hey everyone
guess who's awake this morning
and actually went to sleep last night

wow, huh?
something i hardly do
but then, it does come with it's down side
i've been trying to get my contacts in
and get showered
and get done everrything i need to get done
then my grandmother woke up and needed
to get in the bathroom
and of course my grandfather followed
i didn't even bother trying to go back in yet
there are smells i don't want to deal with
no matter what i need to get done

and that sort of thing has potential
to ruin a day when you're just waking up
but when you're staying up
you don't have any firsts left
like, anything you go through in a day
has probably already been gone through
and it's not so bad
but when it's started afresh
as i have today
it's a real bugger
not as bad as waking up
in the afternoon
to my mom and sister fighting
or whenever they would wake me up with that
that's less of a bugger
and more like massive scarring on your day
makes it hard to feel fresh and clean

but none of that today
and as soon as i get out of here
i'll go put in my eyes
and take a shower
and get the hell on the road
so i can do some searching for whatever it is
that i need to search for today

wright's farm was good last night
and the wright's farm feeling helped me sleep
which in turn got me up at this lovely hour
so that i have time to do things
and my dad bought me some scratch tickets
and me and kyle scratched them, winning a total of
$26, which all went in my pocket
then aunt irene and aunt shirley gave me a card with $20 in it
plus the $10 i already had
i think i have enough money to get me through today
seeing as i'll prolly need to buy *something* today
though i confess to having NO bloody idea what that will be

anyway, it's time for me to get to showering
i'll prolly blog sometime later
especially if i get comics done

did 2 halloween comics so far
i'd like to do one more
but it's getting late, and i
kinda wanna hit the hay soon

maybe early tomorrow, i'll get it going
and then bring it to the party
still don't know what my costume is
which is really really sad
i mean, the party's tomorrow
someone will call me about this
and i'll have to be like "umm..."

i was thinking john linnell in drag
which i would try to accomplish with
lauren's prom dress
an accordion
some makeup
a sweater
my chucks
and possibly some brown hair dye
the problem is
i'd prolly hafta break into lauren's apartment
which i could easily
she showed me how
and i could leave a note
take some makeup from my sister
put it on in the car in front of phil's
take my accordion out of the case
and head on up
only i'll prolly be expected to play
and i've not had lesson one on how to do so
so that'd be a problem
but i would have comics
and i bet there's another idea out there
that i could conjure up in time
and pull off well enough
this will probably be a last-minute decision
that will end up looking silly
like the idea to be me before the haircut

anyway, went to wright's farm tonight
turns out that's not after my birthday
weezie had to work last minute
so no her or hayley
disappointing, yes, but there'll be other times
and anyway, jimmy came
he was hunting at the time
and came out of the tree just for wright's farm
that rocks, i don't get to see him often, either
i'm just glad at least one of them could make it
my sister's boyfriend, kyle came with, too
he's an alright guy
i went in his car
we got lost on the way home
but we found our way back alright
but we missed the halftime
cheering thing that my sister does
you know, along with the other cheerleaders
we didn't see my parents' car, so he took me home
donno why, i coulda gone, but oh well
gave me time for accordioning
so i was fine with it

i keep losing at cards
it sucks

i should really-
a.) get thinking on a costume and quick
and b.) go to bed
neither of which is happening
but probably will be pretty soon

speaking of pretty soon
i hope i get a reply from bob soon
not to be bitchy, since i took forever
but he's usually only a day or two
so it's kinda weird
besides, i wanna see what he has to say now
as opposed to seeing what he had to say
as of when he wrote the mail i replied to
which i've been seeing for months now
but, you know, he's busy
understandable

anyway, i'm gonna get outta here
it's way too sleepy out now
and i'm getting kinda cold in here, too
which makes for a gone me
later.

i finished the 3/4 comic i mentioned last time
the jackal is still funny
though i try not to do the voice so much
as it is annoying to lauren
makes my throat hurt
and gives me a headache

but anyway, i finished that comic
i think i did a pretty good job
though i can't really remember what i did
it's coming back to me
i remember
yeah, that was pretty good
finished up the car ride home
witht he last bit that i had written down for it
and made a self-reference to a previous joke
all in all, not a bad experience, working on that series
i think i'm gonna read up on the next show this morning
and see if i wanna start doing that series
as i should have been done the last series by that time
i've got two more series, including that one
and a one-comic thing about the show we saw with phil's sister
but maybe i'll just keep that the thing
that i drew on the cough drop wrapper
it could work
that is, the scanner picks up the comic on it
it might not, but i guess i'll find out
even if i did draw a comic, i was gonna paste
that one to it, so that people could see it
cause it is pretty funny
though i'd have to explain the in-jokes
which i could do in the comic drawn for that day
but would have to do elsewhere if i did draw one
hmmm...
or perhaps i'll just do something different today
i think i wanna do a halloween comic

which reminds me, i still don't have a costume for phil's party
i'll have to get hopping on that
lauren works weekends, so if i wana borrow her prom dress
i'll have to ask her before then
which leaves precious little time this
delightful friday morning
(by the way,
3 days left til my birfday
doesn't that rock?)

but i digress
halloween comic
yes
going to try
can't guarantee greatness
but then, never can
but i hope for it

that's all from me for now.
later.

