Six Months!
You might’ve noticed (all three of you!) that I haven’t blogged on here for six months. Choke. Yeah, well, lots on my plate and etc… Read More »Six Months!
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It’s 2012
Guess I’d better squeeze a last posting in while it’s still 2011. I hope everyone has a good year. I have a Resolution or two… Read More »It’s 2012
Birthday
Yeah, it’s my birthday today. Still not too late to send me a gift via PayPal if you think I’m groovy… or something off my Amazon Wishlist, if you like…
Did manage to attend the local Grey Lodge horror meet in Acocks Green (the Spread Eagle) last night. Oddly enough, didn’t talk about horror much, although I did suggest bedroom farce + giallo as a dubious combination of genres. (Not entirely sure whether or not Lucio Fulci managed to do this somewhere or other.)
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Big News
Which I didn’t even blog about till now. Well, I had a London-based job offer a little over two weeks ago following an interview on March 28th, which I accepted. I’ve been flat-hunting quite intensively and I’m viewing a place I’m quite hopeful about on Friday. Not 100% yet but it seems to be looking good. So maybe I’ll blog a bit more often again! :b Seriously, between various projects and the focus on relocating back down South, I’ve had little time to spare. This could change. We’ll see.
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A Decade
Just realised I missed this blog’s tenth birthday by a few days. But anyway, so it’s ten. That’s either impressive endurance or just depressing because of how quickly it flew by. Probably both, actually.
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Ramble Ramble
About Club Comicana—I do have two strips in the works. One, I did very rough pencils on a couple of panels (about two weeks ago), and last night I did 75% of the pencils & some of the lettering for another one. So I’ll get those into a finished state at some point. Hopefully quite soon.
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Preoccupied
It hasn’t been a week for drawing anything. Too much on my mind, I suppose. I’ve been looking for a job, i.e. full-time & salaried—down in the London area. I’ve been doing same locally for ages (this area sadly being of one of the country’s darkest & deepest pits jobs-wise), being that the lack of stability of freelancing has certainly caused me problems—and a lot of other people, during the recession, as far as I can tell. But, I thought, if I’m investing so much time into this, why am I looking round here? I don’t like it round here.
Well, yes, down south was littered with bad judgement calls last time. I messed-up repeatedly as far as places to live were concerned, and my mom’s death was still affecting my morale. It went badly. But in actual fact, I didn’t want to leave. It just became the only ‘sensible’ option under the circumstances. Even at that, the experience left me shattered enough to ask my GP for anti-depressants. They helped a bit for a while, but I stopped taking them back in January because they had clearly outlived their use. Doing so hasn’t left me in a worse mood, at any rate. Perhaps a touch better generally, once withdrawal had passed.
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Renewal
As I type this specific sentence we’re at roughly 1:10am on the 27th. Of May. Not the friendliest of dates for me. Today, four years ago, my mother passed away. I’d be lying if I said it had been the greatest four years ever. It’s had its good points. Just not enough of them. And since moving back here in Dec ’07, I’d say the good points have receded quite dramatically.
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