Laura got a job at Starbucks last week. She's had one shift so far, and her second is tomorrow. She's not getting many hours now, but people are leaving and going back to school, so she expects to be full time soon enough. From online application to being hired on the spot at the interview, Laura got the job in about four days.
I have so many projects on the go right now and want to work on them all, all at once. So many more ideas swim around in my head, too.
Laura and I tried shrooms the other day. We were with a group of friends who are rather more experienced. They took acid, as they didn't have enough of either to go around. We spent the day in a park. It was a beautiful, sunny day. It rained the slightest bit, but the forecast called for storms all day, so we got off lucky. One of them brought a bag full of fun trinkets, like a spiral plate spinning top, a kaleidoscope, a ViewMaster.
It was a delightful experience. I mostly focused on the sky; the clouds were incredible, like oily smoke puddles. There were intricate patterns appearing in everything, even when I closed my eyes.
They also told me the E I took on New Years was the strongest they had ever taken, which is disappointing as I would likely have a very difficult time getting some again.
Jerry Holkins, in an episode of the Penny Arcade show, explained his interest in mind altering drugs, "I'd always been fascinated by the idea that consciousness had a chemical component, and I really wanted [...] to figure that out. I wanted to play around with that." I watched that just before we went and met up with our friends. I was in the perfect state of mind, I guess.
I feel an incredible need to draw a comic lately. I read through the Scott Pilgrim series, I re-read through the Nihilist Raisins, Nihilist Dominos, Mac Hall, and Three Panel Soul archives. I have two predominant ideas as to what I could make a comic about, and they could cross over fairly easily, or at least one feature the other every once in a while.
The first is kind of a spiritual continuation of ND, in that it would be about Laura and I, and our lives, and our friends, but not necessarily about true events. It would also share a similar humour, if any, as I don't know how to write real comedy, just weird fuh-nee.
The second idea is to draw a comic about Tokyo Jones. Tokyo Jones is the name Laura and I decided we would give our daughter, if we ever have one (and if it suited her, I guess). The comic would be about Tokyo at my age now, in her early- to mid-twenties, and her day to day life. I'd also want there to be some aspect of either a spy, superhero, or crime story involved in some way. Right now Tokyo Jones is the one I'm leaning more towards.
The comic would be drawn page by page, instead of in strip form. I just know I can't do strip format comics on my own. Not in a sustainable or satisfactory way, anyway. It would also be easier, then, to make a book, if they're already in page format.
Kim Fu and J.P. are getting married in Vancouver in just under a year. She sent her Montreal friends an e-mail to see if we'd be able to go. We all excitedly responded yes. Laura will probably get her air fare and hotel payed for in exchange for being the wedding photographer and doing Kim's makeup. This will likely be my first time in a (jet) plane. (I've only ever been in one of those tiny bush planes.) This will be the first marriage of a friend I attend. I've only been to two weddings so far, both my cousins', siblings to one another. I am very excited for that trip!
I finally fixed the bed. The slats no longer collapse under the slightest weight, I no longer fear the side of the bed.
I downloaded a bunch of chip tunes music today after catching up on a dozen or so PATV episodes. The show is chock-full of chip tunes, and used to such great effect. The season finale sent waves of chills through-out my body multiple times.