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Like lead on paper; fickle.

So Comics Fight is underway, which is super exciting. It's a lot of work and coordination, but it's worth it. Although, I'm not entirely sure why we made a Facebook event group for it the day before it started. If we wanted to make sure we had an audience, we should've made it sooner. But, I am not complaining all that much.The whole thing is pretty cool, and it's good practice for the Whodunnit? Murder Mystery Dinner that we're hoping to put our characters through in the fall. Also, doing a big fight between comics (a la Civil War!) means we get to do tie-in comics. Just like real comic artists!I've been thinking these last couple of days and I'm afraid that I'm going to waste my life running around in circles trying to do everything and never really doing anything. Jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Somebody has to ask the hard questions.

But, in important news, this is my 200th blog post. That's 200 posts full of absolutely nothing. Well, except for scatter-brained drivel and moody, ambiguous fluff and failed attempts at tongue-in-cheek depression/cynicism. Proud? Eh, it's fun.

200 blog posts I need a life!

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