I just scanned my sketchbook, I am putting together some drawings for a magazine called Arkitip. You can look at the sketches here. I will post the final product when it is done.

This week has been nice. I didn’t work a single day. Last night I had a little dinner party, it was a very nice and responsible evening with friends. We even played pictionary afterwards.

I am still waiting to hear from kinko’s in australia to see if they have printed my sketchel bag, I made two and they look like this, but you have to imagine that there they folds over the top of a bag, hard to explain.

Notice there is no weekend in my title cause when you are not working the weekend doesn’t really have a lot of meaning to you, it is pretty similar to say, Wednesday. The good news is that I have made it 7 days with out any of my car windows from being smashed in. Let me see… been drawing a little, went to a couple house parties with Jennie where I didn’t know anyone, there are a lot of people I don’t know. Went to work 3 days this week, one of those days was yesterday, Saturday! Who ever heard of working on a Saturday? My supervisor was all hinting around that she was trying to hire me full time and I wasn’t really responding to that as working at this place would be complete torture. The only thing that sucks is if they do hire someone it is one less place for me to work at once and a while. That, my friends, is the double-edged sword of freelance.

Last night me and Jennie went to the chain restaurant California Pizza Kitchen. It was delish. Girl was happy.

We have houseguests, and we will have more houseguests, continually, at least until July. I am really into e-Bay right now. Mostly I am trying to buy Kansas related t-shirts.

Friday night I drew some pictures, drank 9 natural light beers, saw a band, and caught the end of a poker party.

Saturday I hung out with this hippie that Gino left at our apartment. She helped me make Chili. Then I went to the Anitique Lounge and shot some pool.

Sunday was the Chili Cook-off. There were 4 chilis and I got dead last place with my ‘Handsome Jim’s Wino Chili.’ Then I went out and got really drunk and blacked out and I hate myself today.

Work is such a drag. I mean really man. This is the first week in long while that I have worked 5 days in a row, it probably seems worse because I actually have a few side projects going on that I would rather be spending my energy on. Secondly, Jennie called me tonight at around 8 and wanted to know if I wanted to go to a swank fashion party with her. I declined as I was beat, and hadn’t showered in 3 days or shaved in a week… She told me that I “sucked.” She was joking, but I can’t help but despise working a job I don’t enjoy for making me suck.

Tonight I read my friend Jessica’s blog, she just arrived in Berlin, and I think she was pretty scared. Her descriptions sound pretty amazing. I wanna go, or at least see New York that way again.

I googled myself tonight and found this article, my quote:

Wamego resident Matt Cassidy, who also helps paint the murals, said he enjoys seeing museum visitors admire his work. “The environment is awesome,” he said. “Everyone who comes in here loves it. People just freak out. It’s been overwhelming.”

I am pretty sure I didn’t say that.

I need to log off and draw, I am going to try and draw for at least an hour every day.

PS. Yesterday I saw a giant pig on n. 6th street, and tonight Peter had a cake with a toy baby delivered to our apt because he found a toy baby in a different cake, isn’t religion wierd?

This entry is simply to remind myself not to go to Southside Lounge on Tuesday nights, I am not sure what happened, or maybe I was not a regular Tuesday night patron, but the last two weeks it has been crowded and dark and a disco ball was spinning. I like it better when the guy on the end is drinking only water and writing something on loose pieces of paper, and there is a dirty guy who probably plays guitar, and the dj is playing old timey blues 45s.

I have an ongoing list that I can’t seem to tackle… not sure what is so hard about it. Lightbulbs for christ’s sakes. I thought about my computer today… woke up and used it before work: 9:00-9:30, took it to work: 10:00-6:30, watched dvd (garden state, kind of suck) 8:00-10:00, try to work on shit: 10:30-2:00am. And I will turn it on again in about 8 hours. Kind of depressing.

sketchel – just use in progress file… mail asap!
lightbulbs
web sites
new proposal for madi
cash checks, transfer $
eye appt
contacts
arkitip – what went wrong as my theme. things that have turned me off of design. create motifs.
sell car
get work
life drawing class

Friday, there was nothing to do. Me, Gino, and Peter sat around staring at each other until around 1am. I listened to some ska music. Finally I went to get a milkshake with Kelly, then I ran into some people on the way home and had a beer. Saturday I could not wake up, I was tired as soon as my eyes opened. I think I need more excercise. More than zero anyhow. The weather was real nice and even though I have a couple projects I need to work on, I decided I needed to drink beer all day and watch tv. So I did that, fell asleep, and didn’t make it out until midnight again. This time I went to two bars. Really cool.

I watched the super bowl over at my old apartment on Hope St. Matt Littlejohn cooked lots of little meat things and beans. The highlight was everyone doing the super bowl shuffle at halftime. Also this girls mother was there from virginia and she was partying big time. I imagine she is having a bloody mary about now.

Basically, I did nothing productive. Now, I go to work.

… not looking at your computer. I think since I was sick, and spent so much time in bed, my brain was re-programmed to think I should just be hanging out when I am supposed to be sleeping. It is now 4am and I actually have to get up for work tommorrow. Last night was the first night I actually felt better. In honor of that I went out and got drunk on rot-gut whiskey. After our 2nd round of whiskey/beer combo special, the bartender looked at us and Jennie waived and shook her head to indicate “no more.” So he poured another round. My head hurt all day.

Otherwise I have been very civil, last night me and Kelly cooked up a dip platter and a salad, then Peter rented Kangaroo Jack (my suggestion, slightly funny in an ironic way but not enough to bother) and Party Monster (completely terrible). Tonight Willow came over and cooked salmon and we all sat around the table and had a real dinner and drank wine. Hopefully the cooking trend continues—I am hungry.

Made this after making a bunch of hockey “action” cards for a freelance gig. It was a hit on myspace.

Well, this should be pretty short as I have been in bed since Friday. . . my roommate Gino had a big birthday party at our house. I was sober, so it wasn’t too exciting for me. I kept trying to count how many people were there… I think I got up to 80 once. Sunday afternoon I watched the Aviator, super long. It was interesting enough, but there is no real point to it other than Howard Hughes had a lot of shit going on and he was a little crazy.