feet, ground ~ ground, feet ~

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i sorta fell off the planet there for a while.

summer school has started and it's got me hyper-focused. i'm actually on schedule with my adr work, have been writing (wow!), got my tv fixed (after six months), and sundry other banal domestic things. in other words, things are good.

talking with scarlite recently about Gods and Generals and Gettysburg, i decided that to commemorate the fixing of my 36 inch tv, i would watch the two back to back. (this is an insanity i don't really recommend for a number of reasons: first of all, they're not very good films ~ they're fun if you love the history, but the acting is bad and the dialogue is atrocious, and there's really not much plot ~ particularly in the first one. the battle sequences, on the other hand are fabulous. oh, and let's not forget that they are interminable: G & G clocks in at 219 minutes and G at 254 minutes ~ that's nearly 8 hours if you need the conversion. yeah, i still haven't finished the second movie yet). as a side note, i picked up Gods & Generals the book at half price for a buck today. i doubt i'll read it through, but i will likely skim the good parts.

anyway, so that's been ridiculous and distracting, but i also needed the time away from the computer. my eyes are really bothering me and i think part of what's been hard on them since i got here is that i work on files all day and then watch movies on the same screen at night. having my tv back helps and also gives me a reprieve from that corner of the house.

a secondary benefit is that when i throw a movie on, chances are i've seen it a dozen times and likely won't be watching the screen too much, which means i can do other things, like paint. so i've got the easel set up and i'm back to bartering and dickering with the gouache (and not being horrifically self-critical about it yet), which is nice. today i was practicing just how small i can draw with a .001 pen. actually managed to do fairly well with heads the size of pea. i'm seriously considering revisiting the business card story (a la gaping void).



a wee experiment doodle
slightly enlarged and
very lightly tinted

anyway, so that's where i've been the last two days. and prolly where i will be more often, hopefully. i've been writing at night in bed and that's working out well too. i've written two sections of In Fidelity (i guess that's a "chapter"), and though i'm still about 40 pages behind, at least i'm moving forward and i like what i'm doing so far.

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