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December 27, 2005

Year In Review: May

Started off the month with some Black Chamber art:

And some hand-drawn sketch practice stuff:

The best piece of the month:

This piece was a real turning point for my art, I feel. A lot of things started really clicking for me on it.

By May I had lost twenty pounds. That felt so great.

I had my little brother stay the weekend, which was just a great, fun time. He's eleven years old. We saw the final Star Wars movie, went to a Roller Derby match (where, for the half-time show, the Marching Cobras pulled me out of the crowd to dance with them. Nuts!), ate some Mexican food, and watched some scary movies. Had a blast.

Otherwise, not a lot happened in May. It was a month of adjustment and settling, really. Here's the recap:

Exercise: 6 Green Marbles

I have now lost 20 pounds since the end of December. I'm not in the best shape of my life, but I am in the second best. Not only am I down in weight (the least I've weighed in over 18 months), but I just plain feel great. My energy is way up, and it's really gratifying to be getting rid of 25 years of bad habits.

Day Job: 1 Black Marble

Not a whole lot to report here, mainly because things are going well, getting busier, and staying interesting. There's no one there any longer that I don't get along with, and the actual work is very intriguing and fulfilling. How many people get to say that about their jobs, huh?

Finance: 2 Blue Marbles

I now own my car. That's pretty fucking cool.

Comix: 7 Red Marbles

Black Chamber's going great. Comixperience is a riot. CCN stuff is fun again. Did a 24 Hour Comic, though I only completed 16 pages, it is, in my opinion, my best of those yet. It's neat having people tell you your horror comic actually gave them nightmares, or watching them visibly shiver when they get to the last page. June is going to be a big month for comix stuff from me. Stay tuned.

Personal: 4 Silver Marbles

Finished reading The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. Good at big ideas, bad at pacing and dialogue. Still an overall fun read, albeit very different from the movie. As my buddy Shawn Geabhart put it, the book is at the height of the Cold War, and the movie takes place as a result of the fallout from the war. Two good unexpected things happened, but I can't go into them here, because they're fairly personal things.

May was a good month for a lot of things, bad in a few others, which really put my doubt in people in my life, but we'll overcome.

Posted by Schamberger at December 27, 2005 06:46 AM