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I'm not even through book 1 of RoP yet, and already find myself wanting to illustrate half the scenes in it...my sketchbook is so full of little scenes scribbled on Post-Its that it's beginning to look like a storyboard for a film version of the fic. Hellfire and damnation, I wish she'd finished book 4.

This has been a good, albeit antisocial weekend...I've pretty much slept way more than I ought to, watched Law and Order: SVU DVDs, worked on art, and read RoP. My house is still a mess and there are about a billion other things I could be doing, but I think after the last two weeks, I've earned a bit of downtime.

Now if only it would get just warm enough just long enough to melt some of the ice off the streets and sidewalks, so I could feel safer about going out for long walks in the cold.

I think fandom may actually be good for me, if only because it makes me want to write and draw and do all sorts of creative things that I tend to not do when I'm depressed and/or between fandoms, and those creative things pick me up more than just about anything I can think of.

And, well, it's gratifying to realize that after three or four years of essentially not drawing at all, I can still do so. (I don't think David quite believed my raving about it, so the look on his face when I started flipping through my sketchbook was entertaining...yes, dear, there really was a reason I started out as an art major, believe it or not; you just don't see it much... xD) So there is some hope for the Really Ridiculous Basement Project, though whether I end up with just the current map and some interesting Tengwar calligraphy or the full, formal pantheon of the Valar I want to take a crack at just for the hell of it remains to be seen.

Either way I'm fairly sure we will end up with the geekiest basement in the neighborhood.

I just wish I had more time to work on that stuff (or on my calligraphy, or on cleaning up the house, or on anything else, really). Two holidays in two weeks + no holiday pay = too many forced ten-hour days. If one more spoiled, salaried person with a cushy benefit package pretends to be concerned that I'm staying at work late when they know perfectly well why I am doing so, he's going to end up with one of those obnoxious little desktop Christmas trees where the sun doesn't shine. Seriously, it's bad enough without you rubbing it in.

On the plus side, I did discover a rather sketchy hole-in-the-wall of a video rental place in town last week -- and they have EVERYTHING -- obscure documentaries, foreign films, art films, GBLT films, mainstream movies new and old, an entire section dedicated to British TV, a massive and well-stocked anime section, and so on. And it's cheap. It has me thinking of all sorts of fun film fest weekends to have, if anyone else is up for them -- David and I are thinking a "Bad Disaster Movie" fest, complete with MST3King by the audience, could be fun. And of course the anime section has me tempted to have an FMA/CC revival weekend or six.