Category: Doodles

Crankypantsing, Doodles, Music

The news of the day

Shelly

Staff Meeting Doodle
Staff Meeting Doodle

We had another meeting-slash-training-session today. This one was, thankfully, only an hour long, but that’s an hour of my life I’ll never get back. Damn! So, I did a little more doodling at the bottom of the previous doodle’s page, which explains the swirlies along the top border.

This may be as close to arting as I get today. I just don’t think I’m in the mood to mess with it. We found out this morning that one of our coworkers was in a coma, and was not going to come out of it. She died at 1:00 this afternoon. I didn’t know her well, but it’s still kind of weird and sobering to think that someone I saw on Friday is gone today. Poof! Just like that.

And that, such as it is, is the news of the day.

A man in my shoes runs a light and
All the papers lied tonight
But falling over you
Is the news of the day
Angels fall like rain
And love (love, love)
Is all of heaven away

(I always did love that Psychedelic Furs song, so it seems sort of fitting that it’s stuck in my head tonight.)

Art, Crankypantsing, Doodles

Staff Meeting Doodle

Shelly

Staff Meeting Doodle
Staff Meeting Doodle

We had an hour long presentation at work this week, and I spent my time, as usual, doodling. I’m glad I took a notebook, because even though I picked an out of the way seat in the back of the room, someone just had to sit right next to me. Why are some people unable to comprehend that someone who has gone out of their way to sit alone might want to be left alone? Grrr.

I’m used to taking crap from other people about being antisocial, but I’d occasionally like to see people who are overly social stop and think for a minute. You may think I’m abnormal, but I can assure you, you seem a little bizarre to me, too.

Crankypantsing, Doodles, Photography

Sunrise and Sunset and a Brand New Year

Shelly

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Sunset, Owen County, Indiana

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Sunrise, Owen County, Indiana

I mentioned that I’d given my mom my SLR? Well, she told me a few weeks ago that I’d left film in the camera, and that there were a couple of pictures on it of either sunrises or sunsets. When I was there over Festivus, I had her dig them out for me. I’m glad I did! The sunset photo is one of best I’ve ever taken. My scanner is in awful shape–it’s making unhealthy grinding noises and is scattering white specks across everything–so this is not the best scan, but it’s not too bad. The frosty winter sunrise photo turned out kind of nicely, too, I think. I don’t remember taking either of them, which shows what sort of Swiss cheese my brain is made of.

Below: This is one my mom took. While I was on the phone with her one evening, she said there were some weird cloud formations. I told her to get the hell outside and take some pictures (duh!), which she did. We’d had the same storm system earlier in the day, complete with mammatus, but my photos didn’t turn out anywhere as well as hers did. (That line along the left is an electric line, and the dark section at the bottom right is the eaves of her house.)

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Mammatus clouds, Muncie, Indiana

And now for a couple of mindless doodles. We’ve had a barrage of staff meetings and training sessions over the past couple of months, in preparation for a major upgrade to our cataloging software. I’m not good with meetings and training sessions. They bore my brain into the danger zone for implodiation. So, I doodle. I don’t care if it makes it seem like I’m not paying attention. I am. I just need to keep my hands busy or my brain will atrophy.

Staff Meeting Doodle
Staff Meeting Doodle

Staff Meeting Doodle
Staff Meeting Doodle

The obligatory New Year resolutions:

I haven’t got a long list of resolutions, because I don’t tend to keep them. However, I’m going to make a concerted effort to try to do some art every day. I’m also going to try to eat more greens and drink less caffeine. Not killing Mr. Upstairs or beating the Bumpuses upside their heads with their dog’s tie-out stake are on the list, too, but alas, they aren’t my first priorities. I may spend 2007 in jail, if my neighbors don’t stop being assberets.

Art, Doodles

Staff Meeting Doodles

Shelly

I got home to find that the electricity had been off since 1pm. It came back on at 6:30. With no AC for the afternoon, it was ungodly hot indoors. Ugh. I’d meant to spend time mowing, then installing a new DVD burner (a treat for petsitting), but that plan has been scrapped. Maybe tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ve scanned a couple of doodles from my work notebook.

I’m a compulsive doodler. I used to be self-conscious about it, because it makes me look inattentive, but the truth is that I listen more carefully if my hands are busy. I think that’s why I like to have the television on while I’m arting. The hands and the brain need to be independently occupied, apparently.

Staff Meeting Doodle

Staff Meeting Doodle
gel pen on paper
9 x 6 inches