let's see ~ the art of twiddling

[lookingland]

i'd like to see a show of hands for people who are interested in doing the piles of homework I have due next week.

anybody? anybody? c'mon: fun stuff! a "swot" analysis and an acquisition's list: you know you love it!

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my ability to focus lately is so shot. i did some adr work today, but not nearly enough (and at this rate, i don't look to be picking it up again tonight. i've doodled some ~ will prolly doodle more while i watch the X-files (it's a good show to doodle with because you don't really have to keep your eyes on the screen all the time to enjoy it).

i'd like to finish the first scene of "The Red Door" this weekend (it's only three more pages, though i'll likely redraw page five again. i think one of my markers (which i use to ink) is croaking and i'm not sure i have another ~ and i was just at dick blick's ~ but hey, any excuse to go again, right?

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okay, so: Lent.

lent starts next week and i've done nothing to prepare whatsoever. i'm going to go to confession tomorrow even if i don't feel like it because it can only get worse for dragging it along and making excuses.

that said, i haven't really made formal lenten plans. i'd like to go to mass more often (imminently do-able). i'd like to do the stations on fridays (like i used to at St. Mary's ~ man, i miss my parish ~ sob) ~ i'd also like to do some spiritual reading. this seems like a good time to pick up Heliotropium since it's sitting around just waiting to be read. as to the giving upness of things: still to be determined. my indulgences are so few ~ the computer, dvds, books. i can easily say i won't buy anything until easter, but given that i'm church-mouse poor that's hardly a sacrifice.

see what i mean about not being able to focus?

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every time i turn the oven on, my dog freaks out. so now i'm debating whether to make a pizza.

stay tuned: it could get interesting as my procrastination anxiety mounts.

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Comments

[akirad.livejournal.com]

every time i turn the oven on, my dog freaks out

There's a story in there somewhere. I can feel it in my bones.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahaahahaha ~ whatever the story may be, it's lost forever in that poor dog's noodle. he's a recuse from an abusive home and he has issues on top of issues ~ many of which take me suddenly by surprise.

i've managed to fix some of his problems (he's no longer deathly afraid of bottles and cans), but some of the other weird problems continue to be a puzzlement.

i'm hoping he'll get used to the stove eventually. i took a picture of him hiding in the farthest room behind the chair the last time i turned the stove on. i'll post it later ~ hahahaha.

poor dog.

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[la-vita-nuova.livejournal.com]

Is it an electric oven? The high-pitched whine made by TVs & computer monitors frequently annoys me and although I don't recall hearing it from the oven there could be noise involved with that that your dog can hear but you or I couldn't.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

it's actually gas. i think he's afraid of the smell or the heat, but neither really makes sense since the oven in my house where we'd been living for a year and a half before also had a gas stove.

i think the dog is just weird.

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