the dark corner of my happy mind

Monday, May 16, 2011

woke up

I had a a feeling this morning that at 2:30 that today was going to be a really good day. By eight am it turned into one of my worst mornings ever. On the plus side there only one way to go, up. So today I post a memorial to my stolen bike. Yes, it was stolen today. I got home from a horrible day at work to find it missing from the bike rack. I guess my lock wasn't good enough.

Here's a comic of me riding my bike to school and work. I use to ride it all the time in Boise. It was my main mode of transit for awhile. I would ride it on the green belt just to get away from all my problems. I did not have the chance to ride my bike this year. All the rain made me not want to go out and now I'll never ride my bike again. Click on the comic to read it.

R.I.P. - the Kord (yes my bike had a name and it was Kord.)

Saturday, May 7, 2011

free comic book day!

Today is a great day, it's the first weekend in May. This weekend may be marked by Mother's Day, but I like to think of it as the beginning of the comic season. Yes the comic season. This is the weekend that a new comic book movie comes out. This year's comic movie was Thor. Another big this about this weekend is it's Free Comic Book Day today. This has been happening since 2002. It coincided with the release of the first Spider-Man film. There has only been two years without a comic film to help with free comic book day.

I have not actually celebrated every free comic book day, but I have been trying to the last few years. This year was a really fun one. I brought Allison along with me for the ride. First year the both of us went out for it. Bloomington only has one comic shop so we decide to hit up Indianapolis for free comic book day. I scouted out seven different locations in Indy to visit. Oh it was a going to be an amazing day. We headed up and I decide at the last minute to change the route and visit the west side stores first and loop back down.

We visited Downtown Comics West first and then we went to Comic Carnival West. They were good. We got some basic comics like Captain America and Thor, Spider-man, to Mouse Guard. Finding a lot of cool comics, but not the main one I was looking for, Super Dinosaur. The new Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard comic. After one more shop we decide to stop for lunch in Greenwood. We were a little pooped by that time. We got some hot dogs for lunch. A perfect lunch for today. Allison got a Indy Dog and I got a Chicago Dog. So awesome. So good. We were about to just head home when I was like there one more comic shop that wasn't one of the Indy chains. I had never been there and it was in a part of town I didn't visit often. After getting a little lost we finally found Comic Book University. This was the best stop. They had more free comic than all the other stores combined. I also found Super Dinosaur! It was awesome.

That was my adventure for free comic book day. One of my many Cassette Tape t-shirt with my red converses were worn on this amazing comic adventure. I hope everyone else had an exciting free comic book day too. I know mine was awesome. Driving all over Indy for a bunch of free comics and a few I bought that I couldn't find in Bloomington. Nice.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

wordless wednesday

the AM @ St. Louis Art Museum 3 by MichaelMcLean

the AM @ St. Louis Art Museum 3, a photo by MichaelMcLean on Flickr.

Friday, April 29, 2011

work story

So the other day while I was on break at work my co-worker T came over to talk to me. He saw that the work area right next to me was supermessy like it is normally. T was all like what's going on? I was like you know, the person there can't handle her work area. It's like this all the time. Plus she had been yelling a lot that. She does that all the time, but today more than normal, it makes my area a very unpleasant work area.

T was all like she needs to take some of those pills supervisor M takes. I said, "What pills?"

T, "They're happy pills."

Me, "Like Zoloft?"

T, "No, she told me that she takes these pills for her migraines and the side effort is she gets happy."

Me, "Really that sounds awesome, I need some of those pills."

T, "Yeah, she told me that and then pulled out a six to ten inch knife and flipped it open. I was like wow. That's as big as her. Plus she had them crazy eyes going on." (M is a very small person, like 4'7" or maybe a little taller, so the knife looks big in M hands.)

This story got me laughing pretty good. Not much happens at work that makes me smile or laugh, so I thought I would share it. It's probably not as funny as I thought it was at six in the morning.