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Another comic! This one is my second KOTOR comic, but the only one posted here. I haven't finished the game. Please do not tell me anything about the plot. I refuse to be spoiled.

( Upper City adventures. )

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And I inked and colored another KOTOR comic! This one I'd done earlier and posted on deTox as a glorified sketch, mainly because I was desperate to show it to people, but I'm much happier with it now that I've gone back and fixed it. (I wonder if that was what Lucas said after the DVD release. Hm. Perhaps my penchant for saving PSDs and tweaking them isn't such a good thing after all, lol.) ( Anyway, comic. )

Next I'll be working on putting my layout together. I want a change.

Today I had my sort-of conference with my English prof about the privacy essay we're writing on. We worked out a focus for it, and I'm going to be writing on the changes in reasonable expectations of surveillance and that it is being defended and we're not going to turn into a 1984-esque collective. I got back my abstract (Plato's Crito in 150 words or less) and she liked it. Abstracts are one paragraph, though, and in concentrating on making the word count lower, I did forget to bring the points back to the speaker/writer, but all-in-all, I was pleased with how I measured up to her expectations. (I'm sure none of you really care about this, but it's for my own reference.)

The privacy essay can be a response to one of three essays: Etzioni, Strossen or DeCew. I picked Strossen, and sadly, so did 95% of the class, so I really have to work on this one. No one picked DeCew, because it's a feminist critique on privacy and ended up being one of those rants that scare even normal feminists. Like, "All heterosexual sex is rape!" kind of crazies. Funny story about that - when I was reading the DeCew essay I got through the first paragraph and went "Oh God, this better not be like the 'all het sex is rape!' crazies." And sure enough, it honest to God was. The Etzioni article is all pro-surveillance and anti-privacy, but it was in carefully stated arguments like about testing babies for HIV without letting the parents know and is that a violation of privacy, so you can't really disagree, because who wants to say "Hey, I think babies should grow up with HIV!"? So the Strossen article is the best bet. I think I'm the only person in the class that's heading into talking about the Sodomy Laws, so my essay will be unique in that way. I'm really going to work hard on this one between now and Thursday. I want it to be good. Plus, it needs to be different, to distinguish it from the ten thousand other Strossen essays she'll be reading this weekend.

I really wish I could just skip this week and have done all the work I need to do. My Pride and Prejudice essay is due on the 13th, and I have to finish that before this weekend because there's no way in hell I'm going to do another Modern Western Civ essay the night before it's due, no matter how familiar I am with the source material and the prompt. I should probably reread P&P, too, even though I know it well and will be watching the miniseries again this week.

Oh, and my Sociology test is on Valentine's Day. This is going to be fun, because we don't have a study guide yet, we're going to be watching a movie for the next two days, and we haven't taken notes in about a week. And we're supposed to have read a lot in the book, but he just covers it in class, so no one really bothers. Grrr. I'm sorry, Grant, but I'm going to be bringing some textbooks with me this weekend. I usually try to avoid that, but it cannot be done.

And I hate Biblical Lit. I do not wish to read the assigned chapters. I do not care. I do not like it. It does not interest me. Thus, I must work twice as hard. GRARGH.

But despite all my bitching about all this work I need to do, the only thing I really don't want to do is my laundry. That's the main thing that's pissing me off. Can't it just do itself? Maybe? Please?

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I just got a ha-ha-funny forward from my dad. I don't think it had the effect he wanted.

Forward:

Young King Arthur was ambushed and imprisoned by the monarch of a
neighboring kingdom. The monarch could have killed him but was moved by Arthur's youth and
ideals. So, the monarch offered him his freedom, as long as he could answer a very difficult
question. Arthur would have a year to figure out the answer and, if after a year, he still had no
answer, he would be put to death. The question?....What do women really want? Such a question would
perplex even the most knowledgeable man, and to young Arthur, it seemed an impossible
query. But, since it was better than death, he accepted the monarch's proposition to have an answer
by year's end. ( Condensed so I can get to the point. )

What a woman really wants, she answered....is to be in charge of her own life.
Everyone in the kingdom instantly knew that the witch had uttered a great truth and that
Arthur's life would be spared. And so it was, the neighboring monarch granted Arthur his freedom and
Lancelot and the witch had a wonderful wedding. The honeymoon hour approached and Lancelot, steeling himself for a horrific experience, entered the bedroom. But, what a sight awaited him. The most beautiful woman he had ever seen lay before him on the bed. The astounded Lancelot asked what had happened. The beauty replied that since he had been so kind to her when she appeared as a witch, she would henceforth, be her horrible deformed self only half the time and the beautiful maiden the other half.
Which would he prefer? Beautiful during the day....or night?
Lancelot pondered the predicament. During the day, a beautiful woman
to show off to his friends, but at night, in the privacy of his castle, an old witch? Or, would
he prefer having a hideous witch during the day, but by night, a beautiful woman for him to
enjoy wondrous intimate moments?
What would YOU do?
What Lancelot chose is below. BUT....make YOUR choice before you
scroll down below. OKAY?
Noble Lancelot said that he would allow HER to make the choice herself.
Upon hearing this, she announced that she would be beautiful all the
time because he had respected her enough to let her be in charge of her own life.
Now....what is the moral to this story?
The moral is..... If you don't let a woman have her own way....
Things are going to get ugly

My Reply:

THAT IS SO NOT A LANCELOT STORY AT ALL. NOT AT ALL. OH MY GOD, I AM SO SICK OF EVERY HEROIC KNIGHTLY THING EVER DONE IS ATTRIBUTED TO DAMN LANCELOT AND HIS STUPID FRENCH WAYS. SIR GAWAIN IS SO MUCH BETTER.

http://www.uidaho.edu/student_orgs/arthurian_legend/ladies/ragnell/ragnell.htm

SEE? It's Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnall! It's a lesser known legend but it has always been Sir Gawain! Not Lancelot! I want you to email all the other people that had this forward and let them know that this isn't a Lancelot story and the heroicism of Lancelot and his idealistic portrayal is entirely due to the French. Sir Gawain was the real hero of Arthurian literature until the French came in with their fancy French prince Sir Launcelot du Lac and he came and stole the queen and all the heroic deeds and quests and became the omg BEST KNIGHT EVAR. Sir Gawain was there first and he did better things and wasn't all caught up in crappy ceremony and CRAP.