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11
Jul
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This weekend was (well, I suppose, still is, until this evening) the Pittsburgh Comicon. I missed it last year due to a homework overload, so I did my best to buckle down and get myself as caught up as I could this past week so I would be able to make it this year. As I mentioned in a previous post, I let things pile up a little last week, due to a combination of irritation at starting back to school after only a week and irritation at not yet having my tablet despite original shipping promises, and catching up with what I let slide was a daunting (and not yet completed) task…but I did do enough to justify spending the day looking at comics. Well, in my case, looking through artists’ portfolios and sketches more than actual comics, for the most part — I’m not a hardcore comic geek willing to dig through boxes and boxes of skinny issues in search of a missing or rare publication. I like pretty graphic novels and pretty art much more than the over-muscled/flat colored comic superheroes, and care not a whit what my book’s resale value is–I want it for me and I want to read it, not keep it tucked away in a light-and-air eliminating bag.
Anyway, it was fun. Pretty art abounded and I talked to a couple of boothies that were really cool. I wore a pretty dress and felt like a princess. I got some Firefly and Doctor Horrible postcard-sized prints, two T-shirts (one with the Torchwood logo, the other a BSG ‘Frak’ shirt) three comics including the third Buffy graphic novel, and a couple other nice prints, including a gorgeous stylized picture of a kitty and a dragonfly by Sara Richard.
Other than that, I’ve been working my way through my homework and Season 6 of Smallville. Spring continues to be fitful, fluctuating between warm and cold and spitting the occasional rain shower at us without any real spring storms…but the woods are greener and lusher each day and there are birds everywhere, so what ever it’s doing must be working.
I’m a little under-the-weather at the moment but getting better, I think.
I have a troubling amount of Dreamweaver homework awaiting my attention.
I don’t know what to make for dinner.
17
Apr
ugh.
So, again behind on sharing the scintillating details of my life. It has been a woefully unmotivated couple of weeks. Actually, I started to write a blog on my first week of school, but I was in class and then the class started, and well…the entry got saved as a draft and never finished.
Lets see — I started back to school after FAR too short a time because of our tiny spring break (I don’t know…it just seems like, after winter is over, you need a little more time off to enjoy the warmer weather or something?) and, just like last year, I
find myself not really that excited about the whole school thing this quarter as a result. This week I got hardly ANY of my homework done — something that I routinely roll my eyes at other students for. I don’t know…I’m PMSing this week or something. Been tired and unmotivated and craving sugar and carbs. Stupid hormones.
I’m still waiting for my tablet. I guess Lenovo doesn’t have as many chips as they need for the number of orders they have gotten, but seriously, it was ordered over a month ago and I want the darn thing already. The delay is especially frustrating as I had sort of counted on it being here by now, and as a result didn’t work on any of the art stuff I could have/should have over break (like the 8 pages of illustrations I have promised Melissa for her children’s book assignment) because, well, once my tablet got here, I would just be able to draw whenever and not have to jam all my personal stuff into my breaks. And it would be arriving in a week or so…right? So, of course it hasn’t and I have ALL computer classes this quarter, so any homework I have to do until I get my tablet will see me tucked away in my dim bedroom hunched over 
a keyboard. Don’t get me wrong…I LIKE being hunched over a keyboard in the dark…but I like to occasionally see a hopeful robin outside my window or something too…and my bedroom has no windows.
Other than that, our second-hand IKEA press-board coffee table finally lost the will to live, so Briggs and I have been perusing Craigslist for a replacement, and found one last night in the ‘free’ section. I inquired and the guy said he still had it, so we picked it up today while running errands. It’s definitely better than our old one… bigger, sturdier, more made of real wood…but let me tell you…it’s weird going to someone’s house and just…taking a piece of their furniture. Having the person bring out something and just picking it up, saying, “Thanks!” and giving them nothing in return. I sort of feel like I should have brought him cookies or something.
Our other errands included:
Buying me an awesome bag for my tablet (when it shows up) at the Army Surplus store
Buying two tadpoles, five mosquito fish and half a dozen or so feeder goldfish to stick in our pond in hopes that they will decimate the resident mosquito larva
Drinking coffee
Looking at puppies
&
Buying Thai food.
Not a lot else new here…or there are things that are new but they are inconsequential, or they have slipped my mind for the moment, or I am omitting them because I am using our little coffee-table laptop and keep accidentally skimming the scroll-pad with my thumbs and sending the cursor to new and interesting locales, which can become tiresome after a while.
I have read some interesting books lately — two romances, Lord of Scoundrels, which was much better than I expected and Love Not a Rebel, which had some good history contained within the plot, but rather artlessly, and such badly written sex scenes that I just skimmed them to make sure I wasn’t missing any important mid-sex dialog. I read Adverbs, by the guy who does the Lemony Snicket books, which was weird and hard to keep track of, but entertaining, and My Name is Will, which I’m not sure was all that good, but I enjoyed the Shakespeare and the very personally reminiscent depiction of Black Point Ren Faire in the 1980s. Oh, and I finally got around to reading Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli, which was short and quick and I just loved.
I continue to enjoy the new series of Doctor Who, though this week’s episode didn’t do much for me.
My laptop battery is low, so this post is done.
