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So, it’s done.

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My last class is finished.

My professor assures us that we’ve all passed.

I’d party but I’m too tired to do much more than eat a celebratory bowl of ice cream and sit like a lump on the sofa. Very shortly (once we’ve determined if Nighthawk’s car battery is dead) I’ll be going to bed.

All at once I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders and that the whole world is open to me… and also that I’ve lost a little something, not having class to go to anymore.

They say that these are not the best of times
But they’re the only times I’ve ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own
…
For we are always what our situations hand us
It’s either sadness or euphoria
(billy joel)

I’ve been assured that this will wear off… I’ve also been assured that just because I’m a Master Engineer I won’t necessarily be allowed to drive a train. (Apparently, Conductors do that. I pointed out that I’m mostly water and trace minerals, and they’re both pretty good conductors, but that was not enough.)

And despite fears that I won’t have enough to do, it looks like I’ll be pretty busy. A webcomic to re-buffer, a website to re-revise, my brother-in-law’s birthday / high school graduation party this weekend, Virginia Beach next week, visits from some ideaphiles the week after that, and so on and so forth. And then there’s the floor to finish in the 2nd bedroom and then bathrooms to remodel, etc. etc. it goes on and on. Still, graduation frees up about 10-20 hours a week of my time, so I should be a little more relaxed.

Next Monday my shift changes – I’ll be working 5 days a week for the first time in a few years, 10:30am-7:00pm. Very odd.

To all of you who’ve helped me stay sane these past three years, thank you!

I did it! It’s done.

I love the buffer.

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I was up until 1:00 this morning working on class stuff. Made a lot of great progress, which is good, because the thing’s due in 8 DAYS. eek.

Dog had me up at 2:30, when she drained her water bowl, begged for more water, drank that, fought me when I tried to send her outside to pee, finally went out, peed like a racehorse (only maybe not so tall) when she finally got out there, came back in, and promptly threw up most of the water on the rug.

To be honest, throughout all this I’d quite forgotten that today was Tuesday and I had a comic to post. For what little (4.5 hours) sleep I got last night I spent most of it dreaming about PHP programming and about work — no pressure there. But since I’d managed to slog together a few half-assed comics (no, not my best work) into a buffer during vacation, I didn’t *have* to worry, and that was a feeling I’d missed.

Goal one when all this is over (in 9 DAYS! eek.) is to rebuild my buffer into at least two months. And hell, if I get that done, maybe I’ll even go to a three-day-a-week schedule. But no promises. There’s no guarantee I’ll make it through the next eight days with these shreds of my sanity in tact.

ps. a quick thank-you to ideaphile Jamie, who sent me some fan art in April when I’d put up a call for it – your art’s finally going to be run a week from now. And believe you me, I’m glad it’s there for me to run!

Some missions accomplished.

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Tasks accomplished:

  • Bills are paid.
  • I confirmed that the property taxes are paid.
  • I have a comic buffer for the first time in weeks – two whole comics, but it’s better than no whole comics.
  • Eye appointments are finished (except a contact fitting tomorrow (*cough* today))
  • Car appointments are set.
  • I’ve successfully worked out on the elliptical trainer for at least 20 minutes the last 3 days straight.

Still have some important stuff to do tomorrow, like clean the house and find my garden under all the weeds, but all things considered I think it’s been a fairly productive vacation week.

In two days I go back to work. Sunday I have to work on class stuff. These are things I think I will worry about later. Right now is sleep.

Scribble

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In Dalton Sharp’s livejournal, he posted a nifty drawing that requested that those who read it respond by drawing what they’d like to do with him.

my response is thusly:

learn learn learn learn...

Dalton’s running a pretty darned cool comic / sequential art piece in his livejournal – make sure to check it out.

comic tomorrow may be late – 1.5 of 3 panels complete, picnic in 2 hours, fireworks at 10:00, currently: sinus headache the size of kentucky.

Whump!

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yeah, this happened.

In just under four weeks, I’ll have finished my last class at Penn State and completed my Master’s in Software Engineering. I’ll have freed up no less than six hours a week from a very busy schedule. I’ll have completed a goal that I set as an undergrad in 1999, when I decided that double-majoring in English and Computer Science wouldn’t allow me to graduate anytime that century. I’ll have time to actually *draw comics*. Amazing.

Until then, though, I have insanity on insanity to complete. Work, class, social engagements, more class, more work, more class. Hopefully the comics will stay on schedule, but the buffer is gone and it’s very touch-and-go.

Yeah…. um….

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I’m having one of those "can’t remember what I was going to post about" moments. It was probably going to be about how freakin’ tired I am. We have five weeks of class left and I have a thousand things to do and no time to do them. Every time something gets added to my list of things to do I can see another day of my vacation in July just evaporating.

I haven’t even looked at the buffer for the comic in a week and a half. Guess I’d better check that.

I’d like to go upstairs and go to sleep, but I have so much to do. Enough that I have to stop sitting here wondering what I was going to post about. Night.

And now for a short break for some idiocy

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Next, a fight over the draperies!

I have some big ideas for Marin and Lila, but I currently lack time. A big presentation for my Master’s degree is due in three weeks and while my team is making some great progress, we have a distance to go.

Rather than draw you some really quick-and-ugly strips in the canon of the story, we’re going to shift back to idiot comics for the next few updates. Those of you who like the canon stuff better will be relieved to know that as soon as I can find time to draw again, I will. Those of you who actually like the idiocy comics better will be relieved to know you’re getting at least four.