2006-03-29

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Note to people in my neighborhood who own dogs:

To Whom It May Concern:

When, in the winter, your dog takes a shit at the edge of the sidewalk, the Crap Fairy does not come along and magically take it away after you cover it with a little snow. It STAYS there, waiting (when the snow melts, as it did today) for someone like me to come along and almost step in it. >.<

Sincerely yours,

A Fellow Resident of the Street


*sigh*

Cut for way, WAY too much feminine information )

My biggest concern: what if, one day, the bleeding just doesn't stop? Could it be dangerous?

Now feeling shaky, crampy, and a little bit weak. I'm skipping out on the DBT session this afternoon because of this, but also because the Hardy Boys editor just emailed me with a panicked request for four of the later pages of the book (they need the art for the back cover), and I have to get them done this afternoon. Before I do that, though, I have to run out and pay the internet bill (running on the very edge of disconnection) and renew those exercise tapes I took out from the library (they charge $2/tape for every day they're overdue). This in spite of the fact that right now I'd much rather be horizontal than vertical.

And now, to make this post more than just poor-little-me bitching, a note of real scientific interest, first brought to my attention by [livejournal.com profile] squirrelly42:

Scientists can grow frog and mouse meat in the lab, and are now working on pork, beef and chicken. Their goal is to develop an industrial version of the process in five years.

If they succeed, cultured or in vitro meat could be coming to a supermarket near you. Consumers could buy hamburger patties and chicken nuggets made from meat cultivated from muscle cells in a giant incubator rather than cut from a farm animal.


Now, how cool is that?

Next entry: a hilarious parody poem by [livejournal.com profile] moon_very_thin. I promise.
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*sighs deeply*

I just can't get into the groove tonight as far as rendering goes. Everything I'm doing sits uneasily on the linework and I can't get my head around the more complex forms.

I think I'm going to call it a night and pick it up fresh tomorrow morning.

I just downloaded the first seven pages of the next issue (FINALLY up on the server, praise God and pass the gas, after I was promised it almost a week ago), and... ye GODS. The backgrounds are insanely complex! So I've just emailed the editor and told him, "You know how I originally said I'd get this done hopefully by Thursday, then amended that to Friday or Saturday given how late the preview pages were? HAH! Try Saturday or Sunday, sucker! Blame the artist for putting in 10,000 itty-bitty details that I have to flat and then make sense of in the color."

Well... maybe not in so many words. But I think he'll get the point.

And now, as promised, a link to that wonderful parody poem I mentioned by [livejournal.com profile] moon_very_thin. It begins with:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while we waited, weak and weary,
For the guardians of the bookshop to unlock at last the door
While we stood there, glad and giddy, in the queue some mad old biddy
Elbowed past the little kiddies to be first inside the store.
“She has earned the right,” I muttered "to be first inside the store,
And be trampled to the floor."

Ah, how little could we fathom, as we cursed the crowd at random,
What a stunning blow to fandom waited just inside the door,
Eagerly anticipated - for we fans had long debated
Over which dear soul was fated to depart the mortal shore.
Little thinking what the cruel and canny author had in store
She had killed off Dumbledore!


And just gets better from there.

*wanders off, still bleeding in spurts and very confuzzled in the brain*
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