I am home
I guess I didn't mention it, since I was (am) busy as all hell, but I went to Pender Island to visit She Who Must Be Obeyed and The Alpha Of The Universe. (That is- my parents.) They were ok, except they're moving to a new house on the island, so they're both stressed. And like true Irish, we went to the liquor store about once daily, on average. My aunt (who lives there) is moving to the Big New House from her cute little cottage and gave me a metric shit ton of art books. There was a book in there about drawing that I almost bought the other day before new media class (for $30!) I enjoy getting stuff like that for free.
'Rents have also whipped out their golden credit cards and procured me a new work computer. It is a white macbook. It's rather pretty. It has a built in webcam (which I turned the fuck off ASAP, I'd rather not be confronted with a shot of myself all hair-messed in the morning, pre-coffee, when I stumble from bed to get the first bit of Workwork done for the day.
And I should clarify: there is work I do for the portfolio and classes- schoolwork, there is art stuff I do for kinda myself (and the webcomic falls under this) since no one's putting me on deadline- art!work, and then there is work that is actually immediately contracted to someone who is paying me $$$- workwork.
The New Big House's departing owners are a bunch of gay guys. Their art of ripped naked dudes in leather is rather impressive (cough). My dad is having a quiet moment of limited tolerance over, as he puts it, 'that butt statue.' The gay guys have, in their livingroom, a nicely sculpted marble statue of a really fit gentleman's naked butt.
Actually, the gay guys are kind of a story in and of themselves, and I wanna get some work done today.
Came home on the floatplane, because the ferry post-long weekend is a nightmare. (The parent gold credit cards strike again.) I am home and installing Studio 8 on the new macbook. It's name will be either 'Moonbeam' or 'Nacre.' Spiderman stole my powerbook (it was silver and named 'Glyph') from my desk. I will be keeping my new computer under my goddamned bed. If not under my pillow. Lets see Spiderman steal that without waking me.
Assloads of email to answer. I need a better work-life balance or something. But multitasking is just hard as hell for me. Nice emails from
erisabesu and
woekitten to answer pretty damn soon. But I had to go to the gym before I did anything else. No fitness club on Pender! Cannot cope.
'Rents have also whipped out their golden credit cards and procured me a new work computer. It is a white macbook. It's rather pretty. It has a built in webcam (which I turned the fuck off ASAP, I'd rather not be confronted with a shot of myself all hair-messed in the morning, pre-coffee, when I stumble from bed to get the first bit of Workwork done for the day.
And I should clarify: there is work I do for the portfolio and classes- schoolwork, there is art stuff I do for kinda myself (and the webcomic falls under this) since no one's putting me on deadline- art!work, and then there is work that is actually immediately contracted to someone who is paying me $$$- workwork.
The New Big House's departing owners are a bunch of gay guys. Their art of ripped naked dudes in leather is rather impressive (cough). My dad is having a quiet moment of limited tolerance over, as he puts it, 'that butt statue.' The gay guys have, in their livingroom, a nicely sculpted marble statue of a really fit gentleman's naked butt.
Actually, the gay guys are kind of a story in and of themselves, and I wanna get some work done today.
Came home on the floatplane, because the ferry post-long weekend is a nightmare. (The parent gold credit cards strike again.) I am home and installing Studio 8 on the new macbook. It's name will be either 'Moonbeam' or 'Nacre.' Spiderman stole my powerbook (it was silver and named 'Glyph') from my desk. I will be keeping my new computer under my goddamned bed. If not under my pillow. Lets see Spiderman steal that without waking me.
Assloads of email to answer. I need a better work-life balance or something. But multitasking is just hard as hell for me. Nice emails from
erisabesu and
woekitten to answer pretty damn soon. But I had to go to the gym before I did anything else. No fitness club on Pender! Cannot cope.