itesser ink: progress, uncensored

That's not from today. Although today I landed 8 pages. Two of them were at the park doing life-doodles, which served as a nice jump-start for the rest throughout the evening. Gotta say, though, Savannah outdoors in August is not how it looks in postcards.

Outside that excursion (although part of this tale includes it), today was still an eventful day. Sometime around 2am we decided to take in a few meteors as part of this year's Perseides shower.

While we were somewhere down Highway 17 (somewhere past Richmond Hill) looking for meteors, our romantic evening of inaugurating the usPod, relaxing in the darkness, and stargazing was cut very short by clouds of mosquitoes. I obviously haven't had enough mosquitoes in my life prior to this point to be able to spell it properly, so it should be no surprise that I got more bites in the few minutes (possibly less than five minutes) that we reclined on the trunk of our car... than I have gotten in my previous 23 years on this planet. I was looking forward to some relaxing and marveling at the vastness of the universe and the enormity of things that take place without me, but the clouds of biting insects were too much.

I wonder if we get a prize for having the shortest complete, yet unsuccessful, spontaneous adventure. Reagan says I can't call it a failure because it was fun to drive around and talk for the 90 minutes or so we were out, but he actually saw a meteor (I was dealing with the ipod and the excess of bugs it drew to me), so I'm not sure that's fair. ;)

In short... Universe, you owe me one

Nothing like setting out to have a cosmic experience, complete with soundtrack, and being chased away by mosquitoes.


Tune in tomorrow to witness the amazing transformation from early-drawing-days to modern-drawing-days on the Annielution timeline.