A Blurry Eye Look at Dead Lions:

Muybridge was incapable of sleeping after the head injury he received in his stagecoach accident of the 1860`s - what a good thing that would be - We`re animators, we don`t need no stinking sleep.

So here we are on the Saturday before Comic Con and I spent most of the day sleeping. If you have been following my progress in these pages of late I have had much to say about my preparation for the two simultaneous conjunctive disasters/happenings of Comic Con and my first week of new classes at Brook College happening at the same time and how that has affected my sleep patterns or lack there of. Let me say that I am down to only 1 more syllabus and 1 more presentation to prepare over this weekend.

Not bad, and that is why I cut back on the 17 to 19 hour workdays. Me children are no longer cringing in the corners of the house with their fingers in their ears as I call down the copious blessings of fertility deities in all there more popular and graphic aspects on the head of my computer.

Students think I am too rough on deadlines, for some reason, just because I maintain that there is no acceptable reason, this side of death, for missing one, ever! I don`t want to hear about the twice dead Grandmother or the car that died on the freeway, or the fue. When I miss my deadlines then they can miss theirs. Never missing deadlines is what it means to be an artist. And I`m not really sure if death is a valid reason for missing a deadline? I`ll have to look at my handbook.  ¶ 5:20 PM