The Marvelous Patric - and then i ride off into a sunset

 dear blog,

it's my last day in the office.  next week i'll be orientating for my teaching assistantship.  woot!  very excited to shape the young minds of the future in my own unholy army of darkness.  of course, any good villain knows that english 191 is the exact point at which to begin mind control.  

then my classes will start too.  so i'll be teaching, writing my play, taking classes, and making two comics.  the comics are going well.  i'm moderately concerned about the time all this will take.  but, i'll keep going as long as i can.  

i'm totally enthused to draw fun factory right now.  i'm getting close to the end of the second story, or the first strip story.  chuck and i send each other jokes for the strip back and forth every now and then and it feels so good.  it feels like we really are riffing on each other and building our own weird little joke universe.  these things we think will be minor end up having like long extensive backstories only we will ever know.  and then i talk about it on the ustream.  

last week, the fiance' and i went to chicago for the comic con there, whatever they're calling it these days.  it was fun.  got to see a lot of friends and whatnot.  sold some books.  kissed a lot of hands, shook a lot of babies.  i also was on a panel about how to define comics and, for some reason, letter columns.  i talked about defining comics and my theories on how to do so.  it was well-received.  i'm looking at really doing up all that crazy theory stuff for a doctoral thesis.  

speaking of doctorates, i'm thinking about the u of m and doing mass comm.  it looks like it might be a good fit.  i'm really not too crazy about english these days.  actually, i think it's more like i'm not crazy about people who simply like to talk about stuff other people have made instead of making stuff themselves.  i wanna make stuff!!   

Current Location: the office