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Nov. 23rd, 2009
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Nov. 23rd, 2009 04:58 amNow offering postcards, prints, CDs and original art for donations. Check out AWFW and CS for more info: http://www.dolari.net/cs
So...one week summed up.
I've really just kinda spent most of the week kinda chilling, relaxing, trying not to stress out too much, as there's been way too too much of that recently. but for a laid back week, it's really kinda been anything but.
I had a job interview on Monday, at a place I'll just call The Big M. The pay is terrible, the hours are going to be brutal. I'll be making $13/hr even. I haven't made that low since 2000. It's money, yeah, but it's also kind of a blow to the ego. I've been doing customer service and support for 12 years. And my pay has never really gone up, just hovered around the same salary for a while. I'm really not happy with it - but it's money, and right now I need more cash than anything right now. And frankly, they don't seem to care about my qualifications, over-qualification or anything. they just need a warm body sitting in that seat.
They asked me back on Tuesday to lsiten to some calls. The place seemed REALLY laid back. You didn't make tickets unless you needed to, there was almost zero troubleshooting, and the calls were very easy and not a single shouting person. Heck, if those are the average calls I'll be getting? I'll run that place in two months. Assuming I get that chance (they've staight up told me "It's only till January.") I'll find out of I got it sometime this week, I think. I don't start till mid-December.
I worked on comics a little on Wednesday, getting back into the feel of AWFW. There's not much to show for it, though (more on that later).
It's been nice getting back into the AWFW stuff. It's been almost two years since I delved into that story. We decided to cut this episodes a bit short, and have a battle right at the villa instead of a third area, just cause...well...it's been a while.
As more and more of the week got closer to the DOR, I began feeling really guilty for not doing anything this year. But at the same time, I felt terrible about doing ANYTHING DOR. It's rough work. I wasn't in it as deep as Gwen or Ethan, but I did compile names for 2006 and 2007. I didn't do the work Gwen and Ethan did, I just pulled a Samwise Gamgee, carrying the One Ring while Frodo was out sick. And it gets to you.
Normally, the stress doesn't get to me, but this year, with the stress being layed on thick, the more I thought about DOR, the deeper into depression it put me. I cancelled the Webcomics Project cause diving into that mess...it was gonna end badly. And in the end, NOT doing it, made me feel just as bad. Guilt stress isn't as bad as depression stress, but it's still stress.
So I decided to go to the Tacoma DOR gathering...till I realized it was Wednesday, not Thursday. So I went to Seattle one instead. I didn't expect to be recognized there...I try to keep myself kinda low-key, but one of the Seattle twitter fols recognized me. It led to a pretty funny exchange, one that had Erin and Lissa howling with laughter.
Person 1: "I love your comics, Jenn."
Person 2: "You draw comics?"
Person 3: "You draw Venus Envy? You're Erin?"
Jenn: "No, I draw that other trans comic with the better looking redhead in it."
Person 2: "You draw Zoe?"
Lissa laughed and said "Well, at least she's still getting press out there." Erin said "You wanna be Erin? Go right ahead!"
The remembrance was a small affair, just about 100 people running down the list of names. when it was over, they asked for people to speak. I was kinda irked that not all the names were read, and wanted to make sure everyone knew that there were 163 reported deaths this year. I mentally prepared up a small speech and when I went up to say it, my brain erased the speech with instructions on how to run the megaphone. So Instead, I ended up strangling and hiccuping for things to say. In the end I made a fool of myself up there. I have to rememeber, that despite doing so well at Trinoc, and on the TransFM radio show, I should really not do much public speaking...it'll only make me look like an idiot. Besides, Jenn Dolari shouldn't be the important one. Carrie, Andrea, and the rest are.
Friday was a mostly do-nothing day. Worked lazily on comics, but didn't get very far into it. Spent the latter part of Friday making a backup of my system. It'd been acting wierd, so I reinstalled the system from scratch. I'd saved everything, rebuilt the laptop from scratch then made a backup. which ran all night.
Saturday, though - I screwed something up, which tool all day to fix. And when I couldn't fix it (stupid IRQ NOT LESS THAN EQUAL errors) I went back to the backup I made to start again...
...not realizing all the stuff I'd thrown back on my laptop HDD...well...it wasn't backed up in the Big Backup. So it's all gone, pretty much everything since I started moving over to Illustrator. A few things still exist, though, so I should be able to rebuild the "Standing Against the Wall" based art from the PDFs I made and threw up on the website. (I love you, Illustrator).
Saturday, though...I got some news from a friend. News that shocked me on the order of "I'm pregnant and its YOURS!" I'm still processing the info, and I might talk about it one day...but only of the other person decides to. It's good news, though. I'll leave it at that....
Sunday was more of the same (about to make that backup again, just to be safe while I'm sleeping).
