iden’s blog

I've decided to draw a comic for not only my amusement but also yours i hope.  I'm not sure if I'm quite as witty as I think I am at times, but I guess we'll see.

Trial size will be right, this is, at the moment probably for a limited time only.  We'll see how attached I get and how much time I'm willing to spend on it.  This one only took me a couple of hours altogether....once i sat down and cranked it out.  It's taken me awhile to find something I know a little bit about in order to have sufficient knowledge of the humor in the situation.

Well I hope it isn't too lame and I hope i actually get some readerhip.  I'm not very good at self promotion, especially when its me trying out a new medium.  Especially concerning my art.  I'm a little embarrassed at how little I know about form and color and making the form evoke some sort of reality and movement which is really why this project came about.  I need to improve and maybe just vent a little.

Much love!  I hope to have it out sunday night/monday morning.

Ruth

I have just discovered one of the best things by way of social networking.....www.goodreads.com.  Pretty sure you should go there and open an account.

Tell everyone how many books you've read.

Promote literacy!

Love,
Ruth

its been hard to find something to write about when i'm here at home.  this place isn't like athens at all. there's no surreal quality where you know that all the rules of propriety and code of conduct are broken.  its been me holding back my tongue and wearing heels like a ball and chain.

i am awkward in this new environment, i don't wear jean except for the weekends and sometimes not even then.  i know practically no one here except for some friends from high school that are still in the area.  i don't know what to talk about because all the subjects accepted and well known are foreign and odd up here.

i'm confused and dazed and disoriented.

its all very strange. 

so i draw to keep my mind from stagnating and i hole up in my room to recreate the place that i used to live  there are glaring differences still: the parents that hover and bang things around outside my door, the detox of cigarettes and alcohol that used to fuel my creativity, the glaring loneliness.....

i have hope though. there are things that are getting done and stages that i have already passed that will allow me to move forward. it is a games and i'm advancing slowly but surely towards the end.

its been one of those nights that i can't stop drawing and really don't want to stop but the fact that i know i'll be exhausted tomorrow morning

that and work sucks....we're not actually doing what we're supposed to...because mail has been light.

so actually....i might as well keep drawing. i'll only be stuffing envelopes. 

well, its back to the pencil and paper.   i have no patience for inanimate objects.

ruth

I have been writing most of the night.  This week has been a mash up of expriences.  I"m in a job in a completely different environment than i was a week ago and i'm with a completely different set of friends.

Its a transition that is strange and good and confusing all at once.  I feel...as if I have taken a step back and am less independant and yet for some strange reason it is what i need to center myself and ready myself for what i know i have to do eventually.

First, let me clear something up.....I do not have a pumpkin tattooed on my sternum, it is a rose.

Haha, that was for steph

So i'm finally out of athens!  I'm back in the Fairlawn area and living with my parents.  Not ideal I know but I need a chill environment right now.

I'm looking for jobs right now and I've hopefully found something with Office Team.  Its a temp agency that's trying to find me jobs based on the fact that I have no degree but can type up to 50 wpm.  Its not bad.  I've gotten a couple of calls so far from my agent (haha, sounds high class) and hopefully will have something soon.  *crosses fingers*

Went with my friend Mike to put away his DJ equipment last night and ended up over at his house for a couple hours like the olden days.

I missed my good friends from back home

Oh, and I've added to my tattoo collection....its pretty and even Mike doesn't think its tacky.  Pictures to come later.

Love,
Ruth

So, I work at Big Mamma's Burritos, a late night mexican burrito stand that considers 3 am too early to close.  In a small college town like Athens, Ohio this is quite literally the epitome of a gift from God.  Our drunk rush includes a line out the door, food splattered across the store, brawls, shouting, and basically any possible freakshow that could live in this town to make an appearance sometime during the night. 

Our "easy" shifts stretch four hours during the peak and our "medium" shifts include ten hours from 5pm to 3am.

How many of these shifts was I scheduled in a row you ask? Four. Forty hours in four days.

And yet i still love my job. Granted, I will be very glad to leave this town in June but I will be sad to have leave all those wonderful crazies behind.  There are three requirements in order to work at this burrito heaven.  You must be one or any combination of these three requirements: an alcoholic, a pot head, or just clinically insane. 

On to lighter things.  I have finished two books in three days and am now working on a Gabriel Garcia Marquez that I bought in Wyoming years ago and still have yet to finish. 

Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)

I'm not quite sure yet how much I like it.  I read A Hundred Years of Solitude years ago and wasn't sure about that one either.  But then, I was waaaaay too young.  I'll have to reread that one also.

I made hummus the other day.  Its quite good but a little dry, I must remember to either do  A) a long soak for dried garbonzos or B) get'em canned.

Tomorrow I must do bread in order to put said hummus upon.  I ran out of tortilla shells today.

I need a good stiff drink and a sedative and then I will finally get the rest I need to make it through another 10 hour shift tomorrow.

Much love,
El Gato Gordo

I just realized that I am no longer going "back to college" when I leave Medina to go to Athens, I'm now going "home".  That is in and of itself very strange.

That and I brought back a painting to hang on my wall.

That and presents.  I really want to open my birthday presents....They're sitting not two feet away from me and I'm horribly impatient.

I have a feeling I'll be opening one tonight.

It's been really hard lately to be creative.  Not to mention that its only a few days until christmas and I've got quite a few gifts to draw.  There's really only two that I must do.  My grandmother would be really disappointed if I didn't get her anything/draw her anything.

Well, three.  I think I've promised my sister on several occaisons that she would get a painting.

I think that's what I'll do tonight.  I went for a walk and now I don't feel like going to the bars.