Before I pass out and forget everything, I need to throw this information somewhere for posterity.
I arrived on campus with a bagel and some coffee (rare for me) this morning at 9am. I just got home 10 minutes ago. In the intervening 15.5 hours I…
- Read 120 pages of Rousseau’s political writings
- Attended a lecture on the social contract
- Checked out 5 more books for my thesis
- Wrote a 3-page response essay
- Shipped comics to California, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana
- Read the entirety of Art & Fear and Claire Siepser’s comics-based thesis (~100 pages combined)
- Requested 10 books on inter-library loan
- Cut out and assembled 257 Baggywrinkles buttons
- Read 150 pages of McCloud’s Making Comics
- Wrote critiques of 12 classmates’ comics
- Researched, scripted, and thumbnailed a 4-page comic about the Crimean War
- Revised my thesis proposal
I’m really, really hoping this gives me enough of a reason to slack off for the rest of the week. Goddamn. I don’t know why I do this sometimes.





Wow! Cool! I love days where I get a lot done. You are really cool, Lucy.
Thanks, lady. I think you’re fucking rad. I’m really glad we met through all this comics malarkey.
Wow. That is probably more productive than I have ever been in the history of Ever.
Coming from you, Ms. Tanner, that means a hell of a lot. You’re a productive lady.