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Rant, Moan and Rave - 2010 edition
Worked for six days straight and got lots of work done and met many interesting and truly inspirational people.
One guy had adopted a quadripaligic and his work inspired a foundation. It was a real ispiring story.
A woman came down complaining that her children were bothering her. Okay so the dopey security guard goes up to her room. Her first words once in the room as I look around and see no one "It's amazing how he manages to get inside the TV."
I make a big show of examining her cable TV hook up and say there is no evidence of tampering and suggest she call her cable provider in the morning.
She next said, "Amazing how people can drive you crazy."
I replied, "I was driven crazy years ago."
She asked "When did you get back?"
"I never did, I stayed crazy and it now it just doesn't bother me anymore."
We laughed, she felt reassured and I got to go back to the office to work on my webcomic.
She next said, "Amazing how people can drive you crazy."faaaaaaarrrrrrk… time to grin in a friendly way and avoid eye contact while backing toward the door and agreeing with every insane thing that comes out of her mouth.
I'm sure she was just trying to work up to "It's amazing how much I want to stab you in the face and make love to your still warm corpse while chewing on your liver…"
She next said, "Amazing how people can drive you crazy."
I replied, "I was driven crazy years ago."
She asked "When did you get back?"
"I never did, I stayed crazy and it now it just doesn't bother me anymore."
We laughed, she felt reassured and I got to go back to the office to work on my webcomic.
My response to this? Let's just say I was born crazy… and leave it at that… *cough*
She next said, "Amazing how people can drive you crazy."faaaaaaarrrrrrk… time to grin in a friendly way and avoid eye contact while backing toward the door and agreeing with every insane thing that comes out of her mouth.
I'm sure she was just trying to work up to "It's amazing how much I want to stab you in the face and make love to your still warm corpse while chewing on your liver…"
Fear of the mentally ill comes from ignorance. The mentally ill mostly act like that only in movies and books. And after that attack 20 years ago by the knife-wielding ex-girlfriend in a manic episode this was nothing and then there were the bipolar kids when I taught special ed, and the schizophrenics when I was in the hospital… nah this was easy. Being certifible myself I'm comfortable around crazy people now.
There were no indications of manic behavior. I know that in real life the mentally ill are more inclined to hurt themselves.
That's why I was reassuring her and making her feel comfortable and be totally non-threatening. The whole point is to build trust and to convince her that I was on her side. Once that was done I knew I was safe.
things have been really slow around here. or maybe i've picked up the amount of time i'm on the site, and so it's all perception.
ianno.
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I'm not feeling well, but i don't wanna bring it up, cause i'm afraid my supervisor will tell me i'm faking, since i complained about my schedule this week not leaving time for gym 3 days in a row. i even proposed 3 workable alternatives, and they wouldn't do it.
Fear of the mentally ill comes from experienceFixed ^^
I've no wish for more of that thankyou ;)
Oh so you dated crazy Sharon too? Yeah she was a beautiful, busty redhead who met you after a hard day at work with oral sex but when she didn't take her lithium… yeah I see your point. ;)
Once I got locked up in the hospital with them I lost that fear born of experience. "I'm one of you now, how must I look to those on the outside?"
Help them and I help myself because I am crazy and we nutcases have to stick together. After all those who call themselves sane are just those who haven't discovered the depth of their own mental illness yet. (insert maniacal laughter here) lol!
Crazzzeee, toys in the attic, I am crazzzzeee, certainly gone fishing…
This summer has corrupted my ability to focus, and ability to get to work. Which are almost one in the same, for me anyway.
I used to wake up decently early. Like 8 or 9 every morning, sure, I wouldn't do much (wasn't working on Ryu's Krew then, I think) but it was just cooler.
Now I wake up at 11, and now 12. And I still want to sleep.
So looks like I'll have to force myself to go to sleep earlier. Because I don't want to sit here and procrastinate all day. The bad thing about webcomics is I sit here and go, "Oh, it's okay. I don't have to work on it. I've got time." but truth is, that is the WORST mindset for doing webcomics. I mean. If you already have a buffer, then you should be good for a day or two. But I've been doing this the past week.
So that means, it's time to get this buffer started.
Also I now have to make a new layout. DX
Thought i'd have my laptop troubles all cleared up by now but i guess i'm gonna have to re-draw the final pages of my comic after all. -.- It's a pain since i finished this thing early may and don't even remember the dialog…
I'd like to get started on the next comic but ah well *rolls up imaginary sleeves*
This is exactly my feelings. I didn't get up until noon today and then I wanted to just sleep. I don't know if it's the heat or what. I'm finally waking up and it's 9:30. It's finally cooled enough where I'm not just staring into space, barely moving. I hate so much heat.
This summer has corrupted my ability to focus, and ability to get to work. Which are almost one in the same, for me anyway.
I used to wake up decently early. Like 8 or 9 every morning, sure, I wouldn't do much (wasn't working on Ryu's Krew then, I think) but it was just cooler.
Now I wake up at 11, and now 12. And I still want to sleep.
Wow my day's gone rotten… maybe worse. Hard drives went bad… BOTH of them. So now I went and got a pair of new ones and am now in the process of system recovery. Most of that involves waiting for windows update to make everything work… ugh…
And for you people who think computer techs charge way too much for recovering/fixing your computer, I'll tell you this… I just spent half the day just getting windows up and running and getting all the basic drivers in. I probably won't be completly done 'til tomorrow afternoon since I gotta work tonight.
On the bright side, all that clutter (unknown or not) is now gone and my computer is essentially a clean slate. Virus free and whatnot. Hopefully these new Seagate HDDs don't fail me… 250gb of data (500gb in all) is a lot of data to lose to failing hardware that shouldn't have failed (my drives were only 3 years old, and I usually replace them every five years)…
New PC at work for me…
Finally, after almost 3 years of working there I get something which is up to spec. Better than I'd hoped even- reasonably large wide screen monitor as well as a second monitor for reference, nice fast new machine with plenty of ram running Win 7 professional, 64 bit.
Never as great as my home stuff, but I never expect that.
The trouble is I'm there on the first day (Monday) going through all the bother of setting up a new PC, installing all the programs I need AND having to get through a big backlog of work!
Jebus man! I mean… Jebus!!!!! I'm jetlaged, my brain is just not in gear to think of all the complexities of work and yet I'm having to do 3 times as much.
Shite!
Ugh. I so hate redrawing stuff in vectors right now. I'd just forgotten how truly complicated that sort of thing can be. When you're out of practise it's a real bugger to get back into. I need a fricken raise.
wow. This place died even more after the con.
I'm tripping over tumbleweeds ^_^
I suppose people are just feeling less…ranty? Haha.
I've got senior pictures to take tomorrow at like 1 PM. I still have to find something to wear. And I have to try and finish this page for uploading tomorrow. It's hard to believe I'm going into my last year in high school :c
It makes me sad, yet so happy with joy. I realize my life after-wards will probably just be very boring. Hence why I'm definitely going to have to get a part-time or full-time job to keep me busy, aside from comics and working out.
man, i was outa town for a while so my next page for tomarow is way behind schedule, so i tried to just scan it and get it ready tonight and everything fucked up! first the scanner, then i blew a circuit, then the scanner fucked up a different way, then i couldnt edit shit, then the loading page froze. thought i copied everything i wrote to put in the author notes, but apperantly not, so i got back on, reloaded it all and now it's fraggin ready. hhmmpphhh…..
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