| Things I Tweeted Today |
[Jan. 6th, 2010|12:02 am] |
Todays Twitters, just in case I continue to slack off from LJ and forget to post!
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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| Techno fail |
[Jan. 6th, 2010|12:08 am] |
So, I'm estimating a 50% chance of losing most of my files by week's end.
My computer has been a bitch for a long time. It's getting steadily worse. I'm looking into computer hospices, because all I can do at this point is make it comfortable and pump it full of morphine until it dies.
This is hard enough to deal with, but something else has been added to the mix.
My external backup hard drive is dying as well.
I can't get any files off it. Which makes the entire point of having it somewhat moot. Which means all those files on there, all the archives of YU+ME and Lesbian Pirates and all those comics I did in high school, I might never see again.
Trucker Lewis loaned me his Mac Mini to use while he's on the road. He's only had it a few months, and most of that time he hasn't used it because he's not been at home. The minute I get it home, things go wonky.
So I am starting to wonder... is it me?
I'm not wondering if it's something I'm doing. This seems to be something inherent in me that makes all technology around me explode. I so much as look at a laptop and it's jumping off a bridge. I fart in the vicinity of an iPhone and it slits its own throat.
It's like the worst superpower in the world. The ability to make all technology fail.
I'm surprised the computer I'm on hasn't been found face down in a puddle of its own vomit by now. |
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| Bear likes to sit at a desk |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|10:53 pm] |
Dude likes to sit in my lap while I am on the computer.
Shirts by Kate Beaton, blank idiot stares by Bear. |
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| In Days of Auld Lang Syne |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|09:24 pm] |
I'm aware that I'm a total crank in this comic.
I wrote this one before New Year's, and ended up having a really fun celebration, actually! In spite of my curmudgeonly musings.
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I was in Florida for Christmas with my family. I made this little doodle comic while I was sitting on the beach, getting freckles.
Oceans
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I'm going to be at NonCon this February, where I'll be giving a panel talk on my personal experiences with self-publishing and professional-publishing (with slides!). Really excited to be at Vassar as a professional grownup, because I used to walk past it on my high school lunch breaks and go, "Look at those smart grownups!"
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My birthday is next monday-- January 11th! I'll be 25. ...So the holidays aren't over yet!
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| Eleven Pipers Piping |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|05:47 pm] |
Tomorrow it's Twelve Drummers Drumming
Some people wait for New Year's, others the weekend after Christmas (which is occasionally the same thing). I've been doing it on the twelfth day of Christmas for some years now. So tomorrow, I wait for midnight to roll around, and unplug the lights. |
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| road rage |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|05:04 pm] |
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3 lanes of traffic, speed limit 45, everyone doing 30 to 35, no cops anywhere, wtf |
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| halp? |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|09:47 am] |
I am pretty much panicking right now.
I was taking a class that was offered in the Medieval Studies cluster, but they changed it (took the U off of it) and sitting through the lecture in the first day of class has revealed to me that it's way too hardcore for the background I have now.
This leaves me without a class.
There is nothing that I can take that applies to my degree. (English)
I found a class offered, but the professor is the proud owner of 15 pages of "DO NOT TAKE" from ratemyprofessors.com and the last time I ignored that type of bad vibe, well, I regretted it.
This leaves me at 8 credit hours.
I have stafford loans from sallie mae for being full time. To keep my insurance I need to be full time.
I need a class. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm an English major but enjoy history, medieval studies and art.
Can I get away with only taking 8 credit hours with my loans? I'm honestly more preoccupied about my loans at the moment because this is the first time I would go below 12 credit hours ever, and I don't really understand how this stuff works.
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| Hyperbole |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|12:35 pm] |
I love how people can read my "here are some guidelines about avoiding cliches when writing gay characters" and interpret that as "OMG she wants to censor us all and will beat us silly if we don't comply!"
But hey, like I said in my own article, it's impossible to please everyone in any genre, and that includes my own nonfiction article.
Thankfully, most people interpret the article as "Huh. I don't live in a vacuum, and maybe paying attention to the world around me will both make my writing better and avoid feeding into real-world homophobia." |
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| Freewheel Chapter One ends today! |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|10:23 am] |
The last page of Chapter One went up today, so now is the perfect time to get caught up before diving into Chapter Two, which will begin on Thursday!
We've had a great bump in the contributions to the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout! The project is currently about 30% funded so we've got $1744 left to raise before the end of February! I think I can, I think I can, I'm the god damn little engine that could! So far we've got a bunch of Can Openers, Cans O' Beanz, two loads of Firewood, some Matches and a Bootlegger to bring the party! Still no Mayor of Hobotown though!
You should also check out Joey Weiser's fundraiser for his Cavemen in Space project! He's trying to raise the funds to self-publish it and he could use some help from you!
Here's that fun ol' fundraising thermometer so you can get a better visual as to where I am right now with the Campout:
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| Bellen! Magic |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|07:24 am] |
Are you keeping up with Pages in Sequence or twitter? If you only knew, what you’re missing. Everything Dies is fully funded and will be going to the printers later this month. There are still 11 days left if you want to get some of ‘dem sweet donation rewards and the first hot off the press copies of the books. Otherwise, you’re waiting buddy.
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| Fight |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|10:24 pm] |
I heard we were supposed to be taking LJ back but I was unprepared! Give me another day, okay? |
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| best of year 2009 |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|10:43 am] |
Here's my official Favourite Book of the Year, happily sitting on my desk, which I found in my favourite Brussels bookshop, Tropismes, by Alexandra Pilchard. It's a baby board book called Herman et Dominique, about a mousy-looking man named Herman who has an intimate relationship with a mussel named Dominique. But Dominique leaves him, so he shacks up with an oyster named Marie-Claude, until Dominique suddenly returns to him... with chips.
I wish we had more baby books like this, French language publishers totally rock. I love how the book fits into my hand and opens just like a mussel.
( Some pages under the cut ) |
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| resolutions |
[Jan. 5th, 2010|03:29 pm] |
Here we are, the first Activities for Rainy Days of 2010! This year I have resolved to post AFRD weekly. I've made a few little changes to the way I draw it: I'm using a brush pen, and I've decided that their noses really work better as mouths (especially since everyone thought they were mouths anyway).
Lately I've been feeling like I've been neglecting LJ (and my site), since most of the comics I am doing are longer-form stories and they generally go up on the Top Shelf website. I really miss the feedback and friendleness of LJ. I guess I stopped doing AFRD because it was one of my most popular comics. I know that sounds stupid but the pressure to produce something funny really bothered me! Now I have realised that it's okay to just be stupid. And I can certainly do stupid.
You can read the archives here, and there will be a new one every Tuesday! |
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