Freelancing, Subs, and Roleplaying

Dear Pam,

First, commentary on the image above. Is this what all my doodles are going to look like? Not all of them, but it’s a personal challenge of mine to stick to this style, however rough it will get. Much like your dedication to your posts. I expect mine will happen every other day, as to balance my work with Hersheypark, www.neillustrations.com (shameless plug), Blenderman (full of shame), and everything else (not so shameful).

Today started with Zoe latching her claws on my chin and lower lip. This happens quite often. And I’m too sleepy to perceive to get up and feed her or completely throw her off the bed. More like wishful thinking that she’ll get bored.

Got an email about a illustration project I’m not supposed to talk about because I signed a non-disclosure form! Just to project the intellectual rights of the company’s idea and work. So I did some sketches for them to show them what I could do, and they’re asking for more, but I didn’t say I want to charge from here on. So it’s good it’s going somewhere, but where to start? I’ll be talking with them tonight.

We’re venturing to Lancaster today and I’m wrestling with the aukward notion about going into my old Quiznos shop in Lancaster. Either it will be complete strangers, my good friends Mark or Sammy, or the manager… err… yeah.

Then tonight we’re going to a friend’s house to be complete geeks and do a roleplay game about Avatar: The Last Air Bender. Yes, the one on Nickelodeon, but it deserves to be on Adult Swim, it’s that good.

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So that’s the doodle. It’s either going to be commentary on the day, a random observation about something, or something completely different, like a man with a tape-recorder up his nose

I have a lot I want to reply to and share, but I don’t want to overload my post either.

Pam, I am amazed, probably as much as you are about what Brotherhood 2.0 has done to us and the changes we’re seeing already. Honestly, I’m not used to this language coming out of you saying “you love me” and all these “expressive” things coming out of you. No offense. But that’s why this is happening. So you can show me what goes on in your life that I wouldn’t normally see.

So thank you! I love you too and I’ll be looking forward to all the stuff that comes out of your head.

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Response to your posts:

• Obama: I’m kinda glad it’s decided. I did vote for him, but that’s just because the thought of the history books going “Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton” weirded me out. And I do believe Hillary is more experienced than Obama, but maybe the US isn’t ready for Clinton. Yes, the man is more intelligent sounding than Bush. That may do wonders for the US image and foreign relations in itself. As for Nerdfighters, Hank Green points out Obama isn’t his favorite environmentally, but he’ll do.

• Love your analysis of the fist bump watched ’round the world.

• You haven’t even been a Nerdfighter two weeks and you’re talking like the brothers!

• Mandy and I totally hear you on the experience of head thoughts and their impact and pain threshold on the creative mind. It’s a sad fact of life. But you’re not alone. In fact, your description of the ‘pain’ is identical to what we feel. So just accept the past, move on… and sleep with your laptop

• Maybe I’ll doodle the thought catcher tomorrow.

• For the “publishing time/timezone” thing, look at the right side when writing. Under “Publish Status” and the checkbox for “keep this post private” it says “Publish immediately EDIT”. Click the edit, and check the time and date it says there. It looks like you’ll want to deduct however many hours off it said was the difference. It says mine is 4 hours off.

There. I’m done, I think. I need to get ready to go out. And I’m sorry I totally wrote 700 words and blew your post out of the hypothetical water. Ha!

Pam, I will read you tomorrow.

Love, Neil