Jesse, I know I've seen this [link] before--has it been on Good Stuff before? It seems like the sort of thing I'd submit over and over.

It definitely has been, but a long time ago.

That's a very charming picture.

Oy, I am so tired of coping with stuff. Can't I just be done for the day? AKA Fuck you, grading!

I need to pull myself together and just draw my goddamned picture for the day and then collapse. Burrell--you feel like the day conquered you? That's how I'm feeling.

I know drawing will make me feel better--if it goes well. But if it goes badly, it will make me want to stab myself in the eye with a pen. I don't feel like gambling. And I don't even have food to bribe myself with or anything...

However, I seem to have talked up my OTP so much that my sister is going to watch Supernatural. Except...that's in season 4, and there' so much show before that and I'm worried she'll get scared away.

In mostly unrelated news--Sarah Shahi is my current #1 former pro cheerleader.

Grading is done for tonight, or at least I'm done grading. My jaw hurts. I'm gonna go sit by the kids while they go to sleep. Then maybe an early bed for me.

I need my next push. Today was sketch #28 of my slash-a-day month. I'm aiming for 31, and that will really have to be done in advance because of my training on the other side of everywhere that day.

What next? This has been interesting. It's helped me realise that, within limits, I can produce on a clock (let's not talk of quality--but of effort and followthrough, and not getting caught up in self-consciousness). I might be able to take this new medium (I've been using pens and sketching, as opposed to pencils and drawing, trying to be as accurately representative as possible. There might be more reward for me at the scribbly end, or there's a middle ground or.. or..

I don't know! This month challenge wasn't my idea, and I don't know what to do next. Help! How do I at least not backslide, but optimally get better and happier?

I will take my art to a next level, but I do not know the way.

Jesse, I know I've seen this [link] before--has it been on Good Stuff before

You know what was most awesome about this? Not the picture (which I LOVE and want to wallpaper on my (hypothetical) kid's bedroom), but that Adam Lambert's "Trespassing" came up on Pandora as I clicked over. QUEER AGENDA UNITE.

ita, did they have the monitor or not? So lame.

My feet are cold. My nose is cold. I don't want to go to work today not even a little.

Also, on dead body behind the school news, my colleagues and I have decided that it must have been a large animal. There were no detectives after they took the body away and no one has been in the field since. Someone suggested santeria rituals.

Just dropped CJ off for his search and rescue team's winter overnight. They go up in the mountains, learn how to dig a snow cave, sleep in it, and then come back early tomorrow. We are due to have a storm come through tonight with a few inches down where we live - not sure what the forecast is for where they are going. Have fun guys. I'm back home in my warm bed and don't have plans outside until tomorrow afternoon.

Good morning, Saturday am Buffistas. I have showered, fed cats, cleaned litterboxes, made coffee and breakfast, and am sitting here in the comfy chair contemplating a pile of freelance work. My back hurts enough that I'm glad for an excuse to stay in this chair instead of painting the den.

When is it time for a new coffeemaker? How do you know? I used to like this coffee well enough, but lately every cup tastes bad. I've cleaned the coffeemaker as well as I can and the coffeepot, but the glass is permanently stained brown. Is there a trick to cleaning it, or should I just buy a new one?