks okay and I can comment all right, but commenting from my work computer is giving me a headache. So I'm not leaving responses to your comments because iPads are kind of a bitch to type long things out on and not because I'm an asshole. Anyone else having this problem?
In other news, McDonald's has a new pepper lettuce burger with Caesar dressing on it randomly. I think the toppings are just beef, lettuce, pepper, and Caesar dressing, so I can't tell if it will be delicious or disappointing, but I'm getting it anyway. And probably a Broadway burger because I guess I hate myself.
I have successfully finished the cover of that book and it's a done deal, I think. I'm glad I was able to put something together last minute after my other pic got rejected near the final stages.
Also, my birth mom randomly contacted me after a few years of nothing. Definitely a bit surprised there. I have her email now so I guess we'll be staying in touch from now on.
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Monday, February 27th, 2012
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I have a cold now, which totally blows, but for the last three days it has made everything taste AWESOME. Normally when you have a cold you can't taste things, but every single food or drink I've had has been excellent. Even the disappointing Broadway Burger from McDonald's was better. And since I only feel better when I'm eating, I will crack open an orange and it's suddenly like ten minutes of ambrosia relief.
Bad news; I think my bird is sick. His beak has been changing colors, like he may have mites in it or something. I want to take him to the vet but I don't know if I can afford it, the nearest avian vet is forty minutes away, and my schedule is so packed right now... Hang on little bird. I've been avoiding him since birds can catch human colds, and I know he's been lonely. Took him out a little last night and he was all kissing me and vomiting on me (a sign of affection).... Also, his cage door broke the other day when I walked into it by accident. Plastic bird cages = stupid idea. I wonder if I called the maker they could send me a replacement door...
Good news: New FaLLEN chapter up! The next chapter is the big party chapter, which will be broken into parts, and it will mark several big changes. It's officially the middle of the book. Hopefully I can get it done next week.
Good news: Suicide Consultant has been doing really well! Every day I get new watchers on DA, and in just a week I've had twenty more people follow me, which is a lot for me. I just posted the halfway page and people seem really interested in what's going to happen. You guys know, but I was surprised to see people haven't figured out how this is going to play out just yet. One guy angrily said he didn't like how this was some emo thing where the guy was going to kill himself to be with his dead lover. I was like "wow, dude, way off base... Why don't you keep reading? I think you'll be surprised."
Hero hates this story, but he liked my other stories so... Maybe I should just write stories Hero hates? We'll see how it does when it's finished.
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
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Last night I told Hero I was sorry he missed my cooking but up through the rest of the month he's probably going to have to suck it up and live off take-out. I thiiiink if I haul balls I can get all of Suicide Consultant inked by March 3, giving me two weeks to do screen tone-- and since I'm doing it digitally, that really should be enough. I was feeling pretty good about this, since there are several pages in the last half that have only one picture, or only three panels, or are otherwise just simpler layouts. Only maybe two or three pages have complex layouts, so I can probably do more than just one page a day, even with the office in my schedule. And this event I'm helping with is at the end of March, so when Comic City is over with on the 18th it'll be smooth sailing...
...Wait a second! Come to think of it, I never asked the specific date of the event I'm helping with (and for some totally bizarre reason it's not written on any of our catalogs or order forms). I do a quick Google search for the official website and... HOLY FUCK BALLS. It's March 14-16.
AHAHAHAHAH oh my god. It's days before the comic event. AHAHAHAHA I'm so fucked in the ass AHAHAHAHA I'm going to have to either take a day or two off or go home early on days where there isn't anything to do. I am such a penniless moron.
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