ok, i got a comic and 3/4 done
worked out really well, i thought
had to go through it a few times
but the end result was really good
so it was well worth it

that news aside, i guess i'm done
except that i finished that mail to bob scott this morning
and am now awaiting the reply to it
and i can now also put the mr. belvedere thing in here

i saw thirteen ghosts
anyone who wants to laugh heartily must see it
because it's hilarious
like, in it's unscariness
and i went with lauren and her friend chris
and we pulled away from it
a character called the jackal
which i think i gave voice too
and it's a high-pitched scream
and somehow, the jackal
which is a ghost
turned into some kind of pimp
when we got out hands on it
and it still hasn't stopped being funny
though i'm home now
and my throat still feels funny from going between that
and a stuffy british guy from oxford voice all night
see, we bought one of those curvy pipes
such as an oxford man might have
and it just kinda followed
anyway, i'm getting outta here
later.

well, here i am.
trying to do comics
not much luck
but i think i know how to handle
what i'm doing next
which would be great

so why am i not elsewhere drawing?
well, for one thing, i'm trying to draw in here
and for another, i'm reading comics
to try and get things running again
and so i figured i'd mention it

anyway, i might not blog for a while
you know, try to keep the stimulus
and little sub-conscious things inside
so that they might become comic fuel
here's hoping anyway
i donno if i'll actually enact this plan
i think i'll try it though
not really a whole lot to lose
and you've got other avenues of entertainment anyway
and if you don't, that's kinda sad

so i guess that all.
later.

went to see tmbg tonight-
FOR FREE!!!!!
it goes like this, kids:
sarah works at borders
flansy stops into borders to buy a magazine
flansy goes to sarah's line
sarah talks to flansy and is asked to get a magazine for him
and is given passes for her and 4 friends

earlier, phil and beth were down that way
and luckily decided not to buy tickets in advance
and somewhere along the line, they learn about what happened
and anohter somewhere along the line, i enter the picture
and we all end up going to see tmbg for free
which rocks the ass off of a lot of things
like easels, for instance

so anyway, we met sarah at work
and walked to lupo's
(the place where i first saw tmbg, by the way)
and stood in line for a while, of course
then we said we were on the list and went in
i bought a shirt and a wallet
(yes, tmbg have wallets out now)

the opening band was pretty good, actually
they're from chicago and are called okgo
as in the two words put together into one
the did a couple covers
one was the smiths
one was tmbg
and the last was toto
i think sarah bought the 2 cd's they had there

ooh, and i smoked one of phil's cigarettes
he rolls his own now
they're pretty good, i tells ya
and mayhaps i will do such a thing myself sometime
if i ever really want to
which could happen, i guess
it's neat, anyway

what else?
oh, flansy never actually got the magazine from sarah
due to us being unable to reach him
and i totally missed john linnell
who walked by sarah while she was looking for flansy once
and i was sitting at the table with phil and beth
and i KNEW i shoulda gone with sarah
damn.
anyway, she said he's only about as tall as me
i heard he was 5'10"
maybe he's shorter, i dunno
cause i'm not that
i'm kinda close, but not that
phil's not even that, i don't think
but it's another odd similarity
of the johns to dan and phil
cause flansburgh is taller than linnell
and phil is left-handed, as is flans
and i think i've gone into some of this before
so i won't bore you with it now
and at least now i know roughly the heights to draw
though i would still say linnell is taller than me
cause most people are, i would say

that's about it, i think

well, the new shirt has intimidated me
because it has most if not all of the songs that tmbg does
in tiny tiny letters in the shape of a shirt
and i just read through them
to see how many i've heard
(there were some that i hadn't even heard *of*)
to want to write songs
and to look at that
that's more than i'll probably be able to do ever
and ever one better than anything i've done at any time
i'd be almost willing to bet on that
perhaps i am not cut out for it
perhaps i should stay with my stories and comics
and just leave the songs to someone else
oh, i don't know

anyway, i wanna start driving more
if only it didn't require gas money
that i am probably soon not to have
i mean, i *did* take a chunk out of it tonight
and who knows how much more there'll be to spend?
i certainly don't
but i'd like to have some money for a while
just in case i need some, you know
though i certianly wouldn't mind buying the tenchi episodes
or some new cd's
and anyway, it spooks me to drive
i'm so under-practiced
it's just like
i think i'll fuck it all up
plus in a new car, i mean
that's a bit of nervousness for you in itself
nevermind that i have the whole
"i sideswiped a semi" thing to deal with
rhode island being all damn highway
another hat i should maybe hang up?

i doubt i'll stop doing either
but i'll have to try to practice at both
you don't wanna be bad at either
you know?
speaking of being bad at things
when we went to pick up sarah
we saw the most awesome book ever
which both beth and i deemed a must have
and it was called
"very bad poetry"

...

yes.

there was this one guy
who wanted to write poetry that would
show the beauty of canada
that's right
canada
the first poem by him in the damn book
was about a 4 ton bit of cheese
that he saw at a fair once

?!

?!

i know what you're thinking
and it's exactly what i was thinking when i heard it
i described the book
in a manner i think was accurate
and so will repeat it here
"it's like the 'dark shadows' of poetry"
and anything you'll find in that book is
so bad that it's absolutely hilarious

so yes, i'll be trying to find that book wherever i can
and buy it the second i see it
if i happen to have the money for it
because man
that is a book that i need to own

and i think it will be on that note that i will go
later, everybody