lately I take colds as a personal shame, because hey: maybe I wouldn't have this awful cold if I wore a face mask more often. and if this rhinovirus made it into my body, maybe it could have been a worse one, like the big nasty one that disabled me for 11 months the last time I had it? shame on me

(does the shame help me recover faster? it does not)

this summer (per usual) I'm doing community theatre, and this time I'm playing a supporting character with lines and 2 solo songs to learn, so. I think for the next few months I'm going to try a period of scratchy short comics I can do in a day or less, cause rendering is making everything feel way too slow right now. I'm also pushing myself to finish the last 25% of the script for that graphic memoir I've been working on for 15 months now, and also: I need to get better at B/W inking for actually drawing the book, so I hope this will help me feel like I'm still progressing while busy with other things.

(I can work harder when the cold is gone though. get thee gone, face sludge)