And there we are. I'll be back in in a week for another update. See ya in January.
I've really just kinda spent most of the week kinda chilling, relaxing, trying not to stress out too much, as there's been way too too much of that recently. but for a laid back week, it's really kinda been anything but.
I had a job interview on Monday, at a place I'll just call The Big M. The pay is terrible, the hours are going to be brutal. I'll be making $13/hr even. I haven't made that low since 2000. It's money, yeah, but it's also kind of a blow to the ego. I've been doing customer service and support for 12 years. And my pay has never really gone up, just hovered around the same salary for a while. I'm really not happy with it - but it's money, and right now I need more cash than anything right now. And frankly, they don't seem to care about my qualifications, over-qualification or anything. they just need a warm body sitting in that seat.
They asked me back on Tuesday to lsiten to some calls. The place seemed REALLY laid back. You didn't make tickets unless you needed to, there was almost zero troubleshooting, and the calls were very easy and not a single shouting person. Heck, if those are the average calls I'll be getting? I'll run that place in two months. Assuming I get that chance (they've staight up told me "It's only till January.") I'll find out of I got it sometime this week, I think. I don't start till mid-December.
I worked on comics a little on Wednesday, getting back into the feel of AWFW. There's not much to show for it, though (more on that later).
It's been nice getting back into the AWFW stuff. It's been almost two years since I delved into that story. We decided to cut this episodes a bit short, and have a battle right at the villa instead of a third area, just cause...well...it's been a while.As more and more of the week got closer to the DOR, I began feeling really guilty for not doing anything this year. But at the same time, I felt terrible about doing ANYTHING DOR. It's rough work. I wasn't in it as deep as Gwen or Ethan, but I did compile names for 2006 and 2007. I didn't do the work Gwen and Ethan did, I just pulled a Samwise Gamgee, carrying the One Ring while Frodo was out sick. And it gets to you.
Normally, the stress doesn't get to me, but this year, with the stress being layed on thick, the more I thought about DOR, the deeper into depression it put me. I cancelled the Webcomics Project cause diving into that mess...it was gonna end badly. And in the end, NOT doing it, made me feel just as bad. Guilt stress isn't as bad as depression stress, but it's still stress.
So I decided to go to the Tacoma DOR gathering...till I realized it was Wednesday, not Thursday. So I went to Seattle one instead. I didn't expect to be recognized there...I try to keep myself kinda low-key, but one of the Seattle twitter fols recognized me. It led to a pretty funny exchange, one that had Erin and Lissa howling with laughter.
Person 1: "I love your comics, Jenn."
Person 2: "You draw comics?"
Person 3: "You draw Venus Envy? You're Erin?"
Jenn: "No, I draw that other trans comic with the better looking redhead in it."
Person 2: "You draw Zoe?"
Lissa laughed and said "Well, at least she's still getting press out there." Erin said "You wanna be Erin? Go right ahead!"
The remembrance was a small affair, just about 100 people running down the list of names. when it was over, they asked for people to speak. I was kinda irked that not all the names were read, and wanted to make sure everyone knew that there were 163 reported deaths this year. I mentally prepared up a small speech and when I went up to say it, my brain erased the speech with instructions on how to run the megaphone. So Instead, I ended up strangling and hiccuping for things to say. In the end I made a fool of myself up there. I have to rememeber, that despite doing so well at Trinoc, and on the TransFM radio show, I should really not do much public speaking...it'll only make me look like an idiot. Besides, Jenn Dolari shouldn't be the important one. Carrie, Andrea, and the rest are.
Friday was a mostly do-nothing day. Worked lazily on comics, but didn't get very far into it. Spent the latter part of Friday making a backup of my system. It'd been acting wierd, so I reinstalled the system from scratch. I'd saved everything, rebuilt the laptop from scratch then made a backup. which ran all night.
Saturday, though - I screwed something up, which tool all day to fix. And when I couldn't fix it (stupid IRQ NOT LESS THAN EQUAL errors) I went back to the backup I made to start again...
...not realizing all the stuff I'd thrown back on my laptop HDD...well...it wasn't backed up in the Big Backup. So it's all gone, pretty much everything since I started moving over to Illustrator. A few things still exist, though, so I should be able to rebuild the "Standing Against the Wall" based art from the PDFs I made and threw up on the website. (I love you, Illustrator).
Saturday, though...I got some news from a friend. News that shocked me on the order of "I'm pregnant and its YOURS!" I'm still processing the info, and I might talk about it one day...but only of the other person decides to. It's good news, though. I'll leave it at that....
Sunday was more of the same (about to make that backup again, just to be safe while I'm sleeping).
And there we are. I'll be back in in a week for another update. See ya in January.
So...one week summed up.
