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Peripheral Movement Always Startles Me

veronica — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:15:03 +0000

Some of you may have noticed that I occasionally refer to my place of employment as the TV Farm. That’s because the TV station I work for is located in a metal building on the edge of a field that grazes cattle. We get all manner of field critters in the building, either by accident or by design on their part, including a mouse that was in the upper corner of the sound insulation in the (very warm) audio booth with me this morning while I was recording a VO:

eek a mouse (47sec mp3 of audio booth hilarity)

PS: Yes, this is a very old drawing, but I’m at work, and he fits to nature of the post. This little guy first appeared in the Osprey to accompany an article about natural pest control.

Tags: audio, drawing, funny, mice, varmints, work

Blogging on Paper

veronica — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:45:14 +0000

Throwing accessibility to the wind today and blogging by scanning a notebook page.

I’ve been having the same trouble with writing a new blog post as I have with drawing anything I feel is worth showing to other people, particularly on the computer; that is, that it is too easy to hit ‘delete’ if it turns out not to be perfect. I may make a habit out of these blogging-on-paper notebook pages if it helps me work things out. Hopefully it’ll help you, too, if you’re having the kind of trouble I am.

This has more than a little to do with having read Lynda Barry’s What It Is. I highly reccommend this book to everybody. No qualifications, just everybody.

Hosed

veronica — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:02:42 +0000

Here’s a fairly accurate illustratrion of what the last two weeks have been like. I’m exhausted, not really for any good reason, probably just the mid-January doldrums. I want spring to come- having no daylight left at the end of the workday is bound to make someone feel lethargic.

Not that I haven’t been at least somewhat productive. I had a little design project to do which is due Monday, and I added a few new cute t-shirt designs to my shop. But I really wanted to have done more. Oh well, maybe next week will be better, and I won’t feel so poopy.

Rawr! Dinosaur Week commences!

veronica — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:49:26 +0000

I mean, well, what else is there to say? After owling myself to death, I skipped down a few on the list and am gonna do dinosaurs. This should be fun.

Merry Christmas Eve

veronica — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:47:29 +0000

Four glorious days off lay ahead of me. It’s 10:30 am at the TV Farm and I have a few small things that need to be done before 5 to be ready for the long weekend. There is a four-pound rib roast in our fridge and we have no guests, so we can glut ourselves on delicious meat and rice salad and festive holiday drinks.

Maybe I’ll work on finally getting my portfolio online. Maybe this time I really mean it. I’ll forgive myself if I just laze around under a blanket all weekend watching the Fraggle Rock DVDs my dad sent me for Christmas. Maybe I’ll do all three!

Merry Christmas

Deck the Dogs with Bows and Holly

veronica — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:59:21 +0000

Actually, don’t deck your dogs with holly. I think it’s poisonous. But The bows were cute. We couldn’t get any good pictures until they mellowed out.

Halloween!

veronica — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:56:44 +0000

Halloween!

Originally uploaded by blackUnicorn

I love the dusk setting on my camera. I need a tripod so I can take pictures like this that aren’t blurry.

Hope you had a happy, spooky Halloween! We ended up playing poker at a friend’s house, and a storm picked up and caused a few short power outages. We play in the garage so all the banging around outside made the whole night extra creepy!

SnoogleZoo Comics is Go!

veronica — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:22:09 +0000

By some strange quirk of my wordpress installation, all my scheduled posts are aligned with UTC time, even though I set it to be UTC -7 (that’s Pacific Daylight Time). As a result, snooglezoo#1 posted fifteen minutes ago. In the future I’ll remember to make the adjustment by hand, but I figured starting out by posting early is a great sign!

So, what are you waiting for? I’ve been waiting to enjoy this moment for years, and I finally got my act together and made it happen. i’m doing layouts for next Monday and Wednesday tonight, and even though it’s by no means perfect, I’m thrilled because it’s real. It’s happening. And I finally get to say:

Go read my comic!

OMG Where Have I Been?

veronica — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:30:20 +0000

Here’s July. I did one doodle for every day I worked (you can see that I called in sick on the 21st).

I’ve got a number of plates spinning right now, so I had to let blogging fall by the wayside to keep up. I anticipate that will change in the next couple of days or so.

Not Panda Thursday…

veronica — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:28:18 +0000

I just need one of these very very badly. Too bad it’s so expensive…

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