I have clearly had too much to do this week.

I am currently in a meeting and, yes, I am supposed to be paying attention.

But I can’t.

My brain is stalled.

It is refusing to turn on.

I can barely even string a sentence together.

This is not fun.

I had the very best time teaching some grade 4s to make story prompt cards today.

And I got to tell them the story of Stingy Jack – one of the legends that explains why we carve Jack O’Lanterns – and watch as they all caught on to the references.

I love telling stories and helping kids learn about storytelling.

This is a busy week and I have a lot to do but I stuck with my plan to take a drawing class.

And I actually managed to focus instead of letting my mind hop over to the other things I had to do.

I’m really patting myself on the back about that.

My comic is going to be published in a Zine!

I am beyond excited about it.

I sent my comic into someone who doesn’t know me, doesn’t have any context for my work, and it stood on its own merit and will be included in the Zine.

It’s not that I am putting myself down and I definitely don’t think poorly of my work, it’s just really cool to know that you can ‘get’ my work without even knowing me.

🙂

I spend a good part of the day helping out with a haunted house.

I hate jump scares so I wasn’t one of the actors inside but I was helping with the crowd waiting to go in.

It’s funny how many people love getting scared – even little kids.

And even funnier?

The people who act like they enjoy being scared but actually don’t like it at all.

Their whole bravado act cracks me up.