Rishi's father is a great photographer! I always only talk about Rishi and never his family. I've obviously gotten to know them well over the past several months. They're a really great family to work for. Rishi's father, Rohit, is an attorney who represents battered and neglected children. Rishi's mother is a high school AP psychology teacher. They're young and fun and easy to get along with, which is great, because they're home occasionally when I'm there, and parents I don't click with as well would make my job less fun. it's easy to click with most kids, afterall =0) In a week and a half, Rishi will have a new little sibling! It's going to be crazy, and fascinating to watch him grow from day one (I think it's a boy? I'm not sure). I've been around plenty of newborns, but not five days a week. It will also be fascinating to watch as Rishi grows accustomed to having a sibling.

Here's a really wonderful photo of Rishi that his papa took over the weekend. Photo by Rohit, paper hat by me.

richmond or athens?

goals
.finish rishi's mural
.grow out my hair
.finish my sleeve
.get buff, keep up with crossfit
.find a farm to work on for a month this summer
.plan a successful chicago zine fest (we secured a venue/date this week!)
.be more social
.start planning for my garden, draw it up
.start commission project for jim
.get back on track with the graphic novel i'm making with leslie
.save money
.keep getting freelance work
.figure out if i really want to stay in chicago

going to see best coast in california!!!! explaining this and amoeba music to my dad, he says, "you're going to california to buy records?"

still feeling weirdly sick on random days, I guess its part of "growing up" to suck it up and go to work half sick/getttin' real with it. Still in limbo, took off the bookend days of the week to stay home sick, tried to wake up in time for school, destroy the alarm snooze wake up hours later, oh well. I gotta make that shit up somehow. Watched like seven episodes of the Bernie Mac show. holiday fever is everywhere and I don't have any money, I got some plans in my sleeves. I don't even know what I want/err could need. warmer weather, food stamps, mod parka, three more Expedit shelves from Ikea. I think I'm definitely getting a bike, which is rad, an improvement since my beater is beat, grrr. Gotta pick one out, I figure I'll go to the store and let the bike crawl up my arm like a precocious shelter bad ass cat. One week of elementary school, I was told the kids go apeshit the whole week before their holiday break, so we're gonna chill on some Hello Kitty coloring books and some sort of Connect Four involving rhyming words. Been cutting back on the meat consumption, the spring mix pipe cleaner. back to the beans & rice comfort bowls, get through winter. I still ye know, made exceptions for Perlys.

I bought some expensive COLD MOUNTAIN EXTREME socks that I'm pretty in to, I feel like I'm constantly wearing SHEEP'S WOOL SHITKICKER BOOTS OF WARMTH, shit yeah. looking sharp though, got to get some clothes on my mom's dime after she folded some of clothes during Thanksgiving. so I got mo' jeans, a hip ass flannel, buncha undershirts and socks, some large moccasin slippers, add this online lacoste sweater, doin' aight.

took two trash bags of mine and two of Laurel's clothes to Diversity, made some space, less hoarding, more room to lie on the floor.

+ new monotonix album is awesomely heavy and weird. straight up a few bomb notes thrown in here and there. seriously, very good.
+ i have a bunny named venus living with me for a few weeks (maybe longer). she's totally amazing. chills on my chest while i'm napping. watched all of mrs. doubtfire with a few of us the other night. nice to have a critter around again.
+ about 85% sure on moving.
+ working on eating better.
+ dressed prince up in a santa jacket and mardi gras hat. i couldn't help but laugh the whole time. hilarious. dude didn't even care...


- cold as fuck. essentially standing around in 10 degree weather is wearing me out.
- cough.
- stressed.
- disappointed with a lot of people, but mostly with myself.
- still feeling dizzy off and on.
- received bill from the hospital and cardiologist...

I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.

tim barry - tacoma
little gold - lock me up

i wonder how many friendships i've destroyed in the last four months.