More comics, and deadline anxiety

So terribly busy at the moment, but only in fits and starts. Wrote four of my proposals for documentaries last week. Today I had a meeting with a director and his subjects of yet another documentary, who had come in from Calgary. Very tough meeting them all for the first time, with my feeling I had to appeal to them as someone they wanted to work with. It went well, I think, but I was anxious before the meeting, and plain tired afterward, from the energy I had put into it. Yesterday, as well as preparing for that, I drew a "brain" character for an event called "Brain Awareness Week" at McGill University, where children are introduced to the workings of actual brains. For reference, the editors sent me a series of photos of smiling children holding up various brains (I don't know if the brains are human or not, some look human). These shots are delightfully macabre, but I can't put them up here, because I didn't take them, and don't know whose children these are. Still, the charming boys and girls with these messy-looking objects put me in mind of some missing chapter of a "Harry Potter" book. No brain or thinking puns come to mind, though.

Still, for the article about the event in the McGill Reporter I had to draw a brain-based character who looked funny and appealing, and not just wrinkled and grotesque. I think I succeeded. In the rough draft I had one of the children in my drawing poking at him with a stick, but now he's just politely pointing. The first idea had me chuckling to myself as I thought of it while walking home in the cold, but McGill people are fairly serious, and might not see the humour. I'll post the drawing later, after it comes out.

I'm also cobbling together my 300-word HOUR news article about bloggers, and YULBlog's 5th anniversary party. Will write the final version tomorrow: deadline is Thursday. Wasn't fun coming back to my notes written last Wednesday and seeing all the gobbledy-gook scribbles, and names all over the place. Note to journalists: don't work while tired, or while drinking beer, and always type up your notes as soon as possible after making them. Unfortunately, it's been a while between articles, and I had lost my discipline. Still, I think it will all work out.

In the meantime, here's a link to another comic, which I think I may have put up before, but I worked so hard on it, it's worth drawing attention to, I think.
[The Haunted Theatre]