Martha Jane

Thing 1: Dethklok concert was awesome.

Thing 2: I caught some kind of flu and was horribly sick yesterday.

Thing 3: ( Junk sketches )

The Dethklok concert is coming up way too fast! I feel like I'm hurtling through time right now. RIGHT NOW.

Actually everything is going too fast and I'm not even busy. What happened to this year? I've spent most of the last few months working and being by myself in the evenings.

I bought a second CD tower the other day, to hold my rapidly expanding collection. I'm really glad I found the same kind at Staples as the one I already had. I don't understand why it's so hard to find CD towers at places like Best Buy or HMV, doesn't anyone need CD towers for their music? Does anyone even buy music anymore??!! I feel like I'm the only one sometimes.

I've been using one of those reusable grocery bags (the ones with the green bottle on the side) as a purse recently because I'm too apathetic to buy something more stylish.

( Just some junk under here. )

Nothing really great under the cut, just more random drawings and stuff.

( A creepy man, von viklinghammer and my 2 favorite dildos )

Conventions are awesome when you don't actually go to the convention.

I had a really fun time at the hotel party last night, I miss everyone so much.
( Original art & metalocalypse )

On Sunday evening, I'll be doing $10 drawings to help a friend raise rent money. (It's NOT sarah, lol.) I don't remember the location I'm supposed to be at for this (lol) but it'll be somewhere in downtown T.O.

For anyone who wants a $10 drawing from me but can't/won't be there, let me know, I'm sure we can work something out.

I feel like I'm getting cabin fever, working by myself in the middle of nowhere at a store that doesn't get a lot of business. I read a lot and sometimes I draw but mostly I feel restless. Also I haven't been sleeping a lot because I don't feel tired when I get home in the evening. I've been feeling super bitchy and irritable this week, and I don't want to feel like that. I think I just need to run around the block a few times or something when I get home in the evenings.

Also, my switch from veganism to vegetarianism has been awesome. It's been a while since I made the switch, I know, but there is just so much more food that I can eat now that is easy to make and doesn't taste like ass. Eggs, yogurt, and grilled cheese sandwiches are the best things ever.

I tried doing some digital paintings the other night using photo reference from Facebook. None of it is worth posting, since I haven't drawn from life in a long time and I never use photo reference. It felt good to make something that wasn't a cartoon drawing though, and it made me miss life drawing.

I finally went to Balzac's coffee a while back, I have to say it's pretty awesome. It makes me want to get back to my weekly Starbucks drawing sessions with Mac. I just wish I had somewhere to go for 3 hours every morning and do nothing but draw. Someplace with no distractions, where I could meet a friend and just talk about random shit for a couple of hours while drawing whatever comes to mind. Or a lifedrawing group with no instructor, $10 per person per class kind of deal, at a time that doesn't clash with my work schedule. It's just hard for me to be self-motivated, I need schedules and deadlines and people counting on me or else I just... don't do anything.

So getting my wisdom teeth out was actually pretty simple. I was in the dentist's office, staring up at the ceiling, and in the next moment I was waking up on a couch and being handed my teeth in a little bag. I spent the rest of the day watching cartoons and drooling into a towel. Today I was feeling well enough to leave the house and go shopping, in fact I got to the mall before it even opened. 8D I still have a couple days off though, which is pretty sweet.

As though they received a premonition of their impending doom, my wisdom teeth are giving me even more problems than they were before.
 The gums are all swollen on one side, making it uncomfortable to eat anything. I choked down breakfast while looking at the following background on my computer:

( bitter irony )

har har :/

My sleep schedule for the last week has been totally fucked. I've been getting up and going to bed at extremely odd hours, mostly because of jumping around between jobs. I really should have been making sure I got enough sleep because I kind of had an exhaustion-and-stress-induced freakout on Sunday. I feel bad because I think Kaja and Whitney were really worried about me. ;_; I hope I didn't ruin your Pride, guys. <3

In other news, it is really goddamn hot. Far too hot for me. Excuse me while I pack my bags and move to Nunavut.


I'm still sad that I didn't buy even more CDs at that awesome garage sale. I got so much amazing music at $1.00/CD, I should have totally taken advantage of the opportunity.


I've been browing threadless.com, there are so many awesome designs that I want.

I am the worst ever at handing out resumes. I forced myself out of the house at 2:30 this afternoon, spent 3 hours wandering around and only handed out 7 resumes. I just really hate this whole process, but I need something with more hours than Essence of Life can offer me, and preferable closer to home. If I could be fulltime at Lovecraft I'd be super happy but even their fulltimers are getting their hours cut.

On the plus side, I actually have a bunch of artistic projects to be  working on in my free time. I have three different short comics that I'm working on right now, among other things. It's rare that I have free time AND personal projects to work on at the SAME TIME. Usually I'm at work crying about how there's other things I want to get done, or I'm floundering around the apartment looking for something to do.

Today Mac and I went to the Don Valley Brickworks. I'd never been and now I wish I'd gone there a long time ago, it's such a cool building! We couldn't do too much exploring because the place is under construction at the moment but it was really nice to see it before it gets fully renovated. It's all exposed brick and smashed windows and boarded-up entrances. Afterward, Mac and I walked up to Mount Pleasant Cemetery and meandered around, and then I had just enough time to run to work.

All in all, a lot of walking was involved... I left work early, went home and passed out for a few hours. Then I woke up with that gross feeling you get when you fall asleep without brushing your teeth.

I bought Prince of Egypt off ebay recently and have been watching it repeatedly. It's an AMAZING movie, it makes me want to draw tons.

I got myself a Twitter account, I used snartha as a username. I will probably almost never update there but if any of you has twitters let me know what your usernames are!

I was watching Gundam 08th MS Team (or something like that?) last night with Shaila and Shredder and now I'm physically tired from thinking so hard to try and figure out the plot. /fail

I want to watch more now though.

Today I walked past a theatre and saw a poster for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Of course it had a picture of Joseph wearing this big ugly rainbow colored shite cloak. I wonder, why does the cloak always have to look retarded? Why can't it be a stylish technicolor dreamcoat? Back in those days, to have a comparatively colorful garment, all you really had to do was make it not brown. Jeez.

Anyway I bought some nice boots today to wear to work, since I've been wearing heinous-looking running shoes for way too long.

The theme for this last week has been bad writing; I got sucked into Twilight and finished the fourth book in only five days (I know I read a lot, but 750 pages is a lot, holy hell. What an easy read @_@ ), and then Sarah and I have been reading through this and this (as well as the corresponding ED article for the second link.) I have a huge stack of actually decent books I've been meaning to read but I keep pushing it aside. I really want to draw a picture of Nosferatu and be like "NOSFERATU IS WAY MORE PIMP THAN EDWARD BITCHES!!!!!"

My hours got shortened at work, which is bad in terms of saving money to travel with, but good in the sense that I have more free time in the mornings and evenings now.

And I promise you'll get a laugh out of this.

To make up for my rather cryptic angst-post, I give you... works in progress!!! :D


( Drawings! )

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