however, instead of A Plan, we're currently doing a lot of Running Around In A Panic, which, while it might feel like planning has happened because of all the frenetic energy involved, really is not at all the same thing.... you can use them to make a total goat rodeo of bits and pieces of copy and photos look organized, and like you actually designed it, instead of like you haphazardly took the text file your client supplied and tried to arrange it decoratively around a sprinkling of clip art and stock photos, then wondered why you had all this extra space left over, so you thought you'd try to put big gaps in between your blocks of text and images to even it out a bit.... in the works: a redesign of pantagruel.net, because i need another project with which to threaten old deadlines a character drawing i need to finish a wedding present painting i need to start a cloth banner i need to paint a comic book cover i need to do home decorating advice for two people art for two blogs homework portfolio assignments self-promotional work and of course, work from the day job just looking at the list makes me cringe; mainly because all but three of those things are not paying work.

yep, it's been that kind of week.