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I haven't been writing much lately, I suppose. Lots of odd interesting little bits to write about but nothing really coherent.

Work continues on as it has been. Still just almost but not quite out of IOC.

My tomato plant grew to 8 feet tall and is covered with small sticky hairs that trap insects. I'm convinced it is devouring them to make it's demon fruit. Also, the fruit it makes is flawless and golden... I mean I need to photo some of these type flawless and gold-coloured. Weird. It's like something out of Inuyasha.

On Sunday we biked to several stores and humorously loaded everything onto my bike. letsee. 20lbs of brown rice, a case of soda, a new garage door spring, 5lbs of tofu, a half gallon of teriyaki sauce, and a bunch of other stuff. Heehee. Stacey still had to struggle to keep up with me while we were riding. :) We at pho for lunch and snacked on mugwort mochi around sweet red bean paste, then I made korean style spicy tofu soup for dinner. Turned out very well. Must feed to paka some day.

Worked on some furry art. Not very exciting.
http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Samantha-Patterson/Sketches/fox-parade.gif (Still working on it) and http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Samantha-Patterson/Sketches/woozle-os.jpg My hands were shakey again. :/ I think I'd drank too much tea though. Could also be the difference between inking on paper and inking on bristol or using the #1 brush instead of the #2. Maybe some combination or mad cow disease. :)

Last night I went to the SFBC grotto meeting. Spelunking group. Exciting! I dunno why but caving really gets me excited. We're (hopefully) gonna go and do vertical practice in a couple of weeks. They were talking about a survey of a cave that you could easily spend a month exploring and not see all of it. They're planning a week long expedition inside this cave. (Too advanced for me right now because I'm so out of practice) but... Wow. I keep thinking about that and how incredible it'd be to sit there in the dark for a week with lots of time to meditate with no interruptions. Inkwash paintings by the light of a glowstick and writing, a thousand feet below the surface of the Earth.


Tonight I go to my animation group meeting. I hope they won't be too utterly stunned to learn that I haven't done any animation in the past month. I think I'll probably bicycle home from there. It's only about 7 or 8 miles and it's a comfortable ride. Besides, I've been bicycling everywhere lately and my short hop commute no longer feels like exercise.

Oddly, my weight is staying the same. I know I'm much more fit than I was a month ago and I've got some skin that's looser but my weight is unchanged. Dangit. I need it to go down another 5 lbs so my doctor says I'm 'healthy' instead of 'overweight'.


Oh yeah. School starts soon. Don't know if I'll be able to go or not. :/
I need to so I can submit Free as a Bird to the film festival thingy.

Sketch of the day

Just doodling earlier today. Not finished, probably shouldn't be finished unless I can airbrush it, build a time machine, and get it made into a Pink Floyd album cover anyhow. Also, must resist urge to screw around with subtle coloring in Photoshop endlessly. It's already way past my bedtime.

I think I was thinking about Sweet William of PuzzleBox when I drew this.

Heehee. Bicycled home from animation group this evening. Average speed ~22MPH (Including hitting every damn traffic light) I hit speeds of at least 40MPH on parts of central. I was f***ing screaming.

I've also hit the max speed of my bike, I think. I might be able to get another couple MPH out of it and if I hit the lights better, I could make my average speed a LOT better, but on the whole, I have plenty of power left and just can't make the pedals go around any faster. Feels good to be regaining my strength. Although the 5 minutes of being superhuman when I got home was funny. Repaired the garage door spring during the weekend and hadn't opened the door since, so I about threw the door through the rough of the garage I opened it so hard. Then because I'd just pumped that far on my bike, I was stepping very high and felt like I was about to leap into the sky. :) Kinna cool in a geeky way. :)