Busy

Life sometimes throws a lot at you. It feels like more than you can handle. If it is more than you can handle, something suffers. Something doesn't get done. That's how life is for me right now...almost.

I do what I can each day, keeping a bunch of different metaphorical balls in the air, and manage to keep the important things on schedule. An ongoing illness in the family adds to the stress. If life were perfect, I'd draw from x o'clock to y o'clock every day, then take a o'clock to b o'clock to finish a few projects I've wanted to get to for a long time, and so on. Instead, events move around in the schedule as if I'm playing some frustrating video game. I will shortly go out and put up posters for a concert I'm helping to present when I'd prefer to be drawing, then come back and draw some more, working later than I'd prefer, then memorize lines for a play rehearsal tonight when I could be drawing another strip, which I will instead draw tomorrow.

However, I will gradually catch up on everything, and the fact that, even with five or six inches of snowfall a couple of days ago, spring will begin to appear in a month or so encourages me. And the sun just came out as I'm typing this. That helps.

I guess I'm lucky in that I draw what I like to think are funny cartoons for a living. This makes other people happy, and I can't help but smile when I draw one. Neither wind nor rain nor snow nor an overload of burdens can deter me from my daily round of writing, drawing, scanning, coloring and uploading.

I never learned to juggle, and yet that's what I'm doing now. Not quite funny enough for a cartoon, but enough to amuse me as I go about my day.

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