On the Way to San Francisco

Watching Adam

In case this doesn't make sense, on Sunday night Kevin and I watched Adam, a movie about a guy with Asperger's Syndrome who falls in love with a "normal" girl. Kevin has Asperger's. I'm somewhat "normal." (Yeah, I'll keep telling myself that...) We thought it would be a good bonding experience since maybe we could relate to the characters and hopefully learn something. Ultimately, I ended up feeling extremely grateful that Kevin is exactly the way he is and possesses all the positive traits associated with AS: a high level of intelligence, varied and deep interests, complete honesty, etc.

I could go into my insanely long opinionated rant about why mental conditions like this are a gift as opposed to a liability and how people with these conditions simply have certain aspects of their personalities at different ends of a spectrum than others, but I'll have to save that discussion for some other time.

My Birthday

Please excuse the bad art. I haven't drawn anything in a while.

New Journal Comic

I just now discovered journal comics, which are exactly what they sound like: comic strips that take the place of a hand-written journal or personal online blog. Often times, they seem to describe one specific event that happened during the day and they are sometimes dramatized for entertainment purposes.

Considering I've been trying to get back into the habit of drawing, I love making comic strips, and I am obsessed with writing in journals, I thought I'd give it a shot. We'll see how frequently I can update, how offended people get by the amount of personal information I reveal, and who I should allow to see this blog in the first place.

Might change the name. I named it as such since the first comic is about my birthday and I'm a Leo.

Enjoy!