good lawd! it’s only been a couple of days, but what a couple of days they’ve been. my design for penny arcade is up and running, or least kind of twitching convulsively - tycho and i are still polishing it up and such, but it’s there anyway, and i’m happy with it. it’s so not the kind of style i usually design in, but on the whole it’s been the most enjoyable design project i’ve tackled in a while. it’s probably got a lot to do with the fact that i was working with two people whose work i adore and have admired for ages. tycho, in particular, r0×0rz muh s0×0rz.

right, so it’s 2001 [two thousand and one!] now. i’ve gotten a great deal of mail asking what i did on new year’s eve, a phenomenon i find rather curious. but to answer you all at once: i did more or less nothing, and loved it. manhattan being a very, very crowded place on that particular night and me being not at all fond of crowds that size, jim and i stayed in with some chinese food and the dreamcast. it was more or less a usual night for us - a little dinner, a little working on our various projects, a little gaming, and a lot of cuddling.

hey: if you know me offline and i haven’t been returning your mail or calls or whatever, i am hereby begging forgiveness. it’s just been a crazy few weeks, with the last few days sort of capping it all off. i’ve had a total of two hours of sleep over the past two nights, with last night including exactly none. there’s just something wrong when getting dressed for work consists of changing out of the previous day’s work clothes.

i was listening to liz phair this morning (!) and it reminded me of last year at nyu, when chrissy and i used to run around in our pj’s singing that shit at the top of our lungs. it was predicatably cathartic, of course. chrissy! i love you baby! mail me!