Current mood:	not good, not artsy, tired
Current music:	My Mechanical Heartbeat playlist

Not dead yet

Black-cat version here

You'd never know it from my presence on the Net, but I'm still not dead. Work consumes me entirely. The fist closed about my life at the start of December and wont release till the end of this month. Even if my time is not fully occupied by it, my thoughts can do nothing but circle it.

I'd apologize for my anti-social behavior, but when am I ever *not* sorry about my failure to bond and communicate with my friends and acquaintances? Despite being a social brick wall, I have done a number of things. Attended Crucible fire ballet, all three days of the Edwardian ball, dancing classes with Adam, doodling at the Dicken's Fair, snowpocolypse* in Seattle, New Year's silent film & techno event, clubbing with a co-worker, mix CD exchange party (anyone want a copy of mine?), attending a terrible (and terribly expensive) show, and only one measly Dr. Sketchy's. On top of that, mix in a heavy dosing of Left 4 Dead and all you get is brain rot. Input is good, but excessive input in place of output is wasted.

The picture in here was done for a friend, based on the request: playing card, moon, cat, nature. Meh. I traced the cat from a photo. I've doodles from Dicken's, Dr. Sketchy's, and the Edwardian Ball but neither the energy or the computer/scanner physical connection to present them to you. Because I follow all trends set by b_zedan I've been doing a pinch of embroidery of late, I finished one monster (rather cute, of course no photos yet), and am in the middle of my first paid commission. Literally in the middle. Scraps of cut up black faux fur surround me, I've my toes in the stuffing and thread on my blouse. Shattered my machine's needle last night so in the face of my growing lazyness, I guess I'll be handing sewing the sucker.

I don't know when I'll post next. The urge to do so has drained entirely from me. I'd much rather focus my attention on my art blog, but if I haven't been able to muster up the effort in over a year, I doubt I'll ever by able to increase the posting rate. Aside from Process & Thoughts, I like to include a pinch of flavor text with each posting and that's actually the hardest part to write

Trying to be social.... seeing Coraline with Theresa, had a fab-o time hanging out just recently arrived flashfeather, making vacation plans with Trisha, and a possible New York trip coming up. Still not actually *feeling* social though. I fucking hate the winter. It may yet be the death of me.

* shot out to the most awesome bluemoonshark, who I give credit to for the much used by me 'snopocolypse' term