gallery is back up, and lists

however, that will have to wait until i finish the following: the current task from the man with two silver earrings which if left unfinished, will require a lot of explaining and creative excuses, and since i'm already blowing off color theory and painting from life and a really cool illustration workshop this weekend to go camping, i'd better not push my luck.... …which means i'll have to find all the things i bought from REI after the last camping trip, because i realized they were things i couldn't live without when camping, so bought, then Put In A Safe Place. i'll scour my house looking for the Safe Place I Put Stuff In, not find it, think about making a panicked run to REI, realize they've already closed, say 'fuck it,' and go camping anyway, resolving to buy the things i couldn't live without again when i get back and This Time Put Them In A Really Safe Place I Mean It, only to have them disappear with their co-conspirators when i go on the next camping trip, and repeat this all over again.

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in which my house is overtaken by morning glories

i've been put on the BRAT diet (banana, rice, applesauce, and toast), which i've had to modify, as i'm allergic to bananas. but saying you're on the RAT diet gets you funny looks, so i thought about renaming it the TARG diet (g for gatorade), which has the added bonus of scoring more geek points. however, the novelty of being home in daylight has made me notice this odd shape in my living room window: which on closer inspection, looks like this: the vine's come through the closed window, and has started to climb the drape.

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