I Should:

- Go to the doc for a checkup

- Go to the dentist for a checkup

- Eat better and exercise and possibly take vitamins and maybe illegal Soviet-era steroids so I stop getting FUCKING COLDS ARG.

- Register for an exam I'm under no particular pressure to take

- Oh and another exam I'm under a little more pressure to take but still not that much and is a long way off anyway

- Find out if my brain still has the capability to study (and I'm not sure it has)

Anyway.
So what have I been up to, apart from carting voluminous quantities of rhinovirus around the house at a shuffling sort of pace?

I'm 2/3 of the way through that Len Deighton Game-Set-Match trilogy, and Shiv lent me some comics stuff* that is filling a big gap in my reading: V for Vendetta, Watchmen and Marvels. V for Vendetta was mean and moody, and played around with the medium sufficiently that I was entranced by the plot, art and mechanics of it all at once. I'm about a hundred pages into Watchmen and that is blinding.

Krissa and I recently watched the Battlestar Galactica miniseries (which is all of the new BG I've seen so far, and I'm looking forward to working our way through the rest), Best In Show, Shaolin Soccer (which I'd seen before - it's great if you're into tongue-in-cheek kung-fu/sport crossover movies) and stuff.

("and stuff" being shorthand for taking a half-hour break in writing this post and losing my earlier train of thought)

Um, I wasn't going to mention this because I'm aware that the others are far better than anything I've ever produced, but Julia of Fartparty.org is putting together a collection of comics inspired by Craiglist 'Missed Connections', and I'm working on one myself. There's a deadline of April 10th, so time is running out, and we'll see if I get it together in time. Not having a style or a working pattern already established (last post, with the pen/pencil combo, isn't something I want to do again - I just don't like the look that much. This means computer manipulation, which...well. I need to learn how to do AFTER I'm happy with the drawing. This may take some time.) Anyway. To avoid disappointment what with all this foreplay that, let's face it, I'm not going to be able to live up to, there are a set of some of the comics on flickr already.
Go see.

* - I hate that 'comics' is supposedly singular. It messes with my head. Now I know how dissenters to the word 'blog' felt.