I've really just kinda spent most of the week kinda chilling, relaxing, trying not to stress out too much, as there's been way too too much of that recently. but for a laid back week, it's really kinda been anything but.
I had a job interview on Monday, at a place I'll just call The Big M. The pay is terrible, the hours are going to be brutal. I'll be making $13/hr even. I haven't made that low since 2000. It's money, yeah, but it's also kind of a blow to the ego. I've been doing customer service and support for 12 years. And my pay has never really gone up, just hovered around the same salary for a while. I'm really not happy with it - but it's money, and right now I need more cash than anything right now. And frankly, they don't seem to care about my qualifications, over-qualification or anything. they just need a warm body sitting in that seat.
They asked me back on Tuesday to lsiten to some calls. The place seemed REALLY laid back. You didn't make tickets unless you needed to, there was almost zero troubleshooting, and the calls were very easy and not a single shouting person. Heck, if those are the average calls I'll be getting? I'll run that place in two months. Assuming I get that chance (they've staight up told me "It's only till January.") I'll find out of I got it sometime this week, I think. I don't start till mid-December.
I worked on comics a little on Wednesday, getting back into the feel of AWFW. There's not much to show for it, though (more on that later).
It's been nice getting back into the AWFW stuff. It's been almost two years since I delved into that story. We decided to cut this episodes a bit short, and have a battle right at the villa instead of a third area, just cause...well...it's been a while.
As more and more of the week got closer to the DOR, I began feeling really guilty for not doing anything this year. But at the same time, I felt terrible about doing ANYTHING DOR. It's rough work. I wasn't in it as deep as Gwen or Ethan, but I did compile names for 2006 and 2007. I didn't do the work Gwen and Ethan did, I just pulled a Samwise Gamgee, carrying the One Ring while Frodo was out sick. And it gets to you.
Normally, the stress doesn't get to me, but this year, with the stress being layed on thick, the more I thought about DOR, the deeper into depression it put me. I cancelled the Webcomics Project cause diving into that mess...it was gonna end badly. And in the end, NOT doing it, made me feel just as bad. Guilt stress isn't as bad as depression stress, but it's still stress.
So I decided to go to the Tacoma DOR gathering...till I realized it was Wednesday, not Thursday. So I went to Seattle one instead. I didn't expect to be recognized there...I try to keep myself kinda low-key, but one of the Seattle twitter fols recognized me. It led to a pretty funny exchange, one that had Erin and Lissa howling with laughter.
Person 1: "I love your comics, Jenn."
Person 2: "You draw comics?"
Person 3: "You draw Venus Envy? You're Erin?"
Jenn: "No, I draw that other trans comic with the better looking redhead in it."
Person 2: "You draw Zoe?"
Lissa laughed and said "Well, at least she's still getting press out there." Erin said "You wanna be Erin? Go right ahead!"
The remembrance was a small affair, just about 100 people running down the list of names. when it was over, they asked for people to speak. I was kinda irked that not all the names were read, and wanted to make sure everyone knew that there were 163 reported deaths this year. I mentally prepared up a small speech and when I went up to say it, my brain erased the speech with instructions on how to run the megaphone. So Instead, I ended up strangling and hiccuping for things to say. In the end I made a fool of myself up there. I have to rememeber, that despite doing so well at Trinoc, and on the TransFM radio show, I should really not do much public speaking...it'll only make me look like an idiot. Besides, Jenn Dolari shouldn't be the important one. Carrie, Andrea, and the rest are.
Friday was a mostly do-nothing day. Worked lazily on comics, but didn't get very far into it. Spent the latter part of Friday making a backup of my system. It'd been acting wierd, so I reinstalled the system from scratch. I'd saved everything, rebuilt the laptop from scratch then made a backup. which ran all night.
Saturday, though - I screwed something up, which tool all day to fix. And when I couldn't fix it (stupid IRQ NOT LESS THAN EQUAL errors) I went back to the backup I made to start again...
...not realizing all the stuff I'd thrown back on my laptop HDD...well...it wasn't backed up in the Big Backup. So it's all gone, pretty much everything since I started moving over to Illustrator. A few things still exist, though, so I should be able to rebuild the "Standing Against the Wall" based art from the PDFs I made and threw up on the website. (I love you, Illustrator).
Saturday, though...I got some news from a friend. News that shocked me on the order of "I'm pregnant and its YOURS!" I'm still processing the info, and I might talk about it one day...but only of the other person decides to. It's good news, though. I'll leave it at that....
Sunday was more of the same (about to make that backup again, just to be safe while I'm sleeping).
And there we are. I'll be back in in a week for another update. See ya in January.
I've really just kinda spent most of the week kinda chilling, relaxing, trying not to stress out too much, as there's been way too too much of that recently. but for a laid back week, it's really kinda been anything but.
