Comic for Monday, March 2, 2009

Posted: 1:35 am, Monday, March 2nd

This didn't advance things much, now that I look at it. I maintain that there will be closure in Friday's strip! That last panel is supposedly the night sky from "Manhattan Island, USA" according to Google Earth Sky View or something. I go for accuracy for no reason! Also, this is not what New York is like right now - I drew this on Saturday, without looking at a forecast. We're in the middle of a snowstorm as I type this.

I used to get insomnia a lot as a kid. At least twice a month, I'd be up 'til three in the morning or later, reading, drawing and eventually crying from frustration, because Mom never let me stay home from school, regardless of how little sleep I got. Between the hours I keep as an adult and the accessibility of alcohol, I now only get insomnia about once a year. This seems to be that once, if you notice the time stamp. I don't have a particularly rigorous day ahead of me - hell, it could even be a snow day, if the forecast is accurate, although I only remember one snow day in the eight years (eight years tomorrow!) that I've lived in New York City - but it sure does suck to start a week off with zero sleep in the tank. I've already read Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted, and am thinking of starting Cut. I wish that the librarian hadn't not given me the copy of How to Eat Fried Worms that I tried to take out the other day, because I need to have it read for Tuesday's class. Hell, I still have to tend to the end of that Jack and the Beanstalk paper I've been busy not writing, also. (Twisted was very good, but not as excellent as Speak.)

I'm guessing my insomnia has something to do with the fact that I was a lazy sack all day yesterday, and actually watched most of TBS's Lord of the Ringsathon, even though I own all three films on DVD. The party Saturday night broke up late, so my activity level was awfully low. Didn't translate to sleep, though.

This isn't making me any more tired, dammit.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Monday, March 2 2009, 06:19 am

SNOW DAY, MOTHERFUCKERS!

Melatonin for insomnia is wonderful. herbal, so you don't get hooked. but take half a pill or you're left with a weird "hangover" of sorts.

congrats on your first snow day! it's like christmas in march. we didn't get any snow on this one, but we've had two other snow days already and about a half dozen 2-hour delays, which are the absolute best: all classes are abbreviated, and you don't have to make up the day later. (after a while, you start to sound like your kids when it comes to cancellations and delays. or maybe it's just me.)

What are you doing with your snow day, Bullfrog?

Finishing a paper on Jack and the Beanstalk, sleeping, and drawing. I really know how to live.

The Irish have managed to play themselves out of any hope of a tourney spot...NIT here we come!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNx78SAq8M I felt the urge to post this. Billy Idol was so fantastically terrible.

Wow. The electricity blowing the clothes off the mole people or whatever they are is just amazing.