Written by lainie at 01:07 AM on October 11, 2009 in work?, Friends.

It's been a near-sleepless week for me, so much stuff going on.

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Amongst other things, I've started a photography project with a friend (developing phase now); and my illustration on PAS's balancing act launches a new Comics & Cartoons column in The Nut Graph. It's a last minute illo (I changed it v late) done mostly on touchpad. I nearly drove myself nuts.

Webcam does many wonderful things, and I caught up with Jemufo over the weekend. She's studying in Spain now, and learning the language. 

This means I can now not-understand her tweets in Hungarian and Spanish. She could be bitching about me for all I know.

I haven't seen her face for so long, she has hair now! Well, by her botak standards anyway. I asked her good questions like what the girls in Spain are like, and she asked me difficult ones like where Melbourne is on the map.

Our second anniversary for our Facebook open-relationship is coming up. It's so wide open, we're not even dating. However, Marriagebot suggests that she will marry me, whereas I will wed my best friend. It also says I'll marry Daph, Nessa and Risha; all my best (and heterosexual) friends from Ipoh.

Jemufo didn't make the list (sorry baybeeee).

Nicholas is in Melbs for a week. Most of our conversations when we meet up begin with "I need coffee" and end in whatever cramped little cafe I've chosen to drag us to. Pic is when I brought him to see some graffiti laneways after, yes, good coffee in a cramped little cafe.

Written by lainie at 04:53 PM on October 4, 2009 in melbourne.

And a few grabby hands. Hehe.

Now if you'll excuse me, some sketches to do for a friend (half of Fortylove.tv), a Wordpress theme to code, and three character designs coming up!

Written by lainie at 09:10 PM on October 2, 2009 in melbourne.

While walking off a huge meal, I wound up momentarily stuck behind a group of pseudo-trendy people on a night out.

It was a small street, so I couldn't help overhearing as they discussed, amongst other things, their dinner venue:

Girl 1: But it's dumplings! In soup!

Girl 2: Are dumplings in soup even a legitimate Chinese dish?

Lainie: .......

Girl 3: I didn't catch your name by the way. I'm Jenny.

Guy: I'm Bob

Jenny's possessive boyfriend: (interrupts) She's my better half! HAHAHA!

Bob: Oh.

Bob: ......I'm a doctor.

They were loud. I don't think I was the only one mentally facepalming over the awkward pick-up attempt, or going into mental overdrive thinking of various dumplings, in soups, Chinese, or otherwise.