Showing posts with label Sis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sis. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Graduation Countdown

Image: Frank (the human) sits in a plastic chair wearing a tie and a graduation toga, feels the top of his head and looks to his right, startled. In the background –tiptoeing away– is Sis, also wearing a graduation toga and a medal in the shape of a concave eight-point-star. She has just slipped off Frank’s mortarboard hat and is sticking her tongue out at him.

I had it all figured out. I only had Statistics, my thesis, and community service (required by a local law – or was it an ordinance?) and then I could graduate. I would do statistics during the summer of 2010, community service during the summer of 2011, and my thesis throughout the 2011 calendar year. There was plenty of leeway if anything went wrong. The plan was flawless!

…or so I thought.

Monday, July 11, 2011

I Hate Long Weekends!

Image: Frank the mouse cries out in frustration, his hands atop his head as if to pull his nonexisting long hair; his arms bending his whiskers.
Originally done out of
Stresssss!
Most people love long weekends; I don't. Long weekends for me are an opportunity; an opportunity I can never use.

It's always the same. I see the long weekend coming up on the calendar, and I start thinking of what I could do with that extra day (or days). Usually I settle on one thing; something that I know I can do in much less than a day, and then start doing it from Friday afteroon.

Except that it never gets done.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Christmas Sandwich

Image: Mr. Bean sits at a table laden with two plates –each with a sandwich and some carrots–, a Christmas cracker, and a Christmas candle. Mr. Bean is looking away from the camera towards Irma, who holds a rather large Christmas present for him.
I have just discovered that the Christmas Sandwich (which I proposed here) does, in fact, exist! It was created for Mr. Bean (who else?) for the episode that aired on December 29, 1992. If you want to see the circumstances that led to the institution of the Christmas Sandwich, click the image on the right; it will lead you to a YouTube video.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Character page

Image: My mouse avatar and Jane lean off each other smugly in the foreground, with their arms crossed. They are standing on some sort of table. In the background, my human self is carrying a box past Sis. "A little help?" he tells her. "I don't care *what* you say, I'm *not* saying anything helpful!" she cries back, disaprovingly. "You never do," interjects the heckler. "Hey!" cries out Sis. "Who's side are you on?"

I've made a Character page detailing, well, the characters that appear on this blog. I tired to explain them in the best detail I could, but I realized that there's not really that much more to certain characters. What was really hard was compiling the list of all their appearances (which meant creating a new label for each of them and applying it to the appropriate posts). If I've left any posts unlabelled (or do so in the future) please let me know.

Friday, September 17, 2010

My absence


My sudden post last Saturday after several weeks of silence may have left many of you wondering where I was. I hope this little comic strip can serve as an explanation

Monday, August 23, 2010.
Me: (carrying a cardboard box) Hey sis, can I have the computer?
Sis: (from the computer) No. Thursday, August 26.
Me: (now carrying a rake) Please?
Sis: (still at the computer) No.