i’ve been working on a project for pa pretty much constantly for the past couple of days, and another freelance project i have. i’m trying to finish up this design stuff or as close to it as possible before classes start on tuesday because i know my schedule’s going to be really tight. i’m making a lot of progress on pa, which is nice, but i still have a lot to do so tomorrow’s probably going to be another busy day. but i don’t mind because gabe and tycho are two of the coolest people i know and working with them doesn’t even really feel like work.

speaking of gabe, he drew a gorgeous new cartoon of me as an early birthday present; a detail of it is above but you can check out the full thing here. gabe never ceases to amaze me. also in that directory are two other new drawings by lunacrow and melanarchy, both of which royally rock my socks.

i’ve been listening to the new live nin album a lot this week; i was prepared to be mildly disappointed but it’s actually really good. i’ll probably buy the cd when it comes out on tuesday but i’m not going to get the video yet - i’m at the point now where it seems pointless to buy anything on vhs because i know i’m going to get a dvd player very soon and i don’t want to have to buy everything over again. it’s the same as it was just before i bought my first cd player, and sure enough i don’t even own an audio tape player anymore. but so yeah, the new nin is good, even if it does make me want to see another live show. the fragility tour at madison square garden was definitely one of the best shows i’ve ever seen. i know it’s not supposed to be cool to listen to nin anymore since they’re mainstream or whatever the fuck, but i don’t really care. i’ve been listening to this stuff since i was like thirteen and i’m not going to stop now because everyone else does too.

i went textbook shopping yesterday, which was fun in a sort of spending a lot of money and hurting my back carrying all the books home kind of way. which i guess now that i think about it isn’t really that much fun. but i do have a big pile of books on india and einstein now, so how bad could it be.