Warning: introspection ahead

I started working through "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" this morning; did the four "pre-instruction" sketches on the train, which have the purpose of giving you a before-and-after comparison once you're done. They are:

1. a portrait of someone (I did Steve reading)
   
2. "draw a person" without looking at anyone (this turned out to be an indeterminate-gender person leaning on a small tree)
   
3. your off-hand
   
4. a chair. (I actually didn't do that one on the train, for reasons I hope should be obvious.)
   

Steve chortled when he saw #2. When I demanded to know what was so funny (I _knew_ it was bad, but...) he said "I noticed you drew him with a mullet." :-P

His only other comment was "so you're going through all this just so you can make a drawing of your D&D character?" *hmph* I know that a good part of the reason I married him was because he can see right through me; I'm just trying to remember WHY THAT'S A FEATURE...

( Random gibbering here. )

Saturday is Pooky's birthday. As usual I have no idea what to get him. :)

ObMusic: I'm so glad that someone is making good ol' doofy rock-n-roll about parties and sex again. Whiny angsty nu-metal delenda est.

Waah :(

Poor Beth. Squirvler is going to the vet tonight for the Long Sleep. It's time, yes; he's not at all a well kitty, and the tumor's gotten pretty massive. But...I mean, _I'm_ going to miss him, and he hasn't been _my_ cat for fifteen years.