There's a new show of A* art in Seattle! Yes in all the excitement of moving to a new apartment I'd kind of put everything else out of my mind, but fortunately other people keep track of such things so at the correct time I interrupted my apartment-moving activities and went to help hang the artwork today at the independent and rather unique Lighthouse Roasters in Seattle's Fremont district, where your art gazing or coffee drinking is supplemented by such sights as workers pouring cascades of coffee beans from vast burlap sacks, or maybe a cute little dog snuffling between your feet like an excited little vacuum cleaner targeted specifically for crumbs of tasty snacks. It is a pretty funky place and for the next month or so it has A* original art arrayed along the big wall in the cafe. Also their banana bread is huge and quite scrumptious. My stuff will be there for the rest of this month and probably some of the first week of April.
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What with getting the show started today, and additional trips I didn't exactly anticipate like a proper Nostradamus in this moving business, such as wrestling a five-foot-long, 81 lb TV stand / bookcase out of Ikea (I had to dismantle my car's back seat to fit it in! I never knew the seat just sort of completely detaches :o) so I don't have to pile my books on the floor like a caveman as I did in my old place >_>, or going shopping for a new vacuum cleaner that can actually suck up something larger than crumbs (that's about all my old one can manage on a good day, and it isn't as cute as the doggie, either), it's finally dawning on me that I'm not going to be done with all this living situation stuff until the end of the week. So I won't have any new A* pages going for you until *next* week.
On what I think will be a plus side though, part of my moving adjustment is switching myself over to an actual daylight schedule--since my new place has, like, the sun, as well as lots of neighbors on fairly normal daytime schedules--so in theory I'll be able to get new pages up by early evening-ish, rather than in what was usually technically the wee hours of the next morning. And I have a window I can draw at, so my lucky neighbors in the building across the way can watch me at my drawing board and get a jump on the story. No doubt they will take telephotos and put them straight up on Twitter.
Ooh and speaking of which, if I have any other smallish updates on stuff in the meanwhile, they will tend to go up on my Twitter, so follow that if you feel a need to be sure of getting the very latest. Currently it looks like it may go something like this:
- Wednesday: drive down south to get lamp for drawing table; drive up north to get splash guard for new tub; go back to old apartment, get every last thing out of it, and scrub
- Thursday: receive new mattress and wrestle it into apartment somehow; hm and uh figure out what I'm doing with old mattress; final pass on old apartment; take keys back to old landlord; cancel old electrical service; unpack some books
- Friday: unpack books, unpack kitchen, vacuum cleaner shopping, put everything left that I'm not going to use in storage; whew
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