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A brief update, since I’m due at work in a little while and haven’t dressed yet. And I have only had a small portion of my morningly required caffeine input, so I’m less than fast thinking or articulate at the moment.

School is good…I had a really awesome project for my Typography class last week that I can’t wait to get back…and finish–I was overambitious, as usual and made the project a bit bigger than I should have. But it is very cool. It was an Illuminated Lettering project:

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…in which we had to take a quote we liked (from a person, from a movie, from a song…) and create an illustrated initial capital and then hand letter the following Gothic calligraphy.

My other class (mixed media) isn’t bad…it’s a small class, and pretty mellow…the projects are pretty tedious, but we are almost done with the first one, so that’s something…:)

The weather has been getting warmer and things are blooming. Yesterday hung in the mid-70s, with a clear, bright blue sky. Today looks like it’s almost 80, but a bit less clear. It may rain.

Briggs and I are watching a show called Jericho–

–which is about a small Kansas town in a post-nuclear war America. So far, well done, and lacking stupid needless drama. It’s almost as if the writers thought, ‘gee…the aftermath of a nuclear war and a small town cut off from the rest of the world with no idea what’s happening, and roving highway gangs knocking over anyone who goes out on the roads and taking their stuff, and the threat of starvation…that seems like enough drama. We don’t need to do stupid stuff…these characters would have enough to deal with to be pretty stressed out already.’ Not that there ISN’T human drama, but it’s not…formulated, is what I guess I’m trying to say.

Unfortunately, it looks like (as is the case with pretty much any show that is actually GOOD) like it got canceled in second season.

What else…

Oh, I got a copy of The Killing Joke–

–a very well known and well loved Batman comic written by Alan Moore (the person responsible for the ‘V for Vendetta’ and ‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ comics) which has apparently been very hard to get ahold of up until the recent re-release. I guess my boss has been looking for it for a while, so when we got it in, her head almost exploded. Not being as knowledgeable about the comic world as I could be, I admit that this was the first that I had actually heard of the comic, but as it came with great recommendations from people who’s taste I trust, I picked up a copy and was duly impressed. Very good, with lovely art (which the artist apparently recolored from the garish bright version of the book’s first release).

Not a lot else happening….oh! The ‘I-Am-A-Heather’ show (an art exhibition for art by or about or for people named Heather) opens today, and as far as I know, the zombie picture I made for Heather’s birthday card

is still in it. As of yesterday, I was still on the website. So I’ll have to get down and check that out some time this week. Too bad I have to work today or I’d head down and see if they are having an opening (it’s right downtown) and I’d call out sick, except that, well, I’m not going in NEXT Saturday, because…W00t! I’m going to Pittsburgh ComicCon!