Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
My grandmother died last night. This wasn't a shock or a surprise. Her health has been on the decline, and she's been in hospice for the last month. She lived a long life, and in her final days she was surrounded by her three adult children.
My grandma was a kind woman. She wasn't perfect, but I always felt loved in her presence. She was a retired kindergarten teacher, and was still working when I was a kid. I have so many happy memories sitting at her kitchen table, and I'm going to carry those with me for the rest of my life. She was also proof that anyone who claims that you get more conservative as you get older is full of shit, because she certainly didn't.
I think it's interesting how the body processes grief sometimes. I don't know that I'll cry, but over the past month, knowing this was coming, I've felt a tension in my gut. Now that she's passed, instead of relief that tension is replaced by a sense of emptiness. That something is missing that should still be there. Something has been taken away, and I feel it.
Of course, as I wrote that, I immediately started crying... so I guess my body processes grief in pretty ordinary ways too.
I wanted to come up with something profound linking this to Beltane, which we sit in the middle of right now, but it just seemed hackneyed. Like I was trying to dig out some greater significance when the truth is death comes whenever it wants. The only predictable thing about it is that it's the end of all of our journeys. I hope that when I pass I'm so lucky to have lived such a long life with people that I love around me in my final days.
For the record, I will be fine. I just needed to get these words out while they were still in my head. I don't have some rousing conclusion or deep insight to tack on here at the end, just that gut feeling that something is missing.
Because it is.
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I <3 you for the Hartnell/Troughton joke!
It’s not the first time we’ve seen those doors — Tara used to live in that dorm (http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2011/03/relative-maturity/). All the dorms on the Clearwater University campus share their names with Doctors, it’s just that we’ve only seen one other building — the two towered Baker Hall (http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2011/05/calling-seat/) — you’ll have to trust me on the second tower existing outside of frame — it’s based on a layout I’ve seen on at least four different Wisconsin campuses.
I that’s the first time I saw you draw a stick character in a tank top.
Next I don’t think those guys will ever be taken seriously on a College campus that has like I don’t know, maybe thousands of different students going around the place and probably most of them don’t care about one club that’s probably small compared to some others like maybe a sports club perhaps there’s a Rugby team that has more attention than those guys.
Actually, there have been several background characters in tank tops, you just have to look for them. Veronica and Megan also wear one sometimes, but it’s not as noticeable because they either wear an overshirt or jacket as well. Circa 2002 flashback Lynn also wears one too, just also layered with the fishnet shirt.
But that’s just it, they were covered so i couldn’t tell it if it was tank top or not. I know you tell me the stick characters are meant to interpreted as real human beings with normal bodies. But it’s kind of hard to see stick character were nor clothes when their stick bodies have no human like features such as the women not having actual breasts present but more of a shape in the clothing to let us the readers know they are there. It’s just one of the things makes it challenging to interpret at times.
Now I’m not asking for that stuff nor do I really want to that. I’m just saying a Tank top without covering looks kind of interesting on stick female when their isn’t real skin present. But I digress. I guess it’s the first time I’ve seen a tank top present without a cover.
Okay, this would be the point where I’d call the police about harassment. These guys followed Ruth to work and are exhibiting behavior that can be seen as irrational and possibly threatening.
….these guys obviously aren’t the brightest bulbs in the pack… a protest of this nature won’t do anything. The one with power would be the academic advisor, who as I recall, Ruth has already spoken to.