OMG what a FANTASTIC picture!

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(I feel very silly about it!)

By the way, I guess you can't really tell at all, but I am wearing the shirt you sent me in it.

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I feel like it should be used in advertising. I would definitely buy whatever it was selling, if I had money.

Speaking of, I have something for you that I intend to ship once disposable income comes back my way. I was going to send it with Dustin-Karl on his jaunt to Seattle, but I think he was unable to get ahold of you.

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Wait, Dustin-Karl came to Seattle? I thought that fell through!

Well, I've been gone nearly all month anyway, most recently to Portland, and before that to, um, Minnesota for ten days. (I spent only a few brief hours in Minneapolis, sadly.)

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I am 82% sure he went. He asked to borrow luggage.

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Maybe he just had some body parts to transport.

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That picture could only be made more awesome if you were on the top of a bunk bed ready to pounce upon unsuspecting passers by.


And now another comic inspired anecdote:

One time I actually did leave the front door unlocked.

And completely wide open.

And it was Thanksgiving so we were out of the house all day.

When we got back to the house and discovered the front door standing wide open my ladyfriend wanted to call the police, but I had to be up for work in something ridiculous like four hours (Curse you the day after Thanksgiving sales!), so I did a typical stupid man maneuver and just walked right in saying 'I don't care who's in there, or what they've got, just as long as they get the hell out so I can go to sleep.'

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Were I in the same situation, I can't decide whether my anxious, worrying side would take over and insist on calling the police, or the side of me that gets really cranky and impatient when I'm dead tired.

Did this happen in Ohio? Your heating bill must have been enormous that month!

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I was already cranky and impatient to get to bed already just because of the lateness of the hour and the earliness of the work. I was not willing to compromise on any further sleeping delays, hoodlums or no.

Did this happen in Ohio? Your heating bill must have been enormous that month!

Oh, did I leave that part out? I blame sleep deprivation. Yeah, this was in Ohio, and that was the worst utility bill I've ever had. By a lot.

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Every time I come home I expect my roommates to have burned the house down.

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Are you surprised or disappointed when/if they haven't?

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Just happy I always leave the house with my laptop and sketchbook.

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Ha, I actually reassure myself with that thought: well, my laptop's here, so I guess I'll probably be okay!

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One of my roommates keeps lighting her smokes off the hob and that's why I imagine the house burning down. But yeah, if I have my laptop and everyone's ok, then I'm cool with that.

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WTF is the hob, you crazy Irishman?

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Your glaring picture made me CHORTLE. oh sara.

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I'm kind of a grumpy person lately! I can't hide anything from you, internet!

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haha! that picture rules

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We are both grumpy in our respective memeage. I APPROVE.

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haha! this comic is great!

also, you are one cute housecat!

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Thank you, thank you!

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Smoldering.

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Ah, Mr. Eden, you flatter me so.

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That is a weirdly sexy picture, like, you look like you were sleeping and someone woke you and now you will POUNCE in some complex way that will result in messed-up hair. Most of my friends look a little stunned in their pics, with the exception of one friend who ended up with this lovely soft-focus elegant profile.

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Yeah, I think in that picture I actually was recently sleeping — Aaron's bed makes my back hurt and I have to lie around on my stomach on the couch to take the pressure off of it. So I am actually quite grumpy in the picture, too.

Most the pictures that have shown up on my friends list have been of the mildly stunned variety, which I actually enjoy quite a lot and think is cute!

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I second the "smoldering" assessment. Very nice.

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It's hard to smolder with a wrinkled nose, I think. Also, the glaring.

Anyway, you see me in person with some regularity. I can't fool you!

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But that's just it, I've never seen you give such a glare before. *trembles*

Maybe you have been fooling me all this time? But the camera, it does not lie! Oh no, never!

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Ha, I am capable of absolutely withering glares. Sometimes my emotions have a tendency to play out across my face before I can control it, and sometimes people have a tendency to say incredibly stupid things.

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I like how leaving the front door open makes more flames. :P

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I didn't think much about it until I was trying to make lists of my anxieties to draw this comic, but I seem to worry a lot about house fires. (I don't know why.) I am pretty sure there is some way my brain can make a link between my thesis and a house fire.

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It reminded me of this strip.

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Ha!

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Yes, I had two theories on that. First, a random arsonist walks into the house. Second, and perhaps more plausible, the open door allows the existing fire to breathe, increasing its ferocity.

Damn. With the passing of Paul Newman, and now Rosie's newfound pyrokinetic abilities, I have the urge to watch Towering Inferno.

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You make the mistake of thinking there has to be some logical pattern to my worries. There is not, I assure you.

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Nonsense! Bad things always happen in threes.

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cute girl!

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Thank you!

You ought to participate in this meme and put us all to shame!

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Hah. Yeah right. I actually thought about it, but each time I took a photo booth picture it looked like I'd been punched in both eyes. Bag city.

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Helpful hint: if you hold down the shift key when you click the button, it keeps that godawfully unflattering flash from going off.

(And if you hold down the option key instead, then it doesn't do the countdown. And if you hold down both, your laptop explodes.)

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I also worry that I've burned the house down and/or left it unlocked. And/or left the gas running EVERYTHING'S GOING TO EXPLODE

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I knew you would understand.

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I read that as "left it unclothed" and I thought that was an easily-verified worry.

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Are you wearing your crankypants?

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