as promised, here is a drawing of a ram. it’s the first drawing in my new journal. i was afraid to draw it on the first page because i haven’t drawn in months and i didn’t know if it would come back to me very well. having a poor drawing on the first page of a journal is not a very good omen, i would think. i think the drawing is okay though. it’s a sign on a dentist’s office that i saw as i sat in the parking lot of a grocery store. i was reading How to Be Good (so far, an excellently depressing book about a crappy marriage…not as boring as it sounds) when i saw it. it looked like it needed to be drawn, so i drove over to their parking lot and drew it. they were closed at the time.

Nick Hornby wrote the book i was reading (incidentally i only wanted to read a chapter of it because i had some time to kill. i’m actually reading the next book in the series that Ender’s Game started.). I’ve read two of his other books, About a Boy and High Fidelity, both after seeing the movies. i usually hate reading books after i’ve seen their movies, but this time it wasn’t so bad. i guess because the movies didn’t really do a good job of copying the characters in the book so they just seemed like new characters to me.

i just posted coping with life mundane. i didn’t just write it though. i wrote it a few years ago, and it was even on my site at one point. i have no idea why it wasn’t still there (there wasn’t even a link to it) and i found it in Laura’s room. she had printed out most of my stories from the site and as i rummaged through them i didn’t remember this one at all. i checked and it wasn’t posted–sin of sins!–so i scanned it in and posted it. i think it’s a great example of how i wrote in that time of my life, and it’s one of the better ones.