Wednesday, July 19, 2006

ugh
a good bit of this is complaining, so onsider yourself warned. skip to the third paragraph if you dont care.

yesterday was the hottest day here so far all summer. it hit and stayed at 102'F most of the afternoon. that was bad enough in a job that requires you to be outside. however, it was also the most physically demanding day ive had. for those who never heard or forgot, im the delivery driver for a printing company. "but youre delivering paper, how bad is that?" yeah its just paper, but when you have 50lbs of it, its quite a handful. thats nearly half my weight, so you can imagine the fun. i can handle 1-4 large boxes at a time, and i usually dont have much more. today everyone seemed to decide to want their stuff or want to send us stuff. over the course of the day, i loaded and unloaded over 40 boxes of crap, ranging from 2-50lbs a piece. needless to say, inus a bit worn down.

ok, im done whining for those who skipped over that. on the bright side, i have less than 3 weeks left. then i get 2 full weeks off before i go back to school. ah i look forward to that day.

as some of you no doubt saw, i did another in "lianas series of favorite characters". thats 3 done, 5 left. i have the reference picture for the next one in my greedy little paws, and i hope to start on that within the next few days.

just a comment, for those (aka ace) who did (or may decide to do) anything for my supposed contest, i wont be in town on the original deadline (this saturday) so i just pushed it back to sunday for now. if anyone shows interest by the date but cant have anything done by then, i may push it back a few more days. (i hate contests that run into infinity, so dont expect much extra time) not that i really expect that. this is pretty much ending up as a glorified art trade between ace and i. so ace i thank you. well see if there are any further developments.

also, random news on the writing front. this new story project liana and i are working on is going nicely. were at ~40 pgs in word, so about 80+ pgs in standard paperback format. not bad. i may stick a snippet of that on here at some point to see what people think.

quote of the day: conversation
"I've often noticed that pain means you're doing something right." –Gould
"Doesn't pain normally symbolize something is wrong?" –Liana
"In taekwondo, it's the opposite. If you're in pain, it's good. If your opponent is in pain, it's even better." –Gould

gould is our tkd instructor. you can imagine how much fun class is.

{inu}

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