forgive me for not writing in awhile but i discovered that sometimes the button that lets me publish this thing works and some time it does not. but now that i think about it, i am fairly convinced that nobody reads this things at all so i guess i am mostly apologizing to myself.

dinner was interesting tonight as my brother has become some sort of pizza alchemist. he made three different frozen pizzas, each with a variety of different spices and flavorings. he then explained to me that "this is for veggie lovers" and "this is for meat lovers". then he held out his hands and said, "veggie, meat. veggie, meat. veggie, meat. veggie, meat. meat, veggie, veggie, meat. veggie, veggie, meat, veggie, veggie, veggie, meat, veggie". i do not know what it was all about and what he was doing exactly but he was doing it. then some sort of baseball capped opera man was singing god bless america and shook his face around a lot.

i have piles of homework and other things to do and i am finding myself increasingly horrified by how much stuff i have piled in drawers and things. i am trying to clean to make room for the disney animation desk stweve got for me. i really want to start animating on a real professional desk with real professional tools instead of my friend's light box with acme pegs glued to it. although at this rate i feel like i'm never going to get this stuff cleaned out. and on top of that i really need to remodel my website, finish backing up my computer files to reinstall the system, and get some artwork done. i don't like having monumental things to do.

went to santa barbara on friday to see the animation show probably for the last time. went with stweve and it took us almost four hours to get there because of traffic, but we made it. there were maybe five accidents along the way and we almost got into three, the most memorable being when a giant metal bucket thing flew off the back of a truck. i was watching this guy in the car next to us dance around and i kept saying "look at that guy rock out!" when all of a sudden steve yells "OH SHIT" and i look ahead and he does this amazing swerve into the shoulder and back into the lane. the last half hour of the driving was really beautiful. ucsb is also very very pretty with its massive moving pencil sculptures and columbus slanders chalked all over the sidewalks. we got there very early so there were good seats in the fourth row calling to us. the theater was decently sized and before long it was completely packed with people. don hertzfeldt was there to answer the questions of the people and i bought a pink animation show shirt. steve and i had a lot of fun and it was one of the best times i've had in awhile.

i should probably get back to work now...