Another missed deadline.

Perhaps one of these days I'll be able to organize my time wisely enough that I can finish a post once a week. The past few weeks have been hectic and full of strange upheavals that mostly aren't my business to discuss. If you're looking for gossip, may I suggest you turn to Livejournal?

Are Livejournal jokes even funny anymore?

Anyhow, I was saying that I've been busy and stressed out. The long and short of it is that on November 5th, I will be out of my current job with no guarantee of a new one. I live with my parents so it's not like rent and bills are a pressing issue, but it's just so easy to get sucked in to unemployment. I certainly don't want to do that again.

So in between filling out applications, band practices/gigs, work, and just trying to relax once in awhile, I find it hard to sit down and write.

Also I think I am getting sick.

In fact, I need to go lay down. But I will leave you with beautiful music from an incredible musician:




And the news that I will be launching the blog of my zine The 814 Times later this week! I am pumped!

P.S. A spider just descended from the roof and NEARLY LANDED ON MY HEAD. Not cool, bro. Not cool.

I Fail.

...At regular updates, anyhow. On Friday last week, I was sitting here looking at my unpublished posts, thinking "Oh yeah man, I can totally finish one of these for Sunday! Then I'll have a schedule of one post a week!"

But then real life happened and I had a crazy hectic weekend and now I'm back at work, thwacking out these words on the world's dirtiest keyboard. What happened? Who knows. Sorry for missing the deadline you guys didn't know about til now. Hopefully some time in the middle of this week I can finish something that'll make you all laugh. Or it might horrify you. Possibly both? Note: I am not responsible for headsplosions resulting from mixed feelings of horror/hilarity.

A brief interlude

When you work a full time job and you have many hobbies, you have to learn to split up your time wisely. By nature and/or upbringing, I simply cannot do this. So what usually happens is I pick one thing and work at it mercilessly until I am burned out, then trying to find time for my other projects. This is why my blog posts have been a little sporadic. Between working, two bands, making jewelry, maintaining some semblance of a social life and trying to start a zine in my hometown, I barely have the time to watch a cartoon, let alone write a post.

I don't really know where I was going with that or why you needed to hear it. I was just trying to post before bed and couldn't think of anything. So here are some pictures from my sketchbook. These are all from the era when I was obsessed with pastels.