I was sick Xmas Eve & Xmas Day. Yesterday it broke and I had that glorious post-sick feeling. We did a jigsaw all day then ate empanadas. This morning I tried to walk on the hotel treadmill but it felt too exerting. I still get an annoying tickle in my throat at random times and it makes me cough.

Heard in NY:

“I like your glasses.” Good, I still have doubts about them.

“Have you lost weight?” This guy must have had a really fat image of me. I am of course at a higher weight than at any prior point and was not wearing something particularly slimming.

“You don’t change!” But everyone around me does! Everyone I knew looked so gray.

Look at them askance, kind of blurry. I think the top one is particularly interesting if you make it blurry.

I came across another article in Spin-Off about paying attention to value more than hue. Same concepts used by Deb Menz in COLOR IN SPINNING, though I don’t know if she invented them; the top is an attempt at “high major” and the bottom is a “medium major”. Major means spanning light, medium, & dark values; and high means emphasizing light, and medium means emphasizing medium.

NOW the Xmas shit can come out.

What’s next? WOLF HALL, the t-shirt! WOLF HALL, the coloring book! WOLF HALL, the lunchbox! WOLF HALL, the flame-thrower! (Kids love this stuff.)

Never thought I’d be putting those two words together.

I can’t wait for this shit to be over.

No not really. I just have one of those faces that naturally looks kind of down.