Something in me... Dark and Sticky..

MONDAY—

I get up around 9:20 with a backache (REALLY need a new bed or mattress!!!!) and check emails. I chat with Shane online a bit and download the SABO show from last night. Kelly gets up too and eats some grilled cheese. I eat leftover pizza. Ted is home for the day when he thought he had to work.

I try to take a nap from 10-12 that doesn’t take, save for 20 minutes here and there. We keep getting calls. One for Kelly’s appointments. And another following up on a “Secret” thing from yesterday. Cat out of the bag, I got a new job interview tomorrow at 4:30. Wish me luck. I got a damn good chance to get the job. But we’ll have to see.

We all head to Target, and then JC Penny’s to get a nice dress shirt for my interview tomorrow. Plus a quick trip to Meijer. Then we head to Chillis and get some lunch, then home. I lounge around and then decide to clean some crap up in the house. I move all my comics to the living room and move out some of the crap from my old closet to our bedroom closet. Making room for the baby! Then I reorganize my comics, my old art pages and clean out some folders in my file cabinet.

Finally after cleaning so much, I sit down and start inking pages. I get about 1/2 way done when Kelly and I decide to head to Taco Bell for a quick food run. We get back and eat and I finish inking pages while listening to the Sabo show from last night. I finish all my inking around 11:40 and then work on my blog and other writing.

Around 1am, I go lay down, deciding to re-read Warren Ellis’ CROOKED LITTLE VEIN a bit. Then pass out around 2am.

TUESDAY—

I get up around 11:25 and check email. I putz around the office and make sure my portfolio is finalized for my interview later today. I take off and get a McRib at McDonalds. I come back and update blogs and sites. Ted comes home and is ranting abut being falsely accused of breaking something at work. He’s pissed to the point of quitting.
I putz around the house until 3:50 and then get ready and head for my interview.

My interview goes well, although I can sense that they weren’t too thrilled with the idea of working around my availability. I did get a tour of the place and had to do a sample ad. Finally, after 2 hours, I went home with a “we’ll call and let you know.” So, it went pretty well. I’ll let fate decide it all. I do think that they were not happy with the idea of availability, but with the kid on the way, my devotion to 8 hours a day on the table drawing comics, wife’s job which is huge bank for us… there is no other way. If anything, it was a cool experience and it felt good to be behind a computer in a creative office again. It made me think back to the good ol’ MSPC days.

I get home and tell the wife all about and we head to Culvers. After that to Best Buy, all the while talking about the possible outcomes of my interview, either way it goes. Then we head home to where I prepare for the podcast with topics and one hitters. Brian Maze calls and we shoot the shit, as well as some Iming with Tim Fisher.

Show starts at 11 and we go till 1:30 or so. After the show, I drop off dead ass tired and pass out around 2am.

WEDNESDAY—

I wake up and head to work around 9:30. I start to receive orders and then my boss calls me into the back room to talk about the problems I’ve been having with her and the job in general. We pretty much both apologize and iron it all out. She also knows about my job interview I had. Overall, I am glad she actually confronted me about the attitude I copped, but totally understands my reasoning. By the same token, I was man enough to admit a mistake and apologized accordingly. Nuff said.

After that, I finish receiving orders and start pricing new DVDs, finally taking off at 5pm. I get home (stopping off for a 2 liter and some cookies/candy bar for the wife) and check emails and the Wife, Ted and I decide to go to Culvers again for some dinner. We get back and I try to sleep. Throughout my 2 hours of tossing and turning, I am woke up by text messaging sounds on the wife’s new phone.
I get outta bed around 11pm, after my sleep session doesn’t take and check internet. I also waste time with a myspace survey and update my blog. Then I decide to do some sketching and light pencil out three pages. I tighten a couple of them up and start partial inks on two of them when I decide to stop.

I lay down and read some of CROOKED LITTLE VEIN before passing out shortly before 4am.