Every day that you see me is the worst day of my life

this week has sucked so far. i have been scanning a shit load of things for an instructor. i have slept very poorly. and to top it all off today, i left my keys in my studio. good thing i gave a spare set to some friends. but the spare set only lets me into my apartment and not into my studio. so i am going to have to figure out some way of getting into my studio in order to get my keys that let me into my studio. also, today i found out i have a whole email address i was not aware of and have no idea to access. this email address is apparently the email address i have for being a graduate assistant but i have no way of accessing it. this, of course, is the email address that instructors have been using recently to email me.
Ah, horseshit.
robula verMILLION

umm vote

remember to vote tomorrow. umm.. it is a shame i don't know how to use my scanner cause it auto cropped these images. both were on 9 by 12 bristol (horizontal) so there was more white space on either side of the figure and above their heads. i prefer it that way but without having photoshop or knowing what i am doing this is the best i can do for now. (if i figure out how to fix it i will edit it later)
these are zombie mccain and obama. i showed them to my drawing class and my teacher said "man you nailed these. i didn't know you had it in you but you really nailed these. you have some drawing chops." then she went on to explain how it is funny that in art school they teach you how to draw and then once you have learned how to draw they are bored by technically well done drawings. so here again was another teacher who was not sure i could draw because of the style i usually choose to draw in.
today i felt like i hate art and school. and by art i mean art taught through art history. or art that needs and desires to be labeled as fine art.
whatever, i found the dick van dyke show online so i am gonna watch that until all is right with the world. oh, man mary tyler moore was one good looking lady
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i voted

hey
i voted yesterday. absentee style. robocop/unicorn 08. thats the ticket.
this is the second page to the fantasy epic i am working on starring me and my sister's cat. oh and i had a great dream about some of my friends and i as superheroes which was quite possibly a really good story. so i am going to start working that up. i gots lots of ideas and not enough time to do em all.
count robula
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comics

hey this weekend a couple of my brothers and i jammed out the plot for a comic idea we had. it was so much fun. i recorded the whole conversation on my awesome (super-nerdy) digital audio recorder. i need to transcribe the conversation and then email that back to my brothers so they can edit some of the script(adding some dialog and stuffs) but i wanted to post some art. so here is a character design i did for a book that my twin is writing for me to draw (i think we may have decided on a slightly different color scheme but otherwise this is the look) oh and i colored and inked this drawing digitally and it didn't take a shit-ton (what exactly is a shit-ton? is that a metric measurement?) of time
robula

ummm today was the greatest thing ever

boy is sarcasm hard to convey in text.
i went home this weekend and saw a really good comic book exhibition at krannert art museum. it was a good weekend in which i saw three plays at the performing arts building and saw my family and ate extremely spicy frog legs.
but today
today was shit. i got up at like half past 5 this morning so that my sister and brother could take me to the bus station. i got on my bus and not 30 minutes later the bus had broken down. we were stuck there for 4 hours and then were shoved onto an almost full bus going to chicago. i got on that bus at the exact same time i was supposed to be catching my connecting bus in chicago to dekalb. so i got into chicago about 2 hours after i was supposed to have gotten into dekalb.
they refused to refund my money or to exchange my ticket for the next bus(which would not have been until 10 at night) i did not feel like being that late back here(i was supposed to help an instructor put up a still life which was actually finished by the time i eventually got into town)
i ended up catching a metra into elburn and my friends picked me up. this probably saved me some extra money because i would have had to buy another ticket for 10 pm to get back here anyways.
so all in all it took me 12 hours to get from champaign to dekalb
which in real time (or by a car) should only take about 3 hours.
yep. today was the greatest.
robula verMILLION
ps this all remminds me of the line from Office Space
"everyday you see me is the worst day of my life"

hey i just got back from wonderful chicago. i crashed with my cousin and his great girlfriend and it was fantastic. i got to see the best people and got to relax a little. here is an image from what i am currently working on. it is a fantasy epic starring me and my sister's cat narfel. hopefully i get this story going at a faster clip than the current pace i am working at.
loves to all
rob

busy busy busy busy busy ummm... busy

so i have been busy and this whole month sounds to be even more busy. i got a big crit with faculty next friday. i got some buds coming in to town tonight to go to a turkey testicle festival tomorrow. i plan on going to chicago to visit some of the best people in the world next weekend. the following weekend i plan on going home to see a comic book art exhibition at my alma mater. then the next weekend i think i have family coming in for a brief visit. all this plus i gots to make a lot of work and i got to scan a bunch of shit for myself and for a prof. i also got to set up a still life for day of the dead for a different prof. i also need to figure out a proper sleep cycle (for some odd reason i have taken to going to sleep at like 3 am or later which results in really bad mornings (especially if i have to be up in the morning)) i need to get my self more structured in my time management stuff cause this schedule is weird and barely struggling to work. i really need to get some art up on this blog.
ohhhh..... man... i am tired
rob