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Jun. 23rd, 2004 01:01 amDoc might have a new job lined up, akin to his favourite old job, which was being a software company's troubleshooter in The Far East (apparently they'd sold an earlier version of their wares to the Asian market, and it was cheaper to fly Doc out whenever a bug turned up than it would have been to replace the whole deal.) I think I might get him a copy of Daisann McLane's Cheap Hotels for Christmas. Meanwhile, I really have to find myself a real job. I think I'm the only person I know who has escapist fantasies about working in an office. Proofreading! controlling photocopy machines! drinking coffee! having an excuse to dress professionally! -- but since all I'm really qualified to do is draw pictures, I just keep sending portfolios to book publishers; ineffectually. At least I have celexa, my favourite anti-anxiety and mood-stabilizing drug.
Went to the comics convention on Saturday and spent $23 I shouldn't have on Creature Tech, an excellent graphic novel from the creator of Earthworm Jim. Must make icons from some of the panels. Consequently I'm now broke and dependent on the BiPolarBear till next month, but as I've paid a lot of our grocery bills in the past, I figure he owes me. Anyway, he's willingly bought me dinners, stikfas toys and comic books over the last few days, including the first three issues of The Amazing Challengers of Unknown Mystery, a self-published comic about a superhero team fighting evil (sort of) in Waterloo, Ontario.
The BPB enjoyed the convention, except he had to spend a lot of time in a line-up listening to a particularly greedy and annoying autograph hound whine about how he hadn't seen Terry Pratchett at Worldcon and so had not been able to add to the 23 autographed Pratchett books he already has...Apparently he also kept pointing out to everybody else in the line that they were only allowed three books for Will Eisner to autograph, and then when his turn finally came he tried to sneak four past the good Mr. Eisner. All this so he could "leave a legacy for his children."
"Does he expect to have children?" I asked the BPB when he told me all this.
Went to the comics convention on Saturday and spent $23 I shouldn't have on Creature Tech, an excellent graphic novel from the creator of Earthworm Jim. Must make icons from some of the panels. Consequently I'm now broke and dependent on the BiPolarBear till next month, but as I've paid a lot of our grocery bills in the past, I figure he owes me. Anyway, he's willingly bought me dinners, stikfas toys and comic books over the last few days, including the first three issues of The Amazing Challengers of Unknown Mystery, a self-published comic about a superhero team fighting evil (sort of) in Waterloo, Ontario.
The BPB enjoyed the convention, except he had to spend a lot of time in a line-up listening to a particularly greedy and annoying autograph hound whine about how he hadn't seen Terry Pratchett at Worldcon and so had not been able to add to the 23 autographed Pratchett books he already has...Apparently he also kept pointing out to everybody else in the line that they were only allowed three books for Will Eisner to autograph, and then when his turn finally came he tried to sneak four past the good Mr. Eisner. All this so he could "leave a legacy for his children."
"Does he expect to have children?" I asked the BPB when he told me all this.