I had a job interview on Monday, at a place I'll just call The Big M. The pay is terrible, the hours are going to be brutal. I'll be making $13/hr even. I haven't made that low since 2000. It's money, yeah, but it's also kind of a blow to the ego. I've been doing customer service and support for 12 years. And my pay has never really gone up, just hovered around the same salary for a while. I'm really not happy with it - but it's money, and right now I need more cash than anything right now. And frankly, they don't seem to care about my qualifications, over-qualification or anything. they just need a warm body sitting in that seat.
They asked me back on Tuesday to lsiten to some calls. The place seemed REALLY laid back. You didn't make tickets unless you needed to, there was almost zero troubleshooting, and the calls were very easy and not a single shouting person. Heck, if those are the average calls I'll be getting? I'll run that place in two months. Assuming I get that chance (they've staight up told me "It's only till January.") I'll find out of I got it sometime this week, I think. I don't start till mid-December.
I worked on comics a little on Wednesday, getting back into the feel of AWFW. There's not much to show for it, though (more on that later).
It's been nice getting back into the AWFW stuff. It's been almost two years since I delved into that story. We decided to cut this episodes a bit short, and have a battle right at the villa instead of a third area, just cause...well...it's been a while.As more and more of the week got closer to the DOR, I began feeling really guilty for not doing anything this year. But at the same time, I felt terrible about doing ANYTHING DOR. It's rough work. I wasn't in it as deep as Gwen or Ethan, but I did compile names for 2006 and 2007. I didn't do the work Gwen and Ethan did, I just pulled a Samwise Gamgee, carrying the One Ring while Frodo was out sick. And it gets to you.
Normally, the stress doesn't get to me, but this year, with the stress being layed on thick, the more I thought about DOR, the deeper into depression it put me. I cancelled the Webcomics Project cause diving into that mess...it was gonna end badly. And in the end, NOT doing it, made me feel just as bad. Guilt stress isn't as bad as depression stress, but it's still stress.
So I decided to go to the Tacoma DOR gathering...till I realized it was Wednesday, not Thursday. So I went to Seattle one instead. I didn't expect to be recognized there...I try to keep myself kinda low-key, but one of the Seattle twitter fols recognized me. It led to a pretty funny exchange, one that had Erin and Lissa howling with laughter.
Person 1: "I love your comics, Jenn."
Person 2: "You draw comics?"
Person 3: "You draw Venus Envy? You're Erin?"
Jenn: "No, I draw that other trans comic with the better looking redhead in it."
Person 2: "You draw Zoe?"
Lissa laughed and said "Well, at least she's still getting press out there." Erin said "You wanna be Erin? Go right ahead!"
The remembrance was a small affair, just about 100 people running down the list of names. when it was over, they asked for people to speak. I was kinda irked that not all the names were read, and wanted to make sure everyone knew that there were 163 reported deaths this year. I mentally prepared up a small speech and when I went up to say it, my brain erased the speech with instructions on how to run the megaphone. So Instead, I ended up strangling and hiccuping for things to say. In the end I made a fool of myself up there. I have to rememeber, that despite doing so well at Trinoc, and on the TransFM radio show, I should really not do much public speaking...it'll only make me look like an idiot. Besides, Jenn Dolari shouldn't be the important one. Carrie, Andrea, and the rest are.
Friday was a mostly do-nothing day. Worked lazily on comics, but didn't get very far into it. Spent the latter part of Friday making a backup of my system. It'd been acting wierd, so I reinstalled the system from scratch. I'd saved everything, rebuilt the laptop from scratch then made a backup. which ran all night.
Saturday, though - I screwed something up, which tool all day to fix. And when I couldn't fix it (stupid IRQ NOT LESS THAN EQUAL errors) I went back to the backup I made to start again...
...not realizing all the stuff I'd thrown back on my laptop HDD...well...it wasn't backed up in the Big Backup. So it's all gone, pretty much everything since I started moving over to Illustrator. A few things still exist, though, so I should be able to rebuild the "Standing Against the Wall" based art from the PDFs I made and threw up on the website. (I love you, Illustrator).
Saturday, though...I got some news from a friend. News that shocked me on the order of "I'm pregnant and its YOURS!" I'm still processing the info, and I might talk about it one day...but only of the other person decides to. It's good news, though. I'll leave it at that....
Sunday was more of the same (about to make that backup again, just to be safe while I'm sleeping).
And there we are. I'll be back in in a week for another update. See ya in January.
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Nov. 23rd, 2009 08:46 pmUpdated "How I Make the Comics" article at http://www.dolari.net/awfw/makingof/makingth.htm
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Nov. 23rd, 2009 08:46 pmUpdated "How I Make the Comics" article at http://www.dolari.net/awfw/makingof/makingth.htm